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The 2020-21 Guide to September 2020 With special pandemic-related questions Editor’s Note music Schools The Guide to Music Schools is always a substantial undertaking as well as a challenge to For those schools in the listings, you’ll find detailed information on degrees offered, available areas of study, numbers of track down the right people who have the right answers to our (many) questions. students and teachers, career and post-graduate assistance, and links to social media and financial information. We also asked each to describe its most “distinguishing characteristics.” We relied on the schools to tell their own stories. And that’s under normal circumstances. of Vocal Arts...... 2 New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy...... 24 Needless to say, we are not in normal circumstances. Looking into what is still a very cloudy Arizona State of Music...... 2 Northeastern University Department of Music ...... 25 crystal ball, we have added a few practical, pandemic-caused questions this year: Will you Bard Conservatory of Music...... 3 Oberlin Conservatory of Music...... 25 Bienen School of Music...... 3 Ohio State University School of Music...... 26 be starting in the fall as planned? Later? Will classes shift online? Will masks be required on Blair School of Music...... 3 Opera Steamboat...... 26 campus? What about testing? Will classes be smaller? Any academic changes in store? Will Conservatory at Berklee...... 4 Park University International Center for Music...... 26 on-campus housing be altered? Tuition change? Boston University School of Music...... 5 Peabody Conservatory...... 27 Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music...... 5 Peck School of the Arts...... 28 Virtually everyone is shifting at least in part to the online model, as well as requiring masks and altering class Carnegie Mellon University School of Music...... 6 Pepperdine University...... 28 size for in-person schooling. Testing is also pretty universal; semester start dates remain the same and so does Cleveland Institute of Music...... 6 Purchase College Conservatory of Music...... 29 tuition in most cases. The one element that remains unchanged is academics. School of Music...... 7 ...... 29 The Crane School of Music...... 7 Conservatory of Music...... 30 And that’s what is so impressive about this year’s Guide entrants: Despite the pandemic, despite the herculean Curtis Institute of Music...... 8 Shanghai Academy (SOA)...... 30 effort it has taken to shift courses online, maintain constant contact with students over the summer, adjust Depauw University School of Music...... 9 Shenandoah Conservatory...... 31 schedules, order pallets’ worth of PPE, move beds in dorms, tables in dining room, desks in classrooms, etc. etc., Eastman School of Music...... 9 The Shepherd School of Music...... 31 training for young continues, unabated. Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin...... 10 The Tianjin ...... 32 Florida State University College of Music...... 10 UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music...... 33 Consider: a new generation of musicians who are not only learning their craft, but also developing new coping Frost School of Music...... 11 University of California, Berkeley...... 33 skills, learning how to go with the flow, and, perhaps most importantly, become video producers par excellence. Hugh A. Glauser School of Music...... 11 University of Cincinnati College— The Glenn Gould School conservatory of Music (CCM)...... 34 Talk about making lemonade. at The Royal Conservatory of Music...... 12 University of Colorado Boulder...... 35 Guildhall School of Music & Drama...... 13 University of Florida...... 35 Regards, The Hartt School...... 14 University of Illinois School of Music...... 36 Susan Elliott IClassical Academy...... 15 University of Massachusetts Amherst Indiana University Jacobs School of Music...... 16 department of Music & Dance...... 36 Editor, Special Reports JAM Music Lab University...... 17 University of Massachusetts Lowell The Juilliard School...... 18 department of Music...... 37 Lamont School of Music ...... 19 University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance...... 37 Longy School of Music...... 20 University of North Carolina School of The Arts...... 38 Lynn University Conservatory of Music...... 21 University of North Texas College of Music...... 39 Manhattan School of Music...... 22 USC Thornton School of Music...... 40 Mannes School of Music...... 23 The University of Tampa...... 41 Mason Gross School of The Arts...... 23 Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts...... 41 Robert Mcduffie Center for Strings...... 23 Westminster College...... 41 New Conservatory...... 24 Yale School of Music...... 42

COVER PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy of New World Symphony/Iberacademy. A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) The Academy of the Vocal Arts is the only nationally 23 music students accredited conservatory in the Music Faculty: 20 full time, 3 adjunct exclusively devoted to the training of young opera singers, tuition-free. Artists from throughout the AREAS OF STUDY States and all over the world audition to study and Vocal Arts/Opera perform in AVA’s four-year program. DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATION 1920 Spruce Street No degrees offered. Resident Artists graduate with , PA 19103 Artist Diploma. UNITED STATES PANDEMIC & SAFETY www.avaopera.org/ ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ADMISSIONS 215-735-1685 Is the school considering: [email protected] ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? FINANCIAL INFORMATION n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at The 2020-21 Guide to CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE term start, then periodically? ⭕ At this time, no degrees are granted, but Artist Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Diplomas are awarded to those whom the AVA room & board fees? ⭕ believes are ready for operatic and concert SOCIAL LINKS careers and have completed the minimum Music Schools required classes. AVA is an accredited, non- With special pandemic-related questions degree-granting member of the National Association of Schools of Music. Course work completed at AVA does not compile credit-hours and is not transferable to other .

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC

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PHOTO: University of North Carolina School of the Arts student Maitreyi Muralidharan, 17 August 2020. A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC BIENEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC Bard College Northwestern University

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY For current information, please see this school’s website. All Conservatory undergraduates pursue a five-year Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition program leading to two degrees: the Bachelor of (Performance) • • Piano • Strings • Vocal Music degree and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion a field other than music. The Conservatory is now accepting applications for its new undergraduate DEGREE PROGRAMS BLAIR SCHOOL OF MUSIC voice program. Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Vocal Arts / Graduate Conducting Vanderbilt University LOCATION 30 Campus Road Post-Graduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? DEGREE PROGRAMS www.bard.edu/conservatory/ Additional details: degrees in Blair is a conservatory-level music program Undergraduate Programs performance through a double-degree program; alongside a top-15 academic institution. It is one of ADMISSIONS 845-752-2409 instruments offered are: Pipa; Erhu; Guzheng; Ruan; the few exclusively undergraduate music schools in Additional details: Bachelor of Music in: Performance; [email protected] Dizi; Sheng; Guqin; Chinese Percussion the country. Composition; Studies; Integrated Studies; Bachelor of Music and MBA; M.Ed.; Bachelor of Audition Requirements PANDEMIC & SAFETY LOCATION 2400 Blakemore Avenue Musical Arts Undergraduate Double Degree requirements ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Nashville, TN 37212 Graduate Vocal Arts Program requirements Policies & Procedures for this school UNITED STATES PANDEMIC & SAFETY Graduate Conducting Program requirements Is the school considering: blair.vanderbilt.edu/ ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Policies & Procedures for this school FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ADMISSIONS 615-322-6181 Is the school considering: Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Shifting more coursework online? [email protected] ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Our undergraduates tend to pursue graduate ✖ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? degrees from other major conservatories. Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at FINANCIAL INFORMATION term start, then periodically? ✔ Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE 150 music students room & board fees? ✖ term start, then periodically? ⭕ Music Faculty: 13 full time, 80 adjunct Career assistance Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or SOCIAL LINKS KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) room & board fees? ✖ 220 music students SOCIAL LINKS Music Faculty: 58 full time, 52 adjunct AREAS OF STUDY Brass • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 BOSTON CONSERVATORY AT BERKLEE KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 409 music students WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Music Faculty: 43 full time, 71 adjunct Boston Conservatory at Berklee is internationally AREAS OF STUDY recognized as an innovative leader among Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition conservatory programs focused on elevating every (Performance) • Conducting • Music Education aspect of the . • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & LOCATION Percussion • Marimba • Musical Theater 8 Fenway • Contemporary • Vocal Pedagogy Boston, MA 02215 • Musical Theater Vocal Pedagogy bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/ DEGREE PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs 617-912-9153 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS [email protected] (non-matriculating/prep) Shape your artistry. Audition Requirements Summer Programs Audition Requirements Extension Programs Explore 50+ undergraduate and FINANCIAL INFORMATION PANDEMIC & SAFETY graduate music program offerings at Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/music. Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? INTERESTED IN SUMMER TRAINING? The Berklee Career Center provides expert ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Don’t miss our popular High School Composition guidance, cutting-edge resources, and professional ✔ Shifting more coursework online? and Vocal/Choral intensives. development experiences to help our diverse body ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Apply online. of students achieve their career goals. n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ✔ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✔ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC SARAH AND ERNEST BUTLER SCHOOL OF MUSIC The University of Texas at Austin

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) The Boston University School of Music is a 500 music students The Butler School of Music at The University of Texas 610 music students community of academically and artistically Music Faculty: 70 full time, 88 adjunct at Austin offers comprehensive undergraduate and Music Faculty: 85 full time, 10 adjunct extraordinary musicians within a major research graduate programs designed to prepare artists, university located in one of the great music capitals AREAS OF STUDY thinkers, makers and teachers ready and able to AREAS OF STUDY of America. We are committed to the highest Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition make profound contributions to the future of music. Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition artistic and professional standards in performance, (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz composition, music education, and . Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education LOCATION 2406 Robert Dedman Drive Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • (including Production) Stop E3100 • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/ LOCATION 855 Commonwealth Avenue • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/ Austin, TX 78712-1555 Opera • Winds & Percussion • Boston, MA 02215 Opera • Winds & Percussion UNITED STATES • • Literature and Pedagogy UNITED STATES music.utexas.edu/ • • Opera Coaching • Opera Directing www.bu.edu/cfa/ DEGREE PROGRAMS Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS 512-471-7764 DEGREE PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS 617-353-3341 [email protected] Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs [email protected] ONLINE COURSES Online courses information Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Additional details: Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Music; ; Artist Diploma; Doctor of PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINANCIAL INFORMATION Musical Arts; FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Policies & Procedures for this school PANDEMIC & SAFETY Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Fine Arts Career Services offers resources tailored Policies & Procedures for this school Throughout the year, Boston University School ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? to the College of Fine Arts undergraduate and Is the school considering: of Music offers a series of career development ✔ Shifting more coursework online? graduate student body. Arts-career advisors work ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? workshops taught by alumni and professionals in ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? extensively with students to prepare them for an ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? their field. Career assistance links:bu.edu/career s ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? increasingly competitive industry. Graduation isn’t ✔ Shifting more coursework online? and bu.edu/cfa/current-students/leadership-careers Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at the end of a student’s relationship with FACS. The ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? term start, then periodically? ✔ office remains accessible to alumni of the college ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or for life. Visit for more information. Career advising Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at room & board fees? ✖ and planning services are also available from the term start, then periodically? ✖ University’s Center for Strategic Advising & Career Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or SOCIAL LINKS Counseling. room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) The School of Music combines the strengths of 450 music students CIM is an independent conservatory known for 350 music students a conservatory with those of a global research Music Faculty: 35 full time, 51 adjunct superior orchestral, chamber music, composition, Music Faculty: 29 full time, 80 adjunct university. Students are a part of a diverse fine arts piano, and voice programs at both the community on campus and in the city of Pittsburgh. AREAS OF STUDY undergraduate and graduate levels. Many of its AREAS OF STUDY Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition faculty are members of The Cleveland Orchestra. Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition LOCATION 5000 Forbes Avenue (Performance) • Conducting • Music Education (Performance) • Conducting • Organ • Piano Pittsburgh, PA 15213 • Music Technology (including Production) • Piano LOCATION 11021 East Boulevard • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion UNITED STATES • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion Cleveland, OH 44106 • Classical Guitar www.cmu.edu/cfa/music/ • Music Entrepreneurship • Orchestral Studies UNITED STATES www.cim.edu/ DEGREE PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS DEGREE PROGRAMS Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs 412-268-4118 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS 216-795-3107 [email protected] [email protected] Additional details: Music Theory (as an Additional details: Interdisciplinary degrees (BXA) undergraduate double major only); Suzuki Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Pedagogy (master’s program only); minor and dual PANDEMIC & SAFETY degree programs offered in association with Case FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration FINANCIAL INFORMATION Western Reserve University Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Policies & Procedures for this school Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Is the school considering: PANDEMIC & SAFETY CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Our distinguished alumni populate the ranks of ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? For much of its nearly 100-year history, CIM’s Policies & Procedures for this school the world’s most prestigious , opera ✔ Shifting more coursework online? individual faculty members have engaged in career- Is the school considering: companies, and faculties including: the New York ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? focused coaching of students and alumni. The CIM ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Center for Innovative Musicianship (CIM²) cements ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Metropolitan Opera, Harvard University, Prague Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at these tremendous career resources by building an ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Philharmonia, Oberlin College & Conservatory, term start, then periodically? ⭕ educational framework, including the coursework ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Boston Pops, BBC Orchestras, Lyric Opera of Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or and experiential learning necessary for successful ✖ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Chicago, and many more. room & board fees? ✖ career development. Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ⭕ SOCIAL LINKS Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 AARON COPLAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC THE CRANE SCHOOL OF MUSIC CUNY Queens College State University of New York Potsdam

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Queens College is a , boasting Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting Crane is an undergraduate-focused music school 575 music students excellent programs in many areas, and the School • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media with attentive full-time faculty. We are part of SUNY Music Faculty: 74 full time, 18 adjunct of Music is the jewel in the crown. Students at the • Music Business • Music Education Potsdam, an arts-centric school, with 575 music Aaron Copland School of Music get a world-class • Music Technology (including Production) majors and where about 25% of students major in AREAS OF STUDY education at the center of the cultural universe for • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/ the arts. At Crane, students can choose from a wide Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition (Performance) an impressively affordable tuition. Opera • Winds & Percussion variety of programs and majors. • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & LOCATION Room 203, Queens College, CUNY DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATION Percussion • Music Theory 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Bachelor of Music, Music Education; Bachelor 44 Pierrepont Avenue Queens, NY 11367-1597 of Arts, General Music; Bachelor of Music, Music Potsdam, NY 13676 DEGREE PROGRAMS UNITED STATES Performance UNITED STATES Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/music/ Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs www.potsdam.edu/academics/crane-school-music ONLINE COURSES ADMISSIONS 718-997-3800 ONLINE COURSES ADMISSIONS 315-267-2812 Online courses information [email protected] Online courses information [email protected] PANDEMIC & SAFETY Audition Requirements PANDEMIC & SAFETY Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Auditions are offered in February-March of each ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Policies & Procedures for this school year. Policies & Procedures for this school FINANCIAL INFORMATION Is the school considering: Is the school considering: Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Students in each major work closely with faculty and ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE staff at Crane and SUNY Potsdam’s Career Services ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? ACSM has an excellent career placement record for ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Office in formulating their post-graduation plans. n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at the music education graduates (99% placement Crane alumni include thousands of educators, term start, then periodically? ⭕ rate). We also offer Business of Music and Music Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at performers, , researchers, leaders in the term start, then periodically? ⭕ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Career Development courses to provide critical music industry, and musicians of renown, a network room & board fees? ⭕ industry knowledge to our students. Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or of graduates who can be found throughout North room & board fees? ⭕ America and around the world. SOCIAL LINKS KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 450 music students SOCIAL LINKS Music Faculty: 25 full time, 59 adjunct 20 scholarships awarded

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC (cont’d)

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? FINANCIAL INFORMATION AREAS OF STUDY PANDEMIC & SAFETY Curtis’s celebrated faculty includes a high Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration proportion of actively performing musicians whose • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds Policies & Procedures for this school experience provides students with a direct link to CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE & Percussion Is the school considering: life as a professional today. With a student Curtis offers several professional bridge programs ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? body of about 150 and 100 faculty members, all including fellowships for conductors and string DEGREE PROGRAMS ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? students receive highly personalized attention. quartets that provide performance and mentorship Undergraduate Programs / Master of Music in Opera ✔ Shifting more coursework online? opportunities. The post-graduate Community Artist / Post-Baccalaureate Diploma / Professional Studies ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? LOCATION 1726 Locust Street Fellowship works with underserved communities, Certificate in Opera ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Philadelphia, PA 19103 providing training in teaching, interactive Additional details: Fellowship Programs: Conducting Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at UNITED STATES performance, and strategic planning. term start, then periodically? ✖ www.curtis.edu/ Fellowship / String Quartet in Residence / KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Community Artist Fellowship program Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or ADMISSIONS 215-717-3117 150 music students room & board fees? ⭕ ONLINE COURSES [email protected] Music Faculty: 3 full time, 111 adjunct SOCIAL LINKS 150 scholarships awarded Online courses information Audition Requirements Audition Requirements

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 DEPAUW UNIVERSITY EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY One of the first schools of music, established 1884, Brass • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media Eastman is dedicated to the highest levels of artistry Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano Depauw University offers conservatory-style train- • Music Education • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera and scholarship and to the broad education of • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early ing paired with liberal arts. The four flexible degree • Winds & Percussion young musicians within the context of a university. Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music programs are undergraduate only with abundant Our students enjoy a challenging but nurturing Business • Music Education • Music Technology performing opportunities. Special programs offered DEGREE PROGRAMS environment that focuses on artistic excellence (including Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano are the 21st-Century Musician Initiative and Green Undergraduate Programs while encouraging the pursuit of individual paths • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion Guest Artists Series. and interests. Additional details: Bachelor of Music; Bachelor of DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATION 600 South Locust Street Music Education; Bachelor of Musical Arts; Bachelor LOCATION 26 Gibbs Street Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Greencastle, IN 46135 of Arts in Music; Five-Year Bachelor of Music/ Rochester, NY 14604 UNITED STATES Bachelor of Arts Double Degree; Minor in Musical UNITED STATES ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS www.depauw.edu/music/ Theatre www.esm.rochester.edu/ (non-matriculating/prep) Institute for Music Leadership ADMISSIONS 765-658-4118 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS 800-388-9695 [email protected] (non-matriculating/prep) [email protected] ONLINE COURSES Young Artists Programs Online courses information Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Community Programs Audition Requirements Audition Requirements NOTE: DePauw will provide a pianist and a brief PANDEMIC & SAFETY rehearsal free of charge at on-campus auditions. PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION Policies & Procedures for this school ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Career assistance ✔ Shifting more coursework online? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? The Hubbard Center for Student Engagement assists ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? all students in post-graduate employment or study. 900 music students ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Music Faculty: 135 full time, 50 adjunct Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Experiential learning that could include internships, ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? term start, then periodically? ⭕ international study, and additional performance Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or opportunities is required. term start, then periodically? ⭕ room & board fees? ✖ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) SOCIAL LINKS 125 music students room & board fees? ⭕ Music Faculty: 20 full time, 29 adjunct SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools  musicalamerica.com • September 2020 HANNS EISLER SCHOOL OF MUSIC BERLIN FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY Musical excellence is our leitmotif and only the Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition FSU is home to one of the largest and most diverse Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition highest standards prevail. Exceptional musical (Performance) • Conducting • Piano • Strings music programs in the country, offering 25 degree (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & personalities guarantee the quality of our musical • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Stage programs at the undergraduate level alone. Our Contemporary Media • Music Business • Music education. We promote talent in its full-scale Direction (Opera & Music Theatre) • Chamber students participate in nearly 50 ensembles and Education • Music Technology (including development—from the attainment of the finest Music • Repetiteur • Lied Interpretation for Pianists perform in more than 500 concerts each year. Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings technical precision to being ready to perform • Historical and Contemporary Compositional Our graduates are highly successful beyond the • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Arts on stage. Technique • Electroacoustic Music • Production classroom. Administration • Commercial Music • Choral Dramaturgy for Music Theater Conducting • Wind Conducting • Historical LOCATION LOCATION 122 North Copeland Street Musicology • Ethnomusicology • Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin DEGREE PROGRAMS Tallahassee, FL 32306 • Opera Production • • Piano Charlottenstr. 55 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs UNITED STATES Technology • Sacred Music D-10117 Berlin music.fsu.edu/ GERMANY ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS DEGREE PROGRAMS www.hfm-berlin.de/en/ (non-matriculating/prep) ADMISSIONS 850-644-6102 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Competitions [email protected] ADMISSIONS +49 (0)30 688305-830 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS [email protected] PANDEMIC & SAFETY Audition Requirements Audition Requirements (non-matriculating/prep) ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Summer Camps Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Policies & Procedures for this school FINANCIAL INFORMATION Is the school considering: Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINANCIAL INFORMATION ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Faculty mentors take an active role in placing and Policies & Procedures for this school CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? connecting their students to career opportunities, Is the school considering: Eisleriana ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? and a Career Liaison from the FSU Career Center ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? works directly with the College of Music. The Allen ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Music Library sponsors workshops on résumé ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? 500 music students term start, then periodically? ⭕ writing, and career development is a major focus of ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Music Faculty: 90 full time, 249 adjunct Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Music Entrepreneurship classes. ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? 80 scholarships awarded room & board fees? ✖ Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) term start, then periodically? ✔ SOCIAL LINKS 1050 music students Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Music Faculty: 90 full time, 5 adjunct room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 10 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC HUGH A. GLAUSER SCHOOL OF MUSIC University of Miami Kent State University

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) The Frost School of Music is a dynamic place where Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano Through discovering, integrating, and applying 350 music students exceptional students and faculty come together to • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early knowledge in a comprehensive and diverse range of Music Faculty: 40 full time, 20 adjunct transform the world of music. Brilliant performance, Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degree programs, creativity, and scholarship are at our core. Business • Music Education • Music Technology we provide a dynamic learning environment that AREAS OF STUDY (including Production) • Musicology • Piano • Strings fosters artists, scholars, and teachers who will Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition LOCATION 5503 San Amaro Drive • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Music assume leadership roles in a global society. (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Coral Gables, FL 33146 Engineering Technology • Arts Presenting and Live Contemporary Media • Music Education • Music UNITED STATES Entertainment Management • Music Therapy LOCATION 1325 Theatre Drive E101 Technology (including Production) • Piano • Vocal www.frost.miami.edu/ • Choral Conducting Kent, OH 44242 Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Ethnomusicology UNITED STATES • Music Theory • Strings (no harp) ADMISSIONS 305-284-6168 DEGREE PROGRAMS www.kent.edu/music [email protected] Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs DEGREE PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS 330-672-2172 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Audition Requirements Undergraduate / Graduate ONLINE COURSES [email protected] Online courses information ONLINE COURSES FINANCIAL INFORMATION Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Online courses information Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINANCIAL INFORMATION PANDEMIC & SAFETY CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Is the school considering: Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Frost School of Music dean, faculty, and professional Policies & Procedures for this school staff provide music career advisement to students ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Is the school considering: during all years of study. The majority of students The College of the Arts at Kent State University, of ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? also enroll in music business courses. The University ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? which the School of Music is part, has a designated ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? of Miami’s Toppel Career Center is also available for Career Advisor who serves both current students ✔ Shifting more coursework online? consultation. ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? and alumni. Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) term start, then periodically? ⭕ ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? 700 music students Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Music Faculty: 80 full time, 40 adjunct room & board fees? ⭕ term start, then periodically? ✖ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or SOCIAL LINKS room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 11 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 THE GLENN

GOULD SCHOOL Koerner Hall AT THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY AREAS OF STUDY OF MUSIC Brass • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? DEGREE PROGRAMS The success of our graduates, many of whom now Undergraduate Programs / The Glenn Gould School have successful careers as concert and recording This is your classroom. — Artist Diploma Program (two-year) / The Rebanks artists, is a testament to our focus on performance Family Fellowship and International Performance training. Committed to mentoring, our purposefully Residency Program (1 year) small school offers exceptional practice and performance spaces, and 50% more private lesson Additional details: Bachelor of Music, Performance Study at The Glenn Gould School time with inspiring, well-known faculty. (Honours) Based in Toronto, we are a post-secondary institution with a focus on performance. Our school has LOCATION ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS world-renowned faculty, outstanding performance spaces such as Koerner Hall, and a cap of 130 TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning (non-matriculating/prep) students, each of whom receives 90 minutes of individual studio instruction weekly. 273 Bloor Street West The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Toronto, ON M5S 1W2 Young Artists / The RCM Certificate Program The Glenn Gould School offers degrees and diplomas for three levels of study: Bachelor of Music, CANADA Performance (Honours)*, the Artist Diploma (for post-Bachelor studies), and The Rebanks Family Fellowship www.rcmusic.com/ggs/home ONLINE COURSES and International Performance Residency (for post-graduate studies). Online courses information ADMISSIONS 800-462-3815 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Programs of Study [email protected] ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Policies & Procedures for this school Audition Requirements Audition Requirements The Temerty Orchestral Program The Ihnatowycz Piano Program Vocal Studies Is the school considering: and the Price Opera Program ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? working with noted conductors such as under the leadership of James FINANCIAL INFORMATION Tania Miller and Gabor Takács-Nagy Anagnoson, Dean, includes with Adrianne Pieczonka, Chair ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships distinguished artists and teachers ✔ Shifting more coursework online? John O'Conor and John Perry CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Performance Residency Program is a one-year Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at postgraduate program for artists on the cusp of a term start, then periodically? ⭕ rcmusic.com/ggs professional career. Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖ KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) * This institution has been granted a consent by the Minister of Training, and to offer this program for a seven-year term starting October 12, 2017. Prospective students are responsible for satisfying themselves that the program and the degree will be appropriate to their needs (e.g., acceptable to potential employers, professional licensing bodies or other 130 music students SOCIAL LINKS educational institutions.) Music Faculty: 43 full time, 32 adjunct

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 12 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY Guildhall School is one of the world’s leading Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition conservatories, highly regarded in the profession (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz for intensive, dedicated training taught by Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business renowned international teaching staff and through • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano partnerships with the Barbican, Symphony • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House, and the Academy of . DEGREE PROGRAMS Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs LOCATION Silk Street, Barbican London EC2Y 8DT Additional details: Bachelor of Music Electronic UNITED KINGDOM Music; Master of Music/Master of Performance in www.gsmd.ac.uk/ Performance (Guildhall Artist Masters): Orchestral Artistry in association with the London Symphony ADMISSIONS +44 (0)20 7382 7144 Orchestra; MA in Music Therapy; MA in Opera [email protected] Making & Writing in association with the Royal Opera House; PG Cert Performance Teaching; Audition Requirements Research Degrees Undergraduate / Postgraduate ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS FINANCIAL INFORMATION (non-matriculating/prep) Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Youth & Adult Learning CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE PANDEMIC & SAFETY Training combines academic rigor and artistic skill ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration with a strong professional focus. All of our programs Is the school considering: are closely engaged with the professions, through ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? talks, workshops, mentoring, master classes, and ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? performance collaborations. ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Innovate the Future of Tradition 738 music students ✖ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Music Faculty: 5 full time, 629 adjunct Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at • New state-of-the-art facility opening Fall 2020 term start, then periodically? ⭕ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or • Residential campus in a growing, vibrant city room & board fees? ✖ • Focus on experiential, SOCIAL LINKS • Music programs in performance, theatre, education and technology Learn more at ut.edu/music.

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 13 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 THE HARTT SCHOOL University of Hartford RISE CONFIDENTLY. EMERGE READY. WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY The Hartt School is a truly collaborative Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition environment where faculty embrace that success (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz takes on endless forms. They get to know each Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business student and guide them toward the future meant • Music Education • Music Technology (including just for them. Production) • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Music LOCATION 200 Bloomfield Avenue Management • Acoustical Engineering and Music West Hartford, CT 06117 • Performing Arts Management • Music Theatre UNITED STATES • Actor Training • Stage Management • Technical www.hartford.edu/hartt Theater • Ballet Pedagogy • Dance Performance ADMISSIONS 860-768-4465 DEGREE PROGRAMS [email protected] Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS FINANCIAL INFORMATION (non-matriculating/prep) Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Hartt School Community Division CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE PANDEMIC & SAFETY All degree programs at Hartt include career ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Policies & Procedures for this school preparation coursework and undergraduate AT THE HARTT SCHOOL, we think the Is the school considering: performance majors can choose a minor in arts best way to learn and perfect your craft WHY HARTT? ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? management. The University of Hartford’s career is by doing. That’s why we put on more Mentorship from world-class faculty ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? • services office has a career counselor dedicated to than 400 performances, recitals, lectures, ✔ Shifting more coursework online? • Master classes with cutting-edge ensembles the arts and resources to assist Hartt students in and master classes each year. Through ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? • Classes tailored especially for you beginning their careers. diverse coursework and close mentoring ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? • Centrally located between Boston relationships with faculty, you can make KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at and your passion your profession. 400 music students term start, then periodically? ✔ Music Faculty: 47 full time, 80 adjunct Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ⭕ SOCIAL LINKS

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A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 14 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 ICLASSICAL ACADEMY ICLASSICAL ACADEMY (cont’d)

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? FINANCIAL INFORMATION ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS PANDEMIC & SAFETY Online Classical Music Academy offers more than Tuition & Fees (non-matriculating/prep) ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration 550 master classes and courses for violin, cello, Miriam Fried – Bach Sonatas and Partitas: Online Is the school considering: piano, conducting, guitar, trumpet, music career CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Violin Course / ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? and voice. Learn from teachers of different schools Career assistance The Musical Jewels—Courses to unlock and ✖ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? of music education; Russian, French, German, Italian KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) widen your theoretical and practical knowledge / ✔ Shifting more coursework online? and American, compare techniques and apply what 2500 music students Collection of Courses to Boost Technical and Music- ✖ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? serves you best. Music Faculty: 5 full time, 65 adjunct Related Skills n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? 25 scholarships awarded Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at LOCATION Rue de la Tour 10 ONLINE COURSES term start, then periodically? ✖ 3963 Crans-Montana AREAS OF STUDY Online courses information Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or SWITZERLAND Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition (Performance) room & board fees? ⭕ iclassical-academy.com/ • Conducting • Music Business • Music Education SOCIAL LINKS ADMISSIONS +39 3473319474 • Music Technology (including Production) • Piano [email protected] • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University offers preprofessional training for musicians, combining the conservatotry experience with the educational excellence of a renowned private university. Our illustrious faculty of artist-teachers dedicate themselves to the special talents and skills of each individual stuudent. Robert Yekovich, Dean, The Shepherd School of Music

Faculty              Paul Kantor Robert Atherholt Matthew Strauss Stephen King Thomas Jaber ,"  Mario Aschauer Cho-Liang Lin Robin Rice Larry Rachleff   Karol Bennett Kathleen Winkler    Ana María Martínez Joan DerHovsepian Rachel Buchman Richie Hawley Paula Page (Fall 2021)    Christopher French Rick Erickson   Nova Thomas ,"  Eric Halen Terry Gaschen    Karim Al-Zand James Dunham Benjamin Kamins Thomas LeGrand Mary Greitzer Ivo-Jan van der Werff Brian Connelly   Damian Blättler Jeanne Kierman Janet Rarick Jerry Hou  Debra Dickinson Anthony Brandt  Fischer Michael Webster Peter Shaw William VerMeulen Susan Lorette Dunn Shih-Hui Chen Robert Simpson Norman Fischer Sohyoung Park Miah Im Arthur Gottschalk Desmond Hoebig  Jon Kimura Parker Christopher Turbessi Pierre Jalbert Chapman Welch Brinton Averil Smith Barbara Butler Robert Roux   Richard Lavenda Charlie Geyer Virginia Weckstrom Bethany Self Kurt Stallmann  Karen Roethlisberger Paul Ellison    Verm    Timothy Pitts Allen Barnhill Ken Cowan Gregory Barnett   David Ferris Leone Buyse David Kirk Alexandra Kieffer The Shepherd School of Music Peter Loewen Rice University, Houston, TX Danielle Ward-Griffin music.rice.edu

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 15 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 INDIANA UNIVERSITY JACOBS SCHOOL KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 1600 music students OF MUSIC Music Faculty: 175 full time, 30 adjunct Indiana University AREAS OF STUDY Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz The more than 1,500 students who study at the Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business Jacobs School of Music benefit from the intensity • Music Education • Music Technology (including and focus of a conservatory combined with the Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings broad academic offerings of a major university. The • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Audio breadth and number of performance opportunities Engineering and Sound Production • Ballet are unparalleled in college music study. • Chamber and Collaborative Music • Choral Conducting • Music Entrepreneurship LOCATION 1201 East Third Street Bloomington, IN 47405 DEGREE PROGRAMS UNITED STATES Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs music.indiana.edu/ ONLINE COURSES ADMISSIONS 812-855-7998 Online courses information [email protected] PANDEMIC & SAFETY Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration All auditions and interviews are held on the Policies & Procedures for this school Bloomington campus. Only those applications Is the school considering: received by the deadlines will be guaranteed an ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? opportunity to audition. ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? ¦¦wY¾Y Ȼ%,%wY ,² FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? 16,000+ 175 75% Nov. 1, 2020 - Undergraduate Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? ¾w, ¾,% àªw%Ɲw²² GȻ²¾È%, ¾²Ȼ Dec. 1, 2020 - Graduate Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at wȃ Y GÈwwƝ¾Yƒ,Ȼ ª,,YÞ,Ȼ CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE GÈw¾ì ²Swª²SY¦² Career assistance term start, then periodically? ⭕ Learn more at music.indiana.edu. The OECD provides career advising, multiple Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or online tools, an alumni mentorship program, room & board fees? ⭕ departmental career days, mentorship, and digital SOCIAL LINKS publications. An undergraduate Certificate in Music Entrepreneurship (15 credits) is offered by the OECD in partnership with the Kelley School of Business.

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 16 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 JAM MUSIC LAB UNIVERSITY

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY We are a pioneering university for jazz & popular Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & music providing BA and MA degrees in a hybrid Contemporary Media • Music Education • Piano learning model consisting of online and on-site • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion courses. We focus on our students’ talents and • • Vocal Arts Jazz / Pop creativity, no matter if they strive to be a , instrumentalist, singer, , producer, DEGREE PROGRAMS or educator. Bachelor of Arts in Music / Bachelor of Arts in Music Education / Master of Arts in Music / Master of Arts LOCATION Gasometer C—Guglgasse 12 in Music Education 1110 Vienna AUSTRIA Additional details: Bachelor of Arts in Music; Bachelor www.jammusiclab.com/ of Arts in Music Education; Master of Arts in Music; Master of Arts in Music Education ADMISSIONS +43 19466846 [email protected] ONLINE COURSES Online courses information Audition Requirements Audition Requirements PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Policies & Procedures for this school Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? We offer career aid to our students through our own ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? artist agency and through external partnerships ✔ Shifting more coursework online? with venues, promoters, and broadcasters. ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? 150 music students Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Music Faculty: 5 full time, 50 adjunct term start, then periodically? ✖ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ⭕ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 17 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL Columbia & Barnard Colleges KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 674 music students WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Music Faculty: 132 full time, 173 adjunct Since 1905 Juilliard has educated the world’s fore- most musicians, then dancers & actors; its Lincoln AREAS OF STUDY Center campus is a launching ground for artistic Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition achievement, with a world-renowned faculty. (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Organ • Piano LOCATION 60 Lincoln Center Plaza • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion New York, NY 10023 • Dance • Acting • Playwriting UNITED STATES www.juilliard.edu DEGREE PROGRAMS Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS 212-799-5000 x223 [email protected] ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep) Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Cross-registration programs for classes at Barnard FINANCIAL INFORMATION College, Columbia University or The Juilliard School / Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Preparatory Division CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE PANDEMIC & SAFETY The Alan D. Marks Center for Career Services and ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Entrepreneurship at Juilliard provides a compre- Policies & Procedures for this school hensive integration of career services programs and Is the school considering: Transforming passion into artistry entrepreneurial strategies into the ecosystem of the ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Juilliard community, preparing graduates across ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Undergraduate and graduate degrees and diplomas all disciplines to be confident professionals at the ✔ Shifting more coursework online? World-renowned faculty and guest artists intersection of creativity, technology, and business. ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Performance opportunities in New York City and abroad Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ⭕ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖ APPLY BY DECEMBER 1 SOCIAL LINKS juilliard.edu

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 18 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 LAMONT SCHOOL OF MUSIC LAMONT SCHOOL OF MUSIC (cont’d) University of Denver University of Denver

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements AREAS OF STUDY PANDEMIC & SAFETY Lamont is a premier music performance school Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration within an internationally known university FINANCIAL INFORMATION • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Policies & Procedures for this school surrounded by a vibrant arts city. We are big enough Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Technology (including Production) • Musicology Is the school considering: to have a symphony orchestra, jazz orchestra, opera, CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? and many other multi-genre ensembles, but small Career Services / Resources for DU alumni, parents Percussion • Music Theory • Piano Pedagogy • Suzuki ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? enough that our students receive an abundance of and friends Pedagogy (violin & cello) ✔ Shifting more coursework online? individual attention and performing opportunities. ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) DEGREE PROGRAMS ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? LOCATION 2344 East Iliff Avenue 300 music students Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Denver, CO 80208 Music Faculty: 32 full time, 40 adjunct term start, then periodically? ✔ liberalarts.du.edu/lamont ONLINE COURSES Online courses information Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or ADMISSIONS 303-871-6973 room & board fees? ✖ [email protected] SOCIAL LINKS

SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

Launching careers DEGREE OPTIONS Bachelor of Music Degrees in Music Education, Performance, in a changing world. Composition, Music Theory, and Music Business PROGRAMS OF STUDY Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music Bachelor of Music Master of Music Degrees in Music Education and Performance Master of Music Artist Certificate in Chamber Music potsdam.edu/crane Professional Studies Diploma Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Performance

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A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 19 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Bard College KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 260 music students BECOME THE WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Music Faculty: 0 full time, 127 adjunct Longy’s innovative Catalyst Curriculum compels 251 scholarships awarded graduate students to explore their artistry and to MUSICIAN THE AREAS OF STUDY take risks to build their skills, guided by a world- Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition class faculty that encourages them to push their (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz WORLD NEEDS artistic presentation beyond the proscenium model. Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education Longy prepares musicians to make a difference • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds in the world with a social imperative that is at the YOU TO BE & Percussion • Guitar • Chamber Music • Historical core of the School’s curriculum. Breaking down Performance • Dalcroze Eurhythmics • Certified traditional conservatory constraints, Longy students Music Practitioner • Theory learn to lead meaningful lives in music through At Longy, we prepare students project-based courses and performances alongside DEGREE PROGRAMS to become exceptional musicians professional partners. Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs who can engage new audiences; teach anyone, anywhere; and LOCATION 27 Garden Street PANDEMIC & SAFETY use artistry to change lives in Cambridge, MA 02138 ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration communities around the world. UNITED STATES Policies & Procedures for this school longy.edu/ Is the school considering: ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Apply now at ADMISSIONS 617-876-0956 ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? [email protected] Longy.edu ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? FINANCIAL INFORMATION Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships term start, then periodically? ⭕ CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or From their first days at Longy, students become room & board fees? ✔ a Boston musician, performing professionally SOCIAL LINKS with faculty on concert stages around the city. Networking and performing opportunities abound. Students can receive Teaching Assistantships or Graduate Fellowships, which reduce tuition by BOSTON & up to $10,000 per year. There are also numerous employment opportunities on campus.

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 20 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 LYNN UNIVERSITY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Lynn University

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Lynn offers world-class faculty and full-tuition 110 music students scholarships to all enrolled conservatory students. Music Faculty: 12 full time, 13 adjunct Room and board scholarships also available. 110 scholarships awarded LOCATION AREAS OF STUDY 3601 North Military Trail Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition Boca Raton, FL 33431 (Performance) • Organ • Piano • Strings • Winds & UNITED STATES Percussion • Harp • Percussion www.lynn.edu/academics/colleges/conservatory Additional details: Instrumental Collaborative ADMISSIONS 561-237-7804 Piano not available for Undergraduate Bachelor of [email protected] Music; Undergraduate Bachelor of Music; Graduate Master of Music; Graduate Certificate Professional Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Performance FINANCIAL INFORMATION PANDEMIC & SAFETY Tuition & Fees ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Policies & Procedures for this school Lynn’s comprehensive career preparation includes: Is the school considering: one-on-one career counseling • résumé writing ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? and coaching • tips on employment research ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✔ Shifting more coursework online? SCHOLARSHIPS • personality and skill assessments • informational and mock interviews • professional networking ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? AVAILABLE! • entrepreneurial seminars. ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? APPLY BY Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at JANUARY 15 term start, then periodically? ✖ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Areas of Study Programs Offered room & board fees? ✖ Brass Bachelor of Music Master of Music SOCIAL LINKS Conducting Bachelor of Arts Master of Arts Composition Minor in Music Artist Diploma Guitar Minor in Ethnomusicology Certificates Harp Jazz Keyboard www.du.edu/lamont Music Theory

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 21 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC     WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)     Manhattan School of Music takes full advantage 965 music students of New York’s abundant learning and performance Music Faculty: 93 full time, 242 adjunct opportunities, preparing highly talented students for careers as passionate performers and composers AREAS OF STUDY and to be imaginative, effective leaders in the arts. Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & LOCATION 130 Claremont Avenue Contemporary Media • Organ • Piano • Strings New York, NY 10027 • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Jazz Arts UNITED STATES www.msmnyc.edu DEGREE PROGRAMS Bachelor of Music / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS 917-493-4436 [email protected] Additional details: Musical Theatre (BM only); Orchestral Performance (MM, PS only); Classical Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Contemporary Performance (MM, PS only) All applicants who have completed their online application and passed prescreening (if applicable) ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS must audition in order to be admitted to MSM. (non-matriculating/prep) Unique learning opportunities beyond the general FINANCIAL INFORMATION academic curriculum Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships PANDEMIC & SAFETY CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration MSM’s Center for Music Entrepreneurship (CME) Policies & Procedures for this school provides professional career coaching in a Is the school considering: supportive environment, including individual ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? sessions. Flexible internship opportunities are made ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? available for elective credits with leading NYC-area ✔ Shifting more coursework online? cultural institutions. ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ✔   Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or ! ##! #    room & board fees? ✖  $$ !!!%# " ! $& %'!" SOCIAL LINKS           ##! # (%

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 22 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 MANNES SCHOOL OF MUSIC MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS The New School Rutgers University

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) For current information, please see this school’s website. The curriculum at Mannes breathes new life 460 music students into traditional conservatory education, offering Music Faculty: 12 full time, 238 adjunct students rigorous training together with unique opportunities to grow as artists through cross- AREAS OF STUDY ROBERT MCDUFFIE CENTER FOR STRINGS disciplinary collaboration, entrepreneurial Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano innovation, and social engagement. • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Mercer University Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Technology LOCATION 55 West 13th Street (including Production) • Organ • Piano • Strings WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) New York, NY 10011 • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion Founded as a special institute within Mercer 26 music students UNITED STATES University’s Townsend School of Music, the McDuffie Music Faculty: 13 full time, 0 adjunct DEGREE PROGRAMS www.newschool.edu/mannes/ Center for Strings is limited to 26 students: 12 27 scholarships awarded Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs violinists, six violists, six cellists and two bassists. All ADMISSIONS 212-580-0210 x4862 AREAS OF STUDY Additional details: MA Arts Management and accepted students receive a full-tuition scholarship [email protected] Strings • Strings only: violin, viola, cello and bass Entrepreneurship, Master of Music Performer- to study with an unparalleled faculty of international Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Composer performing artists. DEGREE PROGRAMS Undergraduate Programs FINANCIAL INFORMATION PANDEMIC & SAFETY LOCATION 1501 Mercer University Drive Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Macon, GA 31207 Additional details: Bachelor of Music and Artist Policies & Procedures for this school UNITED STATES Diploma CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Is the school considering: mcduffie.mercer.edu/ At Mannes, students receive exceptional preparation ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? PANDEMIC & SAFETY ADMISSIONS 478-301-2886 for careers in music by engaging in a highly ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration [email protected] progressive curriculum. They can participate in ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Is the school considering: partnerships with top-tier arts organizations in the ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Northeast. The New School’s Career Services office is ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Two contrasting movements of solo Bach; ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? also available to them. Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at a concerto movement; an etude/caprice of ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? term start, then periodically? ⭕ your choice. ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? room & board fees? ⭕ FINANCIAL INFORMATION Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Tuition & Fees term start, then periodically? ✔ SOCIAL LINKS Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE room & board fees? ⭕ Career assistance SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 23 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY NEW WORLD SYMPHONY, AMERICA’S ORCHESTRAL ACADEMY

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) NEC is a premier conservatory that values 750 music students A laboratory for the way music is taught, presented, 87 music students exploration and collaboration. Students are Music Faculty: 113 full time, 313 adjunct and experienced, the New World Symphony consists Music Faculty: 5 full time, 100 adjunct mentored by a devoted faculty of esteemed artist- of 87 musicians who are granted fellowships lasting 87 scholarships awarded teachers and scholars. Alumni fill orchestra chairs, AREAS OF STUDY up to three years. The fellowship offers in-depth concert halls, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition exposure to traditional & modern repertoire, profes- AREAS OF STUDY management positions worldwide. (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz sional development training, and personalized Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition (Performance) Studies & Contemporary Media • Musicology experiences working with leading guest faculty. • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media LOCATION 290 Huntington Avenue • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Music Business • Musicology • Organ • Strings Boston, MA 02115 • Winds & Percussion • Collaborative Piano LOCATION New World Center UNITED STATES • Contemporary Improvisation • Piano Trio Program 500 17th Street Additional details: NWS annually offers also a necmusic.edu/ • String Quartet Program Miami Beach, FL 33139 fellowship in library and audio engineering and is UNITED STATES a non-degree- granting member of the National ADMISSIONS 617-585-1101 DEGREE PROGRAMS www.nws.edu/ Association of Schools of Music. [email protected] Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS 305-428-6713 ONLINE COURSES Audition Requirements Audition Requirements PANDEMIC & SAFETY [email protected] Online courses information ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration FINANCIAL INFORMATION Policies & Procedures for this school Audition Requirements Audition Requirements PANDEMIC & SAFETY Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Is the school considering: ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? FINANCIAL INFORMATION Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? NEC has reinvented how we equip young musicians ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? to thrive amidst the challenges they find after CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting more coursework online? graduation. Our mission has not changed—we ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? An intensive four-day audition preparation seminar, ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? educate and nurture exceptionally gifted musicians involving visiting coaches from major orchestras, ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? to perform at the highest levels of accomplishment. Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at is held each year. In addition, Fellows organize term start, then periodically? ⭕ Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at But today, performance excellence is the starting monthly mock auditions with the occasional term start, then periodically? ⭕ point. Musicians must be more than virtuosi; they Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or participation of guest conductors and coaches. NWS room & board fees? ✖ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or must be their own businesses. also presents an annual series of workshops with room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS psychologist Dr. Noa Kageyama. SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 24 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC Oberlin College

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? DEGREE PROGRAMS WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY The Department of Music at Northeastern is Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Oberlin Conservatory focuses on undergraduate Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition devoted to offering graduate and undergraduate pre-professional musicians in classical, (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz majors, and combined majors and minors, a cross- Additional details: Music with Concentration in Music contemporary, and jazz performance; Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Technology disciplinary approach to research and practice Industry, BS; Music with Concentration in Music composition; and . Two graduate (including Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano in music, underscored by real-world experiential Technology, BS; Music, BA; Computer Science and programs—Piano Technology and Recording • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion learning and cutting-edge technology. Music with Concentration in Music Technology, BS; Arts & Production—lead to Artist Diplomas. The • Vocal Accompanying • Piano Technology Electrical Engineering and Music with Concentration conservatory is embedded within the premier LOCATION 351 Ryder Hall in Music Technology, BS; Game Design and Music liberal arts environment of Oberlin College and is DEGREE PROGRAMS Northeastern University with Concentration in Music Technology, BS; Music renowned for the Double Degree Program. Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Boston, MA 02115 and Communication Studies with Concentration LOCATION 77 West College Street Additional details: MM in Performance on Historical camd.northeastern.edu/music in Music Industry, BS; Music and Psychology, Instruments; MM in Conducting BS; Physics and Music with Concentration in Oberlin, OH 44074 ADMISSIONS 617-373-2200 Music Technology, BS; Arts Administration and UNITED STATES ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS [email protected] Cultural Entrepreneurship, MS; Creative Practice www.oberlin.edu/conservatory (non-matriculating/prep) FINANCIAL INFORMATION Leadership, MS; Music Industry Leadership, MS; ADMISSIONS Center for Innovation & Impact / Summer Programs Arts Administration, Graduate Certificate; Cultural Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships 440-775-8413 PANDEMIC & SAFETY Entrepreneurship, Graduate Certificate [email protected] CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Career assistance PANDEMIC & SAFETY Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Policies & Procedures for this school ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Audition requirements vary according to discipline Is the school considering: KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Policies & Procedures for this school ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? 335 music students Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Music Faculty: 19 full time, 10 adjunct ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? AREAS OF STUDY CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Arts Leadership • Music Business • Music Technology Oberlin College’s Career Center and Oberlin ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at (including Production) Conservatory’s Professional Development Office ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? term start, then periodically? ✔ help students and recent alumni in the College of Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music. term start, then periodically? ⭕ room & board fees? ✖ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) SOCIAL LINKS room & board fees? ⭕ 580 music students Music Faculty: 80 full time, 25 adjunct SOCIAL LINKS 550 scholarships awarded

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 25 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC PARK UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR MUSIC

For current information, please see this school’s website. WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY World-renowned faculty and students; Van Cliburn Piano • Strings Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch is on faculty; Cliburn Silver Medalist Kenny Broberg is a current DEGREE PROGRAMS graduate student; London International Piano Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Competition Gold Medalist Behzod Abduraimov is Additional details: Bachelor of Music in Performance OPERA STEAMBOAT artist-in-residence. (Piano, Violin, Viola Cello, Orchestral Woodwinds and Brass) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) LOCATION 8700 NW River Park Drive The Opera Artist Institute is open to selected singers 35 music students Parkville, MO 64152 Master of Music in Performance (Two-Year Program, dedicated to performing at their highest level Music Faculty: 5 full time, 5 adjunct UNITED STATES Applied Emphasis in Piano, Violin, Viola or Cello) and one or more rising directors, conductors, and 10 scholarships awarded www.park.edu/ Graduate Certificate in Music Performance (Two- pianist-coaches. The Institute provides aspiring Year Program) professionals with performance experience and AREAS OF STUDY ADMISSIONS 816-746-2533 Graduate Artist Diploma in Music Performance professional training but is open to excellent Vocal Arts/Opera [email protected] (Two-Year Program—Applied Emphasis in Piano, musicians of any age. Violin, Viola or Cello) ONLINE COURSES Audition Requirements Audition Requirements LOCATION PO Box 775576 Online courses information ONLINE COURSES FINANCIAL INFORMATION Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 Online courses information PANDEMIC & SAFETY Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships UNITED STATES ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration PANDEMIC & SAFETY operasteamboat.org/ Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Career assistance ADMISSIONS 970-879-1996 ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Policies & Procedures for this school ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? [email protected] KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Is the school considering: ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? 25 music students ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Music Faculty: 6 full time, 0 adjunct ✖ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Three to five arias of contrasting styles ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? FINANCIAL INFORMATION term start, then periodically? ⭕ Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE room & board fees? ⭕ term start, then periodically? ⭕ We provide recommendation letters to any Opera SOCIAL LINKS Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Artist Institute graduates who have successfully room & board fees? ✖ completed the program. SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 26 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 PEABODY CONSERVATORY Johns Hopkins University AREAS OF STUDY Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz The Peabody Institute was founded in 1857 Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business as the first major intellectual and arts center • Music Education • Music Technology (including in an American city by philanthropist George Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings Peabody. Focused on the five pillars of excellence, • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Acoustics interdisciplinary experiences, innovation, • Chamber Music • Computer Music • Dance • Guitar community connectivity, and diversity, Peabody is • Music for New Media • Pedagogy • Recording Arts introducing the Breakthrough Curriculum in Music and Sciences • Vocal Accompanying Leadership to prepare artists for a world that is DEGREE PROGRAMS constantly changing. Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs LOCATION 1 East Mount Vernon Place ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS Baltimore, MD 21202 (non-matriculating/prep) UNITED STATES Beyond Technique Dance Intensive / Music for New peabody.jhu.edu/ Media ADMISSIONS 667-208-6600 ONLINE COURSES [email protected] Online courses information Audition Requirements Audition Requirements PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Policies & Procedures for this school Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Explore the PEABODY CONSERVATORY, LAUNCHPad, Peabody’s comprehensive career ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? a community of artists cultivating excellence, services office, helps students and recent alumni ✔ Shifting more coursework online? CANNER LARRY GRAY MADELEINE forge successful careers. We provide wide-ranging ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? embracing new ideas, and committed to the services in support of students and alumni’s goals. ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? future of music in our world. KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at 675 music students term start, then periodically? ⭕ Music Faculty: 75 full time, 100 adjunct Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or peabody.jhu.edu 500 scholarships awarded room & board fees? ✖ 667-208-6600 SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 27 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 PECK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Music at UW-Milwaukee offers comprehensive Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition Pepperdine University has emerged as one of 80 music students undergraduate and graduate education, and is (Performance) • Conducting • Music Education the nation’s leading private universities. Located Music Faculty: 8 full time, 30 adjunct the largest professional degree-granting music • Music Technology (including Production) in beautiful Malibu, CA, the Music Department department in the UW System. Our renowned artist • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera offers high-quality instruction and an exceptional, AREAS OF STUDY faculty and alumni perform with the Milwaukee • Winds & Percussion personal learning experience for each individual. Brass • Composition (Performance) • Music Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Education • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds the Florentine Opera, Present Music, and more. DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATION & Percussion Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs 24255 Pacific Coast Highway LOCATION UWM Department of Music Malibu, CA 90263 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS PO Box 413 Additional details: Master of Music/Master of Library UNITED STATES (non-matriculating/prep) Milwaukee, WI 53201 and Information Sciences (integrated degree) seaver.pepperdine.edu/fine-arts/undergraduate/ Up Against the Screen and the Pickford Ensemble / UNITED STATES music/ Opera Program / Heidelberg Music Program uwm.edu/arts/ ONLINE COURSES Online courses information ADMISSIONS 310-506-4111 PANDEMIC & SAFETY ADMISSIONS 414-229-4763 [email protected] ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration [email protected] PANDEMIC & SAFETY Policies & Procedures for this school ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION Policies & Procedures for this school ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Shifting more coursework online? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? UW-Milwaukee offers a comprehensive Career CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Career assistance ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Planning and Resource Center. ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? term start, then periodically? ✖ 300 music students Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Music Faculty: 28 full time, 29 adjunct term start, then periodically? ⭕ room & board fees? ⭕ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ⭕ SOCIAL LINKS SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 28 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 PURCHASE COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC State University of New York

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) The Purchase College Conservatory of Music offers a 380 music students The Royal College of Music is one of the world’s 800 music students multidisciplinary approach to conservatory training; Music Faculty: 25 full time, 50 adjunct greatest conservatories. Ranked the top institution Music Faculty: 44 full time, 276 adjunct individualized attention and mentoring from 100 scholarships awarded for performing arts in the U.K. for five consecutive world-class musicians; scholarships and financial years (QS World University Rankings 2016-20), we AREAS OF STUDY aid; double majors and minors, including arts AREAS OF STUDY have nurtured exceptional musical talent for more Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition management; and a location just 40 minutes from Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano than 135 years and welcome students from all over (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music New York City. • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & the globe. • Music Education • Music Technology (including Contemporary Media • Music Technology (including Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings LOCATION 735 Anderson Hill Road Production) • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal LOCATION Prince Consort Road • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion Purchase, NY 10577 Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Guitar • Studio London SW7 2BS UNITED STATES Composition UNITED KINGDOM DEGREE PROGRAMS www.purchase.edu/music/ www.rcm.ac.uk/ Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs DEGREE PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS 914-251-6700 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS +44 (0)20 7591 4300 PANDEMIC & SAFETY [email protected] [email protected] ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration PANDEMIC & SAFETY Is the school considering: Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? You must have an application for admission on file Policies & Procedures for this school Audition requirements are set by each faculty. ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? in order to be offered a live audition. Is the school considering: ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? FINANCIAL INFORMATION ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✖ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Shifting more coursework online? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? The RCM is a world leader in career development for term start, then periodically? ✖ Our Career Development Center offers support ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? musicians. Our dedicated Creative Careers Centre Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or in choosing the right major, marketing yourself, Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at will guide you through a range of opportunities that room & board fees? ✖ term start, then periodically? ✖ interviewing, and job and graduate-school prep. mirror the professional world. You can use these SOCIAL LINKS Services are also available for alumni. Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or services from day one of your course to develop room & board fees? ⭕ an outstanding CV and wealth of experience that SOCIAL LINKS will help shape your future career, and the Creative Careers Centre provides advice and services to RCM alumni for five years after graduation.

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 29 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC SHANGHAI ORCHESTRA ACADEMY (SOA) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY Shanghai Conservatory of Music With a faculty that includes nearly 30 members of Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition the San Francisco Symphony, as well as collaborative (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) partnerships with the Bay Area’s major performing Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Technology The Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA) is the result 40 music students arts institutions, tech, and entertainment (including Production) • Organ • Piano • Strings of a partnership among the Shanghai Symphony Music Faculty: 22 full time, 40 adjunct companies, SFCM provides its students with an • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Chamber Orchestra (SSO), New York Philharmonic, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The SOA provides AREAS OF STUDY unparalleled opportunity to study in the heart of Music • Classical Guitar Brass • Strings • Winds & Percussion San Francisco’s performing arts district. rigorous training at the Master’s degree level for DEGREE PROGRAMS talented instrumentalists. DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATION 50 Oak Street Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Graduate Programs San Francisco, CA 94102 LOCATION UNITED STATES ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS 1380 Middle Fuxing Road PANDEMIC & SAFETY sfcm.edu/ (non-matriculating/prep) Shanghai ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Rubin Institute for Music Criticism / Center for CHINA Is the school considering: ADMISSIONS 800-899-SFCM Innovative Leadership / Pre-College Division soa.shsymphony.com/en/index.aspx ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? [email protected] ONLINE COURSES ADMISSIONS ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Online courses information + 86 21-54667821 ✔ Shifting more coursework online? [email protected] ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? FINANCIAL INFORMATION PANDEMIC & SAFETY n/a Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Policies & Procedures for this school term start, then periodically? ✖ CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or The Professional Development and Engagement ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships room & board fees? ⭕ Center (PDEC) offers students gig opportunities, ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? internships, a grant service, access to employment CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE SOCIAL LINKS ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Students gain first-hand experience learning from listings, and courses on marketing, finance, ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? teaching, and technology. and playing with NY Philharmonic musicians as well ✖ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? as performing with the SSO. Other international KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at partners who have offered training opportunities 422 music students term start, then periodically? ✔ to SOA students include the NDR Elbphilharmonie Music Faculty: 28 full time, 65 adjunct Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Singapore room & board fees? ✖ Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic SOCIAL LINKS Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and Hangzhou Philharmonic.

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 30 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 SHENANDOAH CONSERVATORY THE SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC Shenandoah University Rice University

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Production) • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Shenandoah Conservatory offers rigorous • Winds & Percussion • Music Therapy •Vocal The Shepherd School of Music provides a dedicated 277 music students professional training in music, theater, and dance, Pedagogy-Classical •Vocal Pedagogy-Contemporary faculty of artist-teachers, extraordinary performance Music Faculty: 46 full time, 0 adjunct with extensive performance opportunities, Commercial Music •Dance •Acting •Musical Theater opportunities, beautiful facilities, and an unparalleled collaborative and interdisciplinary experiences, and •Musical Theater Accompanying •Theater Design education at one of America’s premiere universities. AREAS OF STUDY close mentoring relationships with faculty and guest & Production •Performing Arts Leadership & Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition artists. Management LOCATION 6100 Main Street, entrance 18 (Performance) • Conducting • Musicology • Organ Houston, TX 77005 • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds LOCATION 1460 University Drive DEGREE PROGRAMS UNITED STATES & Percussion Winchester, VA 22601 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs music.rice.edu/ UNITED STATES DEGREE PROGRAMS www.su.edu/conservatory/ ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS 713-348-4854 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs (non-matriculating/prep) [email protected] ADMISSIONS 540-665-4581 Ensembles / ShenCoLAB: Festival of Arts, Ideas and PANDEMIC & SAFETY [email protected] Exploration / Global Citizenship Project Audition Requirements ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Undergraduate / Graduate Policies & Procedures for this school Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ONLINE COURSES Is the school considering: Online courses information FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? FINANCIAL INFORMATION Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships PANDEMIC & SAFETY CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Policies & Procedures for this school To ensure that our students are fully prepared to Shenandoah University’s Career Services works with meet the demands of the profession, we have ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Is the school considering: Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at students in all aspects of the career development ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? created an instructional area entitled Music Career process. For additional information, visit the Career and Skills Enhancement. Specific courses are term start, then periodically? ✔ ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Services website. ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? designed to complement the Shepherd School’s superb musical and academic training to help room & board fees? ✖ KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? students transition to professional life. Additionally, SOCIAL LINKS 501 music students Rice University’s Center for Career Development Music Faculty: 41 full time, 36 adjunct Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ⭕ supports alumni through career counseling and AREAS OF STUDY Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or access to career resources. Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano room & board fees? ⭕ • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business SOCIAL LINKS • Music Education • Music Technology (including

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 31 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 THE TIANJIN JUILLIARD TianjinJuilliard SCHOOL The Juilliard School KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 40 music students WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Music Faculty: 24 full time, 0 adjunct The Tianjin Juilliard School uniquely focuses AREAS OF STUDY on collaborative musicianship, emphasizing a Brass • Collaborative Piano • Strings • Winds commitment to ensemble playing of the highest & Percussion artistic level. Our programs reflect the best of educational standards, preparing students for a DEGREE PROGRAMS lifetime of creative expression, of engagement and Graduate Programs growth as an individual and as a musician. Additional details: M.M. Degree in Orchestral LOCATION Binhai New Area, Tianjin Studies, Chamber Music, and Collaborative Piano CHINA ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS tianjinjuilliard.edu.cn/ (non-matriculating/prep) ADMISSIONS 212-299-5000 x7642 Pre-College Program [email protected] PANDEMIC & SAFETY Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? ✖ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ✖ New Branch Campus Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or

room & board fees? ✖ Master of Music in Chamber Music, Juilliard students performing at Orchestral Studies, and Collaborative Piano SOCIAL LINKS ChamberFest 2020 World-renowned faculty and guest artists Full-tuition Fellowship Program Additional scholarship opportunities available

Apply by December 15

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A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 32 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 UCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC University of California, Los Angeles

Music at Northeastern University: WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) for students destined to become change agents The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music is at the 553 music students and thought leaders in industry, culture, and society nexus of performance, scholarship, and innovation, Music Faculty: 47 full time, 24 adjunct balancing cutting-edge scholarship with 278 scholarships awarded performance mastery and composition. AREAS OF STUDY LOCATION 445 Charles E Young Drive East Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition 2520 Schoenberg Music Building (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Los Angeles, CA 90095 Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business UNITED STATES • Music Education • Music Technology (including www.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/ Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Ethnomusicology ADMISSIONS 310-825-6457 [email protected] DEGREE PROGRAMS Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Audition Requirements Undergraduate audition requirements / Graduate ONLINE COURSES audition requirements Online courses information Undergraduate Programs: PANDEMIC & SAFETY ࠮)(PU4\ZPJ FINANCIAL INFORMATION ࠮):PU4\ZPJ0UK\Z[Y` Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ࠮):PU4\ZPJ;LJOUVSVN` Policies & Procedures for this school ࠮*VTIPULKTHQVYZPU4\ZPJHUK*VTW\[LY0UMVYTH[PVU:JPLUJL7O`ZPJZ,UNPULLYPUN.HTL CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE Is the school considering: +LZPNU4H[OLTH[PJZ7Z`JOVSVN`*VTT\UPJH[PVU:[\KPLZ4LKPHHUK:JYLLU:[\KPLZ The UCLA Career Center is one of the largest and ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? most comprehensive career centers in the nation. ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Co-op and Dialogues of Civilization: In collaboration with the School of Music, it offers ✔ Shifting more coursework online? ;OL*VVWWYVNYHTZL[Z5VY[OLHZ[LYUHWHY[MYVTV[OLYPUZ[P[\[PVUZHUKSL]LYHNLZ5<»ZL_JLSSLUJLPU a wide range of services that help students explore ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? L_WLYPLU[PHSSLHYUPUN*VVWZHUK+PHSVN\LZVM*P]PSPaH[PVUWYV]PKLKPYLJ[YLHS^VYSKLUNHNLTLU[^P[O their professional interests and facilitate connections ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? PUK\Z[Y`JYLH[P]LJ\S[\YLHUKWYHJ[PJLHJYVZZ[OLNSVILWHY[ULYPUN^P[OV]LYJVTWHUPLZHUK with employers, alumni, and Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at VYNHUPaH[PVUZ·YLJVYKPUNSHILSZT\ZPJW\ISPZOPUNJVTWHUPLZTLKPHV\[SL[ZJ\S[\YHSJLU[LYZHUK representatives. term start, then periodically? ✖ WLYMVYTPUNHY[ZVYNHUPaH[PVUZ-VYTVYLPUMVYTH[PVU]PZP[!- Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or O[[WZ!^^^UVY[OLHZ[LYULK\HKTPZZPVUZHWWSPJH[PVUPUMVYTH[PVUHWWS` room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS Daniel Strong Godfrey Professor and Chair Department of Music College of Arts, Media and Design 351 Ryder Hall Northeastern University UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Boston, MA 02115 [email protected] For current information, please see this school’s website.

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 33 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 UNIVERSITY CCM students Jordan Curry and Magdiell Antequera perform with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The CSO/CCM Diversity OF CINCINNATI Fellowship and Opera Fusion: New Works are made possible by generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

COLLEGE— KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 966 music students CONSERVATORY Music Faculty: 88 full time, 57 adjunct 140 scholarships awarded OF MUSIC (CCM) AREAS OF STUDY Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Declared one of this country’s leading Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music conservatories by , CCM offers Business • Music Education • Music Technology nine degree types (BA, BM, BFA, MFA, MM, MA, AD, (including Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano DMA, PhD) in more than 100 possible majors. • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Acting • Arts Administration • Ballet • Commercial LOCATION PO Box 210003 Music Production • Media Production • Music History 290 CCM Boulevard • Musical Theatre • Theatre Design and Production Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003 UNITED STATES DEGREE PROGRAMS WELCOME TO ccm.uc.edu Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS 513-556-9479 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS [email protected] (non-matriculating/prep) YOUR NEXT STAGE. Summer Programs Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Tomorrow’s arts leaders and luminaries get their start at UC’s nationally ranked and internationally ONLINE COURSES renowned College-Conservatory of Music. FINANCIAL INFORMATION Online courses information Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Whether it’s paid performance opportunities with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as part of PANDEMIC & SAFETY the CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship Program or a chance to work with some of the world’s leading CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Professional development and entrepreneurial composers and librettists through the Opera Fusion: New Works Program with Cincinnati Opera, Policies & Procedures for this school CCM provides life-changing experiences for tomorrow’s performing and media arts professionals. acumen are an important part of the CCM Is the school considering: experience. Faculty mentorship along with the ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Internationally acclaimed faculty, classrooms without boundaries and unlimited opportunity. Managing Professional Performance Careers course ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Your future is calling. Take your next step at ccm.uc.edu. provide a foundation for transitioning to life after ✔ Shifting more coursework online? graduation. Select programs also host Senior ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Showcases in industry hotspots like New York, ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Chicago, and LA. CCM is also home to the Bravos Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Without Barriers Diversity Fellowship Program. term start, then periodically? ⭕ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ⭕ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 34 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY Founded in 1920, the college offers a wide range of Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano The student body of the UF School of Music is Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • programs uniquely combining advanced musical • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early an exceptional group of regional, national, and Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media (Jazz Studies training with professionally oriented experiences Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music international artists and scholars. UF’s extraordinary Only) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings (Strings and the rich resources of a leading research Business • Music Education • Music Technology academic reputation, highly accomplished faculty, Only) • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion university. Active as award-winning professional (including Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano rigor of professional training, and notable success of performers, composers, and scholars, faculty • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion our alumni attracts many of the best and brightest DEGREE PROGRAMS members are committed to helping students • Musical Theatre students each year. Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs develop their talents. DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATION LOCATION 301 UCB Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Gainesville, FL 32611 ONLINE COURSES Boulder, CO 80309 UNITED STATES Online courses information UNITED STATES ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS https://arts.ufl.edu/academics/music (non-matriculating/prep) www.colorado.edu/music/ PANDEMIC & SAFETY Entrepreneurship Center for Music ADMISSIONS 352-273-0224 ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ADMISSIONS 303-492-6301 [email protected] Is the school considering: [email protected] PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Policies & Procedures for this school ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Shifting more coursework online? FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE The University of Florida Career Connections Center ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? Career assistance offers a variety of services, including one-on-one term start, then periodically?✔ ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or career advice, résumé help and templates for KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at building a career action plan. Students gain access room & board fees?⭕ 550 music students term start, then periodically? ⭕ to our GaterLink platform, where they can schedule Music Faculty: 60 full time, 30 adjunct Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or meetings with a career planner, look at upcoming SOCIAL LINKS room & board fees? ⭕ workshops and other events, and connect with SOCIAL LINKS resources to push their careers to the next level. KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 461 music students Music Faculty: 42 full time, 10 adjunct

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 35 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF MUSIC UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC & DANCE

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) Beautiful facilities including the Krannert Center • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion UMass Amherst offers conservatory quality education 292 music students for the Performing Arts; inclusive community • Choral Conducting • Computer Science + Music in a university setting. Intensive yet supportive, the Music Faculty: 43 full time, 3 adjunct with supportive faculty; individual attention for • Instrumental Performance • Jazz Performance music program has a variety of concentrations as well students; diverse Big 10 campus with wide-ranging • Lyric Theatre • Music Technology • Open Studies as nationally and internationally renowned faculty. AREAS OF STUDY performance and research opportunities. • Piano Pedagogy • Vocal Coaching Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition and Accompanying • Vocal Performance • Wind LOCATION 273 Fine Arts Center East, (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & LOCATION 1114 West Nevada Street Conducting University of Massachusetts Contemporary Media • Music Education • Piano Urbana, IL 61801 Amherst, MA 01003 • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion UNITED STATES DEGREE PROGRAMS UNITED STATES • Music Theory • Music History music.illinois.edu/ Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs www.umass.edu/music/ DEGREE PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS 217-244-7899 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS ADMISSIONS 413-545-6048 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs [email protected] (non-matriculating/prep) [email protected] Illinois Summer Music Online ONLINE COURSES Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Online courses information ONLINE COURSES FINANCIAL INFORMATION Undergraduate Audition requirements by instrument / Online courses information Graduate Audition requirements by instrument PANDEMIC & SAFETY Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration PANDEMIC & SAFETY Prospective undergraduates must submit the Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration The Career Services Office offers workshops, Common App before signing up for an audition. Early ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Policies & Procedures for this school Action is recommended. To sign up for an audition, ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? job fairs, hands-on sessions, and individual Is the school considering: appointments for professional feedback. School students must submit an online Audition Request ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Form, which can be found on the department ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? of Music entrepreneurship events help students ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? develop important business and marketing skills. website. ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? FINANCIAL INFORMATION term start, then periodically? ⭕ 725 music students ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at Music Faculty: 90 full time, 0 adjunct CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE room & board fees? ⭕ term start, then periodically? ✔ Career Services AREAS OF STUDY Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or SOCIAL LINKS Humanities & Fine Arts Career Planning Rep: Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition room & board fees? ✔ (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Caroline Gould, 413-545-6257 Contemporary Media • Music Business • Music SOCIAL LINKS Education • Music Technology (including

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 36 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC SCHOOL OF MUSIC, THEATRE & DANCE

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) We offer Bachelor of Music majors in Sound 400 music students The School’s unique relationship as a part of the 1100 music students Recording Technology, Music Business, Music Music Faculty: 16 full time, 45 adjunct U-M, ranked as one the top universities in the U.S., Music Faculty: 148 full time, 75 adjunct provides students with a vast array of options and Education, and Music Performance. We are now AREAS OF STUDY offering a new major: Composition for New Media. AREAS OF STUDY opportunities. Composition (Performance) • Music Business Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano LOCATION Durgin Hall • Music Education • Music Technology (including LOCATION 1100 Baits Drive, 2290 Moore • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early 35 Wilder Street Production) • Composition for New Media Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Lowell, MA 01854 • Music Performance UNITED STATES Business • Music Education • Music Technology UNITED STATES smtd.umich.edu/ (including Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano www.uml.edu/FAHSS/Music/ DEGREE PROGRAMS • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ADMISSIONS 734-764-0593 • Performing Arts Technology • Dance • Musical ADMISSIONS 978-934-3931 [email protected] Theatre • Theatre [email protected] PANDEMIC & SAFETY ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Audition Requirements Audition Requirements DEGREE PROGRAMS Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Shifting more coursework online? CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE (non-matriculating/prep) Engagement & Outreach CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? The School of Music, Theatre & Dance EXCEL Internships in Music Business and Sound Recording ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Program catalyzes success for U-M SMTD students PANDEMIC & SAFETY Technology help provide job experience and Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at and alumni through courses, co-curricular ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration placement. term start, then periodically? ⭕ workshops, ongoing mentoring, and $100,000 in Policies & Procedures for this school Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or student project and venture funding. Is the school considering: room & board fees? ⭕ ⭕ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? SOCIAL LINKS ⭕ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ⭕ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 37 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 UNIVERSITY OF

NORTH CAROLINA Dance Design & Production SCHOOL Drama Filmmaking OF THE ARTS Music Powering Creativity KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? 169 music students UNCSA School of Music offers a transformative Music Faculty: 27 full time, 18 adjunct conservatory experience that prepares students AREAS OF STUDY for professional careers. The program combines Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition intensive individual study under professional (Performance) • Conducting • Music Technology artist-mentors with a variety of performance (including Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano opportunities including collaborations with other • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion UNCSA arts schools. DEGREE PROGRAMS LOCATION 1533 South Main Street Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs Winston-Salem, NC 27127 UNITED STATES ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS www.uncsa.edu/ (non-matriculating/prep) IT’S ABSOLUTELY A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute ADMISSIONS 336-770-3290 THRILLING TO [email protected] ONLINE COURSES Online courses information Audition Requirements PERFORM IN AN Undergraduate / Graduate / High School PANDEMIC & SAFETY ENVIRONMENT ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration FINANCIAL INFORMATION Policies & Procedures for this school Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships WHERE EVERYONE Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? IS COMMITTED TO UNCSA Office of Career Development works hand- ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? in-hand with the arts schools in career preparation ✔ Shifting more coursework online? EXCELLENCE AND training. UNCSA students participate in career ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? development seminars as part of their curriculum. ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? EXCITED ABOUT Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ✖ INNOVATION IN MUSIC. Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖ —Jane Koelsh, ’20 UNCSA.EDU/MUSIC SOCIAL LINKS

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 38 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS Oberlin Conservatory For current information, please see this school’s website. Celebrating Tradition. Creating the Future. YEVHEN GULENKO

At Oberlin, students are guided along diverse routes by expert faculty mentors. They are inspired through individualized instruction in studios and classes that launch compelling performances. And they are supported by campus Mozart Rossini resources that make imaginative projects possible. SUMMER FESTIVAL 2021 BARBER OF SEVILLE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO This transformative education has launched cutting-edge music-makers including MAGIC FLUTE CLEMENZA DI TITO

Musical America award winners Robert Spano, Jennifer Koh, Christopher Rouse, APPLY AUDITIONS Jeremy Denk, and founders/members of ICE, Eighth Blackbird, Pacifica Quartet, Program Dates: December 5th - Northeastern Illinois and Boston Modern Orchestra Project. July 19 – August 15, 2021 University (Chicago) Apply at YAPtracker.com December 9th - Lamont School of For more info visit Music (Denver) operasteamboat.org/institute December 12th and 13th - OPERA [email protected] America (NYC) 440-775-8413 CONTACT COVID-19 AUDITION PLAN oberlin.edu/con Andres Cladera, Upload video recordings to YouTube. General and Artistic Director Send video links, resumes, and [email protected] headshot to Andres Cladera.

A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 39 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 USC THORNTON SCHOOL OF MUSIC University of Southern California KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) As the music profession changes, the USC Thornton 1000 music students School of Music offers an innovative education that Music Faculty: 90 full time, 90 adjunct UNIVERSITY prepares students for careers at the highest level AREAS OF STUDY  as performers, composers, educators, and industry SOUTHERN Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano leaders. We do this while making the most of our • Composition (Performance) • Early Music • Jazz location in Los Angeles, the nation’s center for Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business CALIFORNIA creativity and original art of all kinds. • Music Technology (including Production) LOCATION 3450 Watt Way, TMC 200 • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal   Los Angeles, CA 90089-0851 Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Choral & Sacred UNITED STATES Music • Classical Guitar • Community Music • Music  music.usc.edu/ Industry • Music Production • Music Teaching   & Learning • Popular Music Performance ADMISSIONS 213-740-8986 • Screen Scoring [email protected]   DEGREE PROGRAMS Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs FINANCIAL INFORMATION PANDEMIC & SAFETY Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Policies & Procedures for this school CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE MUSIC IN THE CITY OF ANGELS Is the school considering: Various career-related courses are available for ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? enrollment and one-on-one mentorship with ✖ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes?      faculty is a central aspect of the USC Thornton ✔ Shifting more coursework online? experience. The USC Career Center offers career     ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? services to current students and recent alumni.  "# !   ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at   term start, then periodically? ✔ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖ SOCIAL LINKS

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A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 40 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA WEITZENHOFFER FAMILY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS University of Oklahoma

WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? AREAS OF STUDY UT is a medium-sized, private institution located in 150 music students The most comprehensive college of fine arts in the Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano downtown Tampa, FL. Our student body consists of Music Faculty: 8 full time, 40 adjunct state. Teems with innovation and excellence with • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & 9,000 undergraduate students from all 50 states and support from its supplemental graduate certificate Contemporary Media • Music Business • Music 132 countries. We offer over 200 areas of study, all AREAS OF STUDY in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship and Education • Music Technology (including of which focus on experiential education through Brass • Composition (Performance) • Music national Arts Incubation Lab. Its recent alumni work Production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings hands-on learning, internships, study abroad & Education • Music Technology (including at all levels of the market, and have won Academy, research opportunities. Production) • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/ Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Awards. DEGREE PROGRAMS Opera • Winds & Percussion Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs LOCATION 540 Parrington Oval, Suite 122 LOCATION 401 West Kennedy Boulevard DEGREE PROGRAMS Norman, OK 73069 ONLINE COURSES Tampa, FL 33616 Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs UNITED STATES Online courses information UNITED STATES Additional details: The vocal/instrumental options www.ou.edu/finearts PANDEMIC & SAFETY www.ut.edu/ above are offered as tracks/concentrations for the ADMISSIONS 405-325-7374 ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration ADMISSIONS 813-257-3489 B.A. in Music. [email protected] Is the school considering: [email protected] ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? PANDEMIC & SAFETY FINANCIAL INFORMATION ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? Audition Requirements Audition Requirements ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration Tuition & Fees ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? Policies & Procedures for this school ⭕ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? FINANCIAL INFORMATION Is the school considering: CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? College of Fine Arts partners with the Price College Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? of Business in providing a comprehensive structure term start, then periodically? ⭕ CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ⭕ Shifting more coursework online? of courses designed to develop the skills needed Career assistance Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? for careers in the arts. This includes preparation for room & board fees? ⭕ ✖ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? the spectrum of careers and opportunities in this Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at dynamic 21st century marketplace. SOCIAL LINKS term start, then periodically? ✖ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or KEY STATISTICS (School of Music only; college level room & board fees? ✖ and above) 450 music students SOCIAL LINKS Music Faculty: 49 full time, 23 adjunct

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A 2020-21 guide to Music schools 41 musicalamerica.com • September 2020 YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC Yale University KEY STATISTICS (college level and above) 200 music students WHAT DISTINGUISHES THIS SCHOOL? Music Faculty: 35 full time, 30 adjunct At the Yale School of Music, we prepare exceptional AREAS OF STUDY students for service to the profession and to society. Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting The School fosters a vibrant musical environment • Early Music • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/ where graduate-level performers and composers Opera • Winds & Percussion • Conducting (Choral) realize their highest artistic potential with an • Conducting (Orchestral) • Guitar • Harp internationally distinguished faculty. A graduate • Harpsichord professional school for students of exceptional ability, the School offers exceptional musical DEGREE PROGRAMS training as well as the opportunity for students Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs to participate in the rich intellectual life of Yale Additional details: Master of Music; Master of University to develop and pursue interests in areas Musical Arts; ; Artist Diploma; outside of their majors. Certificate in Performance; BA/MM LOCATION 98 Wall Street ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS PO Box 208246 (non-matriculating/prep) New Haven, CT 06520-8246 Norfolk Chamber & Yale Summer UNITED STATES School of Music / The Collection of Musical music.yale.edu/ Instruments ADMISSIONS 203-432-4155 PANDEMIC & SAFETY [email protected] ✔=Yes ✖=No ⭕=Under consideration The stage is yours. Audition Requirements Audition Requirements Policies & Procedures for this school Is the school considering: FINANCIAL INFORMATION Students at the Yale School of Music are driven professional artists who aim to deepen ✖ Shifting semester start and/or end dates? their music-making and further their careers under the mentorship of a distinguished Tuition & Fees / Financial Aid & Scholarships ✔ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes? faculty and with the benefit of a full-tuition award and living stipend. CAREER / POST-GRADUATION ASSISTANCE ✔ Shifting more coursework online? Career assistance ✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff? ✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided? With unsurpassed resources and state-of-the-art facilities, Yale helps students activate Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at their imaginations and realize their exceptional promise. At Yale, music is everywhere. term start, then periodically? ✔ Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ✖ music.yale.edu SOCIAL LINKS

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