Training
•Instrumental performers complete seven course units of applied lessons across all four years, plus theory, history, keyboard study, functional piano, and instrumental conducting.
•Pedagogy includes Foundations and Principles of Music Education, private teaching, and String Pedagogy for string majors.
Performance & Productions
•Chamber music and large ensembles are built into the degree, alongside six semesters of live-concert study and both junior and senior recitals.
Degree Flexibility
•Advanced choices include counterpoint, classical form and analysis, and upper-level historical topics.