Training
•Bullet: Areas of study, each with its own private-instructor roster: Bass, Drums/Percussion, Electronics, Guitar, Harmonica, Piano/Keyboards, Singer/Songwriter, Strings, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, and Woodwinds
•Bullet: Named teachers include bassists Reggie Workman and Linda Oh, drummers Matt Wilson and Andrew Cyrille, guitarists Mary Halvorson and Julian Lage, pianist Aaron Goldberg, and woodwind players Anat Cohen and Melissa Aldana
•Bullet: Electronics students study with technology faculty such as Ikue Mori, Levy Lorenzo, Hank Shocklee, and Ross Wightman and learn the software skills and production knowledge to experiment with and manipulate sound
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Each semester instrumentalists join an Improv Ensemble that is recast every semester, choosing the music, the musicians, and the director
•Bullet: Named ensembles include John Coltrane Ensemble, Charles Mingus Ensemble, Charlie Parker Ensemble, Thelonious Monk Ensemble, Herbie Hancock Ensemble (taught by Kris Davis), Live Electronica Orchestra, and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra taught by GRAMMY-nominated Bobby Sanabria
Professional Development
•Bullet: "Artist-as-mentor" pedagogy: take private lessons with leading contemporary and jazz artists across the NYC metro area, and request a different teacher each semester
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: 128-credit BFA with classes open across The New School, including Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, plus fifty elective ensembles and composition, songwriting, arranging, and technology electives
