Training
•Bullet: Weekly lessons with a master teacher in your instrument or voice; the Bachelor of Music in Performance is a 132-unit professional degree with music theory, music history, large ensemble and chamber music, applied lessons, music literature, aural skills, business of music, keyboard skills and conducting
•Bullet: Every performance major gives a solo junior recital of half an hour and a solo senior recital of one hour
•Bullet: Vocal Arts rests on three pillars, Choral, Opera and Studio, and voice majors show competency in French, German and Italian; Dr. Travis Sherwood is Voice Area Coordinator and director of SDSU Opera Theatre
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: SDSU Opera Theater stages full-length productions, one-act operas and scene programs; productions listed on the voice page include The Mikado, Die Fledermaus, Le nozze di Figaro, The Tender Land and Trouble in Tahiti
•Bullet: String players perform in the Symphony and Opera Theater Orchestras and coach with the Hausmann Quartet, artists-in-residence at SDSU; brass players perform in the Wind Symphony, Symphony Orchestra and brass chamber ensembles
•Bullet: Piano students join at least two masterclasses a year with visiting artists such as Emanuel Ax, Beatrice Rana and Jonathan Biss, through partnerships with the San Diego Symphony and the La Jolla Music Society
Professional Development
•Bullet: Woodwind majors can study with several principal and section musicians of the San Diego Symphony; the woodwind studio faculty includes Pamela Martchev (flute), Sheryl Renk (clarinet), Sarah Skuster (oboe), Valentin Martchev (bassoon) and Todd Rewoldt (saxophone)
