Receive professional performance training while completing academic studies in music and the liberal arts. Our outstanding woodwind faculty are international soloists, chamber artists, and orchestra players, and you'll work closely with them in weekly private lessons and repertoire classes, sharing performances and insights in a master class setting. Receive a full liberal arts education in a conservatory setting. Throughout your degree program, you will complete a range of liberal arts core courses, including introductory study of the humanities, social sciences, science, and quantitative reasoning, as well as complete core music classes, including music history, music theory, aural comprehension, and keyboard harmony and improvisation. You may also tailor your degree through electives and internships in music business, music technology, jazz studies, and music education, among other areas.The Bachelor of Music degree program in Instrumental Performance provides students with the opportunity for intensive study with internationally acclaimed performers and teachers. Private instruction is combined with studies in music theory and history, chamber music, and performance practices. Students participate in myriad performance opportunities, including solo repertoire study and intensive training in chamber, new music, and orchestral repertoire. Students may perform in symphony and repertory orchestras, fully staged music theatre and opera productions, string and wind chamber groups, percussion ensembles, contemporary music ensembles, and jazz ensembles. In addition, master classes with renowned faculty and visiting artists provide opportunities for performance, interaction, and learning. Students may also take music business courses that enable them to obtain internships in the music industry, a music technology sequence, an introduction to music therapy, and other options.
