Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting: Choral

Designed for students seeking to become highly qualified professional conductors through intensive study with a major artist-teacher, this program is a rigorous three-year course of study that offers an exceptional musical education that includes conducting and rehearsal techniques, score study and surveys of historically important and diverse, contemporary repertoire. The faculty encourage collaboration with an emphasis on personal and musical growth. The choral conducting studio is limited in size, so students receive many opportunities to conduct choirs of varying size and repertoire focus, opera, and other instrumental ensembles from within the school. The University of Michigan is a leader in commissioning new works from a diverse range of composers while also maintaining a rigorous focus on the historical canon. The DMA culminates with conducting public performances with repertoire equivalent to three concerts in lieu of a dissertation. Completion of the program normally requires six terms of full-time study beyond the master’s degree. Students are expected to attain candidacy effective at the beginning of the sixth term. The minimum requirements include the following: Foreign Language; Musicology & Music Theory; Performance.