The Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy (PRISMA) Festival offers an in-depth orchestral training program that is designed to provide advanced students and young professionals with the essential tools to win a position in a professional orchestra. The program bridges the education students receive at a university/conservatory and the professional life of an orchestra musician. PRISMA is also very valuable for undergraduates, as it helps develop skills for future studies and builds confidence for student recitals and exams. There are numerous concerts and performance opportunities during the two-week PRISMA Festival each June, attended by enthusiastic and sophisticated audiences in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada.

PRISMA prides itself on its focus not only on the technical aspects of music education but on the care it takes to ensure a positive experience—one that brings people together through a shared love of music. It has an exceptionally supportive environment for learning and performing together.

7061 Duncan Street, Suite D

Powell River, BC V8A 1W1

855-577-4762

PRISMA offers audition training

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 1 full time, 23 adjunct

Brass • Organ • Strings and Harp

Other Areas of Study: Applied Music (Performance) • Audition Training • Orchestral Conducting

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Concerto Competition—First Prize, a Week in the Moscow Symphony Orchestra

International Conducting Master Class in Moscow

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy (PRISMA) information

SOCIAL LINKS

        

The UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts mission:

Music at UW-Milwaukee offers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate education, and is the largest professional degree granting music department in the UW System. Our renowned artist faculty and alumni perform with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Florentine Opera, Present Music, and more.

P.O. Box 413

414-229-4763

UW-Milwaukee offers a comprehensive Career Planning and Resource Center.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 28 full time, 29 adjunct

Brass • Composition • Conducting • Music Education • Music Technology (including production) • Musicology • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

      

Purchase College, SUNY, offers a unique education that combines programs in the liberal arts with conservatory programs in the arts in ways that emphasize inquiry, mastery of skills, and creativity. Our graduates contribute to the arts, humanities, sciences, and society.

The Purchase College Conservatory of Music offers a multidisciplinary approach to conservatory training; individualized attention and mentoring from world-class musicians; scholarships and financial aid; double majors and minors, including arts management; and a location just 40 minutes from New York City.

Purchase, NY 10577

914-251-6700

Our Career Development Center offers support in choosing the right major, marketing yourself, interviewing, and job and graduate-school prep. Services are also available for alumni.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 25 full time, 50 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Technology (including production) • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Guitar

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

      

The New School prepares students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, thus making the world a better and more just place. We will ensure that our students develop both the skills that a sound education provides and the competencies essential for success and leadership in the emerging creative economy. We will also lead in generating practical and theoretical knowledge that enables people to better understand our world and improve conditions for local and global communities.

We offer a dynamic mix of legendary musicians as mentors, a superb and renowned faculty, an audaciously progressive curriculum, countless opportunities to perform, and proximity to all of the action in the global epicenter of the music industry, New York City.

212-229-5150

Our integrated academic and career advising model aims to help students explore new disciplines and areas of study, create their own specialized degree pathways, and discover passions that will shape their future endeavors. Advisors have extensive knowledge of campus resources and will show you how to navigate university systems and procedures. They also act as a liaison between you and other university staff.

Instead of visiting a separate office for career advice, our innovative model enables undergraduate students to have an ongoing, holistic conversation with a professional academic and career advisor to support them as they design their own unique degree pathways and prepare to effect change in the world after graduation. Also explore our services for alumni.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 4 full time, 70 adjunct

Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

      

To provide advanced, post-graduate orchestral training to young musicians at the highest level of technique and musicianship.

The Shanghai Orchestra Academy (SOA) is the result of a partnership among the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The SOA provides rigorous training at the Master's degree level for talented instrumentalists.

+86 21-54667821

An integral part of the SOA curriculum is practical training with professional orchestras. Students gain first-hand experience learning from and playing with New York Philharmonic musicians and performing with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Other international partners have offered practical training opportunities to SOA students, among them the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and the Sydney, Singapore and Guangzhou symphony orchestras and the Hong Kong,Taiwan, China, and Hangzhou philharmonics.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 22 full time, 40 adjunct

Brass • Strings and Harp • Winds and Percussion

Graduate Programs

        

As a community uniquely committed to rigor, nurture and innovation, Shenandoah Conservatory inspires artistic and scholarly excellence, preparing talented students for successful careers in the arts.

Shenandoah Conservatory offers rigorous professional training in music, theatre and dance, with extensive performance opportunities, collaborative and interdisciplinary experiences, and close mentoring relationships with exceptionally accomplished faculty. Engagements with internationally acclaimed guest artists representing the highest levels of creative, pedagogical, and scholarly excellence are frequent, and international performance opportunities abound.

540-665-4581

Shenandoah Conservatory is home to a Career Services Office that provides a comprehensive range of services and resources to support career exploration and professional growth of SU students. Career Services works with students in all aspects of the career development process, from choosing a major to career changes. Career development is a lifelong process influenced by all aspects of life, with the end result being high quality of life and personal satisfaction. Services offered include career exploration, experiential learning through internships, volunteer, summer and part-time opportunities, as well as résumé building, interview skills workshops, graduate school search assistance, and job search assistance. Visit the Career Services website.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 58 full time, 50 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Music Technology (including production) • Organ • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Church Music • Collaborative Piano • Dance • Music Therapy • Performing Arts Leadership & Management • Theatre/Musical Theatre • Vocal Pedagogy/Classical • Vocal Pedagogy/Contemporary Commercial Music

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Conservatory student ensembles

ShenCoLAB

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Shenandoah Conservatory information

ONLINE COURSES

Offered, check Shenandoah Conservatory website

SOCIAL LINKS

        

At the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, there are no musical boundaries. Rigorous classical training intersects with open-minded exploration of the contemporary musical landscape. Performances from musical traditions spanning the globe are complemented by critical analysis and scholarship that place the music in historical and cultural contexts. A faculty of internationally-renowned performers and leading scholars combines expertise and experience with accessibility and a commitment to students. The School of Music is integrated into UCLA, the top public university in the country, and is situated in Los Angeles, a global cultural hub, providing students with unparalleled artistic, academic, and social opportunities.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music offers performance, scholarship, and innovation, all in one place. Combining departments of Ethnomusicology, Global Jazz Studies, Music, and Musicology, we provide academic opportunities that balance cutting-edge scholarship with performance mastery. Students are encouraged to explore music in all its contemporary and historical diversity.

2520 Schoenberg Music Building

Los Angeles, CA 90095

310-825-6457

Undergraduate / Graduate

The UCLA Career Center is one of the largest and most comprehensive career centers in the nation. It offers a wide range of services that help students develop clarity about professional interests; provides students with the knowledge, skills, resources, and experience necessary to pursue professional goals with confidence and self-assurance; and facilitates connections among students and employers, alumni, and graduate school representatives. The Career Center, in collaboration with the School of Music faculty and staff, meets the unique needs of our students by providing programs and counseling services specific to careers in the arts.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 45 full time, 97 adjunct

Brass • Composition • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

        

The Department of Music and Dance provides a comprehensive education through a combination of established and innovative pedagogical approaches. The faculty works cooperatively, focusing on students and inspiring them to realize their full artistic potential while equipping them with skills to succeed in today's world. The Department is also committed to distinguishing itself regionally, nationally, and internationally through the creative activity and scholarship of its faculty. Serving as a cultural ambassador for music and dance, the Department maintains visibility through broad course offerings, public appearances, and outreach activities within the University and the community at large.

UMass Amherst offers conservatory quality education in a university setting. Intensive yet supportive, the music program has a variety of concentrations as well as nationally and internationally renowned faculty dedicated to educating students. A top research university, UMass also enables other majors to be involved musically.

University of Massachusetts

413-545-6048

Undergraduate Audition requirements by instrument / Graduate Audition requirements by instrument

Incoming freshman majors must submit the Common App and be cleared for university admission before signing up for an audition. Early Action is recommended. Prospective music minors, transfer students, and graduate students must fill out an Audition Request Form at the Music & Dance website to sign up for an audition.

Career services at University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Music & Dance

Humanities & Fine Arts Career Planning Rep: Caroline Gould, 413-545-6257

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 42 full time, 3 adjunct

Brass • Composition • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Music Theory • Music History

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

  

The Music Department is an innovative, contemporary institution dedicated to providing tomorrow's musicians with a superior education and viable career training within the changing musical landscape of the 21st century.

We offer Bachelor of Music majors in Sound Recording Technology, Music Business, Music Education, and Music Performance. We are now offering a new major: Composition for New Media.

35 Wilder Street

978-934-3931

Internships in Music Business and Sound Recording Technology help provide job experience and placement.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 16 full time, 45 adjunct

Composition • Music Education • Music Technology (including production)

Other Areas of Study: Composition for New Media • Music Performance

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

  

Founded in 1880, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance is one of the finest performing arts schools in the United States. Encompassing programs in dance, music, musical theatre, and theatre, we are consistently ranked among the top performing arts schools in the country when compared with performance-oriented conservatories or with prestigious academic departments of music.

The School's unique relationship as a part of the U-M, ranked as one the top universities in the U.S., provides students with a vast array of options and opportunities. All of our degrees require some academic coursework most of which can be selected from any area of the University.

734-764-0593

The School of Music, Theatre & Dance EXCEL Program provides entrepreneurship training and career services for all U-M students engaged in the performing arts. Our goal is to enable all our students to forge a viable career in the performing arts by exploring, developing, and leveraging their talents, training, skills, and ambitions. Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Career Empowerment & Leadership (EXCEL) catalyzes success for U-M SMTD students and alumni through courses, co-curricular workshops, ongoing mentoring, and $100,000 in student project and venture funding.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 148 full time, 75 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Music Technology (including production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings and Harp

Other Areas of Study: Dance • Musical Theatre • Theatre

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

        

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts provides gifted emerging artists with the experience, knowledge, and skills needed to excel in their disciplines and in their lives, and it serves and enriches the cultural and economic prosperity of the people of North Carolina and the nation. UNCSA is the state's unique professional school for the performing, visual and moving image arts, training students at the high school, undergraduate and master's levels for professional careers in the arts.

The UNCSA School of Music offers a transformative conservatory experience that combines intensive individual study under resident artist-mentors who are active performers with a variety of performance opportunities (more than 200 recitals, concerts, and operas annually, including collaborations with other UNCSA arts schools: dance, drama, film, and design & production).

336-770-3290

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Music provides high school, undergraduate, and graduate programs in a variety of instruments. In addition to their online application, students will need to audition for the music faculty in their area of interest. The requirements for admissions varies according to academic level:

-Undergraduate

-Graduate

-High School

UNCSA's Office of Career Development provides students with a central resource for assistance with their career planning. It is designed to work hand-in-hand with the arts schools (School of Music in this case) in supplementing career preparation training for students. UNCSA students participate in career development seminars as part of their curriculum.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 28 full time, 15 adjunct

Brass • Composition • Conducting • Music Technology (including production) • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Note: These are concentrations within the UNCSA School of Music; they are all geared toward performance. There are courses in jazz, theory, etc., but they are not concentrations.

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute

ONLINE COURSES

Course information

SOCIAL LINKS

        

The mission of the UNT College of Music is to serve our diverse musical culture with excellence, integrity, and imagination. The vision of the UNT College of Music is to provide leadership, artistry, and expertise to every facet of the music profession.

The UNT College of Music is one of the nation's most respected comprehensive music schools. We offer fully accredited degrees, bachelor to doctoral, and are home to the world's first jazz degree program. We present over 1100 events annually and our alumni work across the globe in award-winning careers.

Denton, TX 7620

940-565-3860

Undergraduate / Graduate

The Music Business and Entrepreneurship program is the College of Music's avenue to produce successful 21st-century musicians. We help students develop an entrepreneurial mindset to build financially sustainable and professionally satisfying arts careers that positively impact their communities. Our program includes academic coursework, internship opportunities, a music entrepreneurship competition, an innovative music programming competition, a related field in music entrepreneurship, frequent guest speakers, one-on-one career advising and mentorship, community engagement, networking opportunities, a Student Artist Entrepreneurs organization (S.A.E.), and other events. Our students are launching their own businesses as a result of our program offerings. To learn more visit our UNT Music Entrepreneurs page.

The University of North Texas Career Center is a comprehensive career center that encourages the overall development of UNT students and alumni through personal and career exploration, while equipping them with lifelong job search skills and providing them opportunities to reach their career goals and aspirations. The Career Center is available to all UNT students and alumni.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 116 full time, 47 adjunct

Brass • Composition • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Ethnomusicology • Harpsichord • Music Theory • Performing Arts Health

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia

Performing Arts Medicine Clinic

Residencies

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

University of North Texas information

ONLINE COURSES

Course information

SOCIAL LINKS

        

Westminster Choir College is a professional college of music with a unique choral emphasis that prepares undergraduate and graduate students for careers in performance, teaching, sacred music, and composition. In an atmosphere that encourages personal and musical growth and nurtures leadership qualities, Westminster Choir College complements professional training in music with studies in the liberal arts. Founded for Christian service, Westminster Choir College was a pioneer in establishing the highest standards in choral performance and church music. Today, the curriculum teaches pluralism and holds service through music to be ennobling, liberating, and integral to a rewarding and productive life.

Westminster Choir College is unique in that it offers students a small conservatory feel while still maintaining world-renowned programs and faculty. We offer unparalleled performance opportunities!

Princeton, NJ 08550

609-927-7100

Career Assistance at Westminster

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 28 full time, 30 adjunct

Composition • Conducting • Music Education • Organ • Piano • Vocal Arts/Opera

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs