Our mission is to provide all generations of musicians worldwide, the possibility to improve their skills and to enjoy a broad audience. We believe that anyone, at any time, should have access to the wonderfully beautiful world of music. We provide online music education masterclasses and courses. We also offer teachers the possibility to share their courses online.

Online Classical Music Academy offers more than 550 master classes and courses for violin, cello, piano, conducting, guitar, trumpet, music career and voice. Learn from teachers of different schools of music education; Russian, French, German, Italian and American, compare techniques and apply what serves you best.

Rue de la Tour 10

3963 Crans-Montana

+39 3473319474

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 5 full time, 65 adjunct

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

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Miriam Fried - Bach Sonatas and Partitas: Online Violin Course

The Musical Jewels—Courses to unlock and widen your theoretical and practical knowledge

Collection of Courses to Boost Technical and Music-Related Skills

ONLINE COURSES

Course information

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The mission of the University of Denver is to promote learning by engaging with students in advancing scholarly inquiry, cultivating critical and creative thought, and generating knowledge. Our active partnerships with local and global communities contribute to a sustainable common good. The Lamont School of Music is committed to providing students with the opportunity to gain the skills and experience necessary to succeed in today’s dynamic arts world.

Lamont is a premier music performance school within an internationally known university surrounded by a vibrant arts city. We are big enough to have a symphony orchestra, jazz orchestra, opera, and many other multi-genre ensembles, but small enough that our students receive an abundance of individual attention and performing opportunities.

2344 East Iliff Avenue

Denver, CO 80208

303-871-6973

Career ServicesResources for DU alumni, parents and friends

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 32 full time, 40 adjunct

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

Other Areas of Study: Music Theory • Piano Pedagogy • Suzuki Pedagogy (violin & cello)

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

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Lynn Conservatory of Music provides a high-quality professional performance education for gifted young musicians. Lynn’s eminent faculty forms a community of caring individuals, nurturing and mentoring our students with thorough attention to musicianship and artistry while providing the supplemental skills necessary to be successful professional musicians.

Lynn offers world-class faculty and full-tuition scholarships to all enrolled conservatory students. Room and board scholarships also available.

3601 North Military Trail

Boca Raton, FL 33431

561-237-7804

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 12 full time, 13 adjunct

Brass • Composition • Organ • Piano • Strings and Harp • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Harp • Percussion

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Founded in 1916 by America’s first great violin recitalist and noted educator, David Mannes, Mannes School of Music is a standard-bearer for innovative artistry, dedicated to developing citizen artists who seek to make the world a better and more beautiful place. Through its undergraduate, graduate, and professional studies programs, Mannes offers a curriculum as imaginative as it is rigorous, taught by a world-class faculty and visiting artists. Distinguished Mannes alumni include the 20th-century songwriting legend Burt Bacharach, the great pianists Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, and Bill Evans, acclaimed conductors Semyon Bychkov, Myung-Whun Chung, Joann Falleta, and Julius Rudel, beloved mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, as well as the great opera stars of today, Yonghoon Lee, Danielle de Niese, and Nadine Sierra.

Along with The New School’s Jazz and Drama schools, Mannes is a part of the College of Performing Arts at The New School. With each school contributing its unique culture of creative excellence, the College of Performing Arts is a hub for cross-disciplinary collaboration, bold experimentation, innovative education, and world-class performances.

The curriculum at Mannes breathes new life into traditional conservatory education, offering students rigorous training together with unique opportunities to grow as artists through cross-disciplinary collaboration, entrepreneurial innovation, and social engagement.

55 West 13th Street

New York, NY 10011

212-580-0210 x4862

At Mannes, students receive exceptional preparation for careers in music by engaging in a highly progressive curriculum. They can participate in partnerships with top-tier arts organizations in the Northeast. The New School’s Career Services office is also available to them.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 12 full time, 238 adjunct

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

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

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Combining an intensive, conservatory experience with the practicality of a music, business, and liberal arts curriculum, the McDuffie Center for Strings prepares the entrepreneurial musician for success. The Center’s distinguished faculty artists are dedicated to the development of young artists pursuing personal and musical excellence through four years of one-on-one mentorships. Through Mercer courses, the Center encourages its young musicians to engage with all aspects of the 21st century performing-arts world. This present environment is challenging to navigate, yet bursting with opportunity for the imaginative, entrepreneurial artist—precisely the type of performer on faculty at the Center.

Founded as a special institute within Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music, the McDuffie Center for Strings is limited to 26 students: 12 violinists, six violists, six cellists and two bassists. All accepted students receive a full-tuition scholarship to study with an unparalleled faculty of international performing artists.

1501 Mercer University Drive

Macon, GA 31207

478-301-2886

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 13 full time, 0 adjunct

Strings and Harp

Other Areas of Study: Strings only: violin, viola, cello and bass

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New England Conservatory educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world, drawing on the talent and deep reservoir of experience of our distinguished faculty. We are dedicated to inculcating the highest standards of excellence and nurturing individual artistic sensibility and creative growth. Understanding that music is one of the transcendent expressions of human civilization, NEC aspires to ensure it a central place in contemporary society.

NEC is a premier conservatory that values exploration and collaboration. Students are mentored by a devoted faculty of esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Alumni fill orchestra chairs, concert halls, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide.

290 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

617-585-1101

NEC has reinvented how we equip young musicians to thrive amidst the challenges they find after graduation. Our mission has not changes—we educate and nurture exceptionally gifted musicians to perform at the highest levels of accomplishment. But today, performance excellence is the starting point. Musicians must be more than virtuosi; they must be their own businesses.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 113 full time, 313 adjunct

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

Other Areas of Study: Collaborative Piano • Contemporary Improvisation • Piano Trio Program • String Quartet Program

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

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The mission of the New World Symphony is to train gifted graduates of music schools and conservatories for leadership roles in classical music.The New World Symphony envisions a strong and secure future for classical music and will reimagine, reaffirm, express and share its traditions with as many people as possible. The New World Symphony will be diverse and inclusive. We recognize that the viability of the performing arts depends on their being reflective of the communities in which they exist. NWS is proud to be partnering with many organizations to realize the goal of the reflective orchestra.

A laboratory for the way music is taught, presented, and experienced, the New World Symphony consists of 87 musicians who are granted fellowships lasting up to three years. The fellowship offers in-depth exposure to traditional & modern repertoire, professional development training, and personalized experiences working with leading guest faculty.

New World Center

500 17th Street

Miami Beach, FL 33139

305-428-6713

An intensive four-day audition preparation seminar, involving visiting coaches from major orchestras, is held each year. In addition, Fellows organize monthly mock auditions with the occasional participation of guest conductors and coaches. NWS also presents an annual series of workshops with psychologist Dr. Noa Kageyama.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 5 full time, 100 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Musicology • Organ • Strings and Harp •

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The aims of Oberlin College and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music are to: Graduate liberal arts and conservatory students who have learned to think with intellectual rigor, creativity, and independence; provide the highest level of conservatory education leading to lives of professional impact in all areas of music; offer superb liberal arts education; open the world to its students so they develop the skills and knowledge they will need to engage highly diverse communities; nurture students’ creativity; help students clarify and integrate their intellectual strengths and interests, social commitments, and vocational aspirations; enable students to integrate and apply their knowledge; and nurture students’ social consciousness and environmental awareness.

Oberlin Conservatory focuses on undergraduate pre-professional musicians in classical, contemporary, jazz performance; composition; and electronic music. Two graduate programs—Piano Technology and Recording Arts & Production—lead to Artist Diplomas. The conservatory is embedded within the premier liberal arts environment of Oberlin College and is renowned for the Double Degree Program.

77 West College Street

Oberlin, OH 44074

440-775-8413

Oberlin College’s Career Center and Oberlin Conservatory's Professional Development Office help students and recent alumni in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Conservatory of Music.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 80 full time, 25 adjunct

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

Other Areas of Study: Vocal Accompanying • Piano Technology

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Center for Innovation & Impact

Summer Programs

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Oberlin Conservatory of Music information

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The International Center for Music at Park University trains and educates the next generation of accomplished musicians in a focused and creative atmosphere with an international faculty of renowned excellence. ICM offers degree, certificate and diploma programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our courses of study are focused in the areas of performance in violin, viola, cello and piano. At the core of all ICM programs is one-on-one studio instruction providing vital interactions between the student and master faculty

World-renowned faculty and students; Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch is on faculty; Cliburn Silver Medalist Kenny Broberg is a current graduate student; London International Piano Competition Gold Medalist Behzod Abduraimov is artist-in-residence.

8700 NW River Park Drive

Parkville, MO 64152

816-746-2533

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 6 full time, 0 adjunct

Piano • Strings and Harp

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The UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts mission:

• Develop and maintain high quality undergraduate, graduate and continuing education programs appropriate to a major urban doctoral university.
• Engage in sustained research and performance which will enhance and fulfill the University’s role as an institution of academic and professional excellence.
• Attract highly qualified students who demonstrate the potential for intellectual and artistic development, innovation, and leadership for their communities.
• Further academic and professional opportunities at all levels for women, minority, part-time, and financially or educationally disadvantaged students.
• Encourage others from institutions in the University of Wisconsin System and from other educational institutions and agencies to seek benefit from the University’s research and educational resources such as libraries, special collections, archives, and academic programs.

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.

UWM Department of Music

P.O. Box 413

Milwaukee WI 53201

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

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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.

735 Anderson Hill Road

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) • Musicology • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Guitar • Studio Composition

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