SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music is a community of educators, musicians and scholars in an environment dedicated to helping every student achieve his or her career and life goals.

Throughout Crane's history the school's primary mission has been to educate music teachers with an emphasis on excellence in performance. At Crane, learning to be a teacher does not exclude or limit music performance, but uses excellence in performance as the foundation on which teaching is based. Over the years, our mission has expanded to include degrees in performance, music business, composition, and music theory and history, as well as other programs in jazz, music in special education, music technology, and piano pedagogy.

Crane is an undergraduate-focused music school with attentive full-time faculty. We are part of SUNY Potsdam, an arts-centric school, with 575 music majors and where about 25% of students major in the arts. At Crane, students can choose from a wide variety of programs and majors.

Potsdam, NY 13676

315-267-2812

Students in each major work closely with faculty and staff at Crane and SUNY Potsdam’s Career Services Office in formulating their post-graduation plans. Crane alumni include thousands of educators, performers, composers, researchers, leaders in music industry, and musicians of renown, a network of graduates who can be found throughout North America and around the world.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 74 full time, 18 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition • Music Education • Musicology • Piano • Strings and Harp • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds and Percussion

Other Areas of Study: Music Theory

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

✔=Yes   ✖=No   ◯=Under consideration

◯ Shifting semester start and/or end dates?

◯ Changes to class and/or ensemble sizes?

✔ Shifting more coursework online?

✔ Requiring masks for students, faculty, staff?

✔ Reducing on-campus housing density, if provided?

Does the school plan to test all for COVID-19 at term start, then periodically? ◯

Does the school plan changes to tuition and/or room & board fees? ◯