Our tutors have a wealth of industry experience, bringing relevant, up-to-date professional knowledge into the classroom. Whether you study one-to-one with an expert in your chosen instrument, or develop your skills in specialist group study, you will be working with our leading tutors to develop your knowledge and technique.

3 Quarry Hill
Leeds, LS2 7PD
West Yorkshire

+44 75 9571 1606

We have an amazing Employability and Enterprise team which supports our students’ career and artistic ambitions throughout their studies and beyond. Our specialist team helps students with many opportunities such as mentoring and specially developed materials and resources.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 35 full time, 49 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Business • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Performing Arts

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Leeds Junior Conservatoire, ages 8 to 18

Summer Academy

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Leeds Conservatoire information

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The world needs music now more than ever. At Longy, we prepare students to become exceptional musicians who can engage new audiences; teach anyone, anywhere; and use artistry to change lives in communities around the world. Join us and become the musician the world needs you to be.

27 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

617-876-0956

From their first days at Longy, students become Boston musicians, performing professionally with faculty on concert stages around the city. Networking opportunities abound. Longy students can further expand their skills through Teaching Assistantships or Graduate Fellowships, which reduce tuition by up to $10,000 per year.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 0 full time, 127 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Chamber Music • Music Historical Performance

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

3601 North Military Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431

561-237-7084

Lynn's comprehensive career preparation includes: one-on-one career counseling; résumé writing and coaching; tips on employment research; personality and skill assessments; informational and mock interviews; professional networking; entrepreneurial seminars; professional outreach engagements; and orchestral mock auditions.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 12 full time, 13 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Piano • Strings • Winds & Percussion • Instrumental Collaborative Piano (graduate-level only) • Percussion

Undergraduate Programs in composition, piano, >performance.

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Mason Gross School of the Arts is a community of artists—dancers, filmmakers, musicians, theater artists, and visual artists-who study, teach, create, perform, and exhibit. The mission of the school is to nurture creative talent and instill the insights and skills that future generations of arts professionals need to contribute to the creative and scholarly world. The Department of Music aims to develop well-educated professional musicians with a complex historical and theoretical understanding of all aspects of music. Students participate in more than 300 performance annually with over 20 small and large ensembles.

Mason Gross students have access to all the resources of a music conservatory situated within a nationally ranked research university. Located 45 minutes outside of New York City, our faculty roster boasts principals and members of the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Mason Gross School of the Arts
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

848-932-5241

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KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 90 full time, 100 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Education • Musicology • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Rutgers Community Arts for Pre-College and Adults

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Mason Gross School of the Arts information

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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: twelve 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

Career Assistance

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 3 full time, 11 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Conducting • Music Education • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

Undergraduate: Bachelor of Music with Elective Studies in Business; Bachelor of Music

NEC is a premier conservatory that values exploration, collaboration, and community. 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 and corporate management positions worldwide.

290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

617-585-1101

Our Entrepreneurial Musicianship programEntrepreneurial Musicianship program provides students and alumni with individual advising and career coaching, courses to gain professional skill within the conservatory curriculum, pathways to gain professional experience through hands-on learning, and opportunities to fund and incubate new creative work.

A recognized trailblazer, NEC's Community Performances and Partnerships Program is one of the premier programs in the nation for engaging conservatory students with their community through robust, meaningful partnership activities and high quality training. CPP interacts annually with over to 10,000 people through over 150 events and 700 hours of teaching that reach across ages, neighborhoods, ethnicities, and economic disparities in the city of Boston and beyond. CPP simultaneously provides NEC students with a crucial opportunity to explore what it means to be a musician living in and contributing to community life.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 109 full time, 138 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Collaborative Piano • Contemporary Musical Arts

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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 StreetMiami Beach, FL 33139

305-428-3300

NWS BLUE PROJECTS: NWS Fellows and alumni participate in NWS BLUE projects. Standing for Build, Learn, Understand and Experiment, NWS’s BLUE is a combination of leadership and entrepreneurship training and hands-on experimentation that provides NWS Fellows and alumni with a comprehensive skill set to complement their musical training. NWS BLUE enables all Fellows and selected alumni to pursue musical activism based on their personal interests with their own original initiatives, from concept to execution. NWS BLUE is currently being studied as part of a long-term research project on sustainable entrepreneurship in the performing arts supported by NEA Research Labs: The Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation.

AUDITION SEMINARS: An intensive four-day audition preparation seminar, involving visiting coaches from major orchestras, is held each year. In addition, Fellows organize monthly mock auditions intended to replicate the conditions of professional orchestra auditions. There is also an annual series of workshops with psychologist Dr. Noa Kageyama.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 5 full time, 1,100 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Education • Piano • Strings • Winds & Percussion

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The school recognizes the relationship that binds music to other academic and artistic disciplines and provides students with a comprehensive education, preparing them for professional careers in composition, performance, scholarship, and teaching.

1866 College Road North
Columbus, OH 43210

614-688-0372

Career Counseling and Support Services lists relevant, on and off campus, career resources to assist all OSU students in their career decision-making processes.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 60 full time, 40 adjunct

Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

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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
PO 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: 15 full time, 30 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Music Education • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

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SFCM's mission is to transform students artistically, intellectually, professionally, and individually. Through the study of music at the highest level, SFCM students learn to seek achievement in every endeavor, to convert challenge into opportunity, to understand the nature of excellence, and to pursue their dreams with vigor and determination. We believe that inspiring the imagination, cultivating the artist, honing the intellect, and developing the professional are the keys to launching innovative graduates who excel in any field.

With its new Bowes Center, alliances with Opus 3 Artists, Askonas Holt, and Pentatone, star faculty, and partnerships with Bay Area performing arts institutions and tech companies, SFCM provides students with unparalleled opportunities to develop themselves, their music, and their careers in the heart of the city.

50 Oak Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

800-899-SFCM (7326)

The Professional Development and Engagement Center (PDEC) Professional Development and Engagement Center (PDEC) offers students gig opportunities, internships, a grant service, access to employment listings, and a host of courses focused on marketing, finance, teaching, and technology.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 21 full time, 48 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Chamber Music • Technology and Applied Composition

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Rubin Institute for Music Criticism

Center for Innovative Leadership

Pre-College

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San Francisco Conservatory of Music information

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The Schulich School of Music of McGill University offers the highest calibre of teaching and learning, grounded in exceptional performance and research, in an inclusive and inspiring environment. We are located in Montréal Canada, also known as Canada’s cultural capital. Classes are taught in English.

527 Sherbrooke St W
Montreal, QC H3A1E3

514-398-4991

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 80 full time, 120 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

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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.

1460 University Drive
Winchester, VA 22601

540-665-4581

Shenandoah University's Services Office provides a comprehensive range of services and resources to support career exploration and professional growth of SU students. Services include experiential learning through internships, volunteer, summer, and part-time opportunities, résumé building, interview skills workshops, and graduate school and job search assistance.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 41 full time, 32 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Music Therapy • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Contemporary Musicianship & Entrepreneur Development • Vocal Pedagogy, Classical • Vocal Pedagogy, Contemporary Commercial Music • Dance • Acting • Musical Theatre • Musical Theatre Accompanying • Theatre Design & Production

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Ensembles

ShenCoLAB

Global Citizenship Project

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Shenandoah Conservatory information

ONLINE COURSES

Course information

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The Orchestra Now (TŌN) is a unique pre-professional orchestra and master’s degree program designed to prepare musicians for the challenges facing the modern symphony orchestra. Musicians receive two or three years of advanced orchestral training and take graduate-level courses in orchestral and curatorial studies. TŌN offers students the kind of experience they might expect as career orchestral musicians—public performance, touring, recording—and something more. In TŌN, you will be part of an ensemble of forward-thinking, exceptional musicians who intend to redefine what it means to be an orchestra.

Pre-professional orchestra that combines performance with rigorous study of the humanities; three-year Master’s Degree or twp-year Advanced Certificate; full-tuition fellowship and bi-weekly stipend; world-renowned guest conductors; regular performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

30 Campus Road
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

845-752-2422

Audition Prep class; Professional Development seminars

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 6 full time, 1 adjunct

Brass • Strings • Winds & Percussion

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The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music leads in performance, scholarship, and innovation. Our programs in Ethnomusicology, Music, Musicology, Music Industry, and Global Jazz Studies offer leading-edge scholarship alongside performance mastery and composition. Students are encouraged to explore music in all of its historical, global, and modern diversity.

445 Charles E Young Drive East
2520 Schoenberg Music Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095

310-825-4761

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 explore their professional interests; provide them with the knowledge, skills, resources, and experience necessary to pursue professional goals with confidence and self-assurance; and facilitate connections with 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, 20 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Ethnomusicology • Music Industry

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

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