Pre-professional orchestra that combines performance with rigorous study of the humanities; three-year Master’s Degree or two-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

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✔ Students   ✔ Faculty   ✔ Staff

The Townsend School of Music fosters excellence in musical learning within the context of a comprehensive university environment. Undergraduate and graduate studies prepare musicians for careers in performance, music education, church music, and musical scholarship.

World-class Center for Strings program, recognized level of excellence and performance, and outstanding guest artist series.

1501 Mercer University Drive
Macon, GA 31207

800-840-8577

Career Assistance

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 17 full time, 15 adjunct

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

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

We successfully integrate academic studies with performance.

104 Morrison Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1200

510-642-2678

Berkeley Career Engagement

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 15 full time, 16 adjunct

Composition (Performance) • Musicology

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✔ Students   ✔ Faculty   ✔ Staff

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music prepares students for 21st-century music careers. Home to renowned musical scholars, music industry experts, and world-class musicians, educators, and composers, the school offers students an interdisciplinary education that prizes music performance and scholarship while also emphasizing active engagement in greater Los Angeles.

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: 43 full time, 20 adjunct

Arts Leadership • 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

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✔ Students   ✔ Faculty   ✔ Staff

In the foothills of the Rockies, the CU Boulder College of Music combines advanced musical training with professional experiences amid the rich resources of a top research university. Under the guidance of renowned faculty, and through individualized degree plans, our students gain the necessary skills to develop flexible, sustainable careers.

301 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309

303-492-8468

With the arts business undergoing enormous changes in how content is produced, distributed and consumed, CU Boulder's Entrepreneurship Center for Music is a cornerstone of our program. Through the ECM, students are encouraged to develop entrepreneurial skills to explore the vast opportunities inherent in a changing marketplace and develop plans to implement career-enhancing ventures across the artistic spectrum.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 60 full time, 30 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 • Musical Theatre

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

The Music Buff alumni network

HEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

SOCIAL LINKS

           

The Academy of Music and Drama trains and educates composers, musicians in many genres, opera singers, music, dance, and theatre teachers, musical theatre artists, performance artists, and actors. Research within artistic and pedagogical practices also takes place at the academy.

Eklandagatan 86, SE 412 61
Göteborg
PO Box 210, SE 405 30
Göteborg

+46 31-786 00 00

Alumni and career services

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 100 full time, 50 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Church Music Performance • Individual Performance • Music and Sound Production • Choral Conducting • Symphonic Orchestra Performance

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

Beautiful facilities including the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; inclusive community with supportive faculty; individual attention for students; diverse Big 10 campus with wide-ranging performance and research opportunities.

1114 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801

217-244-7899

The School of Music and the College of Fine + Applied Arts are dedicated to preparing our students for successful careers in their fields. The Career Services Office offers workshops, job fairs, hands-on sessions, and individual appointments for professional feedback, individualized career planning sessions. Additionally, we offer courses in cover letter and resume writing. The Career Services' Mentoring Program helps juniors, seniors, and grad students establish connections and explore career paths through informational online conversations, interviews, and job shadowing.

The School of Music hosts a number of entrepreneurship events each year to help students develop important business and marketing skills.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 90 full time, 0 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Choral Conducting • Computer Science + Music • Instrumental Performance • Jazz Performance • Lyric Theatre • Musicology • Music Technology • Open Studies • Orchestral Conducting • Piano Pedagogy • Vocal Coaching and Accompanying • Vocal Performance • Wind Band Conducting

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Illinois Summer Youth Music

ONLINE COURSES

Offered, check University of Illinois School of Music website

HEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES

Policies & Procedures for this school

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

SOCIAL LINKS

           

The University of Maryland School of Music is innovative, inclusive, and community focused. We offer a professional music education with all of the opportunities provided by a major research institution.

2110 The Clarice
College Park, MD 20742

301-405-8435

Our Be Worldwise, Get Worldready initiative seamlessly integrates career development into your ARHU education so that your academic journey is intentional and prepares you for life after graduation, whether that means going on the job market or continuing to graduate school. You’ll encounter innovative areas of study, holistic advising and access to opportunities and alumni in the Washington, D.C.- Baltimore region—and beyond.

It’s no surprise that 96% of our students get jobs or continue their education after graduation. Alumni go on to graduate school and have successful careers in a range of industries, including tech, business, government, arts and entertainment, non-profits, law, medicine and computer science.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 39 full time, 48 adjunct

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

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

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
273 Bromery Center for the Arts East
Amherst, MA 01003

413-545-6048

Career Services
Lisa Blacher , director of HFA Career Development Services
413-545-6152

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 43 full time, 4 adjunct

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

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Professional Certificate in Arts Management

HEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✔ Students   ✔ Faculty   ✔ Staff

SOCIAL LINKS

        

The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar is an international tertiary education and research institution. Deeply rooted in the tradition of European music, it is at home in the highly symbolic cultural city of Weimar. Inspired by Franz Liszt, our educational programme consists of three pillars: practical music training, teacher training, and research. These three pillars are indispensable for a wholistic education. We seek answers to the central questions of art, culture, and society. For this reason, innovation, curiosity, and openness are the standards by which we measure our actions. For us, musical education and character building are inseparable.

The University of Music Franz Liszt is an internationally oriented university in Weimar, Germany. About 850 students from around 50 countries are offered a broad selection of subjects in performance, music pedagogy and musicology. It sets benchmarks with its international master classes, music competitions, exchange programs, festivals and conferences.

Platz der Demokratie 2/3
99423 Weimar

+49 3643 555 184

Get Ready - Career Services

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 110 full time, 90 adjunct

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

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

Our work at KUG is based on top-quality teaching, development, and exploration of the arts (EEK) and academic scholarship. We emphasize the interweaving of artistic practice, EEK, and scholarship. Teachers and students collaborate as partners in a joint process of knowledge acquisition and development.

Leonhardstraße 15
8010 Graz

+43 316 389 1234

Career Service Center

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 177 full time, 346 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 • Catholic and Protestant Church Music • Computer Music and Sound Art • Doctoral Programmes • Education in Composition and Music Theory • Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering • Mediation of Music and Theatre • Performing Arts (Drama) • Performance Practice in Contemporary Music (PPCM) • Communication, Media, Sound and Interaction Design - Sound Design • Stage Design • Teacher Education Programme

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Courses for Children and Adolescents

Courses for Further Education: Elementary Music Education, Pick-up Courses, Summer Courses

Individual Academic Courses for non-degree programme student

HEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

SOCIAL LINKS

              

International environment in the middle of the cultural metropolis Munich; wide variety of subjects; internationally successful students and alumni; high demands on values such as diversity, respect, and responsibility—a code of conduct—and a clear position against abuse of power and discrimination.

Arcisstr. 12
80333 München

+49 89 289-03

Career Services
Alumni Programme

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 200 full time, 300 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Arts Journalism • Sound Art • Musical • Dance (Ballet) • Drama Programmes: Stage Directing, Acting, Wigs & Make-up

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

UNCSA School of Music offers a transformative conservatory experience that prepares students for professional careers. The program combines intensive individual study under professional artist-mentors with a variety of performance opportunities including collaborations with other UNCSA arts schools. Students attend master classes with distinguished guest artists and perform in state-of-the-art facilities.

1533 South Main Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27127

336-770-3290

UNCSA has the Office of Career Readiness which helps prepare students for a successful transition from school to professional careers. It provides enrolled students with overall career planning that supplements the career advice provided by the arts school faculty. UNCSA students may participate in career development seminars and apply for career development grants and fellowships.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 27 full time, 23 adjunct

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

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

University of North Carolina School of the Arts
School of Music information

HEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES

Policies & Procedures for this school

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

SOCIAL LINKS

           

Set against the backdrop of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, the University of Oregon is among the most beautiful places in the country to study. Offering traditional and unique degrees, School of Music and Dance maintains a supportive environment for all performers and academics to feel safe, explore, and flourish together.

961 East 18th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97403

541-346-5268

Career advising, networking fair, career workshops, master classes

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 56 full time, 15 adjunct

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

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

We advance musical instruction at the highest level for students' professional preparation and by leveraging the daily work done by students and faculty in teaching and learning music to unlock music's unlimited potential to improve lives throughout the Midlands and beyond.

813 Assembly Street
Columbia, SC 29212

803-777-4281

Spark: Music Leadership at Carolina empowers members of the School of Music community—students, faculty and staff—to develop and explore diverse and dynamic careers.
The USC Career Center is dedicated to supporting your needs at all stages of the process, whether you are still making decisions about your future direction, looking for hands-on experiences, or are ready for the next steps that will prepare you to live out your career goals.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 60 full time, 10 adjunct

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

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Commmunity initiatives for children and adults, summer programs, CEUs, and more

ONLINE COURSES

Offered, check University of South Carolina School of Music website

HEALTH & SAFETY POLICIES

Proof of vaccination required? (✔=Yes   ✖=No)

✖ Students   ✖ Faculty   ✖ Staff

SOCIAL LINKS

           

Study tuition-free at the only graduate school of music in the Ivy League.

98 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208246
New Haven, CT 06520-8246

203-432-4155

Career Strategies

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 40 full time, 30 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Conducting (Choral) • Conducting (Orchestral) • Harp • Harpsichord • Percussion • String Quartet • Voice (Early Music Voice) • Voice (Opera)

The Yale School of Music is a graduate-professional school of Yale University. No undergraduate degrees are offered through the School of Music.