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The Bachelor of Music in performance degree prepares students for careers in music, combining applied lessons on one's instrument with a variety of ensemble and performing experiences. Students also study literature, pedagogy, and other areas related to musical performance. The faculty is comprised of highly celebrated performers, who are committed to teaching excellence.

Learning Outcomes

Core Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a growing competence in technical aspects of performance, such as tone quality, pitch consistency, dynamic control, technical agility, accurate rhythmic concepts, and other skills particular to the area of specialization.
• Identify and analyze the elements of music in a given piece, including an understanding of its compositional processes, aesthetic properties, and artistic, social, and historical contexts for works in the Western music tradition, Contemporary periods, Jazz, and World Music Cultures.
• Demonstrate an appropriate level of aural, keyboard, and conducting skills.

Students will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of the pedagogical processes and theories that are foundational to performance practices and instruction on one鈥檚 primary instrument.
• Demonstrate a growing maturity in musical concepts using tools of performance to create artistic products.
• Demonstrate increasing knowledge of repertoire and growing musical competence through participation in solo, chamber and large ensemble performances.

• Brass
• Guitar
• Percussion
Piano
String Bass
Violin, Viola, Cello
Voice
Woodwinds