Music Performance - Miami University - Oxford

Music Performance from Miami University - Oxford is a Campus Bachelor Music and Instruments degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. What is Music Performance? If you like the sound of being a performing musician or teacher, a music major may be right for you. You'll be most successful as a music major if you have these qualities in addition to performing talent: 1) strong motivation to practice, study, and learn more about music on your own; 2) good sight-reading ability and musical ear; 3) an interest in learning more about various types of music; 4) a high level of intellectual curiosity in subjects other than music . What are the features of Miami's program? Focus on undergraduates Miami University is nationally recognized as one of the top undergraduate universities in the country, with a commitment to you shared by the music department. Faculty are dedicated to developing your talent and ability. And as a music student, you'll benefit from a 7:1 student: faculty ratio. Courses for music majors are taught exclusively by faculty members, not graduate assistants. National recognition Our students have won national awards in competition with students from music conservatories. Among our faculty are award-winning composers, renowned performers and teachers, and scholars of international reputation. International performing Miami is the only university in the U.S. where students and faculty perform annually with a major European music festival. Individual attention We offer private lessons on all the major orchestral and band instruments, piano, harp, and voice. Required for music majors and music minors, these lessons are open, based on audition, to non-music majors as faculty time permits. Auditions for these opportunities are held at the beginning of each school year. For more information about auditions, contact the music department office. Top-notch facilities The Center for Performing Arts is the department's primary facility, shared with the Department of Theatre. The building houses the 400-seat Gates-Abegglen Theatre, the 150-seat Souers Recital Hall, rehearsal rooms, classrooms, faculty offices and studios, and student practice rooms. The CPA also contains the Amos Music Library and Listening Center, with more than 40,000 volumes and 18,500 recordings, the Electronic Music Studio, and a new class keyboard laboratory with Macintosh computer/keyboard MIDI workstations for instruction and practice in keyboard skills and music theory/composition. Study abroad Miami's music program offers outstanding opportunities for international study. The Department of Music has an agreement with the Luxembourg Conservatory of Music for a student and faculty exchange program which sends Miami students to study music in Luxembourg for a semester or a year. View more details on Miami University - Oxford, OH . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Music and Instruments courses.