designed to meet the needs of professional performers, composers, and studio or school music teachers, this program is ideal for students who want to pursue the curriculum as a terminal professional program or as a foundation for doctoral study.

as a student in this program, students will receive rigorous instruction from a first-class faculty of accomplished soloists, chamber and orchestral musicians, conductors, composers, and teachers. areas of concentration include music education, performance, composition, accompanying, and piano pedagogy and performance studies.