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What degrees do we offer?

Instruction in performance leading to the Bachelor of Music in Music with a concentration in Performance is provided for the following areas: Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Tuba, and Euphonium (Brass Instruments); Piano, Harpsichord, and Organ (Keyboard Instruments); Percussion; Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Bass, Guitar, and Harp (String Instruments), Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, and Bassoon (Woodwind Instruments); Voice.

For required courses and recommended timeline for degree completion, visit the academic catalog for Bachelor of Music in Performance.

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For degree plans and required courses, view the Master of Music in Performance sample degree plan. 

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For degree plans and required courses, view the Accelerated MM-to-DMA in Performance sample degree plan. 

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For degree plans and required courses, view the Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance sample degree plan. 

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For degree plans and required courses, view the Artist Diploma in Performance sample degree plan. 

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Current Student & Alumni Success 

  • Vincent Friedel (BM ‘21) finished training at the Army School of Music to become a member of the 34th Infantry Division “Red Bull” Band for the Minnesota National Guard.
  • In 2020, Rahsaan Barber (DMA ‘20) was appointed as Assistant Professor and head of Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
  • Charles Pender (BM ‘19) was appointed to a full-time music teaching position in Shelby County Schools at Robert R. Church Elementary School.
  • Paul Hafley (BM ‘19) won the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition and Orchestral Audition Competition in 2020.
  • Evan O'Neal (MM ‘19) is the band director at Burns Middle School in the Dickson County, TN school district.
  • Robert Nathan Nix (DMA ‘18) has been named President of AFM Local 71, Memphis, TN.
  • Wendy Grew (DMA ‘14) teaches double reeds at Missouri Western State University.
  • Sky Macklay (MM ‘12) has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and will be producing a record of oboe chamber music that she composed.
  • Sky Macklay (MM ‘12) was hired by the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, as a composition faculty member.
  • Alec Bartlett (MM '21) held a position in the Rocky Mountain Repertoire Theater pit orchestra in Grand Lake, Colorado in 2020.
  • Barrett Parten (DMA In progress) won an applied teaching position at Gunter High School in Texas.
  • Rahsaan Barber (DMA '21) performed as a soloist with Kristen Chenoweth on the ABC national broadcast "A CMA Country Christmas" in December 2019. 

 

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