Extended Accelerator - Bachelor of Music - Music Composition

Program Description

• An immersive educational experience with a contextual curriculum bridging language, culture and academics.
• Live, Learn, Grow is a unique course designed for international students that will deepen your working knowledge of life in the United States and give you a comprehensive understanding of the local community and region.
• Bolster your academic achievement with English-language instruction, tutoring, academic advising and student support.
• Benefit from personalized English-language instruction that’s fully contextual—for example, lab-specific English-language instruction alongside your lab-inclusive science course.

The Bachelor of Music degree program helps you develop vision, depth and experience. You will learn about music from the past and present in order to help you understand concepts necessary to become a successful composer, and you will work closely with your professors to develop aesthetic, creative, critical and intellectual musical skills.

As a music composition major, you'll receive instruction in composition, conducting, ensembles, General Education requirements, music electives, music history and literature, music theory and performance studies.

Participation in eight semesters of composition seminar and eight semesters of recital attendance will help you develop critical listening experience and knowledge of repertoire.

You will present two composition recitals during your junior and senior years, and many student composers present an additional large work, performed by our orchestra, wind ensemble or choir.

The Department of Music is a fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music.