Admissions
Please see the graduate admissions page for detailed information on application and audition requirements. When filling out the Graduate School application, be sure to apply for DMA: Music Performance.
Please note that auditions will be held on special days reserved by the Conducting faculty (not on the general graduate audition days).
Degree Requirements
See your degree worksheet below for details. This is the document your advisor will use to keep track of your degree progress.
For detailed information on exams, recitals, etc., please visit the graduate admissions page. Be sure to check out the School of Music Graduate Student Handbook.
Doctoral Minor – Required for all Doctoral programs
The purpose of the doctoral minor is to add breadth and depth to the D.M.A or Ph.D degree. To insure coherence a minor program must be approved by the appropriate department, a student’s advisor, or the Director of Graduate Studies, and must include courses at the 300-level or above. Typically, a minor requires 12 credits of work.
Students have a variety of options, including completing an internal minor within the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. conducting student who minors in ethnomusicology or a Ph.D. in music theory who minors in clarinet performance), completing a minor in a department outside the School of Music (e.g., a D.M.A. in horn performance who minors in Women’s Studies or a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology who minors in East Asian studies).
Students may, in consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies, devise a distributed minor that brings together courses from a variety of departments around a particular topic or area of interest. For example, a D.M.A. student in voice devises a minor in vocal health that includes courses in communicative disorders, or a Ph.D. student in musicology devises a minor in Medieval History that includes courses in art history, history, and languages.