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With its internationally renowned performance faculty, favorable student-teacher ratio, and state-of-the-arts facilities, the Keyboard area provides first-class education for both aspiring performers and future pedagogues. Degrees are designed to develop the pianistic skills students will need as professionals and to broaden their knowledge and understanding of music history, literature, and theory.
Students cover a wide range of repertoire including music by living composers and have opportunities to perform in solo recitals, with chamber ensembles, and as concerto soloists with orchestra as well as participate in supervised student teaching opportunities in the community.
Academics
Learn more about program details and class information about piano related majors:
- Bachelor of Music with emphasis in Piano Performance, with track in Piano Pedagogy, Composition, Theory, Music History, and Music Therapy
- Bachelor of Music Education
- Bachelor of Music Education (Pre-Certification)
- Bachelor of Arts in Music
- Minor in Music
Learn about our audition requirements.
Learn more about program details and class information for piano related majors:
- Master of Music in Music Performance with concentrations in Piano Performance, Piano Pedagogy, Composition, Theory, Music History, or Conducting
- Master of Music Education
Learn about our audition requirements.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
Generous financial aid is available for prospective students, including undergraduate scholarships and graduate service awards. Graduate teaching assistantships provide full tuition plus a minimum stipend ranging from $6,000 to $12,000 along with health insurance.
Facilities
The School of Music building contains two recital halls, a 15,000 square foot music library, forty-four teaching studios, and seventy-six practice rooms, many of them with Steinway grand pianos reserved exclusively for piano majors. The school is close to becoming an “All-Steinway School”. The 560-seat Margaret Comstock Concert Hall houses two Steinway concert grand pianos, including a spectacular new Hamburg Steinway purchased from the Hamburg factory in June 2019. In addition, the hall has a 64-rank Steiner-Reck organ, the largest of its kind in the Midwest. Also available to students are five harpsichords and a number of practice organs. A class piano lab consists of 20 Yamaha Clavinova keyboards.
