<p>You need to check into music education requirements everywhere you want to apply. From my experience…once a music ed major is doing student observations and student teaching, participation in ensembles and chamber music IS limited due to time needed for the education part of the program. And at a LOT of schools, music education students do not study with the applied faculty…they study with grad students (who, btw can sometimes be VERY good).</p>
<p>If you are interested in performing, perhaps staying at UCLA and following that track would be good for undergrad. If you want to each, you can get your teaching credential in a masters program.</p>
<p>if you really want to teach, you may find that many schools are similar to UCLA in that music education majors have a different ensemble and playing requirement than performance majors.</p>
<p>Unless something has changed, Boston University has an undergrad music education program…or at least I think it does. DS knew students who were music ed majors (and he didn’t know a lot of grad students his first year there). At BU, the music ed students do not play in as many ensembles as the music performance majors.</p>