<p>I can’t talk about specific schools, but I agree with what Fiddle and others have said, you need to figure out what you want to do. When you talk about music ed, do you see yourself being an elementary/high school music teacher, or as a violin pedagogue (there is a big difference, for reasons too many to list here)? If so, then being a music ed double major may not make sense. Do you really want to head into violin performance and like many peformers teach as well? If so, it could be the music ed would be superfluous to that (and I am not saying it is, I am saying what you want to do will probably influence your decision process). </p>
<p>For example, If you see your path as being a school music teacher as your primary vocation with performance as a ‘second’ part of your career, then the music ed second major might make sense, where you teach in a school and then freelance or play in local performing groups, etc. If you think you are serious enough about playing the violin that you can be good enough to have performance as your primary focus, like becoming a member of a fairly high level orchestra program, some gig’ing, and having private violin students (or teaching violin at some sort of music school) then the music ed degree might not make sense (and I wonder if it wouldn’t be a distraction to do a music ed degree while trying to do performance; knowing the rigors only too well of those heading towards performance, I can’t see how it couldn’t). I will add that looking at your repertoire and the fact that you are now self described getting serious, if you are looking towards getting into violin performance at a relatively high level, that you may need to focus on the performance to be able to have a hope of making it at that level, based on what I have seen of the violin world these days (or Viola for that matter, if you choose that path). Others may have done both may have a direct experience with this, mine is simply based on what I know of the violin world and how it functions and is not gospel.</p>