<p>My main passion in high school has been singing, and I do pretty much every genre (choral, classical, jazz, pop, etc). I love love love it and I want to continue singing a lot in college.</p>
<p>However, I also really love computer science and I think I want to major in that.</p>
<p>Which schools offer the best voice opportunities in a wide variety of genres for non-majors? Preferably they would also have strong computer science programs and be located in an urbanish area.</p>
<p>Practically every school has at the minimum choral opportunities. Especially the large state flagships. For example, UCLA had loads of opportunities for non majors but it’s expensive for OOS.What part of the country and is money an issue?</p>
<p>Your interests sound a lot like my daughter’s. We are doing similar research. As the previous poster said most of the larger public flagships have both computer science and music departments with choral groups. Some surprises we’ve found with computer science and especially strong choral departments are Depauw, Rochester, Villanova. Indiana and Florida State have very strong choral departments, we are looking into computer science at those schools. Hope these ideas help.</p>
<p>Another great thing about schools in the Northeast, like Boston U, is they have fantastic singing opportunities in a variety of a cappella groups. These groups usually focus on pop, R&B and rock type of music, but some will specialize in other styles. If you like a major like computer science and love to sing, joining an a cappella group allows you to get your singing fix, hang out with fun people, and perform around campus and sometimes at other campuses, and depending on your group, even compete in national competitions. Lots of schools in the Northeast have great a cappella groups, so look out for them when you’re checking out colleges that focus on your computer science major.</p>
<p>Harvard has four choirs directly associated with the college, probably a dozen or more a cappella groups, two opera and one operetta groups, and a campus church which will pay you to sing on Sundays. And a CS department.</p>
<p>Basnanaty, you may wish to check out the University of Michigan, which has CS available in the LSA college AND the ENG college – plus a plethora of high-calibre singing opportunities.
You would be able – in theory – to pursue voice lessons privately as well, as their SOM is large…but you may not get the teacher of choice as non-majors are kind of the last placed. It is also possible, though highly ambitious, to dual degree between CS and voice, just so you know.</p>
<p>I need to put in a plug for where I teach at - Stetson University. (And I’m not a computer scientist nor musician; as I’ve said elsewhere I’m a mathematician.) But we have a great music school, kids from here have gone to major opera houses, grad schools, symphony orchestras, Broadway, you name it. Small (2500 total, about 200 in the music school). Minors get the same teachers as the majors in both voice and other areas, and especially if you are a needed vocal type you can get scholarship $$ for singing in the major choral groups on campus. And we do have a capella groups as well.</p>
<p>As for CS - we’ve had 4 students recently get jobs at Google and one of these was a double major with Piano Performance and Computer Science. It’s a small department, but very rigorous, and the profs really get to know you and work very closely with you.</p>
<p>This may not be the school for the original poster -I’m not sure we are urban enough. We aren’t in the country, rather a medium sized town about 20 minutes from Daytona FL and 40 from Orlando FL. But I want to bring it up for any students out there thinking of double majoring / majoring - minoring in music. Right now we’ve got 3 math majors that are music minors as well, so combining music with something else is by no means unusual. </p>
<p>Sometimes I feel like this forum is so Northeastern / Midwestern focused, and there is nothing wrong with those schools - BoCo, UMich, Oberlin they are great obviously- but there are lots of wonderful schools in other parts of the country, and that needs to get mentioned from time to time.</p>
<p>^This is true and thanks for the input, lcoulter, because you’re right, those smaller gems are often overlooked just due to the proportionate population phenom I’ve had the pleasure of listening to the works of a Stetson grad who went on to do his masters at Mills College and the work was outstanding ;)</p>
I’ve had the pleasure of listening to the works of a Stetson grad who went on to do his masters at Mills College and the work was outstanding ;)</p>