<p>Hello. im looking for good piano colleges. Im planning to major in piano and i'm honestly not good enough for oberlin or juliard<br>
my teacher says i have a good chance making Northwester but if i practice hard
only thing w/ NU is that it's so expensive..
im looking for not-too-expensive colleges and are still strong in music (maybe music education)<br>
any tips for colleges?? please??
currently.. im thinking about roosevelt universtiiy, NU maybe.. U of I urbana chicago , NIU, depaul,</p>
<p>I saw an incredible offer out of University of Iowa this year, which is very unusual. My client’s piano teacher commented that they have a pretty good piano program.</p>
<p>But here’s the deal, Iowa City suffered a huge flood last year and it destroyed Hancher Performing Arts Center. I’m guessing they are coming up with a lot of FA so they can rebuild their program.</p>
<p>The upside is that whoever is their in the next few years will get to experience the opening of a brand new, state of the art performance center.</p>
<p>If NU= Northwestern, consider it the same level of competitiveness as an audition based admit as Juilliard, Oberlin, and that ilk. (Additionally, NU has an academic threshold that must be met as well).</p>
<p>The criteria for selecting a choice for music performance or music education can vary depending on your focus. </p>
<p>Your current level of play, years of instruction, and an overview of musical immersion and participation would be helpful in aiding oothers to suggest potential programs to look into.</p>
<p>I’d suggest you repost in CC’s <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/</a>. There are numerous threads for both general and specific program info.</p>
<p>I’d suggest you read the post <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html</a></p>
<p>I’m no expert, but I recall reading somewhere that Peabody (part of Johns Hopkins) has a top ranked, if not the top ranked, Piano Department. I believe it is led by Leon Fleischer.</p>
<p>Peabody will be just as hard to get into as Oberlin or Juilliard. Indiana U at Bloomington has a good organ program so their piano program might be good (just guessing in this case).</p>
<p>I hear that the University of Cincinnati has good music programs…</p>
<p>University of Cincinnati does have a good musical theater department. My friend down here in New Orleans sent her daughter all the way up there.</p>
<p>My brother in law is a music professor in piano at U of Michigan. He did his undergrad at Loyola New Orleans, a fantastic music school. Then his masters and doctorate at Eastman and Manhattan School of Music. Not sure which one was which. </p>
<p>His first teaching job was at University of Southwest Missouri. It may have a different name now. It was in Springfield.</p>
<p>Just throwing these out as options, some may be more competitive than others, or more expensive than others, so if you just want to apply and weigh which ones you get into, it would be worth a shot.</p>
<p>Along the musical theater majors, our school has a good drama department, and some of our friends have gone to the following schools to major in musical theater/vocal performance: Loyola Marymount, Catholic U of America, Manhattan Marymount, Loyola New Orleans, Centenary College in Shreveport, LA. </p>
<p>Another college we visited during swim meets was the University of West Florida, in Pensacola, a gorgeous beach, and it boasted a wonderful drama department.</p>
<p>As for music schools in other regions, Rice had the Shepherds School of Music, don’t know if it’s still around. When I was at UMiami, it had a wonderful music school. That was 30 years ago, so don’t know what it’s like now.</p>
<p>Good luck on your search!</p>
<p>Rice still has the Shepard School. It is one of the top music programs in the country and one of the most difficult admits for undergrad. You really will get better advise on the music majors forum.</p>
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<p>Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam)</p>
<p>How about Westminster Choir College for piano performance (a challenging admission) or for music education, with piano primary (an easier admit).</p>
<p>A few piano specific threads
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/690786-piano-performance.html?highlight=piano[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/690786-piano-performance.html?highlight=piano</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/658327-these-best-studying-piano.html?highlight=piano[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/658327-these-best-studying-piano.html?highlight=piano</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/262590-music-performance-major-piano.html?highlight=piano[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/262590-music-performance-major-piano.html?highlight=piano</a></p>
<p>A few general info, school overview threads:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/6280-suggestions-colleges-music-majors.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/6280-suggestions-colleges-music-majors.html</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/558178-music-school-visits.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/558178-music-school-visits.html</a></p>
<p>I’m going to the university of Iowa this fall on sholarship for a major in piano performance, there is an excellent piano teacher there. </p>
<p>Another teacher to look into, is Hans boepple, he teaches at Santa Clara University. There were about 50 names of great teachers that my current piano teacher listed off, but I can’t remember what all of them were. </p>
<p>The top music Schools:
Curtis, Eastman, Julliard, Jacob’s school of music (University of Indiana, Bloomington), Cleveland institute of music, Yale (although they don’t do undergrad), Peabody, Stony Brook. </p>
<p>It depends on your ability. Have you won any major competitions? what’s your repertoire? how much do you practice? what connections does your teacher have?
I have placed first in a few out of state competitions and almost all of the major local competitions, I am currently practicing 4-6 hours each day (during school it was more like 3-5), and my piano teacher knows a lot of teachers </p>
<p>Just my advice, undergrad it is important to find a great teacher, it’s not as important to go to a big name school, that can be saved for your graduate degree. It is important to find a place where you can go there on almost a full ride scholarship. That is of course if money is an issue.</p>
<p>Good point, Brahms. My brother in law got a free ride to Loyola New Orleans, he was from neighboring Mississippi, but a really gifted pianist. He went into a lot of debt for his grad school, though, at Eastman and Manhattan. Just the cost of living alone in Manhattan will put you into major debt.</p>
<p>Well, that was mostly my piano teachers advice. He didn’t owe a penny after he got his PhD, he went to Temple for undergrad and then the Jacob’s School of Music for graduate.</p>
<p>A word of caution about monetary advice from one’s teachers- those that have been out of school a while may be out of touch with the realities of the monetary issues! What cost $8K back in the 60’s-70’s may well run $40K now! " Expensive" is a relative term- school A may have a lower tuition but be really tight with financial aid, while school B might be more expensive but have a host of monetary awards and scholarships with which to make it more affordable. Use the internet to look at school’s websites and grab a copy of Petersons’s College Guide for Performing Arts Majors (libraries have it, but not always the up to date version); the book has a lot of information in one place and will help you to compare schools.</p>