<p>Hello!
I'm going to be a senior and am doing lots of college research so I could apply to different music schools in search of what I'm looking for. Hopefully anyone can help me! I'm a vocalist and would like to major in music education (choral, preferably with stylistic option of jazz) and would like to double major/ minor in JAZZ VOCAL performance. Some schools have opera, some schools don't like double majors, some schools don't even offer jazz.
So far my list extends to
Ithaca
FSU
Hofstra
Manhattan School of music
The City College of NY
Penn State
??
I'm trying to have a broad take on schools from some with exceptionally good music programs to average ones, any opinions on the schools listed above or any others would be SO GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Thanks!!</p>
<p>I think Ithaca is worth a very close look, especially for music ed. My s goes there for performance and there is a lot to like about the school and the area. It is very well thought of for education and vocal department is strong. I know jazz is strong there but do not know that much about that aspect if it. There have some very good faculty in the music school.</p>
<p>Eastman! My son is a performance/music ed major there. Jazz majors are also part of the music ed program. He absoltely loves his music ed classes. He said he learned so much in them that he applied to his own playing. The Eastman Community school is a whole 20 feet from Eastman and he worked with a pre-school class this year as a freshman. He absolutely loved it and is going back with that group again this year. </p>
<p>Frost School of Music at University of Miami has a Music Ed degree with Jazz emphasis as well as a very strong Jazz department.</p>
<p>Just saw that Temple has a Music Ed/Jazz with voice component. They offered pretty good scholarships, too, when DD was applying. </p>