<p>Any suggestions for contemporay or jazz vocal performance programs? My daughter is now considering this instead on MT.</p>
<p>Berklee College of Music in Boston, and I believe Belmont in Nashville.</p>
<p>check out USC (University of Southern Cal) as a possibility</p>
<p>Belmont does have a program in vocal performance with emphasis in commercial music</p>
<p>University of the Arts in Philadelphia.</p>
<p>Thank you for your suggestions!</p>
<p>LAMTMom08:</p>
<p>I will throw out some suggestions (a few were already mentioned) but some have commercial music (what you are calling contemporary) and some have jazz....so there is quite a difference between the two but here are some to explore further:</p>
<p>Berklee College
Belmont
Musician's Institute
University of the Arts
Millikin
Five Towns College
U Miami
Columbia College (Chicago)
New School University
Mannes College of Music
Manhattan School of Music
Loyola Marymount
Florida Atlantic
Shenandoah U.
Hofstra (not positive)
Sarah Lawrence
Cornish College of the Arts
Univ. of Denver
William Patterson Univ.
University of North Texas
Ithaca College
University of Southern California
Cincinatti College Conservatory of Music (CCM)</p>
<p>I've checked several of these but there are a few I am uncertain about. Again, some are for commercial, and some for jazz.</p>
<p>Lawrence University:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/jazz/%5B/url%5D">http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/jazz/</a></p>
<p>While Lawrence has an award winning jazz singers group, and it has a jazz major, I can't seem to find if it has a JAZZ VOCALS major, not just instrumental jazz major. I don't see it.</p>
<p>Add to the list Roosevelt Univ. for Jazz Vocals.
Same with Webster University.</p>
<p>I don't know anything about Lawrence, but since their staff lists a jazz voice teacher, I assume that students can major in vocal jazz.</p>
<p>MusThCC...I also was unsure. I couldn't find that major though it has a jazz performance major and an excellent jazz singing group. Could you find a major for jazz voice? They may offer it but I simply could not locate it. Sometimes a school offers courses within a department but not a major/concentration. I don't know the case at Lawrence, however.</p>
<p>Music schools don't list each instrument as a major -- if you play bassoon, your major is music performance, with your primary instrument being bassoon, or music ed, with bassoon as your primary instrument.</p>
<p>If they have a jazz performance major, and a jazz voice instructor, I feel it is safe to assume that you can major in jazz performance with voice as your primary "instrument".</p>
<p>MusThCC....that may be so at some schools on their website and very well may be at Lawrence. I was asking if someone could find it as I could not. However, at many of the other schools that offered this major that I listed, I COULD find this concentration within jazz studies/performance. They actually LISTED jazz vocals as a concentration. That was why I was asking. </p>
<p>Some of the schools I listed had jazz vocals. Some had commerical (contemporary) voice. That was why I was asking about if anyone could find if Lawrence had jazz vocals as I could not find it (doesn't mean they do NOT have it), because I could find that listed at the other schools' sites within their music/jazz programs. Within other jazz programs, if they had jazz vocals, they listed concentrations in intrusmental jazz and jazz vocals. Some also mentioned it within the audition requirements for each concentration. A school might offer jazz vocals, but not list it on their site. Thus, I mentioned that I was unsure if they had it, but they might. I just couldn't tell and wondered if anyone else knows if they have a jazz vocals concentration. I didn't want to ASSUME they didn't have it and so I asked.</p>
<p>Temple University also has jazz vocals as a program. </p>
<p>The thing is, there are far more jazz vocal programs than programs in commercial voice. And there is a difference to the training. </p>
<p>If your D really wants commercial....several of the programs on my original list have that such as Berklee, Univ. of the Arts, Musician's Institute, Belmont, Five Towns College, U of Miami. For jazz voice, there are more options.</p>
<p>Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins has a very strong jazz vocal program</p>
<p>Thank you to everyone for the many program suggestions. My D would prefer Jazz over Commercial. Soozievt - you're suggestions are great! My D will be attending CAP21 this summer, so she will need to find a vocal coach to work with while in NYC. I'm going to call Steinhardt for suggestions.</p>
<p>LAMTMom....is your daughter doing the CAP21 six week program through CAP21 or the CAP21 four week program through NYU/Tisch? Definitely ask both Steinhardt and CAP21 for voice teacher recommendations for private lessons, with a bent on jazz voice. As I have a D who attends CAP21, I could share the voice teachers in the city she has had but I honestly don't know if they teach jazz. She is a jazz singer as well but doesn't work on that in voice lessons. I imagine between both these schools which both have many private voice teachers, they can lead you to a suggested one. The other place to ask is The New School.</p>
<p>Also, now that you say your daughter prefers jazz vocals over commercial (my original list has some schools for each), I'll add one in your state: San Francisco State and one in mine: University of Vermont. But there are some good possibilities in the schools already mentioned on this thread.</p>
<p>She will be attending the 6 week program at CAP21. Any teacher suggestions would be greatly appreciated!</p>