<p>Hello folks,
Please render opinions on the schools to look at for music education. My daughter plays the violin and wants to teach.<br>
I am especially interested in opinions about Ithaca, Connecticut, Providence, Hofstra, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont.<br>
Don't let that list limit you though!!
Thanks much.</p>
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<p>You’ll get plenty of knowledgeable advice from folks in and already through the process.</p>
<p>A couple of key points:</p>
<p>Specifying instrument or discipline, years of training and experience, and academic stats will be helpful in formulating a list of options to consider.</p>
<p>Straight music ed is often the most cost effective within your own state piblic, but their are many reasons to seek a private or an oos public. Among others, these can include audition/stats parameters, size, studio teacher choices, peer musician quality.</p>
<p>Please take a minute to read this <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> if you are unfamiliar with audition based/audition driven admissions. </p>
<p>The public programs you list do a good job on the whole of providing solid backgrounds for music ed and initial licensure within their own parameters. None is known as a nationally “top” music ed program. Ithaca has a excellent rep, and there are others not on your list that are well known and produce well trained and nationally sought after music educators. Among others, SUNY Potsdam (Crane), Rutgers (Mason Gross), UHartford (Hartt) come to mind. </p>
<p>Do a title search within the music major forum with “music ed” and “music education” as the keywords (use the quotes). You’ll bring up about 2 pages of past threads under these criteria.</p>
<p>Feel free to pick my brain.</p>
<p>Thank you violadad.<br>
We looked at the University of Hartford and my daughter did not like the campus.<br>
She had her first audition at Providence and did well. She is interested in Ithaca, and we have scheduled more auditions at Connecticut, Rhode Island and Ithaca. New Hampshire and Vermont as well as Hofstra remain.
By the way, she looked at SUNY but preferred Ithaca.
Being in Connecticut, and given that she was the captain of her high school color guard, she is also thinking about involvement in a marching band. That has its perks.
We’ll see where it all leads.
Thanks, again.</p>
<p>If your daughter wants to teach in CT, she will find it MUCH easier to get certification if she attends a school IN CT. The schools in CT are well versed in the requirements for Music education. I know a number of fine musicians who have gone to Western CT State University in music education. You might want to visit there too.</p>
<p>If your daughter lives in New York, and she is exceptional at music (level 6 score 100 or All-State NYSSMA solo) consider auditioning for the Eastman School of Music (part of the University of Rochester) They have Music Ed, Performance, and other music degree programs. This is one of the finest music schools in the northeast.</p>