piano performance and music management dual degree?

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I was planning to just apply for music schools like juilliard but i realized that its not enough to get me a stable job so i thought getting a degree in music management will help me. But i don’t really know that much schools where i can get dual degree in both piano performance and music management.
ARe there any decent universities/conservatories that offer the program i want?

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If you want to work in management (for classical music) what you need is a background (strong working knowledge) of music and great internships. You can study music management in college or you can study music in college, but the internships are of equal or greater importance. As for stable jobs–do stable jobs still exist in any industry? (Just a rhetorical question.)

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Have you thought of collaborative piano with your piano performance? Seems there is aways work for good accompanists and some become good coaches, too.

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I was going to say the same thing as glassharmonica: I would recommend focusing on piano then doing internships to gain experience, skills and connections on the arts administration/management side.

If you want to study piano, the BM degree will also involve theory, aural skills, music history, and other general music courses, and about 1/4 of your classes will be liberal arts electives. For a BA music program, which may or may not involve performance, you would usually do 1/4-1/3 of your classes in music, sometimes 1/2.

You could try to attend a school that has a good BA in music and a good undergrad business major, and do a double major. But it is sometimes hard to schedule two intense, sequential majors. Or you could do a BM on a campus that also has a business major and try for a double degree. Or you could do piano and internships. Or you could do business and do music privately (lessons) and perform in extracurriculars.

Majoring in music alone is not necessarily a financial risk. You get a bachelor’s that gives you access to many jobs, not just in music, and also to grad school. med or law school etc. You don’t really need to do the business degree to parlay the music degree into a job:again, do some internships, get involved in the music world, get to know people and so on.