<p>Is there a program is UC Berkley for popular music vocal performance or contemporary singing?????</p>
<p>What are their advantages??? any bad things about the school?</p>
<p>UC Berkeley has one of the top music history departments in the U.S., but it is an academic degree (BA) with a performance component and does not offer a performance degree; there is a chorus and there are numerous student singing groups, but they are extracurricular. Music majors can get a small subsidy for the cost of lessons.</p>
<p>oh... that is sad... hope they have a performance degree soon..... good thing USC opeed a pop music program</p>
<p>UC Berkeley once did have a performance degree, but decided to eliminate it. Other UC's do have performance programs, including UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and UCSC. For instrument players, there is a good orchestra at Cal and chamber groups with excellent adjunct coaches; also the SFSymphony Youth Orchestra takes students up to age 22 and is a world-class orchestra; there are also great private teachers in the area, including from the SF Conservatory, who take private students. A few Cal music undergrads do go on to conservatory MM programs each year, but the greatest strength of the department is historical musicology.</p>
<p>any wonderful vocal performance degree in popular music or contemporary music around northern cali area?... around berkley to vallejo...???</p>
<p>Why not go to Berklee.</p>
<p>Not a college program, but a place to study jazz voice is The Jazz School in Berkeley. All ages. No degree. Very interesting teachers and guests.</p>
<p>i need a program. i was ohping for berklee in vocal performance wheter jazz or something but i guess they arent offering any vocal eprformance as a degree.....</p>
<p>Kathy - I think you're confusing Berkeley and Berklee. Berkeley is the University of California at Berkeley. Berklee is the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.</p>
<p>oh im sorry. i meant uc berkley up northern cali....</p>
<p>is their anything that will suite me? at uc berkley?</p>
<p>Spiritmanager, JazzSchool in Berkeley is becoming accredited! This fall they start the program and, as it was explained to me by their director, become fully accredited after three students graduate. If you contact the school they can give more information. I know their degree differs from UCBerkeley. They'll be more like Berklee in Boston, I believe. With their diverse and interesting faculty, as well as smaller class sizes and significantly cheaper tuition, JazzSchool may be an institution to consider. They have many vocal classes and instructors. My high school-aged son plays sax in their after school combos. The instructors are top notch.</p>
<p>so berkley has vocal performance???? or just extracurricular after school? im looking for a performance dgree in vocals.... i wont go far to Boston though.... just here in northern cali...</p>
<p>KathyBaby - Check out the University of the Pacific in Stockton (Northern California.) They have a strong jazz program. It might be a good fit for you.</p>
<p>The Jazz School is NOT UC Berkeley. It is its own entity. Berkeley is the city where it is located. Chazmire says it will soon be accredited, in the same way that Berklee College of Music in Boston is. This is different from a university like USC with a School of Music.</p>
<p>A friend of mine is checking out Berkeley. She has those questions, too. Cal has about 20 or 30 private instructors and more than a half dozen in voice. It doesn’t have opera, yet, though. She is trying to decide between a conservatory attached to a less famous university and Berkeley.</p>