<p>I am currently a junior and I am considering to apply for school of music for piano.
I know some people from my school that are in dual enrollment program but they are all from string and wind departments and doing great but I am not sure how difficult it is to get accepted to piano department.
And I want to know:
1. how hard it is to get accepted into piano department
2. if I need some big awards to get in</p>
<p>If anyone knows, please tell me...</p>
<p>I am auditioning for the dual degree program with piano performance and the college of LSA on Jan. 27th. Does anyone know what to expect in the auditions? Anyone know how long it will be? I know we have to have all of the pieces prepared, but do will we have to play the whole program from top to bottom?</p>
<p>Hope it went well. Family friend auditions next week.</p>
<p>how is the music department at umich?
i am planning on double major-ing in engineering and music performance.
comments will be appreciated. thanks</p>
<p>Awesome...from what we can tell. My D is a rising freshman at UM....Voice Performance (soprano). Any specific questions? I can TRY to answer with our limited experience.</p>
<p>I am double majoring in music performance and LSA/RC. It's a 5-year program, but I'm going to try to do it in 4. Engineering-music, though, is much more difficult - I'm only doing a liberal arts major, probably, unless I follow this crazy whim to go into medicine.</p>
<p>oh. well is the engineering-music program hard to get into?</p>
<p>I would not say it is hard to get in, but your application to both programs will be handled separately. So you may get into one school but not into the other. Ironically, although LSA and Music makes more sense than Engineering and Music, the school of Music at Michigan is located in North Campus, right next to the College of Engineering and a World away from LSA!</p>
<p>As far as the quality of the School of Music, it is considered excellent, but it really depends on what you want to focus on. Overall, Michigan's school of Music is ranked anywhere between #4 and #10 in the nation.</p>
<p>S2530S2....When we were at orientation in June, there were a couple of other students in our small group who were majoring in music AND engineering. I believe the music students were instrumentalists. It is not easy...but it IS done. There would be others with which you could share your double major misery....and joy!</p>
<p>Alexandre...
you say...</p>
<p>"As far as the quality of the School of Music, it is considered excellent, but it really depends on what you want to focus on. Overall, Michigan's school of Music is ranked anywhere between #4 and #10 in the nation."</p>
<p>I'd be curious to see these varied rankings. Do you have a link?</p>
<p>I do not have links unfortunately. I remember the USNWR ranking Michigan #3 or #4 in 2000. Michigan's strengths, if I recall, were in voice, direction and composition.</p>
<p>Based on the 1999 USNews rankings, the music department was ranked 5th overall in the country:</p>
<pre><code>Composition: 2nd
Conducting: 1st
Jazz: 7th
Opera/Voice: 5th
Orchestra/Symphony 4th
Piano/Organ/keyboard: 4th
</code></pre>
<p>Here's a Link to rankings of all programs at UM:
<a href="http://www.umich.edu/%7Eoapainfo/TABLES/PDF/UMAA_Rankings.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.umich.edu/~oapainfo/TABLES/PDF/UMAA_Rankings.pdf</a></p>
<p>some are updated to 05' and some go back to 99' but Mich is awesome so I'm sure the ranks didn't fluctuate too much :)</p>
<p>Interesting...thanks!</p>
<p>oh. thanks for all ur info.
darn. double major sounds pretty tough.
what if i minor in music? would i still have to go through the audition process?</p>
<p>I know that University of Michigan's music school is one of the top in the nation, but how is it ranked among Northwestern University and University of Indiana Bloomington?</p>
<p>Anyone know what the campus size is?</p>
<p>are you talking about re: voice? since NU and IU are both heavy voice schools. </p>
<p>IU is one of the top five, including UM, Juilliard, Curtis, and Manhattan. the other five are Eastman, NU, some others I can't think of, I think Rice and Yale.</p>
<p>Yale used to be good i heard. but now i say, Curtis, Juilliard, Manhattan, and Eastman are the best (in order). Michigan, Northwestern, and Rice have good programs, equally i would say. Indiana is also great for music.</p>
<p>All three schools (IU, NU and UM) have amazing music programs. And all three have excellent social and campus lives. You should visit all three schools and decide then.</p>
<p>ok, when you say "great music," do you mean classical or mainly theater?</p>
<p>(by the way, I love you all, I might actually be able to do this whole college thing now)</p>
<p>I am pretty sure all three are good both in the classical/theoretical side of music as well as in Musical Theater. But I am not expert on music programs. Seek out more opionions.</p>