<p>I want to major in music and i rather go to a university than a conservatory because of the diversity.
Which universities have top music departments?</p>
<p>universities for music:
UC Berkeley
U Chicago
Princeton
Yale
Cornell
U Michigan Ann Arbor
U Illinois UC
Columbia
Harvard
UCLA
U Rochester
UNC Chapel Hill
Stanford
Oberlin
Indiana U Bloomington
NYU
U Penn
Brandeis
USC
U Iowa
Northwestern
U Texas Austin
Rutgers
Ohio State
U North Texas
U Washington
Cal State Northridge
Florida State
Boston U
U Cincinnati
Carnegie Mellon
UC San Diego
Case Western
Johns Hopkins
U Miami
Rice
Southwestern (TX)
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>U Chicago is great for music theory, but I wasn't too impressed with their music performace (then again, I saw it after NW, so maybe it's an unfair comparison). I would add Johns Hopkins and Rice to collegehelp's list.</p>
<p>If you do some searches, you can find a lot of information on music choices. To get more specific help, you need to give us a bit more information. Voice or instrumental, which instrument? What are your academic interests besides music? Do you have a music career in mind, such as music education or performance? What is your level of training in music? Are you ready for auditions? Do you want to remain in the NE?</p>
<p>Yale's music performance major is for graduate students only.</p>
<p>i want to major in cello performance nd stay on the east coast.</p>
<p>cello:
Boston U
Illinois State (Normal, IL)
Indiana U Bloomington
Northwestern
Rice
SUNY Stony Brook
UC Berkeley
U Cincinnati
U Puget Sound
USC
U Texas Austin</p>
<p>some are in the east, some are not</p>
<p>A girl from my high school class who was very musically talented in cello (state honors) specifically went to Ithica College for performance...so its another one to look at</p>
<p>It's not exactly on the east coast, but I've heard Illinois Wesleyan is very good for cello. U Rochester/Eastman is superb for cello performance (there's a CC parent who has a cellist there, can't remember who). Tufts and other schools that have a joint program with the New England Conservatory are also worth looking into, IMHO.</p>
<p>how bout nyu?</p>
<p>NYU has a good program for early music and their Tisch school is one of the best for acting and musical theater. Their music department is more centered around musicology and composition than performance and they don't try to compete with the likes of Juilliard, Mannes and Manhattan School of Music for performance majors.</p>
<p>I know an excellent professional cellist who did her graduate work at Rutgers. She has always spoken well of the cello faculty there. If your academics are strong enough to be considering NYU, you could probably get some good merit aid at Rutgers.</p>
<p>Regardless of where you look, remember that finding the right teacher is the most important consideration for performance majors.</p>
<p>I was momentarily forgetting about the music program at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education in the above post. They have some cello performance majors there and the program is worth a look, but their strengths seem to be in Jazz and music ed.</p>
<p>Add UMass-Amherst. Astrid Schween, cellist of the Lark Quartet and protege of Jacqueline duPre, teaches there. If you're willing to go to Canada, McGill (still on the East Coast, really) has Matt Haimovitz.
BU, where I study violin, is a pretty good place to be. The faculty is amazing. The student body ranges widely in quality, but frankly that's the case at virtually all university music programs, and there are some really great players here. The cello faculty has Mike Reynolds, George Neikrug if you're lucky, Rhonda Rider, and Leslie Parnas.</p>
<p>Other East Coast schools to look at: Bard, SUNY-Stony Brook, SUNY-Purchase, U of Maryland, U of Georgia, U of Tennessee (terrific cello teacher, Wesley Baldwin), UNC-Greensboro (nice cello faculty, not so good otherwise), Florida State, in addition to the other schools listed above.</p>
<p>Though there's no performance major, there's an excellent cello teacher at Williams.</p>
<p>I am the parent who has a son at Eastman studying cello. Eastman has a superb cello program but it is really more of a conservatory environment rather than university. Rice is an excellent choice for cello although extremely competitive for admission. Look also at Indiana or Michigan if you want a large school experience. If you are determined to stay on the east coast and want a university experience, then look at BU, Ithaca, and McGill for cello.</p>
<p>is nyu good for cello?</p>
<p>I am not familiar with who teaches at NYU but it is not a school that I have heard mentioned for cello or other areas of classical music performance. If you are willing to consider all women colleges, look at Barnard. I understand they have a strong music program although I don't know how they are in cello. If a performance major is your goal it is more important who you study with than where you go to school.</p>
<p>Janos Starker teaches at Indiana. 'nuf said.</p>
<p>Barnard students can study with Manhattan School of Music faculty. I am not sure how the finances work, but "jono", a cellist at Columbia University, knows all the particulars about how things are done from Columbia and Barnard. Search his name, and you can send him an e-mail. I do know that there are Barnard cellists currently studying with MSM teachers. Marcy Rosen teaches at Queens College in NYC, as well as Mannes School of Music. If you prefer a general college curriculum, it might be an option. She is a wonderful cellist, musician, and person.</p>
<p>I saw the lovely compilation of schools that specialize in cello . Does anyone ( collegehelp?) have a knowledge of the best universities for Electric Bass and/or Double Bass ???</p>