<p>I am trying to help a friend whose daughter is talented singer/songwriter specializing in jazz vocal. She currently attends a public Performing Arts High School but their guidance counselor is overwhelmed. She is starting to make up her list for college visits and research. Daughter seems interested in a conservatory type school</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend where we can find a list of colleges that specialize in vocal jazz? I am reading through all these threads but I cannot decipher the vocal jazz schools from the other music schools that are listed.</p>
<p>Is the girl a junior now, because it’s too late to apply for admission next fall. Visiting during audition season isn’t a great idea, so hopefully she can make those in the spring and early fall.</p>
<p>Have you used the Search feature on this site; there have been several threads about Jazz Vocals. Off hand, I can think of Berklee, UNT, USC/Thornton, University of the Arts, Hartt, Western Michigan and CCPA/Roosevelt University, and there are more!
I realize that you’re trying to help, but doing this research isn’t difficult and the girl and her parents would learn a lot from making good use of Google and Peterson’s Guide to Performing Arts Colleges. They can look at campus photographs, take virtual tours, check out faculty, compare costs and financial aid, etc. It’s an involved process and by going through the steps they gain valuable knowledge that they can take with them when they make the actual visits. They are lucky to have you as such a good friend!</p>
<p>Yes, she’s a Junior. I will point her to Peterson’s Guide to Performing Arts Colleges. That would be the best help. She hasn’t been very successful with ‘google’ and the Guidance Counselor at their high school focuses on Musical Theater and Instrument college lists.</p>
<p>She’s just starting their list to narrow down for scheduling college visits.</p>
<p>There is something not right if she’s telling you that she’s not having success using Google. Entering “colleges with jazz vocal problems” isn’t difficult at all and brings up pages of schools. I know that guidance counselors are overworked but it’s becoming all too common for kids to expect others to do the “leg work” for them, and by the time college searches come along they need to take responsibility for their own needs. She will need to initiate contact with schools and deal with the applications, so there is no time like the present to set her on the path to independence.</p>
<p>UNT is well known for their vocal jazz program as is Western Michigan and CCPA offers amazing performance venues and personal attention; I only mention those 3 because I know student at those schools. Peterson’s Guide is handy- and again, her HS should have copies of the book- but print media lags behind electronic, so the most current info is to be found on the schools’ websites.</p>
<p>The schools that my daughter was looking at last year are the U of Miami Frost School of Music. They have the Studio Music and Jazz Vocal program. The University of Denver Lamont School of Music for Jazz Studies and Commercial Music. The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and Cornish School of the Arts. Central Washington University also has a good program. There are others, but these are the ones that stood out to us.</p>