<p>Making progress on "the list" for Baritone Junior son-- looks like we are focusing on a range of schools where double-degree is possible (either Music Ed/Math or Vocal Perf/Math; strong interest in choral and accapella and side interest in MT). Strong academic stats. </p>
<p>Appreciate the many helpful posts thus far. Have learned many things including the importance of fit with teacher. At each school, there are often 6-7 faculty in vocal performance -- how do you know whom to start with for a sample lesson? Website bio? </p>
<p>Here are the schools we hope to visit this Feb/Spring
Oberlin, U Michigan, Northwestern, BU, Connecticut College, Syracuse, Peabody/JHU, Tufts/NEC, UMass Amherst, NYU.</p>
<p>Any leads (PM or public) on teachers to request sample lessons with at the above? Or just general suggestions about approaching the task?</p>
<p>Don't you want to look at Rice? Seems like a perfect fit for your son. The double major is tough, and not many kids do it, but Rice has the academics your son is seeking as well as an awesome music school and choir. If you are interested, I can find out who a baritone would want to have a lesson with.</p>
<p>Momofwildchild - I encouraged it, but my geographic marching orders were no further west than Illinois, no further south than Maryland! </p>
<p>There's a chance we'll be in Houston for a speech tournament in May; if so - I'll try to nudge a visit. Would greatly appreciate a name to pursue- Thanks!</p>
<p>ABlestMom - Connecticut College is on the list because of Music Ed; there's no vocal performance major there but we are still exploring a handful of Music Major schools to round out the list in case the audition process yields disappointing results. Don't know about anyone specific on the voice faculty yet- we'll let you know what we learn!</p>
<p>As far as trying to decide which teachers to schedule lessons with, the best thing to do is talk to people. Does your son's current voice teacher know any of these folks either personally or by reputation? Is there a college or university near you with a music school. Folks there can often be quite helpful. Has your son attended summer programs or all state events where he has met an adult that he could talk to for recommendations of teachers he should be looking at?</p>
<p>What we found when we started looking at teachers is that the same names kept coming up over and over. There were a couple of schools son was interested in where we couldn't find anyone who could recommend a teacher. In those cases, we looked over the bios and chose a teacher based on that. It is possible that you might want to set something up with more than one teacher at a given school.</p>
<p>You may want to look into McGill as well- fits that profile with an excellent vocal performance program, and opportunities to study under a dual-degree system! (the music ed program is also great- if your son is leaning towards that...)</p>
<p>Setting up a teacher is quite easy- just contact them through school websites. I'd highly recommend taking as many trial lessons as possible- very often teachers do not charge for these!</p>
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<p>I could be wrong...but I didn't think Conn College offered education certification degrees. I know a student there who wants to teach art...they do NOT offer teacher certification in that. You may want to check.</p>
<p>I just checked the website at Conn and they DO offer a music education degree of study. I have to say, though. I live in CT and I have NEVER met a music teacher from Conn (and I know a LOT of music teachers...not everyone in CT...but a lot). There are many other programs even in CT that offer music education as a course of study. I do know that the course of study for music education majors at the Hartt School begins freshman year and is very rigorous. In addition to fulfilling the teacher certification requirements, these music student must also fufill the MUSIC requirements of the college (ensembles, private lessons, studio class, etc). My understanding is that it is not easy to double major if one of your choices is music education.</p>
<p>conn definitely offers a certificate for music ed. i know a bunch of alumni from the past couple of years who are teaching music.
also, a capella is huge there, and the all male group has groupies!</p>
<p>Somewhat different question. My D has been invited to take mini lessons from a couple of the professors while we are visiting campus for the audition. This presents an interesting dilemma. What do you take to work with them? You have just auditioned with your best. Are you still really auditioning? Any advice?</p>
<p>Singersmom, the mini-lesson is to see how your daughter responds to some technical and/or musical suggestions the teacher might make. In a way it's part of the audition, but not a formal part. Not something to be nervous about or to prepare for. It is a great chance for your daughter to see who she clicks with and possibly to make some vast improvements in a very short amount of time. </p>
<p>It's fine (and probably expected) to use the audition music in the lesson, but also bring along anything else she's working on. </p>
<p>Think of it as a fun opportunity. I'd be impressed that the school wants to get to know your daughter beyond the formal audition.</p>