BM in Instrumental Performance
Northwestern University — Evanston, IL
About this program
The Bienen School of Music offers the BM across instrumental performance areas (brass, woodwinds, strings, percussion, guitar, harp, piano), Jazz Studies, and Music Education, plus the BM in Music Composition and Music Technology, Music Theory and Cognition, and Musicology. All Music Education auditions are held on the same day as the applicant's performance audition; Music Education and Performance applicants submit a single Bienen School Supplement (the requirements are the same). BM degrees require four years of individual instruction for performance majors in piano, strings, voice, winds and percussion, jazz, and composition. One year is required for academic majors in music cognition, musicology, and music theory; three years are required for music education. Concurrent registration in a major ensemble is required in each quarter of applied study (with the exception of piano majors, composition majors, and fifth-year voice majors).
Audition & application overview
- Requires a prescreen video
- Requires a live or recorded audition
- Requires a dance audition
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