| I looked at the Calarts website -- never having heard of it, though I live in California...they, like UCLA, have also just been given a huge donation by Herb Alpert (of the former Tijuana Brass). So that is a promising factor.
If you are interested in a performance-oriented program and want to live in Valencia, it might be a good choice. But as far as any kind of academic education in music, and for location, there is no comparison between Calarts and UC Berkeley, which has one of the top academic music departments (with composition faculty, ethnomusicology faculty, and music history faculty) in the US. You would also be able to take courses in innumerable subjects at the university. It is not merely a question of prestige, though it might well be a consideration and, again, UC Berkeley is world-reknowned -- but also of the breadth of education you could get there. |