| Lots of practice rooms, and high-quality pianos in various lounges.
The practice rooms are probably about half really good instruments and half older stuff. they junk a lot of pianos every year to buy new ones.
Two of the dorms, Schapiro and Broadway, have several practice rooms in them that you can borrow a key to and sign up for timeslots. There are pianos in the main lounges of these dorms: John Jay, Hartley, Wallach, Wien, McBain. (although McBain's was a piece of junk as of 2 years ago). And in Dodge hall, home of the music department, there are some really fine instruments.
Lots of performing groups on campus need pianists, although I didn't join any of them (no time). But there are very good teachers available - especially at Teachers College where there's an exchange program, you can get two free credits a semester with basically an automatic A if you sign up and pay a nominal fee. They also have lessons with the Columbia music dept in Dodge, but preference is given to music majors and there's a big waiting list.
There's a Columbia-Juilliard program but I don't know anything about it. |