musmom2

Note to above:
I am pretty certain Ms. Fleming did not graduate from Julliard. Her undergrad degree (music ed!) is from SUNY Potsdam, Crane School of Music and Masters from Eastman. As I recall from her autobiography, she then went to an opera training program at Julliard, but I don't believe it resulted in a DMA.

cartera45

The listing of well known graduates from schools can be very misleading without more specificity. For example, Dolora Zajick got her BM and MM from the University of Nevada. Her teacher from there moved to MSM so she studied with him there when she came to NY. Elizabeth Futral got her bachelor's degree in music from Samford and her MM from IU. Heidi Grant Murphy did her undergrad work at Western Washington University. Lawrence Brownlee did his undergrad work at Anderson University. Wayne Tiggs got his BM from Iowa State University. Denyce Graves did her undergrad work at Oberlin and got a diploma from NEC so she too can serve as a success story for more than one school.

What this list says to me is that a singer can reach his or her goals from a variety of schools too numerous to mention. A look at the list of Metropolitan Opera competition winners over the last vew years reveals students who studied at well known schools, but the majority of them studied at schools not on anyone's top 10 list.

pietrasanta

cvonhaps---USC is NOT in Pasadena Ca. Not even close. And those US News
rankings are pretty dated.

Pinnum

Houghton College provides a great education and has an amazing music program. The Greatbatch School of Music is tops!

Faculty information:
Faculty, by Area : Greatbatch School of Music

College Website:
Houghton College: A Christian College with a Higher Purpose in Mind

slovesviola

Does anyone have any experience with the strings department at BU? S, now finishing his junior year, visited last summer, but the place was pretty empty. I guess everyone was in Western Mass. We were told to come for a tour but our guide was a wind grad student and knew virtually nothing about undergrad application issues and only a secretary was there in the admissions office. We got a feeling that it was not a very supportive atmosphere and extremely competitive to get in. This was the first school that we visited and now, a year later and after much research, feel that we should get some other opinions about the BU Music program. S would love to be in Boston but does not want to go the conservatory route. Thanks for any feedback and info.

Toriphile77

I'm not familiar with any but NY schools, but here are my suggestions:

Ithaca College
SUNY Postdam
SUNY Fredonia
SUNY Oswego
Nazareth
University of Rochester

- SUNY Oswego Voice Major, class of 2003

violadad

slovesviola- I believe the poster by the name of fiddlefrog is an upperclass violin student at BU. If you don't get a response on the thread, try emailing or pm'ing.

opera09

im just generally replying..
to achieve the double major, the student must both get into the conservatory as well as the other school involved, which is why a great music program at a university is probably a safer bet.
juilliard/columbia/barnard--barely anyone makes it out alive
jhu/peabody-wonderful program
rice university-shepherd-you take classes at rice for distribution purposes, and rice is an incredible university, ranked among the best.
nec/tufts/harvard-difficult to manage, similar to the juilliard dilema
eastman and urochester-works well.

Is is safe however to just rely on voice or your instrument? or should you have a back up plan and go with the double major? thats my question.