<p>There may be others with more experience on a dual major of music ed and performance, but from what I have seen of performance degrees I wonder if it will work any better then music ed with another major. I don’t know a lot about music ed, but from everything I hear it has a lot of requirements and is quite intense. I know a bit more about violin performance, and everything I hear is that it is pretty darn intense itself, it takes a lot of time, especially in practicing, and I wonder how easy it is to dual major (others on here might have kids who have gone that route).</p>
<p>As others have posted,including myself earlier this year, unless your D is certain that she might want to teach in a public school setting, she doesn’t have to go through music ed to teach. Private schools generally don’t require it from what I have seen (some may, of course), and for private studio teaching, the only studio teachers I have seen with Music Ed degrees are people who teach in the public schools and teach privately on the side (which is if that is what your daughter thinks she wants to do, obviously that informs her decision). Other then that, few private studio teachers bother. I will add that while all music is competitive, the violin is especially so, for a number of reasons, and if she is thinking of maybe being a performer she may be better served by focusing on her performance based work to bring her playing up as high as possible. Obviously, if she seriously thinks she wants to end up teaching in a public school, then she would have to do both.</p>
<p>I wish her luck, let us know what she ultimately ends up doing:)</p>