Does a gap year between undergrad and grad studies affect admissions?

compmom
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:50:55 +0000

What do you actually want? Do you want to perform, teach in public school, teach at at a college level, or a combination of performing and teaching?

A grad degree in music ed or a DMA in performance are both possibilities.

I was not thinking of orchestral programs for summer. The info given by @musicaspirant is super helpful in terms of why a teacher might want you to avoid a summer program. Makes sense. Though it seems typical of the old fashioned classical world that limits input. I have attended master classes where the coaching of a different teacher achieves stunning improvements.

ps I am more used to the kind of summer program where a string quartet or some other smaller ensemble plays, often in the world of new music with 20th or 21st century composers and even more often emerging composers. So not really relevant to many on this forum.