I always feel sad that kids are pressured so early to think about career. You really can still major in whatever you love as an undergraduate. I know your parents don’t believe this, so that makes it hard. Did your parents go to college? If they are paying or if there are loans, there is financial pressure, indeed, but the thing is, focusing on career choice when you have barely started college is not always necessary.
A bachelor’s in music, whether BM (conservatory) or BA (college) gives you access to jobs requiring a bachelor’s, just like any other bachelors. and it also gains you access to law, medical, business, nursing and grad schools. Music degrees are, in my opinion, very well respected for the discipline and work ethic involved. Music majors have a high admittance rate at medical school, I have read.
You have several options:
1)double major 2) double degree 3) minor in music and major in CS 4) minor in CS and major in music 5) major in CS only and do music lessons privately, continue practice, play in extracurriculars or off campus (this can still get you into grad school for music) 6) major in music and continue to take classes in CS (some music courses now involve quite a bit of technology by the way). Oh and you can major in CS and continue music after the BS. You can also major in music and take a postgrad course in CS (look at Tufts for example. My son works in Silicon Valley and not all of his colleagues majored in CS and at least one got a master’s in music after doing CS as an undergrad)
Both music and CS have fairly intense, sequential curricula so it can be hard to do both at once for a double major. A double degree is 5 years and offers more room in the schedule.
If you love playing music, you don’t have to try to get into music education. Also you can do that at the grad level. Music ed means teaching in public schools. You don’t need it to teach privately and for college teaching you need grad school.
You can do a general music major with theory, aural skills, music history, composition, ethnomusicology and technology, with or without performance, for example, which usually means 1/4 to 1/3 of your classes in music, so then you do gen eds and some CS classes.
Or you can do a BM (does this mean transfer?) which would mean 2/3-3/4 classes in music and a focus on performance most likely. This usually involves audition.
The best advice right now, as someone said, is to do CS but try to do some music classes too, and continue to practice, find a teacher for private lessons, and try to find performance opportunities on or off campus.
Many very talented musicians major in something else and still do well musically.
However, if you don’t like CS and want to study music, you can start looking at changing majors or transferring or whatever is needed.
Your life will be fine if you major in music. There are so many threads on this but look on top of this music forum for the thread with “poor house” in it.
Here is a good essay to read: tell us which student you thing you match best:
http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/conservatory/admissions/tips/doubledegree.html