Michigan vs Yale for composition

Hunt
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:29:37 +0000

I can’t comment about Michigan, but my son was a composition major at Yale (actually, a music major with a composition concentration), and he liked it very much. He had a lot of opportunities to get his music played, and he got along very well with the composition teachers. He is now finishing up an MM at Juilliard, and found that he was well prepared–except that he wishes he had more ear training. We wanted him to have a broad liberal arts education, so we discouraged him from applying to conservatories. He ended up with a good education, but he also took a lot of music courses.