<p>sopranomom92–yes, it’s in the handbook, p. 317. “Special arrangements for instruction at Westminster Choir College can be made for a limited number of students through an interinstitutional exchange program.” </p>
<p>Mezzo’sMama: from the handbook, p. 537:
“Private vocal and instrumental instruction is available through a program managed by the Department of Music. This instruction is not part of the curriculum and the cost is not covered by tuition. However, for departmental concentrators and students accepted into the Program in Musical Performance, the music department subsidizes the entire cost of weekly lessons with teachers under contract to the department. The department also subsidizes part of the cost of weekly lessons for other students under certain conditions.”</p>
<p>From what we know of musicians at Princeton, it is possible to obtain a subsidy for private teachers not at Princeton; in the cases we know, the students who have the subsidy came out of Juilliard pre-college and continue to study with their teachers in New York (who are Juilliard faculty). </p>
<p>So the opportunities are there.</p>
<p>I have also discovered that Yale has an undergraduate 200 level course for vocalists which consists of researching and producing Monteverdi’s Orfeo in collaboration with Yale School of Music.</p>
<p>college555: the course i describe above is one of several in the music department (undergrad) at Yale which offer vocal performance training as a formal component of undergraduate curriculum. another series of courses is connected with the Yale Collegium Musicum.</p>
<p>Princeton also has undergraduate opera opportunities: from the handbook again: “in conjunction with Music 214 the Princeton University Opera Theater and the University Orchestra stages operas and opera scenes … Recent productions include Monteverdi’s the Coronation of Poppaea, Mozart’s the Magic Flute, Cavilli’s La Calisto and Egisto and Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience.”</p>
<p>One difference I would observe is that Princeton’s choral groups must rely on the Princeton orchestra and undergraduate students (mainly) whereas the Yale Glee Club (for instance) performs with the Yale Symphonia (from the Yale School of Music–not just a conservatory level orchestra, but a graduate level conservatory orchestra) and regularly pulls in world class conductors. The recording my son picked up during Bulldog Days, which had much to do with his decision to choose Yale, features the Glee Club singing with the Symphonia under the baton of Neville Mariner. The soloists were undergraduate voices.</p>