<p>I haven’t heard much as far as tuba performance there. They haven’t had any students in recent competitions or in the finals for jobs, so it seems like you might be swimming upstream as a performance major surrounded by music ed students. You wouldn’t be by a decent professional orchestra, and the school is pretty expensive. What is it you like about Ithaca? Could you find those things somewhere with a better-known tuba prof and a little more to offer performance-wise? </p>
<p>I gather that your list is</p>
<p>Eastman
UMich
Northwestern
Bard
Oberlin
Lawrence
Juilliard
Manhattan School of Music </p>
<p>So you’ve got three places Alan Baer is teaching (Bard, MSM, and he’s taking over at Juilliard, from what I’ve heard from my friend there), and then Eastman, NU, and UMich, which are all very competitive, and Oberlin and Lawrence, which, if you’re legitimately in the running for the rest, should be relatively easy admits for a tuba player. What else are you looking for?</p>