<p>Hello! I am about to start my senior year at Syracuse University as a Music Performance major in Cello with a minor in Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises. I am also very interested in world drumming (I am one of the leading members of SU’s Brazilian Percussion Ensemble). So I am looking for a grad school that has either a Master’s in Music Industry or Music Performance, with a competitive string studio, and lots of world percussion ensembles to play in. I would also prefer the school be in a very urban area as I have enjoyed being in a city setting during my time in Syracuse.
SO, with that in mind, any ideas floating around out there? Any help would be much appreciated…
Thanks!</p>
<p>I would post this in the music forum for better/more responses.</p>
<p>We live in Texas, so I think of University of North Texas and its wonderful music department. It’s in Denton, but it’s also a short drive from Dallas and all that it offers. Lots of international flavor in Texas, too, so they might have lots of opportunities to extend your Brazilian music. </p>
<p>Good Luck!!!</p>
<p>I really like how North Texas looks! Thank you!</p>
<p>I seem to recall that Columbia has–or at least had–an MBA in management of arts organizations. And of course the music scene in NYC is pretty much unparalleled.</p>
<p>Looking for a graduate school is very different from looking for an undergraduate school. This place probably isn’t the very best to ask, since most of the people on it are undergraduates or are looking for undergrad colleges.</p>
<p>Are you a member of LiveJournal? They have a community called “applyingtograd” that is very good at handling these questions. Try [So</a> you want to go to grad school?](<a href=“http://www.livejournal.com/community/applyingtograd]So”>http://www.livejournal.com/community/applyingtograd).</p>
<p>I will also warn you that searching for graduate schools is a solitary, relatively lonely process. Since the entire point of it is really about fit with a department and an advisor that will mentor you along and help you accomplish what needs to be accomplished, it’s very personalized, and isn’t something easily done with the help of others. Nonetheless, the best sources of information are your music professors.</p>
<p>maybe Carnegie Mellon? They have a pretty good college of arts and college of business.</p>