The B.M. program in music performance provides intensive professional training within a renowned liberal arts university. The degree consists of 130 total credits: 40 in liberal arts and 90 in music. Students receive a broad foundation in core music classes including four semesters each in music history, music theory, aural comprehension, and keyboard harmony and improvisation.

Brass students have myriad performance opportunities. Several chamber music concerts each year offer chances for students to perform in the NYU Brass Choir, brass quintets, quartets, trios and other mixed ensembles, taught by our leading ensemble faculty. The NYU Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia present several concerts of standard orchestral repertoire and new music each year including concertos performed by student concerto competition winners.  Additional orchestral experiences are available through our fully staged opera, music theatre productions, recording studio dates and film scoring projects produced by leading Broadway and major opera company music directors. Students may also participate in the NYU New Music Ensemble. 

Students enjoy weekly private study with our richly diverse brass faculty including some of the most distinguished players in the major New York orchestras, renowned soloists and clinicians.

Students are required to present recitals in their Junior and Senior years. Students are encouraged to widen their horizons by taking elective classes in other areas of music such as Music Business (concert management, record business, etc.), Music Technology, Jazz Studies, or Music Education.

A new dual degree (B Mus / MA Music Education) is designed for undergraduate performance and composition majors interested in adding a music education component to their four-year degree.  Students apply at the end of their sophomore year. Once accepted into the dual-degree program by the music education faculty, students complete their degree with an added concentration in music education beginning in their junior year. Upon graduation, students may continue on to a one-year Masters degree in music education, where they complete their supervised student teaching internship to earn initial and professional teaching certification. Please see your current program director before contacting the Music Education program. More information here.