Jazz Studies - NYU Steinhardt

The NYU Jazz Program strives to create an environment modeled after the real-life experiences of our world-class faculty. Studies in jazz performance at NYU are designed to train and develop artists capable of succeeding in the current music industry. NYU Jazz provides aspiring students advanced performance training combined with the finest related academic and music courses designed to encourage entrepreneurship. The B.M., M.M. and Ph.D. programs in jazz performance and composition draw outstanding performers and composers interested in advanced training and extraordinary opportunities to develop in the music industry as it exists today. Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, the world's mecca for jazz music, students are offered direct and immediate interaction and performance opportunities with internationally acclaimed artists and educators as well as industry executives and entrepreneurs. NYU faculty and students are shaping the future of jazz. Students perform weekly at landmark venues including the Blue Note Jazz Club (read an article from the cover of the Washington Square News about our Afro-Peruvian Ensemble at the Blue Note), the Village Vanguard, Birdland, the Jazz Standard and the Knitting Factory. With guidance from an up-to-date and nurturing faculty, NYU Jazz students learn to develop in new venues, realize new concepts for distributing their music and create alternatives for successful careers in the modern jazz industry.

Direct and constant student interaction with our artist/faculty is key to the NYU experience. Through private instruction, ensemble participation, master classes, live performance opportunities and informal one-on-one time, students learn "hands on" by assimilating their craft through their environment. Course study includes jazz theory, arranging, composition, entrepreneurship, jazz history, and jazz industry internships.

The Department's acclaimed programs of study in Music Business (B.M. and M.A.), Music Technology (B.M. and M.M.), Music Composition (B.M., M.M., Ph.D.), and Music Education (B.M., M.A. and Ph.D.) provide a rich and valuable array of elective courses for jazz music performance majors that prepare them for an ever-changing music industry and musical climate. Undergraduate and graduate students also benefit from the extraordinary opportunities available through the diverse offerings of a major university in the cultural capital of the world, New York City. Our reputation, faculty and location provide students with a unique opportunity to develop as performers and to make the contacts necessary to launch a professional career in the globalized jazz world.

The Department of Music and Performing Arts offers a warm and collegial atmosphere. Students attend master classes with today's leading jazz players in New York City. Jazz performers enjoy the support of all of the faculty and their peers as well. Our reputation, faculty, and location provide students with a unique opportunity to develop as performers, composers and entrepreneurs. The goal of all NYU Jazz faculty is to help generate the contacts and environment necessary for our students to create professional careers in music.

David Schroeder,  Director of Jazz Studies
35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777,  New York, NY 10012
Jazz Studies line: 212 998 5442,  Fax: 212 995 4043
Email: jazzstudies@nyu.edu

Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

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