Prepare for your career as a professional musician with instruction in performance practices from four centuries of keyboard repertoire. In Steinhardt’s unparalleled performing and recording facilities, you’ll work with renowned artists representing diverse traditions of pedagogy and performance, developing your personal artistry and acquiring the skills required to succeed after graduation.
Degrees In This Program
Bachelor of Music
Piano Studies
Explore rich liberal arts offerings as part of your professional musical training. Traditional coursework and innovative electives prepare you to navigate today’s musical landscape.
Master of Music
Piano Performance
Hone your technique and knowledge of the repertoire, mentoring with world-renowned artists and taking advantage of unique performance opportunities.
Master of Music / Advanced Certificate
Piano Performance / Piano Performance and Pedagogy
Prepare for a career in academia as well as the concert hall, with coursework in performance practice and music education as well as professional mentorship.
Advanced Certificate
Piano Performance and Pedagogy
Designed for mature artists seeking to move to advance their careers, this program provides enrichment and exposure for pianists at the pre- and post-doctoral levels.
Doctor of Musical Arts
Music Performance
Prepare for a lifelong career in music as a collegiate educator or top level performer in the Steinhardt DMA program.
Doctor of Philosophy
Music Performance and Composition: Performers
Conduct cutting-edge research, perform on stage at NYU and throughout New York City, and study with world-renowned artists.
Sara Davis Buechner
Meet Sara Davis Buechner
Piano Studies Artist Faculty member Sara Davis Buechner talks about the importance of offering a comfortable and welcoming community to a broad and diverse group of students. She also shares the ways in which she incorporates her experiences traveling in East and Southeast Asia into her curriculum (hint: she's a big Japanese baseball fan), and the idea that studying music, like all creative disciplines, can be fun.
Events
Friday, November 13
Celebrating Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston
Manuel Laufer, Artist Faculty in Piano Studies, and Alice Teyssier, Clinical Assistant Professor of Music in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, join with composer-percussionist Nathan Davis to present Feldman's epic work.
Friday, December 4
The Art of Piano
Pianist Eteri Andjaparidze is a Steinway Artist and serves as an Artist Faculty member at NYU Steinhardt. Hailed as a "phenomenal pianist" (Boston Globe) whose "playing is imperiously brilliant and idiomatic" (Gramophone), she has...
Saturday, December 5
Chamber Music With Piano
The pianists of NYU Steinhardt perform a varied program featuring chamber works with strings and piano four hands.
Wednesday, December 9
Chamber Music with Piano
Students from the programs in Instrumental Performance and Piano Studies present an evening of music for mixed ensembles.
Thursday, February 4
Eduardus Halim Solo Recital
A solo recital by Eduardus Halim, the Sascha Gorodnitzki Chair in Piano Studies.
News
Marilyn Nonken: L'Origine du Monde Receives Coup de Cœur
Marilyn Nonken, Professor of Music & Music Education and Chair of the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, received a Coup de Cœur from the Académie Charles Cros for her latest recording, Hugues Dufourt: L’Origine du Monde.
Piano Studies Alumna Isabel Dobarro Awarded 2025 Latin Grammy
Piano Studies alumna Dr. Isabel Dobarro, who completed her master’s, advanced certificate, and PhD at NYU Steinhardt, has been awarded the 2025 Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album for her solo recording Kaleidoscope – Contemporary Piano Music by Female Composers from Around the World.
Marilyn Nonken Inducted Into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame
Marilyn Nonken, Department Chair and Professor of Music and Music Education, has been inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame.
NYU Piano Studies Students Perform in 11,000 Strings at Park Avenue Armory
Students from NYU Steinhardt’s Program in Piano Studies recently participated in 11,000 Strings, the latest large-scale work by acclaimed Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, presented at the Park Avenue Armory.
An Investment in the Future: 23 Steinway Pianos Arrive at the Paulson Center
The grand pianos, along with more than 70 new Yamaha uprights, elevate Steinhardt's music and performing arts programs.
Questions
For more information, please contact mpap.piano@nyu.edu