Curriculum

In NYU’s unparalleled performing, recording, and practice facilities, you’ll acquire the diverse, competitive skills required to succeed as a concertizing and recording artist. You will receive intensive one-on-one instruction with internationally acclaimed performers and pedagogues, develop your technical and interpretive skills, and perform regularly both on campus and off. Engaging with your peers and faculty mentors across programs, you will access a powerful network of artistic inspiration and professional opportunity.

Core Course Sequence

Towards completing 36 points of graduate-level coursework, you will work with your advisor to tailor your curriculum towards your individual career goals. Curricular opportunities include one-on-one private instruction, technique and repertoire classes, and chamber music coachings with world-renowned performers. You will have opportunities to perform with the NYU Broadway Orchestra, NYU Orchestra, Baroque Ensemble, and Contemporary Music Ensemble, and be featured in fully staged music theatre productions and operas. You’ll become versed in performance practices of all eras, participating in master classes, curated performances, and collaborations with the Programs in Instrumental and Vocal Performance, Composition, Jazz Studies, and Composition: Screen Scoring, Concert Music, and Songwriting. Within a flexible curriculum, you can select additional coursework in Music Education, Music Technology, Screen Scoring, Songwriting, Performing Arts Administration, and Music Business.  

Culminating Experience

You will present your degree recital in your final semester, demonstrating your mastery over your instrument and technique, as well as the breadth of your interpretive skills and your unique performance aesthetic. Our performers graduate prepared for opportunities onstage, in academia, and in the non-profit and commercial sectors, aware of the changing roles and responsibilities of today’s performing musicians.