The Jazz Studies track is designed for students who wish to pursue careers as jazz performers, arrangers, composers or jazz educators and for students planning to go to graduate school in related areas. Jazz majors are required to take a rigorous core of jazz harmony and aural skills, jazz improvisation, jazz history and jazz arranging and composition courses. Each semester in the program, students will take applied studio lessons on their primary instrument/voice, as well as participate in a jazz combo and a large ensemble, performing on that instrument. They will also take applied jazz piano lessons until completion of the Jazz Piano Proficiency Examination. Their program of study culminates with the presentation of their Senior Jazz Concert.
Entrance into the Jazz Studies performance track is determined by audition with the jazz faculty.
For additional programs and courses in this department, see Music .
