Program Overview

Piano Performance Degree

Overview

The Piano Performance Degree at the University of North Texas is a comprehensive program designed to prepare students for a successful career in music. The program offers a Bachelor of Music (B.M.) degree and is tailored to provide students with the tools necessary to develop their technique and musicianship.

Program Details

• Program Type: Major
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 4 years
• Credit Hours: 129

Requirements

The Piano Performance Degree program requires students to complete a series of courses and performances. The program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in piano performance, including the study and performance of music from various periods and genres.

Marketable Skills

• Performance communication
• Excellent memory capability
• Command of music computer programs
• Pattern understanding
• Improvisation and analytical capabilities

Program Highlights

• Our alumni enjoy successful performance teaching careers around the world.
• Our faculty members are dedicated teachers and nationally and internationally known performers.
• We're one of the nation's most comprehensive music colleges and offer opportunities to meet some of the world's top music scholars and artists.
• Our facilities include the Murchison Performing Arts Center, which houses the Winspear Performance Hall and the Lyric Theater.

Career Opportunities

This major will prepare you for a career as a member of a symphony orchestra, a professional band, a soloist, or a chamber musician. You can also work as a studio musician for movies and television, become a church musician, or teach lessons in a private studio.

Notable Alumni

• Assistant principal oboist with the Cleveland Orchestra
• Principal timpanist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
• Second flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Principal cellist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
• Principal euphoniumist with the United States Marine Band

Courses

• Piano Literature
• Intermediate Piano Pedagogy
• Music as Politics
• Fundamentals of Conducting
• Theory I
• Piano (1–5 hrs)