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B.M. in Music Performance

Grace the stage with skill and gusto. 

Grove City College offers a bachelor of music degree in music performance that will equip you for a career as a professional musician. As a music performance major you will be able to choose from tracks in instrumental, piano, or vocal performance and refine your skills through abundant performance opportunities on and off campus. Coming out of Grove City with a music performance degree, you will have the skills and expertise to thrive professionally and make a positive impact on and off stage. 

 

Program Highlights
  • On-campus performance opportunities in 11 faculty-directed ensembles and over 15 chamber ensembles (ranging from our faculty-directed marching band, symphonic orchestra, and touring choir to chamber ensembles like string quartets, woodwind quintets, flute choir, trumpet ensemble, and chamber singers, as well as regional performance opportunities with the Butler County Symphony Orchestra, Greenville Symphony, local churches, and high school musical pit orchestras). 
  • Concentration options in instrumental music, piano, and vocal music. For detailed coursework requirements and descriptions, view the College Catalog.
    • Music core requirements including courses in Music Theory, Aural Skills, Music History, Conducting, and more.
    • Concentration core requirements that vary to develop your musicianship specific to singing, piano, and/or instrumental music. 
    • Private lessons in your primary area of instrument, piano, or voice with the same instructor every semester.
    • Participation in at least two ensembles every semester, regardless of your primary instrument. 
    • Junior recital and senior capstone music recital. 
  • Option to minor in musical theater. The College’s highly acclaimed Theatre Program puts on a faculty-directed fall musical and student-directed children’s theatre performance each year, as well as plays and one-act festivals that draw student participants from all majors.
  • Annual Concerto/Aria Competition, winners of which perform as featured soloists with the Grove City College Symphony Orchestra. 
  • Leadership opportunities to conduct or perform as a principal player in large and small ensembles and collaborate with faculty in performance.
  • Internship opportunities such as recently obtained positions with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Trinity Fellows Program, Glimmerglass Music Festival, JR Judd Violins, Csehy Summer School of Music, and Lamplight Artists.
  • Accomplished and widely talented music faculty mentors who hold membership in such organizations as ACDA, American Composers Forum, ASTA, BMI, CODA, College Music Society, NAfME, PADESTA, PMEA, Phi Beta Mu, SMTE, and TI:ME. 
  • Excellent facilities featuring: 
    • 22 Boston Steinway practice pianos and four-manual Kimball organ 
    • 28 practice rooms, organ studio, and harp studio
    • 700-seat performance hall and theatre, 170-seat recital hall, and large ensemble rehearsal hall
    • Music technology lab 
  • Vocation-enriching humanities core classes woven into your academic schedule that will help to solidify your worldview and cultivate critical thinking skills, empathy, and a big-picture approach to your discipline.
Career Outcomes
  • If you’re like 95% of Grove City graduates, you will be well prepared to compete for top full-time positions or entry into top graduate and professional programs. 
    • Performance majors pursue music careers as members of professional performing ensembles, professional accompanists, and studio teachers.
    • Other students continue their education at excellent schools such as Carnegie Mellon, George Mason, Indiana University, Notre Dame, Peabody Conservatory, Penn State, Royal Academy (London), Westminster Choir College, Yale, and Arizona State University School of Law.
  • From rehearsal to showtime and every opportunity in between, you are bound to shine as a graceful performer and grounded person of influence. 
Audition Information

An audition for admission into the music program is required for music majors and minors. For comprehensive audition information, please refer to Instructions for Music Applicants.

  • Musical selections of the standard academic repertoire for your instrument or voice are appropriate (standard, classical, musical theatre, contemporary, etc.), and two or three selections of contrasting style are preferred. 
  • Regardless of your instrument or voice, you will be tested in music theory, tonal memory, and rhythmic skills.
  • Your application for admission to Grove City College must be received by the Office of Admissions by your selected application deadline, and you must audition no later than seven days after your application deadline.