If you are looking for an intensive music conservatory experience paired with the rich musical and cultural experiences provided by living in a major city, then the??programme offered by Roosevelt University?will prepare you for a career as a professional composer. The emphasis on entrepreneurial activities also prepares students for multiple career opportunities after graduation.

Students in the program will work at developing technique and expressivity. The curriculum contains coursework that addresses the essentials of pitch, rhythm, meter, tension and relaxation, and formal structure. Students will become comfortable in both electronic and acoustic media and gain fluency in speaking and writing.

Students need to take two years of instrumental lessons. Most often, students take piano lessons (you don?t have to audition for the piano studio). If you wish to have lessons on an instrument other than piano, you need to take an instrumental audition in order to be accepted into a studio.?

Careers

After graduation, several composition students have gone on to masters and doctoral degrees in universities around the country. Recent graduates have gone on to composition programs at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.