🎵 Hi!! I'm hoping to be a music major in the future too - do you have any advice for applications?
hello! ahhh i’m so glad to see that you’re interested in being a music major. that makes me super happy! ^_^
advice for future music major applicants:
this is probably really obvious, but you definitely gotta practice! practice as often as you can so that you can keep up and improve your skills. here is a post with some great tips for practicing!
if possible, participate in music groups/organizations/programs/activities outside of school. show the application committee that you are also involved in your community. for example, i participated in a summer music program for 8 years, and i also played classical music for senior citizens and patients with alzheimer’s disease at local care centers as community service (also for about 8 years). additionally, i help my violin teacher with playing piano accompaniment for his younger students at our recitals, and i still continue to do so.
when you’re looking at different universities or music schools that you’re thinking of applying to, you’re most likely required to do an audition. prepare the pieces, scales, repertoire, etc. that each school asks you to perform, and practice them very thoroughly! if a particular school gives you the option or wants you to send in a video audition rather than doing an in-person live audition, make sure you have the necessary equipment to film it (camera, microphone, etc.)!
in your personal statement(s)/college essay(s), write about something related to music! it could be something as simple as having an epiphany while listening to a particular song/piece, or something as interesting as observing and noticing things while attending a concert. for example, i wrote about my experience and process of learning the first movement of beethoven’s waldstein piano sonata (that was a really hard piece!), and i talked about all the different obstacles that i faced and how i overcame them, as well as how i felt frustrated while practicing for hours on end, and how happy and excited i felt when i could finally play it successfully and perform it!
it’s usually best if you have some basic piano skills, even if piano isn’t your primary instrument. having these skills will definitely help you a lot in your future music studies.
think about what aspect of the music field you’re interested in. do you want to compose your own music? do you like conducting? do you like performing? how about working with technology? maybe you’re more interested in history and culture, like (ethno)musicology? or perhaps you want to go into interdisciplinary fields such as music therapy, music education, music management, etc? figure out what part of music interests you the most, and then take the necessary steps that you need to put yourself on the right path to success!
i think that’s about it! hope this helps, and good luck! i’m going to tag my friend @jinstudies since they have more experience than me, and maybe they’d like to add onto this list (hope you don’t mind, jin!).
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