Program Objectives
Goals of the program include:
- Performance Excellence: Demonstrate advanced competencies and professional-level performing abilities in diverse ensembles in the primary instrument or voice.
- Advanced Musicianship: Develop a stylistic understanding and acquire the analytical skills, terminology, and repertoire for one’s primary instrument or voice within a variety of historical and aesthetic contexts.
- Music Scholarship with Cross-Cultural Awareness: Demonstrate a mastery of musical compositions integrating Western and Chinese musical components while having the ability to articulate an understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts in both traditions.