Overview
Advance your craft as a conductor at Arizona State University. While developing your Conducting skills in this program, you also receive individual mentorship from the conducting faculty and have opportunities for significant podium time with an instrumental or choral ensemble.
Career Opportunities
School of Music, Dance and Theatre graduate programs inspire and empower students to become creative leaders who transform society through music.
Career examples include:
- artistic director
- arts administrator
- community arts advocate
- performing musician
- public or community school teacher
- university professor
Programme Structure
There are three tracks in this degree program:- Choral conducting. Conductors specializing in choral conducting expand their expertise in global, intercultural approaches to communal vocal musicking and work to integrate this into their pedagogy and rehearsal process.
- Orchestra and opera conducting. Conductors specializing in orchestra and opera conducting work closely with the director of orchestras and the artistic director of the music theatre and opera program and gain a breadth of experience in both orchestral and opera conducting.
- Wind band conducting. Conductors specializing in wind band conducting study privately with the director of bands and work closely with other members of the conducting faculty, including the director of athletic bands, in order to develop their conducting and rehearsal skills.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 36 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Music View 137 other PhDs in Music in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Applicants are eligible to apply to the program if they have earned a bachelor's or master's degree from a regionally accredited institution.
- Students seeking admission typically hold an MM degree. Applicants with other degrees are considered if they have received graduate training similar to that normally expected in a Master of Music program.
- graduate admission application and application fee
- official transcripts
- School of Music, Dance and Theatre Application, including a resume and personal statement; also, from choral applicants, an uploaded writing sample
- prescreening video
- three letters of recommendation
- proof of English proficiency
Tuition Fee
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International
44940 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1605 USD per credit during 36 months. -
National
41216 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1472 USD per credit during 36 months. -
In-State
25116 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 897 USD per credit during 36 months.
Living costs for Tempe
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Scholarships Information
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