The University of Central Missouri’s Music Performance degree with an emphasis in Piano and Piano Pedagogy prepares you for a professional career in music with a focus on practical skills for the modern era. With UCM’s well-rounded bachelor’s degree in Piano, you’ll strengthen your performance capabilities while developing skills in social media marketing, music business and entrepreneurship.
A modern piano degree to prepare you for the careers of tomorrow.
Whether you’re interested in pursuing a graduate degree or a career as a private piano teacher, entrepreneur, concert pianist or music school faculty member, you’ll receive the world-class musical training and experience gained by UCM music majors for more than 150 years. Through a wide range of performance opportunities, small classes and applied lessons, you’ll further develop your unique musical voice. If you’re looking for a bachelor’s degree with valuable immersive learning opportunities and a tight-knit musical community, UCM’s Performance degree with an emphasis in Piano is for you.
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As a Piano major at UCM, you’ll build on your practical skills, enhance your performance capabilities and discover how to market yourself for success. In addition to music theory and history, you’ll study essential performance topics in private applied lessons and piano teaching methods in optional small-class piano pedagogy courses. You can also take courses in music technology, composition or other aspects of music to develop your interests.
The bachelor’s degree in Piano is a multifaceted program offering a diverse range of courses, including:
At the University of Central Missouri, we provide our Piano majors with a variety of hands-on learning opportunities and real-life performance experiences to improve your playing and professional networking skills.
Graduates of excellent piano schools like UCM possess the skills to make a living as a musician. No matter your performance or career aspirations, UCM is here to help you prepare for a successful future.
Many UCM Piano majors earn advanced degrees in performance or music education in order to pursue a career as a college-level piano professor. Our bachelor’s degree in Piano program also prepares you with the performance skills, practical know-how and technical savvy you need for a career as a freelance pianist, private instructor or touring musician.
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The University of Central Missouri offers you a variety of opportunities to make your Piano degree more affordable. You may qualify for one of our multiple sources of financial aid, including scholarships, grants and work-study positions that can help offset the cost of your education.
UCM’s general need- and merit-based scholarships are open to future freshmen, current undergraduates, transfer students and out-of-state students. When you enroll in one of our Piano programs, you can also apply for UCM scholarships reserved for Piano majors, such as:
Learn more about scholarships for students enrolled in Piano programs by using the UCM Scholarship Finder.
Take your degree further.
UCM’s graduate degrees in Music can help you further hone your craft and expand your marketability for jobs in education and performance. Piano majors at UCM go on to pursue a variety of graduate concentrations in our Master of Arts in Music program, including:
Make yourself more marketable.
If you’re planning to teach privately or want to enhance your technical knowledge of music, you may benefit from adding a minor to your Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from UCM:
Explore programs related to Piano and Piano Pedagogy.
UCM offers a wide range of Music degrees. If you’re looking into degrees outside of Piano programs or classical performance, consider these:
UCM can take your piano degree further by helping you develop piano teaching skills in addition to musicianship and performance expertise. By honing competencies in teaching piano, you’ll diversify your professional abilities while becoming a better musician.
Don’t just get a degree – get resume-worthy experience too. Your optional Piano Pedagogy coursework at UCM will include hands-on learning through practicums and even your own mini-studio where you’ll teach private lessons through UCM’s community music program. You’ll have access to instruction in music education and teaching theory that is usually reserved for graduate students. Whether you want to be a piano teacher or performer, pursue a graduate degree in music or use your piano skills to support a portfolio career in music, this multifaceted degree will prepare you for your future.
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