Doctor of Music in Performance - Piano

Nationally distinguished as one of the most comprehensive schools of its kind among public institutions, the Florida State University College of Music has offered a high level of professional education in music for more than 80 years. If you expect to become a professional musician, you will gain creative and personal growth in programs designed to create composers, performers, scholars, and teachers., The College of Music is headquarters to a variety of campus orchestras, bands, choral ensembles, jazz bands, and early music and baroque ensembles, 9 world music ensembles, and numerous chamber groups, as well as the Florida State Opera and the Music Theater Program. Each year the College of Music offers some 350 concerts and productions and regularly hosts national conventions, workshops, and festivals, such as the biennial Festival of New Music.
In the Piano program, our goal is to help students find and achieve their potential at and through the piano. The mentoring process is focused around weekly private lessons, you will also have weekly studio classes, monthly piano area concerts, duo piano lessons, chamber music coachings, lessons in accompanying both singers and instrumentalists, classes in piano literature and pedagogy, and master-classes with visiting artists. The area also holds two concerto concerts each year. We have over 240 pianos, with an exciting variety of performance instruments that includes a Fazioli and a Blthner as well as Steinways from both New York and Hamburg in our 5 performance halls.

A bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution, or a comparable degree from an international institution.
Applicants must have earned a minimum 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) grade point average (GPA) in all coursework attempted while registered as an upper-division undergraduate student working towards a bachelor's degree. Applicants not meeting this requirement may be considered for admission, but only by special exception. To determine your upper-division GPA, please consult the GPA calculation worksheet. If your upper-division GPA is below a 3.0,please be sure to address this deficiency in your Statement of Purpose. You are also encouraged to have your referees address your academic preparedness for graduate study in their letters of recommendation.
TOEFL
Written Test = 590
Internet-based Test = 97
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