Undergraduate Program
Bard Conservatory of Music

The spirit of innovation in arts and education continues at Bard with the opening of The Bard College Conservatory of Music in the fall of 2005. In a unique five-year program, all Conservatory students pursue a simultaneous dual degree, a bachelor of music and a bachelor of arts in a field other than music. In this way promising young musicians pursue all of their interests at one institution, taught by expert professionals in each field.

The curriculum for the B.A. degree is the same as for any Bard undergraduate, including the Workshop in Language and Thinking, First-Year Seminar, fulfillment of distribution requirements, Moderation, and a Senior Project. Conservatory students have access to the resources of the Bard Music Program , including faculty, libraries, courses of instruction, and facilities.

The Conservatory opens with students of the following instruments: piano, violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn. In each of the next four academic years, 25 to 30 students will be added, bringing the Conservatory to full strength at approximately 140 students. Later classes, beginning in the fall of 2006, will include students of composition, brass, percussion, and harp, and voice and conducting at the graduate level.

Website: http://www.bard.edu/conservatory

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