Why are Music Performance programs in the Steinhardt School and not in The Tisch School at NYU?
New York University’s “school of music” has historically been housed in the Steinhardt School. Music programs were created in The Steinhardt School in 1925, approximately 40 years before the creation of NYU’s (Tisch) School of the Arts. Consequently, all degrees in music performance at NYU — baccalaureate through doctoral — are housed in The Steinhardt School. Steinhardt’s music performance programs in voice (classical and music theatre), piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and jazz instruments are internationally recognized. Steinhardt provides intense music performance training along with top-tier music academic courses within the context of a world-renowned university. Additional undergraduate and/or graduate music degrees are offered in Steinhardt in Music Composition, Music Business, Music Technology, Music Education, and Music Therapy. With 1,500 music majors and some 300 music faculty, the aggregate of Steinhardt’s music programs represent one of the largest “music s
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