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Performance, MM

The Performance curricula are especially designed for students wishing to prepare as performers or as teachers of a particular instrument or voice.
Audition repertoire for the MM in Music Performance should be chosen that allows candidates to demonstrate their current level of achievement. Early in the application process, potential students should contact the major teacher in their area and discuss audition repertoire possibilities.

Your Degree Plan

The Performance curricula are especially designed to prepare you as a performer or as a teacher of a particular instrument or voice.

As an MM Performance student, you will gain:

  • Advanced competencies in performance.
  • Knowledge and skills in one or more fields of music outside the major such as theory and analysis, history and literature, musicology and ethnomusicology, and pedagogy.
  • Competencies sufficient to understand texts in the repertoire. Voice majors are expected to be proficient in English, German, French, and Italian diction, and to have general phonetic knowledge and skills that can be applied to other languages.

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Performance majors may specialize in the following:

  • Composition
  • Piano
  • Voice
  • Flute
  • Oboe
  • Clarinet
  • Bassoon
  • Saxophone
  • Horn
  • Trumpet
  • Trombone
  • Tuba
  • Low brass (DMA only)
  • Percussion
  • Violin
  • Viola
  • Cello
  • Double Bass

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View of Creative Arts Center from a distance on a spring day

Canady Creative Arts Center

The Loulie, Valerie, and William Canady Creative Arts center boasts 4 exhibition spaces, 5 performance spaces, 33 individual practice rooms, and 50 classrooms and studios with plenty of space to create. The loading dock at the rear of the building is a wonderful open-air space with stunning acoustics.
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Requirements

To be eligible for admission into a graduate program at WVU an applicant must submit official, bachelor's degree transcripts from a regionally accredited institution and hold a GPA of at least 2.75. WVU operates decentralized admissions. Decentralized admissions allows each graduate program to set its own application requirements in addition to the University requirements.

Admission Requirements

Additional application considerations include:

  • An audition is required for admittance. Please contact the School of Music (music@mail.wvu.edu) to receive further information about the audition process, including audition dates, scheduling an audition, and requirements. Please also contact the School of Music for additional application requirements, which include letters or recommendation and a repertoire list.

Applications that are incomplete or are submitted after the deadline may be reviewed if openings remain.

International applicants must also submit required documents for international applicants.

Application Deadlines

Each graduate program sets their own terms for admission and application deadlines. Applicants can only apply for admission for the terms displayed below. Any questions regarding the application deadline should be directed to the graduate program representative.

  • Fall: March 1
  • Spring: January 1

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