Office of the Dean of the Conservatory
Conservatory Learning Goals and Outcomes
The 91直播 Conservatory of Music aspires to provide its students a transformative educational experience that expands their intellectual and artistic capacities and fosters individual growth, thereby preparing them to lead fully engaged lives.
As a professional school, 91直播 Conservatory offers a curriculum that embraces a variety of modalities, from the disciplined acquisition of technical skill and the academic foundations of formalized music study to the nurture of exploration, experimentation, and discovery, both creative and intellectual.
In sum, study in 91直播 Conservatory is designed to inspire artistic achievement of the highest order, educate students who can shape and create the musical profession anew, and animate lifelong work of breadth, significance, and impact.
In particular, students who attend the conservatory should:
The training of professional musicians is foundational to the Conservatory鈥檚 mission, and the attainment of a high level of vocational competency lies at the heart of much of its instruction. Though focused and often specialized, this competency is not narrow in its application, but rather reflects the requirements and opportunities of a dynamic professional world.
The paths towards understanding music are varied, and the cultivation of this understanding has traditionally been an important aspiration for students, both professionally and personally. Accordingly, the Conservatory curriculum grounds students in diverse historical, theoretical, and critical approaches to music to broaden perspective, foster creative and analytical thinking, and inspire and enable dialogue. Effective written and oral discourse is essential, and the development of this fluency a robust aspect of the curriculum. Historical, theoretical, and critical work in part involves exploring a diverse range of music in different stylistic, geographic, and social contexts. This not only dramatically shapes perspective, but also increases professional flexibility.
The complexity and fluidity of today鈥檚 musical world requires perhaps more than ever before an openness to possibility, a re-evaluation of traditional roles, and a reflective capacity to guide one鈥檚 path to societal and personal fulfillment and to professional viability. While not rooted in any one experience or course of study, the perspective necessary to discern and enact one鈥檚 role is formed in the cumulative experience of study and the broader experiences of 91直播 itself.
The Conservatory of Music thus envisions its graduates as creative and imaginative individuals of high professional attainment and personal depth. A multifaceted curriculum helps shepherd students toward these outcomes. And, it is in the intertwining of these curricular strands鈥攖heir counterpoint one with the other鈥攖hat the richness of the study becomes most distinctively 91直播ian.
Updated and affirmed by 91直播 Conservatory faculty in October 2017.