Develop and Refine Talent
The Bachelor of Music is a performance degree designed to give students deep, immersive experiences in a variety of high level performing ensembles; individual study with rigorous recital requirements; and core curriculum to prepare them for professional careers or additional graduate level study.
Highlighted Career Paths
Graduates with a degree in Music with a String Performance emphasis have a wide array of rewarding careers before them. Check out some of the top careers students get with this degree or explore more career options in
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Performance
The Bachelor of Music degree in String Performance prepares students to participate professionally in solo, chamber and orchestral settings, including studio recording.
Teaching
The extensive performing and repertoire requirements of this degree prepare students to successfully build teaching studios that support students with diverse goals and abilities.
Advanced Study
Students who complete this degree are prepared to audition and enter graduate level string performance programs. With the degree’s substantial coursework in music history and literature, students may also choose to pursue additional studies in conducting, musicology, theory and composition.
Getting Started in this degree
If you are interested in String Performance, start with one of the following major-specific courses.
Students are required to audition for this major and participate in an ensemble each semester.
Students are required to audition for this major and participate in an ensemble each semester.
Related Majors
If you have a love for jazz music, consider the Jazz Studies degree. You will get to learn a variety of jazz instruments, participate in recitals, and study the jazz genre.
The Department of Music offers a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies with full and adjunct faculty for every jazz instrument, a Jazz Society, and opportunity to get off campus.
Students will practice and improve the skills they learn in music theory, piano skills, and music history. Students will also develop capabilities in both working independently and collaboratively in performing.
Students will master core processes, elements, form, structures and styles of music. Students will also develop abilities to collaborate, perform individually, and perform in an ensemble. Students will improve their talents and learn to share them with others.
In this degree, students prepare for a career as a professional musician focusing on the pipe organ. Student organists will develop their skills as they practice and perform in recitals, choirs, instrumental ensembles, and campus devotionals.
Through this degree, you will learn to collaborate with many different people to create a unifying piece of music. You will learn important skills in music along with different processes, elements, form, structure, and styles of music.
BYU-Idaho offers a comprehensive string education, granting baccalaureate degrees in performance, pedagogy and secondary education, with opportunities to participate in artistically satisfying and diverse performing ensembles.
Students will also develop technical skills in a chosen performance area that produces artistic expression in individual and ensemble performance, balanced with focused study in an area outside of music. Students will understand the nature of professional work in music, including rehearsal and conducting skills, career development opportunities, and teaching skills.
The Bachelor of Music in Education (BMED) is a professional degree designed to prepare students for a music teaching career specializing in band, orchestra, or choir. Students will prepare to qualify for a K-12 teaching certificate. Students are given opportunities to teach in local schools, a university ensemble, in addition to a full semester of student teaching as the culminating experience.
You will master the core processes, elements, form, structures, and styles of music in this degree. In relation to your choral emphasis, you will also develop your vocal skills, along with how to help others improve their own.
The Bachelor of Music in Education (BMED) is a professional degree designed to prepare students for a music teaching career specializing in orchestra, choir, or band. Students will prepare to qualify for a K-12 teaching certificate. Students are given opportunities to teach in local schools, including a full semester of student teaching as the capstone experience.