Share Your Talents
- Grow Your Skills: Enhance your musical talents and learn to share them with an audience.
- Gain Performance Experience: Take the stage as a solo performer or in an ensemble.
- Collaborate with Artists: Work with other performers, including orchestras and dancers.
- Communicate Your Ideas: Learn to express your musical thoughts effectively through writing and speaking.
Highlighted Career Paths
A degree in Music and emphasis in Vocal Performance has a wide array of rewarding careers. Check out some of the top careers below or explore more career options in
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Opera Singer/Soloist
As a singer, you will:
- Audition for solo and ensemble roles in professional opera productions.
- Perform with regional companies, summer programs, and Young Artist Programs.
- Advance your career and skills with a Master's degree.
Advanced Studies
With a degree in Vocal Performance, you will be prepared to:
- Audition for top graduate music programs.
- Master core skills in vocal technique, language, diction, and acting.
- Gain a deep knowledge of music history, opera, and vocal pedagogy.
Voice Teacher
This degree prepares you to become a private voice teacher by helping you:
- Gain practical experience teaching voice to others.
- Learn to program and perform professional recitals.
- Master your own personal vocal technique.
- Build a career teaching independently or for an institution like a college or university.
Getting Started
Auditions are required for this and for ensemble participation each semester.
If you are interested in Vocal Performance, start with one of the following courses:
If you are interested in Vocal Performance, start with one of the following courses:
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
This degree prepares you for a career teaching band, orchestra, or choir. You'll get hands-on experience in local schools and on campus, leading to your K-12 teaching certificate.
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.
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.