Master in Conducting (Master's)

Tuition is Tuition for the 2025–2026 academic year is $52,500 per year..

This programme prepares students for professional careers as orchestral conductors. It emphasizes rehearsal techniques, score study, and ensemble leadership through intensive training. Students work closely with faculty and perform with Juilliard's orchestral ensembles. The curriculum focuses on developing interpretive and technical command of orchestral repertoire.

Focus areas include Orchestral Conducting.

The programme requires 60 credits, distributed across coursework, conducting practicum, and ensemble participation. Students complete a final public conducting examination as part of the degree requirements.

Graduates pursue professional roles as conductors with symphony orchestras, opera companies, and educational institutions.

Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree in music or equivalent. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required. Submission of a conducting audition video, score analysis, and letters of recommendation is mandatory.

The programme totals about 60 credit hours. On-campus, full-time, typically two years. For international students, tuition is well above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 9% of applicants.

Performance sits at the center of The Juilliard School's academic work. Its programs span dance, drama, and music, with acting available within drama and vocal arts offered within music. Music students can study instruments including piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, guitar, harp, organ, and percussion. Additional areas include collaborative piano, composition, conducting, jazz studies, historical performance, and the Doctor of Musical Arts. The Artist Diploma in Opera Studies provides another advanced music pathway.

Juilliard connects study with public performance through its performances program and annual season. Dance, drama, music, and creative enterprise appear across its on-stage and related programming. The school also supports artistic development through alumni activities, K-12 education, summer programs, and Juilliard Extension certificates in core musical skills, music composition, and music production. Juilliard Jazz marks 25 years, providing a specific point of continuity within the school's music activities.

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