Master in Stringed Instruments (Master's)

For Master in Stringed Instruments (Master's), tuition is Tuition for the 2024–2025 academic year is $52,500 per year..

This programme focuses on advanced performance training for double bassists through individualized instruction and ensemble participation. Students develop technical precision, interpretive depth, and professional readiness through intensive study and regular performance opportunities. The curriculum emphasizes both solo and collaborative repertoire across classical and contemporary genres. Faculty are active performers and specialists in orchestral, chamber, and solo performance.

Focus areas include Orchestral Performance, Chamber Music, Solo Performance, Contemporary Music, Repertoire Development.

The programme requires 60 credits, distributed across applied lessons, ensemble participation, music theory, and a final recital. Students complete a master's recital as a capstone requirement.

Graduates pursue careers as professional orchestral musicians, chamber ensemble members, and freelance performers.

Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree in music or equivalent. A live audition and written application are required. Required documents include transcripts, a resume, and letters of recommendation.

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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