MM Conducting: Choral

Designed for students seeking to become highly qualified professional conductors through intensive study with a major artist-teacher, this program offers an exceptional and rigorous musical education that includes conducting and rehearsal techniques, score study and surveys of historically important and diverse, contemporary repertoire. The faculty encourage collaboration, with an emphasis on personal and musical growth. The choral conducting studio is limited in size, so students receive many opportunities to conduct choirs of varying size and repertoire focus, opera, and other instrumental ensembles from within the school. The University of Michigan is a leader in commissioning new works from a diverse range of composers while also maintaining a rigorous focus on the historical canon.