Performance Studies
Throughout the four years of undergraduate enrollment, music students will study in one or more performance studies areas: keyboard, voice, strings, winds, or percussion. Composition may also be studied. This study will include private instruction in the major or principal performance area, some group instruction, and work in a secondary performance area (instruments, voice, composition or advanced conducting) outside the major or principal area.
Requirements in performance studies are defined both by proficiency level and credit hours. The level of study for each semester is determined by faculty committees in “jury examinations.” Specific requirements for these examinations are provided by the faculty in each performance area.

Music majors enroll each semester in the major or principal instrument for two or three credit hours as determined by the performance faculty. Secondary performance study or performance study by most minors and non-majors normally grants one credit. Music majors assigned instruction in performance studies must simultaneously carry a minimum of two three-credit music courses.

Majors, principals, and minors will be assigned to MUS 151-451 (1-3 credits) for performance studies or MUS 253-453 for jazz performance studies. Students who are not music majors or minors may enroll for performance study subject to the availability of space. Advance approval must be obtained from the School of Music. Neither noncredit nor audit registration in performance studies is permitted.

Performance Activities
B.M. students will participate in one or more large ensembles in their area each semester according to degree requirements. Any student enrolled for two or more credits of performance studies must co-register for a large ensemble (MUS 380, 381A & B, 382, 384, 388, 391, 393, 394A & B, 395, 396D, 396I). Each year advanced voice students may apply for roles in the performances of opera and musical theatre which the School of Music presents in cooperation with the Department of Theatre.

Community Opportunities
Living in the artistically thriving Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point Triad region, students enjoy regular opportunities to attend and perform in concerts sponsored by such organizations as the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Greensboro Opera Company, and the Eastern Music Festival. They also serve as church organists/directors, vocal soloists and participate in orchestras hired for touring events appearing in the community. In addition, they interact with some of the world’s major artists who frequently schedule informal discussions, open rehearsals, and master classes at UNCG.

Facilities
The School of Music occupies a recently constructed, three-level, 130,000 square-foot facility. Located prominently on the corner of Market and McIver Streets, the School of Music is the northeast window to the University. The music building, considered to be one of the largest of its kind in the southeast, is accessed easily from an adjacent parking deck and is within a short walking distance to the central portion of the campus and housing.

The state-of-the-art building features a 350-seat recital hall; a 130-seat organ recital hall; instrumental, choral, and percussion rehearsal halls; a unified music library; a computer laboratory; classrooms; seminar-conference rooms; faculty studios/offices; practice facilities; an acoustics research laboratory; a psychoacoustics laboratory; an electronic piano laboratory; electronic music studios; a music education methods room; administrative offices; faculty and student lounges; and storage.

Students in instrumental areas, although encouraged to own the best possible instruments for their personal use, are afforded access to the school’s large inventory of orchestral and keyboard instruments, including a $400,000 Andover Tracker organ with 3 manuals, 35 ranks, and 30 stops.