Music Programs

• The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) is one of the world's premiere music conservatories. It focuses on musical performance, and students' academic coursework is determined on an individual basis with an adviser.
• The program lets students focus on performance skills through mentoring with some of the world's top music faculty and professional performers.
• Students will take private lessons and participate in ensembles plus enroll in courses in musical analysis and musicology.
• All students must audition in either London in December or in Toronto or New York in March.

• Qualified students may enroll in the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris/Alfred Cortot, the private equivalent of the Paris Conservatory.
• Fall and Academic Year students may enroll in the Ecole Normale's full curriculum, taking four courses at the Ecole Normale and one language course at the IES Abroad Center per term, or they may choose to take just one course at the Ecole Normale, and all remaining courses at IES Abroad. Instrumentalists select from courses in teaching and performance while vocalists focus on performance.
• All coursework is done in French.

• The IES Abroad music program has courses in music history, music theory and performance studies (taught in English).
• Students must audition for the IES Abroad Performance Workshop on-site. Accepted students will receive a stipend from IES Abroad to help subsidize the cost of private instruction.
• Students with advanced German may enroll at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, which offers a diverse array of courses, including pedagogy, performance practice, theory and history.
• Private instruction is available in English or German with faculty from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Vienna Conservatory of Music and members of the Vienna Philharmonic (on-site audition required).
• Select students may attend master classes and audition for individual instruction at the Conservatory.
• Students may audition for orchestra, choral and recital groups at the Conservatory and the University as well as in the broader Vienna community.

Fall Quarter, Winter-Spring Quarters, Full Year

Northwestern recommends that students study at IES Abroad-Vienna during their Fall Quarter.

• IES Abroad Direct Enrollment program at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
• Highly individualized course of study within the concentration of Jazz or Classical music. Each combines practical and theoretical aspects of music study with a variety of electives and optional courses. Majority of courses taught in English.
• Required practical courses include individualized instruction with a tutor, participation in an extensive chamber music and ensemble program, and performances. Optional theoretical courses include ear training (aural skills courses), analysis, harmony, counterpoint, and music and social history.
• Students who study at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam should be strong Performance, Composition, or Theory majors with the motivation and intention to become professional musicians or music scholars.
• Dutch language and culture class required.

SIT Senegal

• All students have access to independent study with an Indian master teacher, with the instrument of their choice.
• Courses are also available in Indian folk and classical performance traditions at the the University of Hyderabad.

Paris, France

French-taught courses are offered at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and the Schola Cantorum in most instruments, analysis, composition, harmony and history of music.

• Students must have a 3.6 GPA and a solid background in subject(s) they want to study.
• Specific course of study will be designed with a tutor upon arrival.

• Department of Music offers various courses in musical performance, analysis, and composition.