MUSIC: JAZZ & CLASSIC/COMTEMPORARY / COMPOSITION / JAZZ ARRANGING

Students who are pursuing Music diploma/degree will experience many interesting courses within their curriculum, including:

1. Major Lessons: Students practice their musical skills with the chosen instrument.
2. Major Ensemble: This course practices students in ensemble performance composed of instruments of the same family.
3. Ear training: This course will help students in developing their musical hearing abilities, teaching them to identify, solely by hearing, pitches, intervals, melody, chords, rhythms, and other basic elements of music.
4. Performance: Studying this course, students will learn various methods and techniques of performing on the stage and interacting with the audience.
5. Seminar: Seminar devoted to skill improvement and various musical techniques.
6. Required Recital: Students perform their own recital before the audience.
7. Piano Pedagogy: This course provides the guidelines for piano teaching, in addition to a systematic research on contemporary piano teaching methods.
8. Sight Singing: This course will teach students to sing the notated rhythms and pitches and distinguish them.
9. Theory of Music: This course is aimed to form students’ perceptions of music, its practices and possibilities.
10. Jazz Harmony: In this course, students will learn about jazz harmony, the theory and practice of how chords are used in jazz music.
11. Computer Music Workshop: This course teaches students to use computer programs for musical editing and composing.
12. Orchestration: This course teaches writing music for orchestras/ensembles/bands.
13. Counterpoint: Students will learn the technique of combining two or more melodic lines in such a way that they establish a harmonic relationship while retaining their linear individuality.
14. Score reading/conducting: This course teaches score reading and stage conducting (orchestra and ensemble).
15. Major Lesson: Students continue practicing their musical skills with the chosen instrument.
16. Performance: This course is aimed to teach students how to present themselves on the stage while playing music.
17. Instrument Workshop: Students learn to work with their instruments through learning various techniques from the workshops given by tutors/mature musicians
18. Major Lesson: Students continue practicing their musical skills with the chosen instrument.
19. Advanced Jazz Workshop: During the jazz workshop, students will present their playing skills before other students and tutors, and receive their feedbacks in order to improve their personal professional style.
20. Advanced Jazz Harmony: In this course, students will continue learning about jazz harmony, and will also get known about different techniques that will help them in improving their own style.
21. Big Band Arranging: Students will learn about managing/arranging/orchestrating the Big band, its structure and possibilities.
22. Advanced Orchestration: This course teaches writing music for orchestras/ensembles/bands.
23. Big Band Performance: This course is required to teach ways of performing in a Big Band.
24. Advanced Sight Singing: This course is aimed to develop students’ skills in sight singing.
25. Public Performance: This course is aimed to teach students how to present themselves on the stage while playing music.