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Mercer University, Townsend School of Music

Overview

Region

Macon,

Georgia,

United States

Faculty

Calista Anne Koch

Program summary

With a variety of majors and minors for harp students, including: pedagogy, chamber music, jazz ensemble, chorus, wind ensemble, harp ensemble, other many other ensembles, Mercer offers a thriving harp program for harpists that want to have an intimate program on a campus that is not too small, nor too large.

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program details

Type of school

University

Music and arts degrees offered

  • Bachelor of Music
  • Bachelor of Arts
  • Bachelor of Musical Arts
  • Bachelor of Music Education
  • Master of Music

Lessons available for non-majors?

Yes

Harp minor offered?

Yes

Number of school harps

1

Space provided for personal harps?

Yes

Mercer University, Townsend School of Music

This program is best suited for students who:

"are looking for an excellent music school on a smaller, private campus."

What sets this program apart from others is:

"that an emphasis on free lance performing is place on students in the harp program."

Students who graduate from this program go on to:

"work as music educators, performers, both abroad and nationally."

The three words that best describe this school's environment are:

"intimate, dedicated, driven"

Harp students at Mercer have had the opportunity to learn music that will help propel them in their professional career. Ensemble music is geared towards the music a sole proprietor often finds themselves being hired to perform. As a soloist, all students are required to work on advanced music that hones their skills, but they also spend a good deal of their college learning how to market themselves, creating a repertoire of music that is most often requested, as well as focusing on the corners of the market that they believe they will be most likely to work, once they are professionals. Opportunities to perform in the community, with many ensembles, as soloists at local venues, and to shadow Professor Koch at events is an advantage offered to the students.

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