Course Code: MUS 3008
Academic Year: 2024-2025
This course is designed to prepare the developing musician with the requisite skills for a career as a professional live performer and bandleader. Performance, musicianship and leadership skills are taught and assessed through the presentation of mini-recitals, evaluations and reflections, designed to ultimately prepare for a capstone fifty-minute recital comprised of both original arrangements of existing repertoire and original material in the subsequent semester. This course works in tandem with the student's Private Lesson course in helping students identify their musical strengths and artistic direction. Students will also adjudicate colleagues' mini-recitals and promote open and honest criticism of one another's work with a view towards self-improvement.