Overview

Comprehensive. Collaborative. Supportive. Offering immersive, diverse curricula in solo performance, collaborative arts, and pedagogy.

Key Features

Piano majors are guided by an internationally acclaimed artist faculty who are in high demand as solo and collaborative performers and who have distinguished themselves as leaders in the field of piano pedagogy.

Additionally, because of the Moores School Steinway Initiative, the students enjoy access to an enviable inventory of outstanding instruments. The graduates from all the Piano programs from University of Houston have achieved professional success across the full spectrum of the field.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Applied Piano

Chamber Music

Accompanying Seminar

Research Methods in Musicology

Music Theory Elective

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-15 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-15 00:00:00

Language

English

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IELTS

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Credits

33 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Houston, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

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Other requirements

General requirements

Bachelor’s degree in music (preferably in applied piano).

Minimum GPA of 3.00 for last 60 semester hours and 3.00 for all music hours.

Submission of TOEFL scores (as applicable) that meet University of Houston minimum standards.

Full senior recital in the undergraduate degree program.

Beginning graduate-level performance ability as determined in an audition before members of the graduate faculty.

Degree Requirements:

Recital Requirement: Students are required to perform three full collaborative recitals that contain (in sum) brass, string, vocal, and woodwind literature; and chamber works. Four-hand piano music may also be included. All prospective recital programs must be approved by the Director of Keyboard Collaborative Arts and the student’s recital committee.

Comprehensive Examination Requirement: Students must pass a comprehensive examination in the last term of study.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

30591 USD / year

≈ 30591 USD / year
Out-of-State

30591 USD / year

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In-State

13926 USD / year

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Living costs

Houston

United States

1067 - 1950 USD / month

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