Career Opportunities for Music Majors
Teaching
- Public schools K–12
- Independent schools K–12
- Private studio
- Studio teacher for a music store
- Studio teacher for the preparatory division of a college or a community music school
Performance
- Collaborating artist/accompanist
- Civic ensembles (bands, orchestras, chamber groups)
- Military service performing groups
- Church musician
- Freelance musician
- Performer in musical theater
Graduate Study
- Music Education
- Performance
- Conducting
- Theory
- Musicology
- Ethnomusicology
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- Composition
- Sacred Music
- Jazz
- Arts Management
- Musical Theater
- Opera
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Other Career Paths
- Music Reviewer/Journalist
- Music Representative for Publishing Company
- Education staff member for a symphony, opera company, music festival, or similar organization
- Music librarian for a performing organization
Activities of Recent Brevard Graduates
Brevard College music alumni continue to work in and study music. Some current activities:
- Teaching in public and private schools
- Working as a member of the education staff at the Kennedy Center
- Performing in various military bands and ensembles
- Attending graduate programs in music schools including Indiana University, Yale University, Florida State University, Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the University of South Carolina
- Serving as church musicians
- Teaching privately
- Attending divinity school
- Attending law school