General Questions:
If I want to meet privately with one of my instructors for extra help, will he or she be available to me?
May I schedule additional private lessons with the faculty?
If I don't like my room, can I change it?
Can I expect daily housekeeping in my dorm room?
Do I have to take EAMA's Housing?

Conducting Questions:
What is the main focus of the program?
Is the emphasis of the program on major compositional trends of the 20th Century?
Is the focus of the program to give performances of student works?
Will I get to conduct and/or record part of a concert?

If I want to meet privately with one of my instructors for extra help, with he or she be available to me?
Our faculty will do its best to meet individually with students who have particular questions about coursework. In addition, we provide weekly workshops in counterpoint and harmony for students who wish to work between classes on their coursework with a junior faculty member.

May I schedule additional private lessons with the faculty?
Yes, if such lessons do not conflict with your other classes and commitments. Students are responsible for any additional fees to be negotiated directly with the faculty member.

If I don't like my room, can I change it?
No, the dorms where we book our student rooms are usually filled to capacity during the month of July.

Can I expect daily housekeeping in my dorm room?
No, rooms are cleaned weekly. The rooms are clean and comfortable.

Do I have to take EAMA's Housing?
No. Every year some students do elect to find housing on their own. It usually requires a great deal of time to find a room or an apartment, a large security deposit and greater expense.

What is the main focus of the program?
The conducting program shows you how to take full advantage of the tools you acquire in the counterpoint, harmony, anaysis, score-reading and choral singing classes to develop your efectiveness, creativity, and independence as a problem-solver and artist.

Is the emphasis of the program on major compositional trends of the 20th Century?
The EAMA curriculum will enable you to approach compositions in a variety of styles. All compositions are studied and analyzed by looking at their harmonic and contrapuntal structure.

Will I get to conduct and/or record part of a concert?
Not necessarily. The focus of the program is to help you internalize and apply fundamental crafts and principles so you can be a more effective conductor. Successful completion of our program should make it possible for you to derive enhanced benefit from practical conducting studies in other contexts. As we help you increase your mastery, we hope to stimulate your imagination, and to deepen your understanding of music's potential beauty in performance by enabling you to hear more vividly and sensitively. If you are asked to conduct on a concert, you make make a recording for your own use.