KEYBOARD

The Michigan State University Keyboard Area fosters each student’s full potential through personalized instruction, ensuring excellence and professional success. Students can pursue degrees in composition, music education, and performance, with options to double major in unrelated fields or minor in music. An honors program is available for MSU Honors College students.

Led by distinguished faculty, the Keyboard Area at MSU provides an exceptional learning environment for students to define their paths and reach their potential. Individualized instruction is central to the program, supplemented by masterclasses and keyboard literature courses. Performance majors participate in the Piano Performance class, receiving coaching and critiques from the entire piano faculty. Undergraduates also take an accompanying class, taught by the Director of Collaborative Piano, focusing on collaborative artistry with instrumentalists and vocalists. Performance experience is gained through solo and chamber recitals, studio classes, and various programs.

A master’s degree in piano pedagogy is offered as well as undergraduate courses that provide opportunities to teach and observe children’s classes at College of Music Community Music Schools in East Lansing and Detroit.