If you're serious about pursuing music as your career, take a good look at Cornish.
Founded in 1914, Cornish College of the Arts is the oldest music conservatory on the west coast. Today we're nationally recognized as a premier college for the visual and performing arts, and one of only three, fully accredited, private colleges in the entire nation dedicated to educating both performing and visual artists. When you select Cornish, you select its illustrious history, intimate size, excellent reputation and long tradition of educating emerging artists.
We offer programs leading to a Bachelor of Music degree in voice, instrumental performance, and composition with emphases in both classical and jazz music. No matter which program of study you elect to pursue, you'll receive highly personalized training through weekly, hour–long individual lessons with one of our distinguished faculty members.
As a Cornish Music student, you will not only gain a solid foundation in musicianship through a rigorous program of study, you will learn to challenge yourself in exciting new ways. So, if you're the type of student who enjoys a challenge, who questions assumptions, who demands excellence of them self, and expects it of their peers, Cornish just might be the place for you.
Instrumental performance majors choose to focus on either classical or jazz performance practices. In addition to private instruction, students audition to participate in a variety of small and large ensembles.
As a vocal major you can concentrate on either jazz or classical voice, or chart an entirely new path of your own design that defies any genre.
A long and distinguished tradition of innovation and experimentation has attracted composers to Cornish since John Cage was here in the 1930s. Today that tradition continues with our composition program — ranked as one of the most innovative in the country.
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Main Campus Center
1000 Lenora Street
Seattle, WA 98121
Kerry Hall
710 East Roy Street
Seattle, WA 98102
Kent Devereaux
kdevereaux@cornish.edu
Mandy Bowker
mbowker@cornish.edu
206.726.5030
admissions@cornish.edu
206.726.5016 phone
1.800.726.ARTS