Welcome to the OSU School of Music
Strings Department

The OSU School of Music offers outstanding training in string performance and pedagogy within the context of a major research university. Music education majors earn the BME, MA in string pedagogy and PhD, and prepare for productive careers in the public and private schools as well as in higher education.

Performance majors may earn the BM, MM, and DMA degrees, preparing them for employment in orchestras and chamber groups and commercial music as well as in private teaching and teaching in higher education. Each of these degrees draws on the resources of a distinguished academic music department and a major university as well as on an extraordinary faculty of string artists. String majors gain extensive performance experience with the University Orchestra and the active chamber music program coached by the string faculty.

The nationally recognized string education program offers pedagogy training for both students who are seeking careers in the schools and for those who will teach privately or at the college level. Students have the opportunity to gain supervised teaching experience in the pre-college strings program of the Jefferson Academy of Music at OSU.

In addition to generous undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships and teaching associate positions, OSU string majors have access to a small collection of fine string instruments for their use while enrolled.