Kristi Ries  (kristi@cmu.edu)
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-4921
Web Site: http://www.music.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon School of Music presents more than 250 events annually to the Pittsburgh region, ranging from ensemble concerts to fully staged musical productions. There are six professional-level ensembles: the Baroque Ensemble, Contemporary Ensemble, Concert Choir, Jazz Ensemble, the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and the Wind Ensemble. Many students also serve in substitute roles in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Opera and its orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Orchestra, among others.

The School of Music educates outstanding, intellectually gifted musicians through excellence in performance, creativity, scholarship and pedagogy.  The school offers undergraduate degrees in music composition and instrumental, vocal and keyboard performance. Graduate degrees are offered in composition, conducting and performance, and music education. The school also offers a variety of highly acclaimed non-degree programs, such as the Performance Residency Program, the Artist Diploma Program and the Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Piano Pedagogy, Advanced Flute Studies, Orff Schulwerk and Music Education certificate programs. _