The Conservatory's next auditions will be held on Audition Day: Friday, March 13, 2020. Scholarships are available to outstanding performers with special awards for strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and collaborative pianists.
On Friday, December 6 at 7:30pm and Sunday, December 8 at 2pm, the Brooklyn College Opera Theatre presented an evening of micro-operas: Darius Milhaud’s Trois Opéras-minute and Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge.
On Thursday, December 12 at 7pm, Brooklyn College Symphonic Choir with Conservatory Singers, Malcolm J. Merriweather, Conductor, and the Conservatory Orchestra, George Rothman, Music Director, joined forces to present Handel's Messiah at St. Paul's Church in the Village of Flatbush.
On Friday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Don Buchwald Theater, the Conservatory Orchestra presented a spectacular program, which featured 2019 Concerto Competition Winner violinist Wei-Ni Hung performing the Barber Violin Concerto along with Sibelius' Cassazione and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4.
Our M.Mus. program in Global and Contemporary Jazz Studies is stretching boundaries.
Discover our M.F.A.s in Sonic Arts and Media Scoring.
In November 2017, in conjunction with the 31st Biannual International Electroacoustic Festival, the conservatory and the Center for Computer Music hosted a symposium, 'Legacies of Pauline Oliveros,' to honor the late composer's life, ideas, and music.

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Audition Day 2020 is Friday, March 13.

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Situated amid the vibrant cultural milieu that is Brooklyn, the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in composition, music education, musicology, and performance, along with advanced certificate programs in music education and performance, a post-master's Advanced Diploma in Performance, M.F.A. programs in sonic arts and media scoring, and a new master of music in global jazz and contemporary music studies. Instrumental scholarships are available for outstanding performers: string, woodwind, brass, and percussion applicants along with collaborative pianists. Study with world-class faculty and receive professional training while being part of a great academic institution. Conservatory alumni are flourishing in their field, performing in orchestras, opera houses, night clubs, and cutting-edge concert venues, fostering arts organizations and festivals, and teaching in schools across the country and around the world.

Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts

The Conservatory is pleased to announce the opening of the new Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, a state-of-the-art facility that promises to become one of the borough's premiere performance venues. Please explore the great music and theater that is going on in our spectacular new building.

Leonard and Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn College

Contact Information

Department Chairperson : Marianne Gythfeldt
Assistant Director: Douglas Cohen
Graduate Deputy: Alexandra Lewis

Location: 422 Whitehead Hall
Phone: 718.951.5286
Fax: 718.951.4502

Graduate Deputy Summer Hours:
Tuesdays: 10 a.m. - 4 :30 p.m.

Barber Violin Concerto, op.14: III. Presto in moto perpetuo

Wei Ni Hung, Winner of the 2019 Conservatory Concerto Competition, performed Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, op.14, with the Conservatory Orchestra, under the baton of George Rothman, at their Tuesday, November 1, 2019 concert in the Don Buchwald Theater, Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College. View our complete audio / video archive.