DMA in String Instruments

Through professional education of the highest caliber, Yasar University School of Music prepares students for productive careers as performers, teachers, composers, and scholars and for satisfying lives as informed and responsible members of a democratic society. In accordance with the University’s mission, the School also seeks to extend the boundaries of knowledge and human experience through research and the creation of new music.

While preserving the best of traditional education in music, the School seeks to prepare students for the changing realities of the modern world through engagement with diverse musical traditions, community outreach, and new technologies that can be used creatively to further the art of music. The School promotes the interdependence of performance and scholarship, innovative relationships between music and other disciplines within and outside the arts, and a wider appreciation throughout society of music and its significance.The Faculty of Music consists of artists with international success like Alexander Rudin, Lukas David and Rusen Günes.

Programme overview

Yasar University School of Music is one of the most comprehensive music schools in the country. Our outstanding array of degree programs, low student faculty ratios, outstanding professional guest artists, abundant performance opportunities, and excellent facilities offer students an ideal environment to become skilled professionals.Traditional musical skills are given importance in the curriculum but they do not remain the only focus. Students are encouraged to take their music beyond their previous ideas to become more personal and imaginative. They are also given the opportunity to integrate different styles drawing upon what they learn during lectures and conferences. The university provides students with specialized recording studios, a concert hall and practice rooms for their convience. A variety of muscial aspects are covered such as opera, film, period music, theory, psychology as well as overall performance etiquette. The Doctorate Diploma in Performance exists for the few highly gifted and experienced performing musicians at the post-master's level who wish to pursue focused studies in their major field leading to specific professional goals. With an emphasis on repertoire, the program is designed to develop both the artistry and professionalism in performers who possess the ability and determination to realize their talent in the contemporary world.

Outcomes

• Demonstrate proper playing posture
• Acquire coordination skills
• Perform consistently
• Master a musical instrument

The student will demonstrate expressive musical interpretations

• communicated through performance in the students’ chosen field of music.
• Have an overall understanding of music and classical music in particular.

The student will demonstrate advanced knowledge underpinning the candidate’s chosen concentrations of music through a written or aural Comprehensive

Career opportunities

Graduates can work as performing artists in classical music orchestras such as symphonic, philharmonic and chamber music orchestras or chose to pursue higher academic careers. They also have chance to be performing and recording artists in all other kinds of musical scenes. Students in this program will be well prepared for teaching their own instruments at a college level..