After placement testing, new students are able to register for classes. The Eastman academic year is in two semesters. The fall semester runs from around Labor Day until just before Christmas. No, you do not. Most rooms have upright pianos and mirrors.
Lockers are available for smaller instruments.
Well, sometimes it's very cold, and sometimes it is only snowy. But we figure that if it were sunny and warm all the time, you wouldn't stay as long in the nice heated practice room. So the weather helps make you a better musician. Since Eastman is one of the professional schools of the University of Rochester , all Eastman students are students of the larger university as well. This is not necessary, however, in the case of elected individual courses.