All guitar students are required to participate in guitar ensemble. The concerts cover music from all style periods and feature the nylon-string guitar. The yearly contemporary idioms concert will explore electric and acoustic guitar literature. All guitar students are required to participate in guitar masterclass. Solo performance, interpretation, technique, and other issues pertinent to guitar are investigated in masterclass.
Performance practice improves performance skills.
All guitar students are required to give presentations in guitar masterclass. These presentations will introduce materials newly acquired by the library, explore the guitar's elegant past, or review viability of some technical treatise. Guitar scholarships are available, and all students are encouraged to audition. More importantly, EKU offers a host of academic scholarships and partial tuition waivers which are available to all qualified students. The Department of Music has a scholarship web site which lists audition dates and provides links to other EKU funding sources.