Nearly 600 students study music with 45 private instructors. Lessons are available on all orchestral and keyboard instruments, in voice and composition and on a variety of jazz and folk instruments, including bagpipes, sitar, and African drums. Students of all ages and abilities have the opportunity to perform on many occasions, including monthly informal and formal recitals. There are also 10 to 15 senior recitals each year.
Teachers hold workshops throughout the year, and visiting artists present master classes.
There are 10-12 chamber music groups that rehearse and perform works from the Baroque period to the 20th century. Ensembles ranging from duos to octets study masterworks by composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich. Chamber music ensembles have numerous performance opportunities, including the opportunity of performing in master classes given by visiting ensembles. The Chamber Orchestra draws on the most advanced instrumentalists to perform works which require smaller forces, particularly works of the early classical and Baroque periods, such as Mozart symphonies and Bach and Handel concerti grossi. The Chamber Orchestra also performs with the Glee Club in major choral works.