Program overview

With a double emphasis in voice pedagogy and performance, our program will prepare you to find success on the world鈥檚 operatic and concert stages, teaching in studios and classrooms, and in thriving private voice studios. Using a process-oriented approach, we focus on developing your vocal skills to enable you to become the best possible vocal artist and independent musician.

Program highlights

Admission requirements

Expand your career as an artist

Program alumni find success in careers performing in operas and as soloists in the United States and abroad. Many of our graduates appear on the solo and chorus rosters of the Metropolitan Opera and in professional vocal ensembles such as Chanticleer, Loadbang and the Crossing.
 

Common careers:

  • Opera singer
  • Concert soloist
  • Collaborative artist
  • College professor
Kyle Van Schoonhoven '13

Student testimonial

鈥淢y experience at Westminster Choir College was fairly standard, I鈥檇 assume, which is why it鈥檚 such an exceptional place. I came into the graduate program with all the drive I needed, but Westminster took it the extra step. I honed my musicianship in the Westminster Choir, I performed the greatest works that this world has ever known with the Symphonic Choir. I sang principal roles in the operas, with my incredible peers, while being led by some of the greatest minds in the field. Westminster isn鈥檛 a place, it has moved time and time again. Westminster is a musical standard, and an atmosphere that teaches you how to survive in this career path, while reminding you why you鈥檙e in this career to begin with. Life long friends, countless memories, and gratitude are still my greatest accomplishments from Westminster Choir College.鈥

Kyle Van Schoonhoven '13
Messenger in the Metropolitan Opera鈥檚 Aida, 2023
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Winner

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Contact

Master of Music: Voice Pedagogy and Performance

Margaret Cusack

Professor, Department Chair

Department of Performance Studies

Westminster House

mcusack [at] rider.edu

609-921-7100, ext. 8253

Academic Focus: Voice

The Elsie Hillman Endowed Chair

Fine Arts building