Princeton University Music Program

[kelly_kelly]

This may be a long shot, but I will be a freshman at Princeton University next year and I was wondering whether any of you know anything about their music department, specifically the piano certificate program (I would also like to know about their orchestra, but it makes more sense to ask you guys about piano ). My teacher thinks I should be able to get a certificate, but I saw one certificate recital on YouTube where the program was Gaspard de la Nuit and Chopin's Third Sonata  I have no hope of performing that kind of program ever in my life, let alone by my senior year. So I'm a bit confused.

[birba]

Congratulations!!!!!  I love that campus.  I grew up in the area and I was always attracted to that "ivory tower".  I never knew it had such an impressive music department.  I googled it and it sounds very elite.  Like everything about that school.  I know they have, or used to have, an incredible concert season.  Almost all the big names came out there to play when they were in NY.  Beveridge Webster taught there at one time, I think.  A lot of names on the performance falculty, but I don't recognize any of them.  But just to live there!  You're going to love it!

[iumonito]

You should go to the Golandsky Institute Symposium.

You would be surprised what you will be able to play in your lifetime.

Have fun!  Others may play repertoire you think is impossible, but at the end of it all you have is this: are you learning what you will need to be happy playing the piano until the day you no longer can?  If you are, you are at the right place.