A JCM major is designed for students seeking careers in jazz studies and contemporary media music performance, composition/arranging, and education. JCM majors may elect an emphasis in performance or writing skills. In addition to jazz courses JCM majors in most cases study classical technique and repertory for two years in a performance faculty studio. In their Junior and Senior years they study jazz repertory and technique in a jazz faculty studio.
Performance
JCM BM Degree Requirements (performance) (pdf)
JCM MM Degree Requirements (performance)JCM Doctor of Musical Arts Degree
Writing Skills
JCM BM Degree Requirements (writing skills) (pdf)
JCM MM Degree Requirements (writing skills)
The Eastman School of Music's Jazz Writing Skills program has been internationally recognized since the early 1970s. For almost two decades, Professors Rayburn Wright and Bill Dobbins forged the jazz composition and arranging courses, and guided numerous students toward prominent writing careers. Prior to the return of Bill Dobbins 2002, Eastman alumnus Fred Sturm, a protégé of both Wright and Dobbins, assumed the reins of the writing program in 1991 and fostered the development of almost 200 new student jazz works and several award-winning writers.
Today, Eastman's M.M. jazz writing skills majors engage in a broad range of composing and arranging experiences that include:
• Personal production of a media project featuring the student's own works
• Presentation of a 60-minute final degree recital featuring the student's works
• Writing for the Eastman large jazz ensembles
• Writing for the 70-piece Eastman Studio Orchestra
• Writing for the Eastman Jazz Performance Workshop Ensembles (small groups)
• Creating custom charts to feature visiting professional jazz guest artists
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