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Manhattan School of Music

• Lee Cioppa,
  Director of Admissions
  
  120 Claremont Avenue
  New York, NY 10027
  
  Tel: 212-749-2802
  Fax: 212-749-5471
  
  Website: www.msmnyc.edu
  
  Hours: Monday through Friday:
  9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  
  Program of Study: The school is a preeminent international conservatory of music granting Bachelors of Music, Masters of Music, and Doctors of Musical Arts degrees in classical music and jazz. Manhattan School of Music is dedicated to the personal, artistic, and intellectual development of each of its students, who range in age from the pre-college through the postgraduate level. The school trains students in performance and composition and provides a broad-based education in music theory, history and humanities. The school serves 550 New York City area students, ages 3-18, in the Preparatory Division, and another 2,000 New York City school children through its arts-education program. The school employs a superb artist teacher faculty of 250 professional musicians, and is also an active presenter of more than 400 public performances. Manhattan School of Music’s more than 10,000 alumni are active in every aspect of American musical life, and many are among the most distinguished artists performing in opera houses and concert halls and on jazz stages throughout the world today.