The Eastman School of Music offers a Doctorate of Music Arts (DMA) with a Major in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music. Prerequisites for program admission include a master's degree in piano performance or piano accompanying. They also include language proficiency equal to one year of college language instruction in French, Italian or German. Required courses include 16 credits in Studio Instruction in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music and four credits in piano lessons. Minors are also required in opera coaching, pedagogy or Baroque performance practice. Nine credits of music history and theory, as well as 11 music elective credits, are also required. Four recital performances are needed for graduation, and you must be in residence for at least two years for the doctorate program. You must pass written comprehensive exam in music history and theory and an oral comprehensive exam in your major and minor fields of study to graduate from the doctorate program.
Eastman School of Music
Doctorate of Music Arts (DMA) With a Major in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music
26 Gibbs Street
Rochester, NY 14604
585-274-1000
esm.rochester.edu/acm/programs.php#DMA
The Juilliard School offers a DMA in Collaborative Piano. Prerequisites for this program include a master's degree in piano performance and advanced ear training and keyboard skills. All music doctoral candidates must complete the doctoral program within five years and be in residence for two years. Required course work includes six credits of instrument study and two credits of Collaborative Piano major requirements and doctoral electives totaling four credits both residential years. Candidates study Music Reference and Research, Scholarly Editing of Music, History and Practice: Renaissance and Baroque and Analytical Methods in the first residential year. Two credits in Analysis for Performers, Doctoral Topics and Studies in Style Criticism are required for the second residential year. Two to six credits of recitals are required, as well as two credits of lecture performance. Two credits are required for document presentation and oral defense, and all language qualifications and written and oral qualifying exams must be passed to receive the DMA in Collaborative Piano.
The Juilliard School
Collaborative Piano Department
60 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York City, NY 10023
212-799-5000
juilliard.edu/college/music/curriculum_outlines/DMA.html
The Catholic University of America offers a DMA degree in Vocal Accompanying with possible minors in Musicology and Latin American Music. Program prerequisites include a solo audition, a vocal accompanying audition, a sight-reading and transposition audition and entrance exams in history, theory, chamber music and vocal music. Doctoral candidates must complete four semesters of piano study, two semester hours in Chamber Music, six to 12 semester hours in Music History, three to nine semester hours in Music Theory, six semester hours in Opera Coaching, 15 to 28 semester hours of Core Courses in Vocal Literature and Performance Practices per student adviser and 13 semester hours of recitals. A final non-credit public recital is the comprehensive exam for this program. The recital content is conveyed to the doctoral candidate two months before the public performance and must be prepared by the candidate without external help.
The Catholic University of America
Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
620 Michigan Ave., N.E
Washington, DC 20064
202-319-5414
music.cua.edu/graduate/dma-vocal-accompanying.cfm