IU Guitar Department

tions and performance careers around the US and abroad. Each student, from undergraduate to master's level to doctoral degree to artist diploma, receives personal attention with a minimum one-hour individual lesson weekly and participation in a weekly master class. The department is committed to nurturing each student, helping the student to grow and learn in a healthy atmosphere. In addition to lessons and master classes, the department offers chamber music coaching, repertoire class, pedagogy class, and transcription class. Our elective guitar program, through various classes and individual lessons taught by our Associate Instructors (graduate students with a full scholarship), attracts an amazing number of students each semester (300-400) . Overall, with over 1,000 classical music performances a year, and only 11 students for every faculty member, the Jacobs School of Music has one of the most favorable student-to-faculty ratios available at a major conservatory of music. There are more than 180 faculty at Indiana who have as their primary responsibility the instruction and training of students. The average performance studio size is just 18. Performance majors are not assigned to graduate students.