Conducting
The MME Conducting Certificate at UW–Stevens Point helps music educators build advanced skills in rehearsal leadership, technique, and performance. Learn from experienced faculty in a supportive, flexible format that fits your schedule—so you can bring greater confidence and clarity to the podium.
This 12 credit certificate is administered by the area of Music.
what to expect
You will develop essential skills for ensemble directors and classroom teachers including: student listening and analytical skills, free movement activities, sight singing with solfege, and exploration of important composers and masterworks, new and standard, within historic and cultural contexts from diverse voices. This certificate also includes work focusing on rehearsal strategies, leadership from the podium, score preparation, expressive gesture, and a survey of historical choral literature.
Conducting Graduate Certificate
Conducting for the Ensemble and Classroom Teacher, 6 credits
Conducting Symposium, 3 credits
Literature and Practice, 3 credits
Note
The Conducting Graduate Certificate is open to students majoring in a graduate music degree.
Students who wish to apply for this certificate must first submit a 10-15 minute video sample of their conducting, including rehearsal and performance selections to the department.
Meet Your Faculty and Staff
Our faculty work professionally as performers, directors, and composers who through their experience and dedication help ensure our students are successful.
View the Department of Music Faculty and Staff Directory
Mathew Buchman
- Department Chair – Music
- Professor – Jazz Studies
Beatriz Aguilar
- Assistant Professor – Music
- Director of Music Education
Danielle Breisach
- Lecturer – Flute
- Graduate Program Manager
Andrew Slembarski
- Administrative Specialist – Music
National Association of Schools of Music
Founded in 1924, the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) is an organization of schools, conservatories, colleges, and universities with approximately 637 accredited institutional members. It establishes national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials for music and music-related disciplines and provides assistance to institutions and individuals engaged in artistic, scholarly, educational, and other music-related endeavors.
The College of Fine Arts and Communication at UW-Stevens Point is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
School of Performing Arts – Department of Music
College of Fine Arts and Communication
254 Noel Fine Arts Center, 1800 Portage Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481-3897
(715) 346-3107
For ticket information: 715-346-4100
Email: music@uwsp.edu