January,
2007
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The Guitar Department was opened in 1989 by
Maestro Ernesto Bitetti and has been directed by him ever since.
Currently Guitar Department offers the following programs: Bachelor,
Master, Doctoral, Performer and Artist Diploma.
Many American and international students, while
studying at this prestigious department, have
won numerous important international prizes. Moreover, many
graduates from IU Guitar Department, went on securing variety of careers
in music, including important teaching
positions and performance careers all around the US and abroad.
Each student, from undergraduate to master's to
doctoral 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, transcription class, etc...
Our elective guitar program, through various classes
and individual lessons taught by our Associate Instructors (Graduate
students with a full scholarship), congregates 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 IU School of Music
has one of the most favorable student-to-faculty ratios available at a
major conservatory of music. There are more than 150 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 will not be assigned to graduate students.
