Film and Media Scoring
Graduate Certificate
Why study Film and Media Scoring?
There is a growing demand for music composed for film and for other visual media such as video games, interactive media, and web applications. Composing these works requires specialized artistic talent, specialized technological skills, and specialized methods of preparing deliverables.
This 2-year graduate certificate program is an introduction to film and media scoring at the graduate level for students with a Bachelor of Music and significant experience composing in acoustic, electro-acoustic, Jazz, or popular idioms. The program consists of 13 credits of classroom and private instruction in film and media scoring.
Admission Requirements
CCM’s admission requirements vary by program. Please visit the CCM Admissions website for additional information. All programs require both the UC Graduate Admissions Application followed by a pre-screening submission via CCM's Acceptd website, which must be completed and uploaded by Dec. 1.
Our alumni compose for film, television, and commercial media; produce, mix, and run live sound; and work in every other aspect of the music industry. Musical composers create works to accompany and enhance movies, animation, games, web applications, and other visual media.
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Nationally ranked and internationally renowned, CCM’s state-of-the-art facilities provide a highly creative and multidisciplinary artistic environment. The college serves as the largest single source of performing and media arts events in Ohio, and few schools can match the quality of its performing ensembles and theatrical productions.
CCM’s roster of eminent faculty offers professional training in all areas of the performing and media arts, including composition, musicology, theory, conducting, music education, opera, musical theatre, acting, technical arts for the stage, dance, arts administration and electronic media. Members of CCM’s faculty regularly receive distinguished honors for creative and scholarly work, and many maintain strong professional ties to the region’s leading arts entities.
Students will find an immensely competitive but mutually supportive and personalized “family” atmosphere. With its emphasis on experienced-based learning, CCM provides students with access to internship and performance opportunities with major organizations like the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Cincinnati Ballet. Students also benefit from the fact that Cincinnati frequently hosts major media and performing arts events and is home to the newly renovated Music Hall, one of the nation’s most beautiful and revered performance centers.
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CCM’s founding schools (the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the College of Music of Cincinnati) were both charter members of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). The requirements for entrance and graduation in all music programs are in accordance with the published regulations of NASM.
Contact Information
University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music
P.O.Box 210003
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003
(513) 556-9479
ccmadmis@uc.edu
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Program Code: 16GC-FMS-GC