Piano and Vocal Accompanying
We offer coursework in piano and vocal accompanying as a double major for students with strong keyboard skills. You’ll have access to outstanding facilities and Steinways, master classes, individualized instruction and coaching, and opportunities to prepare and offer piano accompaniment for student recitals, theater and opera productions, and vocal ensembles.

Program Facts
- Program Type: Major
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- Bachelor of Music (BM)
- Division: Keyboard Studies
Program Director
Alvin Chow,Professor of Piano
Contact
- Cindy Shairba, Administrative Assistant
- 440-775-8198
- cindy.shairba@oberlin.edu
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Piano and Vocal Accompanying Faculty
Conservatory faculty maintain active performance schedules while remaining accessible and committed to their students. Individual instruction is paramount to helping students develop their mechanical, technical, stylistic, psychological, and musical skills.
“My job as much as this is possible is to get two people to play together as if they were one musical mind.”
James Howsmon, Professor of Instrumental Accompanying
Piano and Vocal Accompanying News
Winter Term: Creating Music Miles Apart
September 23, 2020
Opera Legend Marilyn Horne Leads Oberlin Master Class Dec. 9
November 20, 2018