The Aaron Copland School of Music (ACSM) is located on 77-acres of tree-lined campus in Queens, New York, minutes from Manhattan,
and part of Queens College—a leading senior liberal arts college in the City University of New York.

ACSM offers three different types of undergraduate music degrees: general music (BA), Performance (B.Mus), and Music Education (BA/Ed). Undergraduate students go through rigorous academic courses in theory, history, ear-training, sight-singing and performance as well as take private lessons as part of their degree requirements.

ACSM faculty members include world famous musicians and scholars such as Daniel Phillips (Violin), Marcy Rosen (Cello), Charles Neidich (Clarinet), David Jolley (Horn), Bruce Saylor (composition and theory), Arbie Orenstein (Music History), and Janice Smith (Music Education) just to name a few.

Our newly renovated music building provides students with a welcoming atrium, Steinway pianos in all practice rooms, a music library which has more than 35,000 scores, 30,000 books and 20,000 recordings, and an award-winning LeFrak Concert Hall, celebrated for its acoustics and the Maynard-Walker Memorial organ. ACSM produces over 300 concerts a year including recitals, orchestra, choir, ensembles, new music, early music concerts, and opera productions.

ACSM offers a first-class curriculum, renowned faculty, and an extraordinary facility, at an extremely affordable tuition (full-time, in-state undergraduate tuition is currently $5,130, plus fees for a full year of study.) Students at the Copland School of Music get a world-class education at the center of the cultural universe for an impressively affordable tuition. Additionally, many of our students qualify for financial aid, and we have merit scholarships available up to the full cost of tuition.