About

MajoringInMusic.com is designed to demystify, clarify, and address clearly the steps that need to be taken to successfully major in music. It is also designed to support students in learning what it takes to build viable and fulfilling music careers.  The website was conceived as a response to a need voiced by students, parents, teachers, counselors and music schools across the country for accurate, objective, and helpful information about majoring in music.

We’ll be adding new content regularly, to lend continued support for your journey to music school and beyond. We welcome your input and feedback to make MajoringInMusic.com useful and worthwhile to you. So come back and visit us often –– and please recommend us to your friends, parents, teachers and counselors.

 

Principal Bios

Barbra Wakshul Weidlein spent 23 years in the educational publishing field in addition to stints as an educational writer and adult education instructor. Her background includes BA and MS degrees from Pennsylvania State University; serving as liaison to the jazz program at a strong performing arts high school in Colorado; working with numerous jazz education conferences and festivals; volunteer fundraising for Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts and the Colorado Music Festival; and many years of piano study and women’s choral singing. She credits her own journey as the mother of a music major for inspiring MajoringInMusic.com.

Jim Weidlein founded Information Design, an educational publishing company, in 1986. The company produces print and online magazines and books in diverse educational fields ranging from science and engineering to environmental health, solar energy, and United Kingdom investing. After studying international service at American University for four years, he switched fields and received a BA in photojournalism from Franconia College. Though he has finally handed down his clarinet to his son, Jim’s interest in world music still has him playing an assortment of international flutes. As the parent of a music major, he is inspired to apply his publishing expertise to MajoringInMusic.com.

 

Contact Link

MajoringInMusic.com
Box 2277
Boulder, Colorado 80306-2277
303.993.5541


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