The Faculty of Music of the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts seeks to educate young individuals who will create and transmit the music and performing arts that will lead the way in the 21st Century from Asia to the world, all while rooting themselves in the fascinating regional characteristics of Okinawa.
A student accepted into the Faculty of Music will have these characteristics:
Someone who is suffused with the motivation to be a musician.
Someone who is well prepared in the fundamentals of musical performance and would like to undergo training in specialized and high level academic and technical aspects of his/her musical art.
Someone who would like to broaden their understanding of music, and thinks about the significance of learning music in our modern society.
Someone with assertiveness, who learns classical music but also creates a new artistic culture suited to a new era, and seeks to spread it throughout society.
The Faculty of Music Curriculum
A graduated four year degree completion process is involved, where the instruction consists mainly of one-on-one lessons for students in their area of specialty, with related courses supporting this instruction. We aim to foster a well-balanced student, who is not only technically improved in his/her area of specialization, but leaves the school with a breadth of knowledge as well.
Our faculty aims to enhance the uniqueness of each individual student by offering courses that serve to heighten broad foundational musical accomplishment, in order to foster a wider perspective in our students so that they can engage with a modern society that requires more and more diversification.
With Okinawa’s history in mind, we aim to deepen the student’s cooperation with society in order to ensure their role as a platform from which to promote eternal world peace. Students will learn to interact assertively with society and exhibit their talents through artistic activities.
Department and Majors
Department of Music
The Ryukyuan Performing Arts Major is the most unique of the fields of study offered by this university, and gives opportunities for students to engage in the performance of the region’s unique traditional music and performance arts. Also, the Performance and Composition Major offers educational opportunities in the Western classical music tradition, which is the basis for all modern music education. Furthermore, the Music Culture studies Major performs research and education that serves to comprehensively sustain the disciplines above in both a theoretical and creative context.
