Bachelor’s degree · BA / BA (Hons)
Music (BA)
Brigham Young University-Hawaii · Music Program (Faculty of Culture, Language & Performing Arts) · Laie, Hawaii, United States
- Official award
- Music (BA)BA
- Subject
- General Music StudiesMusic Performance (concentration)Opera and Vocal Studies (concentration)Instrument pathways: Piano
- Format
- On campus
- Tuition
- Not published
About this program
Bachelor's degree in music with emphases in instrumental, piano and vocal performance, world music studies and general music, combining solo and ensemble performance with theory and history.
- Department
- Music Program (Faculty of Culture, Language & Performing Arts)
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Award and subject
The award is shown exactly as the institution titles it. A program belongs to a subject only through the link below: a dedicated degree, a named major, a formal concentration or a documented pathway.
- Official award
- Music (BA)BA
- Award family
- BA / BA (Hons)A Bachelor of Arts, including BA (Hons). It is not relabelled as a Bachelor of Music.
- Qualification level
- Bachelor’s degree
- Qualification standing
- Academic qualificationA degree, or a certificate or diploma awarded by a degree-awarding institution within a national qualifications framework.
- Orientation
- Orientation not published
- Previous degree required
- Not published
| Subject | Relationship | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| General Music Studies | Dedicated degreeThe official program title is in this subject. | |
| Music Performance | Documented pathwayA program whose official page documents a pathway in this subject. | Instrumental performance emphasisHow students choose it is not published“Emphasis includes instrumental performance, piano performance, vocal performance, and world music studies.”Source |
| Opera and Vocal Studies | Documented pathwayA program whose official page documents a pathway in this subject. | Vocal performance emphasisHow students choose it is not published“Emphasis includes instrumental performance, piano performance, vocal performance, and world music studies.”Source |
| Ethnomusicology | Documented pathwayA program whose official page documents a pathway in this subject. | World music studies emphasisHow students choose it is not published“Emphasis includes instrumental performance, piano performance, vocal performance, and world music studies.”Source |
Instrument and voice pathways
This is ONE program with the verified pathways below, not a separate degree per instrument. A pathway is listed only where an official page names the instrument in the title, as a major or as a formal principal-study option.
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional accreditation, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and national qualification registers are different things.
No program-level accreditation or validation record has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- On campusTaught at the listed campus.
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- Not published
- Recitals
- Piano Performance emphasis requires a senior recital
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- BYU-Hawaii campus (Music Program)
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Audition
- Audition requirement not published
- Portfolio
- Portfolio requirement not published
- Interview
- Not published
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether lessons, accompanists, practice rooms, instrument hire, software, recording, recitals, travel and residency costs are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, duration, full-time or part-time options, intakes, audition requirement, whether a previous degree is required, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 25 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 25 October 2026)