Extraordinary string students deserve an extraordinary college experience.

The Robert McDuffie Center for Strings is a highly selective program that prepares string students for success in the real world.  The Center is a special institute within Mercer's Townsend School of Music on the Macon campus.

Students study with some of the nation's renowned string musicians, receiving music instruction of conservatory quality, while earning an academically well-rounded undergraduate education from a comprehensive, nationally recognized university.

The 2007-2008 academic year marked the inaugural year of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings. The program has accepted a select number of extraordinarily talented string students for the 2008-2009 academic year, bringing enrollment in the Center to 11 students.  Total enrollment will be limited to 26 students, which will include 12 violinists, six violists, six cellists and two double bassists. 

Every student has direct access to distinguished artist faculty, with regular private lessons, master classes, chamber music coaching sessions and orchestral sectional work.  Working together, faculty and students create an intensive, individualized program of study with the goal of presenting complete musicians to the real world.

Each June, select students from the Center will be invited to study chamber music at the Rome Chamber Music Festival. More information about this event is available at www.romechamberfestival.org.

Download the Center's new viewbook.

Visit the official Robert McDuffie website.