钢琴演奏学士学位课程为学生提供教学，文学，合作钢琴和室内音乐的体验。<br>在校园内外均可获得表演机会，包括独奏，室内音乐和合作演奏， >工作室班和大师班。
UMKC Essentials is the university-wide curriculum that all undergraduate students will complete. The 30-credit hour program includes a First Year Experience course; three critical thinking courses in the areas of Arts & Humanities, Natural & Physical Sciences, and Social & Behavioral Sciences; a Culture and Diversity course; a Civic & Urban Engagement course; two courses in Written Composition and one course in Oral Communication; and a Math Pathway course. Transfer students entering UMKC will elect from the UMKC Essentials General Education Program or the Missouri Core 42 General Education Curriculum. Academic advisors will meet with incoming transfer students to determine which option best serves the student’s educational needs.<br><br>Students graduating from this program will:<br>1. Technique—Students will execute foundational physical requirements and show knowledge of kinesthetic issues (speed, coordination), keyboard geography, standard patterns of motion in piano music (scales, arpeggios, octaves, thirds, sixths, etc.), and show knowledge of health and wellness issues for the performer.<br>2. Tone production—Students will produce all the sounds required by the music at hand including developing control of articulation (legato, staccato, etc.) and pedaling.<br>3. Expression—Students will show convincing phrasing with a developing range of dynamics, colors, timing, and goal points.<br>4. Intellectual skills—Students will demonstrate foundational control and knowledge of increasingly complex rhythms, phrasing, musical syntax, historical issues and aesthetics, demonstrate emerging score-reading skills, and display emerging interpretation.<br>5. Problem solving—Students will show foundational control of the instrument, emerging independent designation of fingering, voicing and velocity, emerging adaptation to acoustics, and effective practice techniques and memorization skills.<br>6. Performing for the public—Students will possess polished stage presence, deal effectively with nerves, and effectively project music in different spaces.