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Jazz Voice Certificate (Undergraduate)

Jazz Voice Undergraduate certificate

Build your abilities as a jazz lyricist and elevate your performance skills with an Undergraduate certificate in Jazz Voice in Temple’s Boyer College of Music and Dance.

Take weekly voice lessons and participate in small choral and jazz ensembles with at least one public performance per semester while pursuing this 12-credit certificate.

Become a more proficient jazz singer and develop your own unique sound. You’ll practice vocal work comprising

  • articulation,
  • interpretation,
  • jazz phrasing,
  • rhythmic and melodic improvisation, and
    • vocal technique and delivery.

Jazz Studies faculty in the Boyer College of Music and Dance are internationally renowned artists and regularly present master classes and guest performances alongside notable artists and educators. Additionally, they host Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington Regional Jazz Festival. Boyer jazz alumni perform, compose film scores, record with major labels and teach jazz to students around the county.

Classes & Curriculum

Students pursuing the Jazz Voice Undergraduate certificate can complete their program in four or six semesters. Courses will include

  • Choral Ensemble,
  • Jazz Ensemble,
  • Music Theory and
  • Private Voice for Non-Music Majors.

Learn more about Jazz Voice Undergraduate certificate coursework.

Jazz singer performing on stage with a band.

Tuition & Fees

The tuition for this Certificate Program is based on school or college of your major, program degree level (undergraduate or graduate), course load (full- or part-time), in-state or out-of-state residency, and more. You can view the full Cost of Attendance breakdown on the Student Financial Services website. You can also view the 2025–2026 tuition rates.

Ensembles

Jazz Ensembles

Boyer boasts a number of jazz ensembles that range in level and style. You also have the opportunity during the first two weeks of the semester to enroll in small jazz ensembles, coached by Jazz Studies faculty members.

  • Temple University Jazz Band is Boyer’s premier jazz band. It performs on Temple’s Main Campus and throughout the Greater Philadelphia region, and it hosts the annual Essentially Ellington Eastern Regional High School Jazz Band Festival.
  • Temple University Lab Band has served as the opening act for the Temple University Jazz Band’s Kimmel Center performances and as the headliner for the annual Big Band Dance swing dance held each spring in The Underground at the Howard Gittis Student Center. The band has also performed at the Temple Performing Arts Center and in Tomlinson Theater.
  • Jazz Band Number Three provides an environment in which students can improve application and knowledge of ballad concepts, ensemble and section blend, expansion of dynamic range and rhythmic interpretation. The repertoire covers a wide chronological range, from the Count Basie and Duke Ellington catalogs to contemporary arrangements and compositions.
Our Academic Advisors

The Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts has a centralized advising office with five staff members. This advising team serves all undergraduate students in the Boyer College of Music and Dance and the School of Theater, Film and Media Arts.

Advisors help students navigate the undergraduate curriculum for each degree program. The academic advising team for music, dance, theater, and film and media arts majors is located in Mitten Hall, Suite 200 West.

To schedule an advising appointment based on your individual needs or for more help, contact the advising team.
Phone: 215-204-2227

Schedule an advising appointment.

Program Contact

Contact the following faculty for information on the Jazz Voice Undergraduate certificate.

Terell Stafford is the director of Jazz Studies.
Phone: 215-204-8036
Email:

Accreditation

The Boyer College of Music and Dance is accredited by the

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