Dear Admissions Committee:
I take great pleasure in recommending Mr. Lee, one of my outstanding students, for admission to the MM program in xxx at the xx University. He is very talented, creative, passionate, and also a diligent student. Perhaps his greatest strength is his fast learning ability and understanding of music theory, which gave me an very strong impression of his peers.
I first met Mr. Lee when he consulted me for the application requirements of film-scoring master-degree a years ago. He immediately impressed me when he stated his intention to study in film-scoring as purpose of pursuing for higher academic studies abroad. After we discussed about his learning experience of music and his motivation to study in film-scoring, we started the lessons in my studio.
Since Mr. Lee didn’t accept formal professional musical trained before, we had spend a few months to establish his conceptions of fundamental music theory once every week. He was one of the fast-learner of all my students I have ever taught. I was amazed that he could immediately improvised a beautiful melodic line with complicated chord progression on the piano and applied it into his piece of work after the course. I think that his skills of playing the piano has made him a great advantage to understanding the music theory.
Besides, Mr. Lee is also a diligent learner that he rarely being absence of his course, even he lives quite a long distance to my studio that he has to spend a lot of time in traffic. Furthermore, his desire for learning music do not just limited in the course, he also devoted himself in live performing, conducting the school orchestra, which I think is a strong merit, comparing to other students. Since your program would demand students to conduct their own pierce of work, I believe that his capable of conducting skills and his hardworking characteristic is someone you have long searching for.
Your program is music to Mr. Lee’s ear, and I am certain it well cater to his needs and talent. I have no doubt he will become one of the most prominent students in your program, and hope that you will discover his potential as well.
Above all the reasons, I am willing to introduce Mr, Lee to you, and I wish you will accept his application without hesitation. If further information regarding this talented young man is needed, please feel free to inform me.