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Degree Programs

Our degree options provide the academic foundation and musical formation you need to build the career of your choice:

• Music
• Music Education
• Music Performance
• Sacred Music

A Message From the Chair 

We are so pleased that you are paying a virtual visit to the Music Department at the ɫ����! We believe in you—and in the powerful successes and accomplishments that come to our students. As Chair of the Music Department, it gives me great pleasure to say “Come on in, look around, and see what wonderful opportunities await!” Picture yourself here, doing what you love, studying and performing in a stimulating and collaborative learning community surrounded by faculty members and students who share your passion for music.

Our faculty and students are wonderful models of the university’s Benedictine values of hospitality, respect for persons, and community. In fact, we are a community of learners who support and encourage one another. At the same time, we challenge ourselves to be the best we can be: as individual performers, conductors, members of ensembles, servants of liturgical song, and educators. We pursue beauty and artistry as we delve into the depths of our understanding and experience of music within our classes, rehearsals, and performances.

In addition to studying with highly accomplished music faculty, you will have opportunities to take part in master classes and festival performances with world-renowned music professionals. Guest artists over the years have included the Canadian Brass, the Real Group, Jeff Jarvis, Rhythm & Brass, Helen Sung, Nestor Torres, Bethany Mamola, New York Voices, Chicago Chamber Brass, Ron Nelson and Mark Camphouse, Hannah Occeña and Emely Phelps, Eric Ruske, and Highline Vocal Jazz.

We invite you to check us out. Schedule a “day in the life of a music major” during your campus visit, so you can meet our students and faculty, rehearse with our ensembles, and take a free lesson in your area of interest. We welcome scholarship auditions during our multi-day concert events such as Christmas at ɫ���� in December or our annual Jazz Festival in late January. We also encourage you to attend one of the hallmark concerts from the ɫ���� Concert Band, Vocal Arts, Steel Band, String Ensemble, Gabrieli Brass, or any of our smaller chamber ensembles and recitals throughout the year.

In short, we can’t wait to meet and greet you, show you around, and invite you to experience the wonders of a ɫ���� education that so many students have cherished for over 60 years. Just one visit—one rehearsal—one lesson—and we think you’ll see and feel the wonder of the ɫ����!

The ɫ���� Music Department – creating Music for Life.

— Professor Dennis Gowen, Chair of Music