Two undergraduate performance majors explain how the UCSB Department of Music has improved their playing and enriched their lives.
The Department of Music is a leader in its field, training distinguished scholars as well as prize-winning composers and performers. Our alumni become conductors of orchestras and choruses, or go on to solo or orchestral performing careers, or to become singers in opera companies around the world. Many of our graduates are now writing music for television and film.
Undergraduates find their calling, whether traditional or avant-garde. From Ethnomusicology to Percussion to Composition, there are ways to forge a program suited to your passions -- be they theoretically- or performance-driven.
Supporting it all is a large complex of teaching studios, classrooms, practice rooms, three performance halls, and an outdoor concert bowl. We host a state-of-the-art Music Laboratory, and the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE). Our Music Library houses a collection of more than 120,000 holdings, including over 30,000 LPs and over 12,000 CDs.
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