Department of Music
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Waltham,Massachusetts 02453
781.736.3310
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DEGREES OFFERED
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Bachelor of Arts in Music with Composition specialization Bachelor of Arts in Music with Cultural Studies specialization Bachelor of Arts in Music with Performance specialization Bachelor of Arts in Music with Musical Theater Performance specialization
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The Brandeis Department of Music offers students the opportunity to experience music as both scholarship and a process of creation and performance. We believe in uniting musical excellence with intellectual inquiry. At Brandeis, we help our students to awaken their creative identity within the context of one of the country's most progressive universities.
Founded by preeminent American composer Irving Fine, our department features a distinguished faculty of world-renowned composers, award-winning authors and scholars, instrumentalists, vocalists and conductors. We offer broad-based undergraduate majors and minors that combine the study of history, theory, composition and performance. Our nationally acclaimed graduate programs focus specifically on composition and theory, and musicology.
Faculty Info:
Mark Berger, Karen Desmond, Eric Chafe, Yu-Hui Chang, Eric Chasalow, Robert Duff, Judith Eissenberg, Emily Frey, Erin Gee, Joshua Gordon, Neal Hampton, Sarah Mead, Paula Musegades, Robert Nieske, David Rakowski, Andrea Segar, Justin Casinghino, Davide Ianni, Martin Boykan, Robert Marshall, Allan Keiler, James Olesen, Yehudi Wyner
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