University of Connecticut

Department of Music

115 North Eagleville Road
Storrs,Connecticut 06269-3088
860.486.3728
beahusky@uconn.edu

DEGREES OFFERED

Bachelor of Arts in Music History

Bachelor of Arts in Music

Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Studies

Bachelor of Music Theory

Bachelor of Music in Performance - Instrumental

Bachelor of Music in Performance - Vocal

Bachelor of Music in Composition

Bachelor of Music in Music Theory

Integrated Bachelor's/Master's - Music Education

Minor

UConn’s Department of Music has four interdependent purposes: 1. To educate music students to become performers, scholars, and teachers 2. To provide students across the University with courses and performing activities in which they can cultivate their creative skills and artistic sensibilities in music of diverse cultures and historical eras 3. To make significant scholarly and artistic contributions to the field of music through a balanced and integrated approach to research/creative activity, performance, and composition 4. To engage local, regional, and state communities with public concerts, lectures, and school outreach programs. The Department is made up of approximately fifty faculty members, who are among the nation’s top-performing artists, teachers, and scholars. Its student body comprises thirty graduate students in performance, music history, and music theory as well as around 180 undergraduates pursuing bachelor’s degrees in music. This size complements the Department’s comprehensive scope to make for an especially rich experience: nearly all students — from opera singers to jazz improvisers to music historians — will collaborate in the classroom and on the performance stage. In addition, our small class sizes permit the faculty to devote careful attention to students’ abilities and needs. Ours is the most comprehensive public university music program in New England, offering the BA, BM, MA, MM, DMA, and Ph.D., and bringing together students from a wide range of musical backgrounds and experiences to study in a close-knit learning community of musicians within a large research university. In our curriculum, we emphasize fundamental musical knowledge and skills, based in the western classical tradition, to provide a solid foundation of musicianship for the 21st century. UConn’s proximity to Hartford, Boston, and New York City provides students with many opportunities to experience the work of world-class performers active in those cities, some of whom are on its faculty. All undergraduate music majors participate in the Department’s ensemble program and receive private lessons from faculty members on their primary instrument. The Department’s active performance schedule consists of recitals by students, faculty members, and visiting artists as well as concerts by the Department’s ensembles. Lectures and masterclasses by scholars and visiting artists are another regular feature of the life of the Department. Collaboration with other departments and areas within UConn’s School of Fine Arts is common: operas are regularly produced in the Nafe Katter Theater in collaboration with students and faculty in the Department of Dramatic Arts, master classes given by visiting artists often occur at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, and student concerts are regularly presented at the Benton Museum of Art.

Faculty Info:

Eric Rice, Ronald Squibbs, Peter Kaminsky, Kirk Matson, Hannah Gebhard, Louis Hanzlik, James Jackson, Matthew Russo, Eric Reed, Rob McEwan, Gary Sienkiewicz, Angelina Gadeliya, DMA, Kenneth Clark, BM, Angela Salcedo, DMA, Allan Conway, BM, Solomiya Ivakhiv, DMA, Sophie Shao, MM, Gregg August, Megan Sesma, Curt Blood, Naomi Senzer, Brooke Allen, Greg Case, Heather Taylor, Constance Rock, Rod Nelman, Greg Zavracky, Brett Hodgdon, Mark Womack, Meredith Ziegler, Ricardo Brown, MEd, Mary Ellen Junda, David Mills, Andre Raphel, Jamie Spillane, Lisa Clayton, Jun Lee, Eric Rice, Jessica Von Villas Dickerson, Earl MacDonald, Doug Maher, Sean Nelson, MA, Gregg August, John Mastroianni, Joseph Abramo, EdD, Melinda Fields, MM, Kenneth Fuchs, DMA, Peter Kaminsky, Jesús Ramos-Kittrell, PhD, Ronald Squibbs, Cara Bernard, EdD, Alain Frogley, Daniel Goldberg, PhD, Wayne Pierce, Eric Rice, Kirsten Peterson, Heather DeSavage, PhD, Daniel Salazar Jr., Christopher Shay, MMT, Theodore Arm, DMA, Richard Bass, PhD, Jeffrey Renshaw, Bob Stephens, Peter Bagley, DM, Daniel Patrylak, Glenn Stanley.

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Past Student Productions

	SHOW	THEATER
	Men on Boats (3/26/20 - 4/5/20)	University Of Connecticut
	MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (2/28/19 - 3/10/19)	University of Connecticut

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