Music

Address: 220 Music Building
Phone: 336.334.5789
Web site: performingarts.uncg.edu/music

Majors & Concentrations

Music Education
Music Performance
Music Studies

• Choral General Music Education (BM) (Lic) U626
• Composition (BM) U607
• General Music (BA) U602
• Instrument Performance (BM) U611
• Instrumental Music Education (BM) (Lic) U629
• Jazz Performance (BM) U618
• Keyboard Performance (BM) U636
• Voice Performance (BM) U635

Special Application Procedures

All prospective music majors and minors must audition for admission prior to enrollment. Auditions are held in December, January, and February of the year preceding enrollment. For information on how to schedule an audition, please visit  performingarts.uncg.edu/admissions/auditions/undergraduate-music-auditions.

What's unique about Music at UNCG?

• $25.7 million dollar state-of-the art music facility opened in 1999.
• The only comprehensive slate of performance and music education degrees from the baccalaureate through the doctorate in North Carolina. Approximately six hundred music majors (two-thirds undergraduate, one-third graduate) are taught by more than sixty predominantly full-time faculty members.
• Continuous accreditation in NC by the National Association of Schools of Music since 1938.
• Home to Archives/Libraries for International Double Reed Society, International Trombone Association, and International Tuba and Euphonium Association.
• Special Collections houses the largest collection of cello music in the world—more than 5,000 manuscripts and published music scores.
• Hosts the largest university summer music camp in the nation.
• The culturally thriving Triad (Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point) affords the UNCG community regular opportunities to attend and perform in concerts sponsored by such organizations as the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the Greensboro Opera Company, and the Eastern Music Festival.

Recognition for Music at UNCG

• Graduate programs were ranked among the top 30 in the country by US News & World Report.
• Opera Theatre has won a National Opera Competition Award 9 times in 12 years.
• The Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble were the first college-level ensembles in North Carolina to perform in New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, respectively.
• Both the University Symphony Orchestra and the Jazz Ensemble have performed by invitation on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
• The Trombone Ensemble was invited to perform at the Eastern Trombone Workshop twice in recent years.
• The Jazz Ensemble's annual CD was named among the top 10 college jazz band recordings by Herb Wong in the Jazz Educators Journal for three years in a row.
• The Focus on Piano Literature has gained national critical acclaim.
• The School of Music is home to the trumpet once owned by Miles Davis and used on the historic masterpiece Kind of Blue.
• The music faculty are past presidents of the Music Teachers National Association, the North Carolina Music Educators Association, the International Tuba and Euphonium Association, and the North American Saxophone Alliance.

Academic Clubs and Organizations

Organizations/Clubs: Music Student Ambassadors, Mu Phi Epsilon, Phi Mu Alpha, Sigma Alpha Iota, Pi Kappa Lambda (Music Honor Society), student chapters of the National Association for Music Education (Collegiate), the American Choral Directors Association, and the American String Teachers Association.

Large Ensembles: Schola Cantorum, Men's Glee, Women's Glee, University Chorale, Chamber Singers, Symphony Orchestra, String Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, University Band, and Jazz Ensemble.

Small Ensembles: Brass Ensembles, Percussion Ensembles, String Ensembles, Woodwind Ensembles, Small Jazz Ensembles/Combos, Opera/Chorus, Pep Band, Present Continuous (Contemporary/New Music Ensemble), and World Music Ensembles.

Student Opportunities

Internship locations include North Carolina public schools, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and Kindermusik International.

Graduates/Careers

The job placement rate for music education graduates in public schools is 100 percent. Students receive graduate school fellowships and assistantships from the finest universities in the country.

UNCG graduates are employed throughout the US as public school teachers and supervisors, directors of choirs, bands, and orchestras, soloists, ensemble performers, and private teachers.

Colleges, universities, or conservatories employing our grads have included Eastman, McGill, New England Conservatory, Oberlin, Berklee, Florida State, NC School of the Arts, Duke, Indiana State, Kent State, SUNY Buffalo, University of Wisconsin, University of Texas, Wake Forest, Yale, and the Boston Conservatory.

Professional companies employing UNCG graduates have included the Metropolitan Opera, the Des Moines Symphony, the Oregon Symphony, the Dallas Summer Musicals Orchestra, the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, US Army Soldiers Chorus, US Navy Band, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera of Mexico City, the Utah Opera, the Tri-Cities Opera (Binghamton, NY), the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Charles Symphony Orchestra, the Long Island Little Orchestra Society, the Minnesota Opera, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, La Folia Chamber Ensemble (North Hollywood, CA), Riverside Opera Ensemble (New York), the Sacramento Symphony, and the North Carolina Symphony.

Accreditation

UNCG has long been recognized as one of the top music institutions in the United States and has been fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music since 1938.

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