Music
Bachelor of Arts
Become an accomplished musician with a strong liberal arts foundation, prepared for wide possibilities of professional work.
Learn from professors who are highly accomplished artists and scholars. Benefit from an intensive focus on private lessons, many performance opportunities, and a supportive environment to perfect your skills. Choose to add a major or minor to support your goals, such as a minor in jazz, music history or music theory, composition, contemporary commercial music, entertainment and recording industry, or numerous programs outside music. This B.A. in Music often attracts students who are considering teaching music history or music theory at the college level.
Highlights
Perform in our state-of-the-art Glazer Music Performance Center
Complete research supervised by faculty and present your work at a Naz showcase or at a student conference
Add a major such as English, philosophy, religious studies, mathematics, psychology, or communication & media
Career Paths
- Performing artist
- Composer
- College professor (music history/music theory)
- Arts administrator
- Music director
- Church musician
- Jazz musician
- Private studio teacher
- Librarian
- Music producer
- Events coordinator
- Online entrepreneur
- Advertising or management professional
Internships
- Sibley Music Library
- Leo Kestenberg Musikschule, Berlin, Germany
- Glimmerglass Opera Company
- Staatliches Institut fur Musikforschung, Berlin, Germany
Graduate School
After graduation, continue your professional advancement at Nazareth and earn a master's degree:
550-seat
Glazer Music Performance Center 鈥� designed to provide excellent acoustics for large instrumental and vocal ensembles, multimedia collaborations, and live recording
99%
of new Nazareth grads are聽employed or in grad school聽within six months of graduation
$4,000
Our SPARK Grant provides up to $4,000 for you to pursue internships, research, and study abroad.聽SPARK details 禄
Music @ Naz
How to Audition
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Program Director
Alumni Spotlight
鈥淭he B.A. music program at Nazareth is a very flexible degree that allows you to explore all aspects of music by taking elective courses from music business, to music psychology, to even orchestrating/arranging. If you don't know what specific field of music you want to go into, this degree gives you the ability to try out different areas of music and discover new interests while also giving you the requirements you need for a well-rounded music education.
"I will always cherish the multitude of experiences I've had performing with and accompanying so many different music groups: jazz ensembles, orchestra band and choir, percussion, theater, and more. This has given me so much musical growth and passion, and has taught me so much about collaboration."
鈥� Cynthia MacDonald '24, who went on for a master鈥檚 degree in piano performance and pedagogy and is a choir accompanist for Brighton and Pittsford school districts