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 — designed to provide excellent acoustics for large instrumental and vocal ensembles, multimedia collaborations, and live recording
99%
of new Nazareth grads are employed or in grad school within six months of graduation
$4,000
Our SPARK Grant provides up to $4,000 for you to pursue internships, research, and study abroad. SPARK details »
Music @ Naz
How to Audition
Auditions are required for this major. View audition details and register »
Program Director
Alumni Spotlight
Corinne Shaffer Hopkins '12
"To me, the strength of the B.A. program is in its versatility. I was able to build an experience that fit in everything I wanted to do. Playing in the orchestra and taking lessons were very important to me, but so was taking some business classes and doing a semester abroad. That being said, there was plenty of structure built into the program too. There are classes you have to take that you might not have chosen for yourself that end up being super valuable as well."
Shaffer Hopkins says her experiences as a music major gave her the skills to think critically, meet deadlines, communicate well, and learn well. She specializes in repairing and restoring stringed instruments and was accepted to a three-year program in traditional stringed instrument craftsmanship at the Chicago School of Violin Making. Her story.