ABOUT THE UNM DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

The College of Fine Arts encompasses the Departments of Music, Art and Art History, Theatre and Dance and Media Arts. These are located in the Center for the Arts, the Art Building, Carlisle Gymnasium (Dance) and the Center for Environmental Research, Informatics & Arts or CERIA (Media Arts).

Within the Center for the Arts are also housed the UNM Art Museum, the large concert hall (Popejoy Hall), the music recital hall (Keller Hall), the principal theater and dance performance space (Rodey Theatre), and a smaller experimental theatre (“Theatre X”). The Fine Arts Library, located within the Center for the Arts, maintains full library services, including a reference desk, a reserve book room, a rare book room, a periodical room, and listening facilities.

General Facts about the Department of Music

• Accredited by NASM (National Association of Schools of Music)
• Budget of $3.5 M
• 290 total students, 220 undergraduates, 90 graduates

Tuition per semester

• Undergraduate: in-state $2,167.80, out-of-state $7,088.40 (based on full-time status of 12 credit hours)
  
  
• Graduate: resident $1,786.95, non-resident $5,465.25 (based on full-time status of 9 credit hours).

  NOTE: Non-residents can take up to 6 hours at the resident per-hour rate; if taking 7 or more hours, all hours are billed at non-resident rates. See details at http://www.unm.edu/~bursar/
  ALSO NOTE: Tuition rates quoted do not include special course fees.

Department of Music Curriculum

Undergraduate

• Four-year program of study (4 1/2 years for Bachelor of Music Education)
• Bachelor of Music with concentrations in instrumental, vocal, or keyboard performance, jazz studies, theory and composition, and string pedagogy; Bachelor of Arts in Music; Bachelor of Music Education with instrumental and vocal concentrations; Music Minor; Music Education Minor

Graduate

• Two-year program of study
• Master of Music with concentrations in Music History and Literature, Theory and Composition, Performance, Conducting, Collaborative Piano, and Music Education

Department of Music Faculty and Staff

• 57 faculty: 21 tenured, 9 tenure track, 2 full-time lecturers, 25 part-time
• 2 full-time administrative staff, 1 part-time
• 1 hall manager/promotions staff
• 1 recording engineer
• 1 part-time piano technician
• 22 Graduate Assistants

 

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PERFORMANCES

• 50-60 faculty and ensemble concerts each year
• 40-60 student recitals each year
• 1 fully-staged opera production
  
  
  

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

• The Keller Hall Series features UNM faculty performances, guest artists and student ensembles.
• The annual Composers' Symposium has brought such famous composers as John Cage, George Crumb, John Harbison, Karel Husa, Ned Rorem, Alan Hovhaness, Gunther Schuller, Thea Musgrave, Lou Harrison, Ernst Krenek and Michael Colgrass.
• Arts of the Americas, an exciting initiative of the College of Fine Arts, works with the Department of Music in offering
  opportunities to explore cultural diversity and international exchange with institutions in Latin America.
• Arts in Medicine, one of the few programs of its kind in the country that brings together artists and medical professionals to promote healing–physical, emotional or psychological. The program encompasses creative encounters for patients and families, for medical professionals, and for the community. Currently, Arts-in-Medicine services are offered throughout UNM Health Sciences Center facilities, including the primary hospital, the psychiatric center, the cancer center, and the hospice.
• The UNM Music Prep School offers programs that allow UNM students to gain experience teaching elementary general music and chorus, class piano, recorder, winds, strings and percussion instruments.
• The UNM Youth Honor Band, open to high school band students, rehearses and performs on the UNM campus every semester.

The University of New Mexico

• 24,705 students (16,806 undergraduate students, 7,899 graduate and professional students)
• 2,243 faculty
• 6,960 staff
• Anderson School of Management, School of Architecture and Planning, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, School of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, School of Law, Health Sciences Center (College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Division of Dental Hygiene, School of Medicine)
  

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