A major center of learning with a wealth of musical opportunities!

Founded in 1933, the Department of Music at the University of Chicago came to prominence in the 1960's as a major center of musical research and composition. Once the institutional home of such leading scholars and composers as Leonard B. Meyer, Edward Lowinsky, Ralph Shapey, and Howard Mayer Brown, today its time-honored emphases on composition and historical musicology are combined with more recently developed strengths in theory, analysis, and ethnomusicology. Both graduate and undergraduate programs encourage training in all areas of musical scholarship and in cross-disciplinary research.

Complementing its exceptional academic programs, the department's eleven performance ensembles offer a wide range of opportunities for students, faculty and community members to make music, from orchestra to gamelan and from choir to jazz ensemble. Concert-goers may choose from over 100 concert offerings per year featuring student ensembles, the three Artist-in Residence ensembles, and the department's professional concert office, The University of Chicago Presents.

We hope that you will enjoy exploring who we are and what we do . . . come visit us on campus for a closer look!