Music

Major, Minor

DEPARTMENT: Music

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About the Music major

Union offers a vibrant musical community for students passionate about music. With diverse courses and a wide range of performing ensembles—uncommon at small liberal arts colleges—you can deepen your knowledge and refine your skills.

Our courses include opportunities to develop performance abilities under expert faculty guidance, culminating in final projects. Students can also showcase their talents in faculty-led ensembles, both in groups and as soloists.


Music courses and requirements

Students practicing instruments in the Taylor Music Center

Union’s music facilities, housed in the Taylor Music Center, reflect its status as an all-Steinway school. The centerpiece is the Fred L. Emerson Foundation Auditorium, an intimate performance venue.

After Union

What can a degree in music do for you? Here is what our alumni have been up to:

  • Audio engineer, Stwertka Publishing
  • Composer and sound designer
  • Ethnomusicologist and assistant professor, Instituto de Música, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile
  • Executive producer, community theater
  • M.A. candidate in music business, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
  • Pianist and composer, self-employed
  • Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology, Boston University
  • Teacher and choir director, Culver Academies


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