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Undergraduate Study
The music (BA) degree provides students flexibility and the academic freedom to maximize their potential by combining disciplines with a double major, dual degree, or secondary major. The music education (BS) degree is tailored to the needs of outstanding musicians considering a career as a school music educator, leading to an initial teaching license in the State of Ohio.
Spartan Showcase: Bethany Westphal, Master of Music Education
Meet a saxophonist whose passion recently took her abroad for the first time to Italy to study alongside musicians from around the world.
Joan Terr Ronis
Joan Terr Ronis Memorial Recital Prize winners perform in annual fall recital
CWRU students Grant Carr, piano and Emma Bentley, clarinet will perform the Joan Terr Ronis Annual Memorial Recital on Sunday, October 29, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. in Harkness Chapel.
CWRU Music Welcomes Dr. George Nicholson
Dr. George Nicholson joins our faculty as Lecturer of String Music Education and Director of Camerata Chamber Orchestra.
Music PhD candidate Christopher Jenkins writes book on diversity initiatives in classical music
The book, Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education, engages with an existential question for American conservatories and orchestras: What does it mean to diversify Western classical music?
Kathleen Horvath Named Associate Provost
Jeff Capadona, professor of biomedical engineering, and Kathleen Horvath, professor of music, have been named the associate provosts for graduate education and academic affairs, respectively.
Joint Music Program offering new group music classes this fall
This course (MUSP 100) is intended for CWRU undergraduate non-music majors with little or no prior musical experience seeking instruction in either piano, voice or guitar. No pre-req required.