Expand your musical horizons and lay a foundation for future music discovery with a music major or minor.

Gain a solid academic foundation built upon studies in music theory and analysis, music history and performance opportunities in both classical and jazz idioms with a bachelor of arts in general music or a music minor. 

 

Pacific University music students Margarita Arredondo ’22, DeClan Bartel ’22, and Gannon Lewallen ’23 post in Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center
"I like what music can do for people and the emotion it can elicit. It can bring people together, it can help people through trauma, it can express things that are hard to express through just words sometimes.”

— DeClan Bartel '22
Music and Psychology Double Major

 

Music Training & Performance

Receive individualized performance instruction with faculty members and adjunct instructors. Perform in a wide range of ensembles and enjoy award-winning facilities — including a 400-seat recital hall, a piano lab with Kawai electronic units, a Mac-based MIDI lab, practice rooms with pianos, a percussion studio and rehearsal space that replicates the recital hall. Travel with performance groups to major cities in the U.S. and abroad.

 

Pacific University offers Music Talent Scholarships for incoming students — whether they plan to major in music or anything else! Submit your application and audition materials for the chance to earn $2,000 to $7,000 per year in scholarships! Apply for a Music Scholarship

 

What Can You Do With a Music Degree?

Our graduates are members of professional performing groups (choir, bands, orchestras, etc.), music therapists within health care settings, music educators within public or private schools. many pursue entrepreneurial opportunities including freelancing, private studio teaching, composing/arranging, and conducting. Students who aspire to continue their education through one of many graduate level music related degrees will be well prepared to embark on that challenge.

 

Upcoming Events

Apr
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7:30 p.m. | Friday, April 19, 2024
Forest Grove, Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center
Apr
27
7:30 p.m. | Saturday, April 27, 2024
Forest Grove, Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center
May
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3 p.m. | Sunday, May 5, 2024
Forest Grove, Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center

Headlines

Scott Tuomi Conducting Pacific University's Chamber Singers

Pacific's Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Vera Voce and Splendid Audacity groups will present a program to celebrate Black history on Friday, Feb. 23, to kick off the music department's Spring 2024 concert schedule.

Grace Weaver

The Metropolitan Laffont Competition has chosen Grace Weaver, Pacific music instructor, as the winner of the Idaho-Montana District competition. She will be proceeding to the 2024 Regional Competition in Seattle!

Cody Mills Playing The Guitar In His Home

Music was a powerful force as Cody Mills '20 transitioned from military life to civilian life. Now a graduate of Pacific's music therapy program, Mills uses the power of music to help others.