— DeClan Bartel '22
Music and Psychology Double Major
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.

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.
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.
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The Metropolitan Laffont Competition has chosen Grace Weaver, Pacific music instructor, as the winner of the Idaho-Montana District competition. Now, she will be proceeding to the 2024 Regional Competition in Seattle!
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.
Pacific University's Music Department presents a special concert on Veterans Day featuring the award-winning Oregon Symphonic Band in McCready Hall.