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University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Music offers both the resources and academic prowess of a major research university with a small liberal arts college culture and faculty–to-student ratios.  The UAB Department of Music is a vibrant community of performing artists, scholars, educators, and technologists working in the cultural heart of a major Southeastern city.

The department offers the Bachelor of Arts degree with concentrations in music technology, music education, and applied music, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Music Education. We collaborate with the Department of Theatre in their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre.

The department is also home to a faculty of world-renown performers, scholars, and industry professionals. Students in the department study and perform in state-of-the-art facilities including the Hulsey Center and the Alys Stephens Center for the Performing Arts, with two recital halls, a 1,400 seat concert hall, proscenium and black-box theatres. Students also learn, compose, and record in a cutting-edge music technology lab and recording studio.

An urban campus located in Birmingham’s historic Southside, UAB provides students access to major metropolitan city with vibrant cultural life, award-winning restaurants, and a professional music scene that offers real-world experience as they perfect their art, studying music in the context of the other fine arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences.

Our graduates have gone on to careers as professional performers in classical, jazz, and a wide range of other musical styles. They've also found great success in the music technology and recording industries, as educators, and as leaders in elementary, secondary, and higher education.

Are you ready to challenge yourself as an artist, guided by experienced faculty, surrounded by a diverse group of students in the heart of a great city?  imagine what life might be like if your college journey brings you to UAB.