Program Recognition
•Bullet: The Jazz Studies minor is housed in Aquinas’s National Association of Schools of Music-accredited department
Training
•Bullet: The emphasis places jazz within a department whose studies include theory, piano, music history and literature, performance, pedagogy, conducting, and jazz
•Bullet: Applied study is available in piano, voice, guitar, brass, strings, percussion, and other performance areas
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Jazz Band gives the minor an ensemble setting distinct from the department’s choirs, College Band, Chamber Strings, Athletic Band, and special-interest ensembles
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: Students add focused jazz musicianship and ensemble work alongside a primary major
