Training
•Bullet: The BA in Music is KU's liberal-arts music degree, built for students who also want to pursue a second major or minor outside the School of Music (120 total credit hours, 3.0 GPA in major courses)
•Bullet: Forrest Pierce, Professor of Composition, and Ingrid Stölzel, Associate Professor of Composition, lead composition study within the Theory & Composition faculty
•Bullet: Faculty portfolios span "works for wind band and orchestra, opera and choral music, instrumental and vocal chamber music, music for film, and electronic music"
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Composition students collaborate across the humanities, sciences, visual arts, and other performing arts through the program's interdisciplinary opportunities
•Bullet: Unlike the BM Composition track, the BA concentration is not a professional/audition-track performance degree, giving room to pair composition study with a second field
Facilities
•Bullet: Murphy Hall houses Swarthout Recital Hall, the Gorton Music Library, the Robert Baustian Theatre, and the McCurdy Jazz Studio
•Bullet: Large ensembles perform at the 2,020-seat Lied Center of Kansas
