Training
•Music major integrates Western music history and theory, ethnomusicology, solo and ensemble performance, and a senior colloquium and project
•Faculty performers, composers, and historians provide individualized mentoring and collaboration
Performance & Productions
•Ensembles and music courses welcome majors and non-majors, creating broad collaboration across the Claremont Colleges
•Students develop both solo and ensemble performance experience
Facilities
•All 40 department pianos are Steinways: three in Bridges Hall of Music and 37 in Thatcher Music Building
Degree Flexibility
•Liberal-arts structure encourages connections between musical knowledge and other fields
