Training
•Bullet: The Performance Track is 43 units and requires at least 13 units of ensembles — more than the 6 units the other three tracks require — plus three quarters of MUS 131 applied lessons and a Senior Project (MUS 195) presented as a public recital
•Bullet: Performance-track students give a 30-minute junior recital and a 60-minute senior recital, working closely with their applied instructor, and enroll in the recital preparatory course (MUS 135) before the junior recital
•Bullet: Applied lesson faculty include voice lecturers Julie Miller, Zoila Muñoz, and Jonathan Nadel, percussion lecturer Chris Froh, and Pete Nowlen, lecturer in horn and director of the Concert Band; ensemble directors include Matilda Hofman (interim director, Symphony Orchestra, Fall 2026) and Nicolás Dosman (choirs)
Facilities
•Bullet: The Ann E. Pitzer Center, opened in 2016, has a 399-seat recital hall with variable acoustics, teaching studios for brass, harpsichord, percussion, strings, and woodwinds, and six practice rooms; recitalists and chamber musicians are among its resident student ensembles
•Bullet: UC Davis Symphony Orchestra concerts are performed in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts