Program Recognition
•NASM-accredited Department of Music
Training & Industry Experience
•126-credit-hour interdisciplinary degree combining music with business courses (18 hours through the H-E-B School of Business and Administration)
•Record Production and Advanced Audio Production taught in the Russ Berger-designed studio (Solid State Logic AWS-924 console, Pro Tools HDX, 24-track tape)
•Required Music Industry internship (MUST 4359)
-Past placements include Interscope, Virgin, Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic Records, ASCAP, and Jimmy Kimmel Live in Los Angeles, Nashville, and New York
•Prepares students for careers as recording engineers, producers, publishers, entertainment attorneys, talent agents, and label executives
Facilities
•Luella Bennack Music Center, a state-of-the-art building featuring:
-500-seat Diane Bennack Concert Hall with a Steinway D grand piano
-101-seat Ingrid Seddon Recital Hall with a Steinway B grand piano
-Recording studio with a 7-foot Yamaha Disklavier grand piano (acoustics by Russ Berger Design Group)
-Piano lab with 17 Clavinova digital pianos and a computer lab with 17 iMacs
-18 Wenger modular practice rooms