Program Recognition
•Bullet: NASM-accredited Department of Music
•Bullet: The BM in Composition is a 126-hour professional degree built around original writing, arranging, and performance.
Training
•Bullet: UIW centers the curriculum on classical (art music) composition while offering jazz study through electives.
•Bullet: Composition courses are taught through private instruction, giving students individualized work with experienced composers and other music faculty in performance, theory, history, conducting, and musicology.
•Bullet: In the final semester, students present a public recital of original compositions that demonstrates the styles and techniques developed during the degree.
Professional Development
•Bullet: The degree supports next steps in composition and music theory graduate study and work in composing, arranging, conducting, film, television, video games, theatre, advertising, and other performing-arts media.
Facilities
•Bullet: Luella Bennack Music Center provides a 500-seat Diane Bennack Concert Hall, 101-seat Ingrid Seddon Recital Hall, recording studio with Yamaha Disklavier, piano lab, iMac computer lab, teaching studios, percussion studio, and 18 practice rooms.
