Department of Music
Why SOU Performing Arts?
- Superb faculty
- Focus on undergraduate education
- Talented students
- Great facilities
- A vibrant artistic community in a beautiful setting
Fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), the SOU Performing Arts Department of Music offers a Music degree with optional emphasis in Music Business, Music Composition, Music Instruction, or Music Performance. SOU's high level of instruction, together with relatively low tuition, prompted the New York Times to list SOU as one of twenty "hidden gems" of undergraduate education.
Faculty
The Performing Arts Music faculty are dedicated to promoting a positive, student-centered environment in which students - by performance, creative activity, research, scholarship, and teaching opportunities - develop the skills, independence of thought, and discipline to fulfill their musical aspirations. The internationally renowned music faculty performs and clinics in North America and throughout the world.
Small Class Size
With a 19:1 student-teacher ratio, students receive excellent instruction in small classes. Performing Arts offers Music Majors and Minors an integrated curriculum of study designed to teach the varied skills necessary for a professional career in music, and to develop the student’s understanding and appreciation for the art of music.
Facilities
The department's comprehensive facilities contain a digital lab with Macintosh computers, synthesizers, music software, listening equipment; two concert pipe organs, digital piano lab and the Music Recital Hall with outstanding acoustics. SOU's Music Recital Hall has been called one of the best concert halls in the Pacific Northwest.
Cultural Opportunities
Students at SOU also benefit from the many cultural opportunities available to artists in the Rogue Valley. SOU is home to the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Music Concerts. Within the Rogue Valley resides the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Britt Festival, Rogue Opera, Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon with professional musical theatre from Rogue Music Theatre and Oregon Cabaret Theatre and numerous musical and theatrical groups.