Chairman’s Welcome
Greetings from the Department Chair
Welcome to the UTEP Department of Music and thank you for your interest in Music at UTEP! Whether your career path will include music performance, education, music production and business, or theory and composition, we have undergraduate degree options for you. We offer the Bachelor of Music degree with ten concentrations, four of which include the Education Minor that leads to teaching certification. We also offer the Bachelor of Music degree in Commercial Music and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Technology.
For graduate students, there are programs in music education and performance with concentrations in conducting, theory, and composition.
Our outstanding music faculty often performs and/or presents original research and compositions at music conferences and festivals around the world. They are here to prepare you to enter a changing twenty-first-century job market as a professional performer, educator, producer, arranger, or composer.
In recent years, upgrades to our facilities have provided students with additional performance space for recitals and greatly improved Wi-Fi connectivity. The UTEP Department of Music is accredited by NASM, the National Association of Schools of Music.
Go, Miners!
Sincerely,
Charles Francis Leinberger
Interim Chair