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Mission

Our Mission is to encourage the pursuit of music as a lifetime experience.

The mission of the D’Angelo Department of Music is to provide an undergraduate curriculum with comprehensive instruction to students seeking degrees in applied music (performance), music education certification, or a Bachelor of Arts degree. Successful completion of these degrees will enable students to take a meaningful place within their communities, assist them in becoming happy, healthy individuals and lifelong learners in the arts. It seeks to do this within the context of a liberal arts college and with a deeply personalized approach to learning.

In support of this mission we maintain the following operational goals:

Maintain a faculty of the greatest possible competence, musical attainments, and professional prominence, who are committed to teaching, performing, and other creative activities and service.
Offer undergraduate programs of exceptional quality in music education, musical performance, and composition that prepare students for a lifetime of musical and intellectual growth.
Identify, recruit, encourage, and reward through financial assistance, promising young musicians and consider their needs as individuals in designing academic programs.
Advance the art of music through the educational processes that lead to public concerts and recitals, creative and compositional activities, and scholarship.
Provide courses and programs in music as a liberal art, as well as opportunities for students in other fields to participate in musical organizations.
Contribute to the cultural life of the campus, community, state, region and beyond through concerts, recitals, and musical productions of the highest integrity so that the rich heritage of music as a performing art may be readily available to all.
Extend all possible assistance to the elementary and secondary schools of the region, including:

Encouraging young musicians to develop musical skills
Developing effective and innovative music education programs
Providing workshops, festivals, and clinics to assist students and teachers in the improvement of their performance and teaching skills, and
Participating in festivals and similar events in such capacities as clinicians, conductors, performers, and adjudicators.