Music @ UNC

Housed within the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Music offers a superb music education in the context of a top-tier research university. The Kenan Music Scholar Program plays an integral part in the Department’s vibrant musical life, embodying our unique blend of top-notch performance and academic rigor. The Department of Music’s distinctives include:
- three well-appointed buildings in the heart of UNC’s beautiful Chapel Hill campus, just steps from Franklin Street
- a distinguished faculty of more than 70 renowned performers, composers, and scholars whose expertise collectively covers continents, millennia, and the gamut of musical styles and scholarly methodologies
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees in music, with available specializations in performance, music education, composition, jazz studies, and more
- more than 20 music ensembles serving hundreds of students each year
- a world-class music library with more than 170,000 books/scores and more than 60,000 audio/video recordings
- an active calendar of departmental concerts, recitals, and lectures