Music - BM - Trombone Emphasis

As a B.M. Music Performance major in one of 14 instruments or voice, you’ll have one-to-one individual instruction throughout your studies from our stellar faculty who are all practicing instrumental soloists, opera singers, orchestral players, and master teachers on the world's stages. You’ll get experience in class performances, chamber music concerts, large ensembles such as chamber choir, chamber orchestra, wind ensemble, brass choir, new music ensemble, and the annual opera production. Your classes in music history, music theory, and analysis will be with distinguished academic professors who are all renowned scholars leading graduate doctoral programs. You’ll have access to our outstanding music library with its musical scores, books, and recordings. In your junior and senior years, you’ll give a public recital in one of our three fine concert halls, exposing you to the challenges and excitement of a soloist and providing you with a foundation for teaching your instrument and for graduate study. Masterclasses by touring international artists performing in Santa Barbara are regular occurrences, as are visits by distinguished composers.

• Education (private lessons or schools)

• Performing arts

• Libraries

• Music Performance (M.M. and D.M.A.)

• Ethnomusicology

• Music Education

• Musicology

• Music Theory

• LA Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, various European opera houses

• KamerFilharmonie Der Aa (Holland), Kirkkonummi Chamber Orchestra (Finland), The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Sweden), Opera San Luis Obispo Orchestra

• New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Georgia State University, University of Nevada Las Vegas

• Our Chamber Choir tours in California, and we give Opera Outreach performances in CA and NYC

• Our instrumental programs focus on chamber music

• We offer master classes with international performing artists (Yo-Yo Ma, Emmanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, Juilliard Quartet, Yefim Bronfman, and many others)

• Our program hosts residencies and visits from major composers

• One of our graduates won the Online and Los Angeles Liszt Competitions, with recitals in London and Budapest

• Theater and Dance

• History

• English Literature

• European Languages and Literature

• Business, including Arts Administration

• Psychology of music performance

• Chamber music

• Music in society

Music Department website: https://music.ucsb.edu

Apply for Music BA or BM? : https://music.ucsb.edu/apply/undergraduate

Upcoming Calendar of UCSB Music Events: https://music.ucsb.edu/events/calendar