Careers in Music

• Accompanist
• Audio Recording Engineer
• Band Director
• Choir Director
• Composer/Arranger
• Conductor
• Multimedia Sound Worker
• Music Producer
• Music store Specialist
• Music Teacher/Professor
• Musician
• Orchestra Director
• Performer
• 85 Careers for a Music Major

Program Highlights  

• Students who participate in one or more of MU’s music ensembles meet others with similar interests, form strong bonds through music and make friends for life. You don’t have to be a music major to participate
• The Manchester Symphony Orchestra is a unique assemblage of students, faculty, staff and alumni of Manchester University, as well as community members and other professional musicians from the region. MU students make up about one fourth of the 50-member ensemble.
• Private lessons are available for all students, regardless of major. The Music Department provides instruction on all standard band and orchestral instruments, piano, organ and voice.

Why Manchester?

At Manchester University, we strive to go a step beyond. And that’s especially true in our music curriculum.

An accomplished and dedicated faculty embraces the MU ideal of the whole student – as it pertains to breadth within and outside of music –and believes music can change people’s lives. It’s why the Music Program offers so many ways for students who aren’t music majors to participate in MU’s outstanding program nonetheless.

For those who pursue a music degree, however, Manchester offers a range of opportunities in the field. Students learn to understand and appreciate Western art music through a balance of academic and performance areas of music. In addition, they open their minds and ears to the diversity of musical expression through course offerings in world musics and jazz.

A Manchester music degree expertly stresses fundamental skills and understanding in solo and ensemble performance, music education, history and analysis, theory and conducting, preparing students for whatever musical field is in their future.