School of Music

Director: H. David Caffey, M.M.

Associate Director: Lauren Murray, D.M.A.

Location: Frasier Hall 108	Telephone: 970.351.2993
Graduate Coordinator: Robert Ehle, Ph.D.
Faculty: Vergie Amendola, M.M.;Erik Applegate, M.M.; H. Gray Barrier, M.M.; Jonathan Bellman, D.M.A.; Diane Bolden–Taylor, M.M.; Jason Byrnes, D.M.; Andrew Dahlke, D.M.A.;Galen Darrough, D.M.A.;Stefan Eckert, Ph.D.; Robert Ehle, Ph.D.; Richard C. Fuchs, M.M.;Julian Gomez-Giraldo, M.M.;Russell Guyver, D.M.A.; Charles A. Hansen, D.M.A.; Robert Al Harding, D.M.E.;Caleb Harris, M.M.;Errol Haun, D.M.A.; Marian K. Hesse, M.M.; Deborah Kauffman, D.M.A.; Dana B. Landry, M.M.;Brian Clay Luedloff, M.F.A.; Melissa Malde, D.M.A.; Lesley Manring, M.M.; Richard G. Mayne, Ph.D.; Charlotte R. Mills, D.A.; Mark Montemayor, Ph.D.;Kathy Bundock Moore, Ph.D.; Robert Murray, D.M.A.; Kenneth Singleton, D.M.A.;Lei Weng, M.M.; James White, M.A.;Juliet T. White–Smith, D.M.A.; Nathaniel G. Wickham, D.M.A.;William Wilson, M.M.

Approximately 450 music majors annually have made UNC’s School of Music their choice for many reasons. The School of Music offers nationally recognized faculty with specialists on every instrument. There are more than 50 performing ensembles, a number of which are nationally recognized.

The UNC School of Music, with 37 full-time and 20 part-time faculty, is organized into seven program areas, each with an area head. The program areas are Winds and Percussion, Strings, Keyboard, Vocal, Academic Studies, Music Education, and Jazz Studies.

Students may choose from a full range of degrees, bachelor through doctoral programs, and from emphases in performance, conducting, music education, music theory, jazz studies, and music history. Considerable variety and depth of course offerings are available at UNC.

General objectives of the University of Northern Colorado School of Music are based on service and leadership in the arts at local, state, regional, national and international levels.

An integral unit within the University, the School of Music embraces the role and mission statements of the University of Northern Colorado and has designed its goals and objectives to support and enhance institutional purposes and directions.

The primary goal of the UNC School of Music is to develop skilled and sensitive musicians at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels, including performers, conductors, educators, composers, historians, theorists and music administrators. The UNC School of Music maintains a two-fold objective of providing the strongest preparation possible in music education, theory, and history, while encouraging the highest standards of performance.

School of Music graduates are well regarded in the professional world. UNC-prepared educators hold positions at universities, colleges, high schools, junior high and elementary schools throughout the United States and the world. School of Music performance graduates are found in professional symphony orchestras, opera and musical theatre repertory companies, the nation's premier military ensembles, prominent free-lance positions in metropolitan centers, and in professional chamber ensembles and jazz bands.