Teaching
The Department of Music is home to a distinguished faculty that teaches in areas of performance, music history, ethnomusicology, music theory, jazz studies, composition and music technology. Faculty who teach voice, band and orchestral instruments are professional musicians in the Richmond area, including principals of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra and accomplished jazz performers.
Within the University of Richmond's School of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Music reflects the University's outstanding liberal arts tradition. Carefully nurtured faculty-student relationships are afforded throughout the curriculum. One example is the team-taught chamber music program, which emphasizes both student-to-student and student-to-faculty collaborative learning. Another example is the Senior Seminar, a capstone course in which majors work individually with faculty mentors on projects in their areas of specialty.
