About This Program
The Music Minor offers a way for you to stay connected to your passion while pursuing another academic path. Our mission is to give you a strong musical foundation through a flexible and enriching program that fits alongside your primary area of study.
You’ll learn to develop core musical skills and expand your creative and analytical abilities; read, understand, and analyze music through fundamental theory and ear training; improve your technical ability and musical expression on your primary instrument or voice; explore music’s cultural, historical, and artistic context; and participate in ensemble performance and collaborative music-making.
This minor is a great fit if you’re looking to continue growing as a musician while working toward a different major. You’ll have access to many of the same opportunities as music majors, including participation in outstanding ensembles like Concert Chorale, Concert Band, Jazz Ensembles, and various Chamber groups.
Rehearsals and performances take place in the renowned Weber Music Hall, giving you the chance to perform in a beautiful, acoustically excellent space.
Program Highlights
- UMD has the variety and quality of musical instruction that you would expect from a place three times larger, with the individualized instruction and care of an institution half the size
- Our exceptional faculty are specialists on their instruments and in their fields and continue to record and to travel internationally to perform on the world’s stages, yet they are also passionate about teaching and about your education and development as musicians and people
- Learn, practice, and perform with students from many different states and multiple continents in beautiful Weber Music Hall, a dedicated Department of Music facility that is recognized across the country for its top-tier acoustics
- The Department of Music at the University of Minnesota Duluth is proud to be a fully accredited member of NASM, the National Association of Schools of Music
Research & Experiential Learning
- Volunteer/community opportunities
- Community concerts in various Twin Ports locations
- Tours to MN cities with ensembles semesterly
- Student teams
- Faculty/student collaboration
- Chamber ensembles and concerts
- Field experiences
- Student teaching (Music Ed)
- Local job opportunities offered often (Glensheen Christmas, church choirs, schools, etc.)
- Research projects
Potential Careers
- Professional performers
- Music educators
- Composers
- Conductors
- Music therapists
- Instrument repair technicians
- Music librarians
- Sound editors
Scholarships
- UMD Music Performance Laboratory Fund
- UMD Frank Comella Memorial Scholarship
- UMD The James R. Murphy Memorial Scholarship
- UMD Gregg Johnson Music Scholarship
- UMD Gerald A. Singer Family Scholarship
- UMD Gendein Memorial Scholarship
- UMD Mary Ann and Ron Weber Scholarship
- UMD Michael Karl Galeski Music Scholarship
- UMD Jean Nord Music Education Endowed Scholarship
- UMD Omnibus Music Scholarship
- UMD Robert & Carolyn Flood Scholarship
- Ann Carlson Anderson Symphonic String Endowed
- UMD Karen A. and Leonard E. Griffith Music Scholarship
- UMD Joyce R. Nordstrom Music Scholarship
- UMD Billy Barnard Jazz Scholarship
- Kathryn A. Martin Scholarship for Theatre, Jazz & Women’s Ice Hockey
- UMD E. Bernie Bernstein Music Scholarship
- UMD Lynn Mitchell (Mitch) Rand Scholarship
- UMD Eric Tobias Johnson Music Endowed Scholarship
- Mark Faricy Memorial Fund
- UMD Dr. Robert C. Ekstrom & Virginia D. Grossman
- Music Ed/Choral Scholarship
- Robert, John M., and Anthony Stojevich Memorial
- UMD The James R. Murphy Memorial Scholarship
- UMD C.L. Edson Music Scholarship
- UMD Olive Anna Tezla Fine Arts Scholarship
- UMD Opera Theatre Scholarship
- UMD Gershgol Fine Arts Scholarship
- UMD Retta and Henry Elhers Scholarship
- UMD Ruth Dodge Reaching Higher Music Scholarship
- UMD Dr. Vernon Opheim Choral Scholarship
- UMD Nyda Elizabeth Swanson Music Scholarship
- UMD Frank Comella Memorial Scholarship
- The Steven R. Fox Journalism Scholarship
Get Involved
- Music Student Association - UMD Music Student Leadership
- Athletic bands
- American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
- National Association for Music Education (NAfME) - for Music Educators
Jazz ensembles are available to audition for from the first week of courses at UMD! Please make sure to set up a time with one of the Jazz faculty to make this happen and cultivate your passion for Jazz!
Requirements
Refer to the link below for more detailed information about the program, admission requirements, sample plans, and contact information.