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, in which each participating ensemble receives coaching from four different chamber faculty members as well as eighth blackbird, Richmond's ensemble-in-residence. In addition, students who enroll in the department's capstone course, in which they produce an Honors thesis or project, work individually with faculty mentors on projects in their areas of specialty.