The D’Angelo Department of Music provides an outstanding music education with an integrated approach to music instruction. We offer a high degree of personal attention, an accomplished faculty, modern facilities, and scholarship opportunities.
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Highest quality training focused on you and your goals.
The D’Angelo Department of Music provides an outstanding music education with an integrated approach to music instruction. We offer a high degree of personal attention, an accomplished faculty, modern facilities, and numerous scholarship opportunities.
An accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music, the music department is dedicated to enabling young musicians to realize their potential as performing artists and educational leaders.
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Plenty of performances in which to grow your skills.
The D’Angelo Department of Music strives to foster musical achievement and cultural growth in every possible way.
Our students benefit from participation in large and small performing ensembles, opera, musical theater, jazz, chamber, and orchestral presentations, Visiting Artists Series performances and residences, special masterclasses, and the wealth of seasonal offerings in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.
In addition, many of our students gain practical professional experience through participation in our chapter of the Collegiate Music Educators National Conference.
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Modern facilities provide you every advantage.
The tri-level music building with practice rooms, a music technology lab, classrooms, offices and rehearsal space provides a stimulating learning environment for students.
The newest building on campus, the Audrey Hirt Academic Center, houses the 250-seat Dr. Barrett and Catherine Walker Recital Hall, providing additional performance and rehearsal space for the music department.
Adjacent to the music building is the outstanding Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center, frequent stage to some of the world's finest artists such as Andre Watts, Emmanuel Ax, Janos Starker, Kathleen Battle and the Juilliard String Quartet, along with stellar opera, choral, instrumental, and dance performances presented by students and faculty of the Mercyhurst Dance Department, and the D’Angelo Department of Music.
The mission of the D’Angelo Department of Music is to provide an undergraduate curriculum with comprehensive instruction to students seeking degrees in applied music (performance), music education certification, or a Bachelor of Arts degree. Successful completion of these degrees will enable students to take a meaningful place within their communities, assist them in becoming happy, healthy individuals and lifelong learners in the arts. It seeks to do this within the context of a liberal arts college and with a deeply personalized approach to learning.
