ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC:
The University of Maryland School of Music is a comprehensive arts institution housed in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, a state-of-the-art complex with six performance venues, many classrooms, and the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library. The School of music offers B.A., B.M., M.A., M.M., Ph.D., and D.M.A. degrees. Located within minutes of the Nation’s capital, the University is linked via mass transit to celebrated performance venues and research sites including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery, and the Corcoran and Kreeger Museuems. Other world-class research facilities near the campus include the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian’s Folkways Records, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Archives, and the National Archives II in College Park. We assert and celebrate the value of the arts to the mission of the university. The School of Music is strongly committed to access, diversity, equity, and inclusion as a means of achieving and sustaining excellence.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE SCHOOL, visit the School of Music website (https://music.umd.edu), the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center website (https://theclarice.umd.edu), and the University of Maryland Arts for All Initiative website (https://arts.umd.edu).
ABOUT THE CAMPUS:
Founded in 1856, the University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non- profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.