Bachelor of Music - Music - Music Performance

The Department of Music offers a Bachelor of Music degree which is designed for the gifted musical performer who aspires for a career in college teaching, private teaching, or professional performance. Students choose between the two emphases:

The facilities at Pittsburg State include superb performance venues, including the critically-acclaimed Bicknell Family Center for the Arts and the Sharon Kay Dean Recital Hall. Students have access to excellent instrumental resources across the university, including professional-level percussion instruments, outstanding grand pianos, harpsichords, and the Fisk Opus 106 organ.

This degree serves instrumentalists whose future career paths may lead to collegiate-level teaching, private studio instruction, membership in professional ensembles, or other areas of solo or collaborative performance.

Undergraduate vocal performance majors are afforded the opportunity to develop both as high-level performers and as emerging pedagogues in this specialized field. The favorable student/teacher ratio ensures that vocal BM majors have opportunities to perform as soloists, in chamber choirs, in large ensembles, and in opera and musical theater productions.

This degree serves singers whose future career paths may lead to collegiate-level teaching, private studio instruction, membership in professional ensembles, or other areas of solo or collaborative performance.