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Welcome to UC San Diego Music

Providing a unique environment where composers, performers, improvisers, computer-music researchers and scholars engage with the most vital ideas and newest technologies, students in the UC San Diego Department of Music work hand-in-hand with distinguished faculty to push the boundaries of contemporary music.

Undergraduate Course Information

Music Majors can choose a course track with an emphasis in Composition, Performance, Jazz, Technology and Literature. Non-majors can take courses if they satisfy prerequisites, and audition for ensembles.

Course Information

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The logo for the undergraduate music festival at the University of California San Diego, The Arcades. It is a CD compact disc, with a chromatic shine. On the bottom of the CD, curved with the circular shape, is the Arcades logo, which is in large red font. The second "A" in "Arcades" is depicted as a v-shaped electric guitar with the word "the" inside of it.
May 2025

UC San Diego Today - Introducing UC San Diego’s Newest Music Festival: The Arcades

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A picture of some of the cast and crew of "Central Park Five," a new opera in Detroit, including UC San Diego's Distinguished Professor Anthony Davis in the bottom left corner.
April 2025

The NY Times - Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’

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UC San Diego music professor Shlomo Dubnov sitting at a conference table, speaking to people behind the camera. To his right is the logo for the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing.
April 2025

Shlomo Dubnov Releases Two Research Papers on AI Generated Audio

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Upcoming Concerts & Events

Concerts & Events Calendar

View upcoming Department of Music concerts and events

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Watch livestreams of Department of Music concerts taking place in the Conrad Prebys Music Center.

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