Welcome to the UC San Diego Department of Music!
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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.
In the News
April 2021
Composer and UC San Diego Music alumna Tina Tallon, Ph.D. ’20 receives the 2021-2022 Rome Prize in Music Composition from the American Academy in Rome
April 2021
2020 Pulitzer Prize winning composer and UC San Diego Music Distinguished Professor Anthony Davis inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
March 2021