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Welcome Professor Heidi Moss Erickson
In fall 2024, the Conservatory will welcome soprano Heidi Moss Erickson as assistant professor of voice. A performer and scientist specializing in the neuroscience of vocalization, she is uniquely qualified to train future voice professionals.
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Pacific Wind Bands Tour Southern California
In March, Pacific Wind Bands embarked on a five-day and seven-concert tour to Southern California high schools and to College Band Directors National Association 2024 Western/Northwestern Division Conference in Las Vegas.
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Conservatory students tour Los Angeles premiere music and entertainment companies
Pacific's music industry studies seniors met with industry professionals, toured studios and visited premiere companies such as Warner Music and NBCUniversal in Los Angeles. Two of them attended the Grammy Awards event.
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Fred Peterbark appointed Interim Director of Conservatory Admissions
We welcome Fred Peterbark who joins Pacific as Interim Director of Conservatory Admissions through May 2024. Fred will assist the Conservatory in recruiting and yielding our fall 2024 class of music majors.
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Conservatory's Brittany Trotter appointed to assistant professor
Prize-winning flutist and Program Director for Woodwinds at Pacific, Dr. Brittany Trotter has accepted our invitation to join the faculty as assistant professor of flute (tenure track) in the Conservatory of Music, effective fall 2024.
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Second Grammy Award for Conservatory's Eric Dudley
Professor of voice Eric Dudley won a Grammy Award as part of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. He performs as singer, synth player and conductor on their award-winning album "Rough Magic."
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Kalena Bovell conducts University Symphony Orchestra
We are excited to welcome Kalena Bovell as Pacific's guest conductor-in-residence Feb. 5–10. A 2024 Sphinx Medal of Excellence awardee, she'll conduct Pacific students in works of Mason, Lena Frank and Coleridge-Taylor.
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Spring 2024 Lineup at the Conservatory
We present an incredibly diverse spring season which includes recitals with many of conservatory's newest faculty stars. Our students and faculty will collaborate with path-setting artists such as Gabriel Lena Frank, Kalena Bovell, Stefon Harris and others.
We prepare tomorrow's performers, teachers, therapists, composers, scholars and music industry leaders.
A strong foundation
The conservatory offers 11 imaginative undergraduate and graduate degree programs as well as music minors. Our courses provide a strong foundation in musicianship; supportive one-to-one instruction in instrumental, jazz, piano and vocal areas; and a broad range of performing ensembles. In class and in our communities, we demonstrate how music is central to economies, cultures and stories.
Relevant experience
Our undergraduates gain experiences typically reserved for graduate students elsewhere. Whether as an operatic or musical theater lead, a member of a jazz combo or a partner in the student-run Pac Ave recording label, our students grow individually as leaders and together as collaborators. If you are interested in a music major, minor or double major, either within the conservatory or in another area of study, we will help you create your path.
Involved faculty
Our faculty includes performers, composers and scholars deeply committed to helping students grow as individuals, citizens and musicians. They are actively involved with the American Bach Soloists, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the San Diego Symphony, and NPR’s Marketplace. Our students often choose Pacific precisely to study with a specific professor.
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Music Education
"I've enjoyed my time at Pacific. Going into classrooms and teaching has been an extremely helpful experience. I'm happy that I got that opportunity early on in college, so I could make sure it was what I wanted to do."
— Logan Adams ’24
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Music Industry Studies
"Pacific offers a variety of tools and resources that helped me follow my path. Professors and colleagues are always around us working side-by-side and creating a community that supports us in each of our ventures."
— Kaelin Anamizu ‘24
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Music Performance
"The Conservatory is a fantastic environment for personal and musical growth. The faculty encourage ambitious independent projects that you would not be able to do at other schools. In my very first semester, I was able to create a student and faculty collaborative chamber series with the Assistant Dean of the Conservatory as my advisor."
— Amy Wheeler ’23
Performance opportunities
Music making is central to Pacific's campus life. Whether you are a music major or a student in another area, you are included. The Conservatory has a rich tradition of excellence with nearly 150 performances each year by students, faculty and visiting artists.
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The goal of the Conservatory's DEI program is to help guide our faculty, staff and students on diversity, equity and inclusion in the arts and in arts education. That includes modifying curricula to reflect the experiences of historically marginalized groups and recommend changes to governance structures, policies and procedures that may create or sustain forms of systemic oppression. Fei-Lin Hsiao is assistant dean for DEI at the conservatory.
Conservatory Student Profile
2023-24 Academic Year
total students
undergraduates
graduates
Number of students in each degree
Undergraduate Students
- Bachelor of Music in Music Education–37
- Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy–41
- Bachelor of Science in Music Industry Studies–35
- Bachelor of Music in Music Performance–33
- Bachelor of Music in Music Composition–12
- Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies–13
- Bachelor of Arts in Music–13
- Bachelor of Music in Music Management–3
Graduate Students
- Master of Music in Music Education–5
- Master of Arts in Music Therapy–24
Ethnicity
- 4% identify as African American
- 13% identify as Asian
- 19% identify as Hispanic
- 0.5% identify as Native American
- 1% identify as Native Hawaiian
- 3% identify as Pacific Islander
- 7% identify as two or more ethnicities
- 31% identify as White/Non-Hispanic
- 20.5% identify as unknown/other
Where our students come from
United States
- Arizona
- California
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Massachusetts
- Maryland
- Mississippi
- Montana
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Texas
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wisconsin
International
- China
- Hong Kong
- Nepal
- Spain
- Taiwan
The Conservatory Mission and Vision
The mission of the Conservatory of Music is to provide superior educational opportunities in music so students can prepare for successful professional careers and to become artistic leaders of the future, to be a significant musical resource for the University and the community by presenting high quality and diverse forms of the musical arts, and to have a significant impact on the future of music by doing research, creating new music, and being of service to the music profession.
The Conservatory of Music strives to be the finest student-centered music school possible, one that provides students with an increasingly diverse range of cultural perspectives. Through scholarship, education, performance, and in a range of therapeutic and music industry settings, Pacific’s Conservatory creates new music, considers and reconsiders significant histories, and presents works of and about music through live events and emerging media.
The University of the Pacific is a charter member of the National Association of Schools of Music and has been accredited by NASM since 1928. For further information, contact NASM:
- Address: 11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 21
Reston, Virginia 20190–5248 - Phone: 703.437.0700
- Fax: 703.437.6312
- Email: info@arts-accredit.org
- Website: arts-accredit.org