Social Media D musicWithin the context of a liberal arts education, the Drew University Music Department nurtures and supports the development of a well-rounded and integrated understanding of music through a balanced curriculum providing experiences in historical study and research, solo and ensemble performance, theoretical and style analysis, and original composition work. The foundation of our curriculum is built upon the classical Western European tradition with extensions provided into musics of the world, jazz, popular, and new music practices.

Our students have gone on to prestigious graduate performance programs in music. Others are already working performers and composers and conductors. And because Drew offers a really great liberal arts program, some have become physicians and attorneys. Music faculty insisted on hiring a world-class acoustician when we built our new concert hall. The result is sound that attracts major artists, including Grammy-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, to perform and record here. We have so many double majors—music/theatre arts, music/religious studies, music/German, music/neuroscience. Our grads are out succeeding in lots of fields, and still enjoying the music.