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The Department of Music at Wake Forest comprises an assembly of musicians and students whose work spans the breadth of music. The full-time faculty and staff currently stand at 13 fulltime professors; 3 continuing part-time professors; 18 adjunct faculty; 5 staff accompanists; 4 administrative, media, technological, and facilities staff; and the student body includes 30 declared or prospective undergraduate majors and minors, alongside over 200 non-majors taking music courses or performing music here. The expertise in our faculty ranges from Spanish vocal literature to piano literature of the last 50 years; from Baroque performance practice to nineteenth-century American solo and chamber music; from composition for a myriad of instrumentations to improvisation; from African American art song to the stage works of Sondheim; from Beethoven to the tango; from women and music to music of protest. Rather than consider music in isolation, the department explores correlations and connections among music, its allied arts, and the full range of the liberal arts, including research in vocal production, spirituality and the arts, or music and place at the university’s facilities abroad. We are a small department offering the breadth of studio instruments and both large and small ensembles, in two majors (music performance and liberal-arts music), that enjoys a wide spectrum of experts who excel within specialized areas yet are committed to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of music, teaching, and service. |
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