Department of Music & Performing Arts
Mission

The Department of Music and Dance is a disciplinary unit within the College of Fine Arts and Humanities of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The faculty of the Department endeavors to provide a high quality music education to the students of the University. To insure the success of this endeavor, the faculty and staff strive to create the most constructive, secure, stimulating, challenging, and rewarding environment possible for students. The faculty and students of the department strive to serve the community, state and region as an intellectual, artistic and cultural resource. In seeking and fulfilling this mission, the faculty, staff and students make the Department of Music and Dance an indispensable center of learning, leadership, inquiry, and cooperative achievement.

Department Objectives

To provide professional training in music education, music business, musical theatre, performance, pedagogy, dance, music technology, and pre-professional training in music therapy;

To develop in students a basis for aesthetic judgment, and an understanding and appreciation for music and dance;

To assure an opportunity for the highest degree of artistic development for each student;

To help members of the university community acquire greater musical understanding and critical judgment through enrollment in music courses and private lessons, participation in music ensembles, and attendance at various musical functions;

To offer leadership in the musical life of the area by providing participative, collaborative, and advisory services;

To present concerts, recitals, musicals, operas, and music for special events of the highest artistic standards possible;

To prepare students for graduate work and advanced study.