Music Department | UMass Lowell

We are an innovative, contemporary institution dedicated to providing tomorrow's musicians with a superior education and viable career training within the changing musical landscape of the 21st century.

Three musicians at the University Orchestra's "All You Need is Love!” Valentine's Day concert.

Our mission is to provide students with superior music education that will prepare them for meaningful careers in the profession. The Music Department is one of the largest departments in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Learn more.

Meet Our Students & Alumni

Sean Patterson

Sound Recording Technology

For this sound recording technology grad, it’s all between the ears.
Joshua Santana

Music Education

When music education major Joshua Santana teaches local grade-schoolers to play violin through the university’s String Project, he connects with them because he was once in their shoes.
Jay Souweine

Music Studies

Music student Jay Souweine is a jazz trumpeter, member of the marching band and plays taps at military funerals – yet he loves UMass Lowell for being more rounded than a conservatory.
Thomas McGurk

Music

A graduate of the Sound Recording Technology Program, Thomas McGurk '91 owns his own studio and is a seven-time Emmy award winner.

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12/20/2018 Featured Story

Band Marches to 40 Years

Band Marches to 40 Years

In early December, 250 former players int he UMass Lowell Marching Band gathered to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary. They had a blast.

12/20/2018 Featured Story
11/15/2018 Featured Story

UML Profs Discuss a Year that Rocked the World

UML Profs Discuss a Year that Rocked the World

A faraway war with a close-to-home price. Student protests. Political upheaval. Psychedelic experimentation. Amps cranked to 11. Some people were lost, others found. It was 1968 and as the year closed, the White Album showed up.

11/15/2018 Featured Story
9/20/2018 Featured Story

The Sound of Change at SRT

The Sound of Change at SRT

For the first time since the program was born in 1983, there's a new coordinator for the university's esteemed Sound Recording Technology program: Brandon Vaccaro.

9/20/2018 Featured Story
8/30/2018 Featured Story

Rare Campus Radio Recording of Rock Legend Pixies to be Released

Rare Campus Radio Recording of Rock Legend Pixies to be Released

When the Pixies showed up at UMass Lowell’s student-run WJUL, they were just another new band out of Boston. The musicians plugged in, ripped through 15 songs, gave brief interview then packed up and left. It was Dec. 15, 1986, long before they cast a huge shadow over rock music. That performance is about to be released as part of a box set.

8/30/2018 Featured Story

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