Music and Theatre Arts Department
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Transform your passion for music into professional excellence in our rigorous program accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. Our noteworthy programs will give you the experience — and confidence — needed to tackle your future endeavors and launch you into a career you'll love. Here, nationally recognized professors will guide your artistic development, offer a supportive environment, and give you one-on-one attention. From the professors who teach you to the students who work alongside you, a love for music is not hard to find when you’re at UW-Eau Claire. The greater Eau Claire community is known as a hub for arts and culture and is nationally recognized for its abundance of music festivals, events, and venues.
Majors and Minors in Music and Theatre Arts
The Music and Theatre Arts Department offers a wide variety of majors, minors, certificates, ensembles, and performance opportunities. Whatever your passion is, you'll find experts to help your interest flourish. Through music, theatre, dance, or whatever else interests you, we want you to be part of our traditions, light up our stages, and enrich our community.
In addition to UW-Eau Claire admission requirements, you will need to successfully complete a music program audition in order to be a music major, music minor, or musical theatre major at UW-Eau Claire. Theatre majors, theatre minors, and certificates do not require an audition and may be declared at any time. Program auditions (different than ensemble auditions) are held in January, February, and March for admittance the following year and have an online application. All program audition information can be found on the Music and Theatre Arts program auditions webpage.
Meet the Faculty
The Music and Theatre Arts faculty and staff are dedicated to sharing their knowledge to give our Blugolds the support they need and the best education they can get. Our professors have a multitude of experiences onstage, offstage, and within their communities. Learn from experts in their craft at UW-Eau Claire.
In downtown Eau Claire, only a mile from our campus, the Pablo Center at the Confluence provides rehearsal, teaching, and performance spaces for Blugolds in the Music and Theatre Arts Department.
With two theaters, recital halls, a scene shop, a recording studio — and much more — you will gain a firsthand, in-depth education of the arts.
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Explore the world of acting, music and dance with theatre arts at UW-Eau Claire. There is no role too small, and after completing our theatre arts program, you’ll be able to do them all. A bonus is access to the state-of-the-art performance venue at Pablo Center in downtown Eau Claire.
I’ve played with some of the most famous people in the world — played in some of the biggest and most highly desirable concert halls — and I was able to do that with the education I received at UW-Eau Claire.
Music alumna Heidi Joosten returned to campus in November 2024 to accompany the premiere performance of a new arrangement of one of her 2014 compositions. The Blugold Symhonic Choir, the Red Cedar Choir from Barron County and a brass quintet performed the piece with Joosten's mother directing the Red Cedar and Joosten herself on piano.
I had every opportunity to learn what needed to do this work right here at UWEC, with professors who saw what I could do and gave me ample coaching and opportunity. I could not have been more lucky than to attend UWEC when I did.
Music and Theatre Arts Department
Haas Fine Arts Center 156
121 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703
United States
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