FAST FACTS
• Undergraduate enrollment Fall 2007: 499 students
• 120 world-class full- and part-time faculty include internationally renowned conductors, composers, classical and jazz musicians.
• More than 300 student forums, student and faculty recitals, guest artist performances, concerts and lectures are given each year.
• The new Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library and Technology Center, a 27,700 square-foot facility, offers state-of-the art labs, research and study spaces, seminar and music listening rooms, and access to more than 127,000 scores, recordings and books.
• Music engineering students have access to two excellent audio recording and production facilities on campus.
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The L. Austin Weeks Center for Recording and Performance features a 150-seat recital hall and professional recording studio with a Euphonix System 5 automated digital mixing console, multiple 24-track tape recorders and hard-disk recorders. The studio is adjacent to a computer lab with media workstations, hard-disk editors and processors and computer-driven analysis and test equipment.
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The Weeks Studio complements the professional studio housed in the 600-seat Gusman Concert Hall, which has a professional recording studio with a pair of Yamaha 02R automated digital mixing consoles, video projector, MIDI synthesizers, networked Apple and PC computers and surround-sound mixing and playback capabilities.
• The internationally acclaimed Bergonzi String Quartet is in residence at UM, providing a model of excellence in performance and chamber music instruction.
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