B.A. Music

Students at Concordia can perform in ensembles, regardless of major. It is possible to join both the top instrumental ensemble and the top vocal ensemble, because they rehearse at different times of day and tour at different times of the year. Severla of our ensembles tour regionally, nationally and internationally. 

Concordia's main performance venue is the Borland Center for Music and Theatre's Recital Hall, a beautiful space that contains a Casavant pipe organ and a 9-ft. Steinway grand piano. 

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The innovative Borland Center for Music and Theatre at Concordia University, Nebraska is home to enhanced practice rooms, performance spaces and acoustics to inspire your creativity, refine your musical abilities and prepare you to create music that can transform lives. The Borland Center features:  

• A recital hall containing a 3-manual, 38-rank Casavant organ and a Steinway Model D 9-foot concert grand piano  
• 3 ensemble rehearsal rooms  
• 11 teaching studios  
• 22 practice rooms   
• A percussion studio  
• A piano lab  
• A black box theater  
• A soundproof recording studio  

Organ students also have access to the 3-manual, 47-rank organ by Orgelbau Kuhn of Männedorf (Switzerland) in Weller Chapel and to the 3-manual, 50-rank Schlicker organ at St. John Lutheran Church, across the street from Concordia. 

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Each year, in addition to other financial aid such as academic scholarships, grants and loans, Concordia University, Nebraska awards talent-based scholarships in voice, piano, organ, brass, woodwinds, percussion, strings and guitar.

A limited number of full-tuition scholarships are awarded every year to students intending to major in music and who demonstrate outstanding musical skill and potential. There are also scholarships, in variable amounts, awarded every year to music majors and to other students who intend to participate in music. These scholarships are available to music majors as well as non-music majors.

Learn more about the music scholarships available.​​​​​

More than you might expect. The most obvious choices are in the field of music: performing, composing, conducting, teaching, arts management, music production, broadcasting, music publishing, music librarianship and many others. But the skills learned as a music major are also readily transferable to other fields: the daily discipline of practicing, a striving for perfection of expression, the detailed analytical skill needed both to interpret music and to learn it efficiently, the organization required to cram many things into one’s day, the communication skills needed to rehearse music with others and the sense of wonder at a performance well done, to name a few. Medical schools often love music majors because they know these students have succeeded at something hard and have enough self-discipline and drive to follow through when they encounter difficulties. 

The B.A. in music works well with a second major or a minor outside music. Popular combinations include music and a science field, music and history, music and English, or music and a preprofessional area, such as pre-seminary or pre-deaconess. 

The B.Mus. is a professional music degree and requires more courses in music (including church music) than the B.A. The B.Mus. leads to certification as a director of parish music in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod; the B.A. does not. The B.A. is often selected by students pursuing a second major outside music or who plan to attend seminary to become a pastor or deaconess (though some of these do choose the B.Mus.).