• Master Your Talent

    Oklahoma's only comprehensive music school with full-time faculty in all areas and degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.

    • Pride
    • Tradition
    • Community
    • World-class Arts & Academics

  • Musical Opportunities

    Through musical performance, students gain confidence, refine their skills and techniques, and get to share their creative talents with others.

    • Numerous performance opportunities
    • Over 40 student ensembles
    • Over 300 concerts and recitals per year

  • High Standards of Achievements

    The OU School of Music ranks among the best in the region with a national reputation for both scholarly and performing excellence.

    From our faculty and students to our facilities and technology, OU accepts only the best.

  • Affordability

    OU has consistently been designated as one of America's 100 Best College Buys by Institutional Research & Evaluation.

    • Costs are moderate
    • Excellent scholarship and financial aid programs
    • Among the country's best scholarship, tuition waiver, and graduate assistant programs

  • Community

    OU is one of the very few public universities to twice receive the Templeton Foundation Awards as a "Character Building College" for stressing the value of community.

    • Build life-long networking relationships with classmates and teachers
    • Top 10 nationally in the Freshman Year Experience

Welcome to the OU School of Music

Dr. Larry Mallett, Director ( bio )

The School of Music at the University of Oklahoma maintains its proud traditions while offering visionary programs that prepare students for an evolving and diverse future. An institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1931, the OU School of Music is the only comprehensive music program in Oklahoma. We offer degrees at the Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral levels in all areas of music performance, composition, education, history and theory. With 60+ full-time faculty members and 450 music majors, the School of Music presents over 400 performance and scholarly events each year. Our world-class music faculty is augmented by an outstanding music facility that includes four state-of-the-art performance halls and a comprehensive Fine Arts Library. School of Music graduates occupy prestigious academic and performance positions worldwide. Please explore this website in depth to learn more about the OU School of Music, and I invite you to visit our campus to witness how music is a part of the exciting campus life at the University of Oklahoma.

School of Music - Mission Statement

The Mission of the School of Music at The University of Oklahoma is to advance learning, teaching, scholarly and creative activity, and service. Faculty and students will actively promote and contribute to the teaching profession, discover knowledge as performers and researchers, and enhance the discipline of music through professional service at the national and international levels. Established in 1903, the School of Music was the second School established on the OU campus and has been an Institutional Member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1931. The only doctoral granting music school in Oklahoma, the OU School of Music will serve its constituents through the artistic and scholarly productivity of its faculty, students and alumni. The University of Oklahoma will award music degrees in the areas of composition, education, musicology, performance and theory. The School of Music at OU will maintain its traditions while offering programs that prepare students for an evolving and diverse future.

Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts - Mission Statement

The mission of the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts is to provide the highest quality performance, exhibition, teaching, creative activity and research through a diversity of activities and arts experiences.

The OU School of Music has the following vacancies:

Friends and donors to the OU School of Music help us to prepare distinguished composers, conductors, instrumentalists, music educators, and vocalists. In order to assure OU's continued legacy of training the artistic leaders of tomorrow, the School of Music relies on the generosity of its friends. Gifts to OU are deeply appreciated and provide an essential source of support for our talented young students who need help to meet the rising costs of their education, as well as for enhancements in educational programs, faculty compensation, and renovations to the School of Music facilities.

General Information

Your contribution to the OU School of Music will help educate the next generation of musicians. OU depends upon the financial support of alumni, friends, foundations, and corporations to maintain its position as a leading educational institution in the performing arts.

Your contribution in any amount makes a difference. Gifts may be unrestricted or may be directed toward a particular discipline, such as composition, conducting, singing or performance, or toward a special activity. We would be pleased to discuss areas you would most like to support.

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Donate by Mail

Checks are to be made payable to the OU Foundation and mailed to the OU School of Music:

     OU School of Music
     500 E. Boyd Rm. 138
     Norman, OK 73019-2071

Be sure to include a note with any special instructions for designating your contribution, and how we can contact you to acknowledge your gift.

Spring 2012 concert video streaming will be available for the following concerts:

  • Feb 11, 8pm Steel Drum Festival
  • Feb 12, 3pm OU Symphony
  • Feb 19, 3pm Accademia Filharmonica
  • April 5, 8pm Percussion Orchestra
  • April 18, 8pm Wind Symphony and Symphony Band
  • April 22, 3pm OU Symphony
  • April 24, 8pm OU Jazz Bands

Live Concert Stream

Audio streaming will be available below for Sharp Hall Concerts.

If you would like to listen to our audio stream in your default streaming application, click here to tune in .

The University of Oklahoma Bi-annual Seminar for Piano Teachers is a three-day seminar is designed for those teaching elementary, intermediate and advanced piano.

Clinicians for the 2011 piano workshop: Dennis Alexander, Mary Craig Powell, Bill Moore, Jane Magrath, Barbara Fast, Edward Gates, Karen Beres, Steve Betts and Nicole Biggs.

Recitalists: Jeongwon Ham and Stephanie Leon Shames

OU Kodaly Levels, June 18-29, 2012 , Levels I and III in Norman, OK. Credit, audit, and non-credit options are available.

Opening session is Sunday, June 17, 2-6 pm.

Summer Music Camp

Student & Faculty Successes
Trumpet student Christi Wans has won a scholarship to participate in the highly competitive international "Domain Forget" Festival in Quebec this summer.  Christi will study with international soloist Eric Aubier from the Paris Conservatory, and with Ray Mase, chair of brasses at the Juilliard School and founding member of the famed American Brass Quintet. 
DMA Composition Student Joseph Hasper has been named the winner of the Anton Stadler Composition Competition for his basset clarinet piece, "Variations on O Worship The King." The piece will be performed in London on May 6, by basset clarinet specialist Marc Naylor.
MM Organ student Chris Ganza has won the prestigious Rodland Competition.  Established to honor the late John Rodland, the competition is open to organists of any age.  First prize includes a featured performance at the annual John Rodland Hymn Festival in Ridgewood, NJ.
Undergrade student, Dedra LaShaun Garmon, has been selected as a recipient of a Global Access Initiative (GAIN) Scholarship for Summer - 2012 Summer Contemporary Music Creation & Critique program at the CIEE Study Center in Paris, France. GAIN Scholars are clearly dedicated to internationalizing their education and we’re excited that Dedra has chosen to study abroad with CIEE! For 65 years CIEE has been the leading international education and exchange organization. To demonstrate our commitment to studying abroad, CIEE created the GAIN Scholarship to help provide opportunities for students who are interested in studying in another country.  
Congratulations to Elyse Emerich who recently won the Phi Kappa Phi Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Research for her presentation at the Undergraduate Research Day.
International OU Music Student Delphone Piguet has been awarded the Paul and Rose Sharp Outstanding International Student Scholarship. With an applicant pool of over 2500 students, this scholarship is awarded on the basis of academic excellence and service to the university community.
Ethnomusicology faculty member Zoe Sherinian received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council in the amount of $9,000 to support travel and research in India for her film project on the Sakthi Folk Arts Center in Tamil Nadu.

Horn professor Eldon Matlick has been invited to be a guest performer at the 2012 International Horn Symposium that will be held at the University of North Texas May 14-19.

In addition, the OU Hornsemble has received an invitation to perform a 30 minute featured program on Saturday afternoon on May 19. OU is one of twelve collegiate horn ensembles picked for a performance slot.
Composition student Kyle Vanderburg won first place in the 2012 Student Composition with his piece titled Foi dans l'aleatoire. The Belvedere Chamber Music Festival Composition Contest is sponsored by Luna Nova Music.
PIANO DIVISION (COLLEGE)
Thomas Morgan - lst Place
Samantha Bachman - 2nd Alternate

VOCAL DIVISION (COLLEGE)
Jack Swanson - 1st Place
Tatiana Ogan - 2nd Place

BRASS/PERCUSSION DIVISION (COLLEGE)
Christopher Dorst (Marimba) - 2nd Alternate
Competing against students from Yale and Eastman, OU organ student Chris Ganza won the Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition. Chris will perform a concert in June 2012 at the Albert Schweitzer Festival.
Musicology faculty member Jennifer Saltzstein has been awarded a Residential Research Fellowship from the Huntington Library Foundation for June and July 2011, supporting research on her current book project.
Jennifer Saltzstein presents her paper "Vernacular Hermeneutics and the Thirteenth-Century Motet: The Case of Ceste quadruble/Vos n’i dormires/Biaus cuers/Fiat" at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and The Gothic Revolution: Music in Western Europe, 1100-1300.
Faculty member Jennifer Saltzstein has been elected to serve a three year term on the Council of American Musicology Society.
Several School of Music students and recent graduates participated in the 2011 International Haydn Festival Orchestra in Eisenstadt, Austria and performed with professionals from the USA, Asia, Mexico, and Europe. Those students were Jennifer Peck and Angela Heck (flute), Evan Chancellor and Logan Fish (horn), Joseph Mueller (cello), Evan Pettit (bass), and Brian Teed (percussion).
Alex Purdy, freshman tubist, has won the International Tuba/Euphonium Association concerto competition.
At the International Trumpet Symposium, Marc Sutton won 1st place in the orchestral excerpt competition, and won 2nd place in the concerto competition, with Jonathan Mosesman receiving honorable mention. Lacey Hays played principal trumpet in the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

A scholarship honoring Stan Kann, the organist who played the Mighty Wurlitzer at the Fox Theatre, has been awarded to Adam Pajan, a DMA degree candidate at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Kann was a popular TV talk-show personality as well as a theater organist. A St. Louis native who majored in the classical organ during his student days at Washington University, he played at the Fox for 35 years. He died in 2008.

Pajan, is the second recipient of the scholarship, presented by the Stan Kann Scholarship Fund, a St. Louis organization, in conjunction with the American Theater Organ Society. The fund was established to provide grants to outstanding students who want to learn the distinctive theater organ style. The American Theater Organ Society is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the theater pipe organ.

Martin Saunders (OU grad, MM and DMA) is playing lead trumpet on the Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.tour.

Singer Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. was named the champ on the sixth-season finale of NBC's reality show, narrowly beating out dance troupe the Silhouettes for the viewer-voted title.
Composition student David Ikard has published two of his compositions, Fledgling for flute and Timor et Tremor for voice, with Media Press. David is a student of Dr. Marvin Lamb
The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), the accrediting agency for schools of music in higher education, has appointed Dr. Lawrence R. (Larry) Mallett, Director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma, as Chair of the 2012 NASM Nominating Committee. Dr. Mallett and the committee will develop the list of candidates for election to NASM offices for 2013. He will conduct the national election at the general assembly of the 600+ member institutions at the NASM Annual Meeting in San Diego in November 2012. Dr. Mallett recently completed two elected terms on the NASM Commission on Accreditation. He continues to chair NASM evaluation teams to universities and colleges involved in the accreditation process. The School of Music at the University of Oklahoma has been an Institutional Member of NASM since 1931.