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Chatham's music business major prepares students for a range of career paths because music study teaches students readily transferable skills such as focus, perseverance, and entrepreneurial thinking, and specific business courses add an extra layer to this preparation by providing students that are passionate about music with in-depth work in related areas that can even more directly lead to careers in and around music.
—MICHAEL BOYD, Associate Professor of Music
Students often combine the music business major with another academic area of interest to create a custom education with a minor or certificate. Recent combinations include music and English, music and psychology, music and communications, and music and mathematics.
Explore Undergraduate Degrees : Checkerboard 1 - Build A Custom Education
Chatham's music business major is an interdisciplinary program combining music and business courses. Students can tailor the program to their interests in music while also receiving a solid background in business that sets them up for success. Click the button below to explore sample courses and curriculum.
Explore Music Business Curriculum : Checkerboard 2 - Courses & Curriculum
All students complete a capstone seminar, channeling the knowledge they’ve accumulated into a discipline-specific project under close faculty guidance. Chatham is one of the few universities across the country that offers such an independent and student-driven program.
Chatham's music faculty, all of whom are professional musicians with strong artistic achievements, work closely with all students and are strongly committed to the highest standards in teaching. Click the button below to meet our faculty members.
Meet the Faculty : Checkerboard 4 - Program Faculty
Music students have had internships at institutions including Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Pittsburgh Concert Society, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Women in Film and Media, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Film Office, Phipps Conservatory, and Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Graduates are well-positioned to take on roles across the music industry, including radio, and in the non-profit sector in an administrative capacity. They might also run live performance venues, work in the recorded music industry, work for a performing rights organization, or in publishing. For those wishing to pursue higher education, it’s also excellent background for business school.
Chatham’s music technology program sets you up for success through allowing mastery of industry-leading technologies for editing and sequencing, putting on the final touches—taking a piece of music all the way from recording through to producing a finished product.
Explore Music Technology : Checkerboard 7 - Music Technology
The Chatham Choir, which sponsors the all-campus winter celebration and the annual Cabaret Benefit, can be heard at the opening and closing convocations, the spring concert, and the choir tour. The choir has performed in New York City, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and West Virginia, while select members have performed with Marvin Hamlisch and the Pop’s All-Star College Chorus.
Explore Choir : Checkerboard 8 - Chatham Choir
Chatham's instrumental band program includes a jazz ensemble, athletic pep band, and smaller chamber ensembles. In addition, Chatham students can audition for and perform with large instrumental ensembles off-campus for credit, such as the University of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Marching Band. Details about auditions are distributed before the start of the fall term.
