OUR VISION FOR THE FUTURE
The School of Music mission
- To provide a comprehensive program of undergraduate and graduate education that promotes the highest levels of professional development while challenging students to achieve their greatest potential;
- To cultivate an environment that inspires creativity, stimulates intellectual curiosity and fosters critical thinking;
- To serve the University community, the public and the profession through performance, composition, scholarship, music education and outreach.
MAESTOSO (majestic, dignified)
Magnificent modern performance and education spaces will resound with new music and old.
Plans for revitalized arts and humanities district on the east edge of the UW-Madison campus were unveiled in 2003. This comes at an ideal time for the School of Music. Our current outgrown and out-of-date space and possibilities outlines in the master plan offer opportunities for building a new home for teaching, learning, performing and listening.
The new School of Music performance and education facilities are designed both as complements to existing and planned campus buildings and also as inviting and accessible public spaces. With more than a combines 200,000 square feet, the architecturally beautiful and acoustically state-of-the-art facilities will include two concert halls and two recital halls plus practice and rehearsal rooms, teaching studios and classrooms.
OUR FIRST PRIORITY is to offer our students spaces that reflect their talent, discipline and dedication, to provide a stimulating environment for creation and performance, and to welcome all who appreciate fine music to share the experience.
VIVACE (spirited, bright, rapid)
Spirited, gifted students, faculty and staff will continue to inspire individual and collaborative excellence.
There are many talented performers, teachers, researchers and composers of music. We hope the best of these will choose to express their talents at the UW-Madison School of Music. While we have much to offer, we also must compete with other schools, both public and private, for the privilege of bringing this talent to our school.
Currently, undergraduate student support is more than 50 percent below the average of the top 10 public music schools. A significantly smaller than average number of students receives support. The dollar amounts allocated as a percentage of total students tuition and fees also is much lower
Our per-student graduate support is more than 60 percent below the average of the top 10 public music schools.
OUR SECOND PRIORITY is to provide students with financial support that allows them to benefit fully from the facilities, instruction and resources.
SOSTENUTO (sustained)
The sustaining support of friends, alumni and audiences will ensure that the music will continue to be taught, created, performed and heard.
The School of Music has the potential to be in the top 5 percent of schools of music in the United States. It is, in fact, well on its way thanks to:
- A strong existing reputation
- An internationally renowned faculty
- Students arriving with impressive resumes and a desire to be the best
- A supportive administration committed to a thriving campus arts district
- Grateful alumni and generous friends whose gifts keep the music playing
OUR THIRD PRIORITY is to build a School of Music worthy of our students, faculty and staff, alumni and friends, We also will continue to identify, recognize and serve those whose audience presence, advisory involvement and monetary gifts will put us among the top tier of schools of music.
CONCLUSION
You have a vital role to play in creating the future of the School of Music. Your investment in the school will yield rewards that are measured not just in financial terms, but in intellectual, emotional and spiritual fulfillment.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music is raising the curtain on one of its most daring and creative adventures. The commitment and generosity of our donors is welcome, sincerely appreciated and critically important.
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