About NKU Music

Want to live out your dream in the heart of a thriving arts region?

• Play out your passion in a metropolitan region of two million?
• Experience inspiring artistry through individual instruction?
• Study with an international faculty of performers and scholars?

You can... at Northern Kentucky University. 

Northern Kentucky University's Department of Music offers a full range of performance and education opportunities to music majors. Our graduates pursue successful careers as professional performers, college and university faculty, public school music teachers, private studio instructors and in allied fields within the music industry.  Our students have been accepted for graduate study at such renowned institutions as the Juilliard School, Indiana University–Bloomington, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Iowa State University, the Eastman School of Music, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.