Despite the huge growth of faculty, students, and programs at the Frost School of Music, until recently there had been few significant changes to the School’s facilities. Many faculty continue to teach in small practice rooms built decades ago. Some offices are far from the Frost School complex, hindering the harmonious sense of community so important to student-faculty interaction and creative endeavor.

According to national standards for music education, the Frost School must more than double its existing space just to continue to compete with other top-ranked schools of music and conservatories.

Major new facilities are urgently needed to continue to attract and retain top students as well as faculty. The Frost School’s Capital Campaign will bring the school’s impact to a crescendo by raising $34 million for a 73,000-square-foot facility that will unite the Frost School faculty and administrative staff. To be called the Center for Music Learning and Leadership, it will include technologically advanced classrooms and new lecture halls as well as faculty teaching studios and program suites for studio music and jazz, percussion, piano, music education, music therapy, music business and entertainment industries, music theory and composition, choral studies, and musicology.

“New facilities will inspire creative collaboration among faculty and students, which strengthens the overall quality of the programs.”
-- Sandra Schwartz, Ph.D. '06, Music Education

Additional campaign priorities are as follows:

Endowed Chairs

Endowed Programs

Student Scholarships