Bachelor's Degree in Musical and Sound Arts

The Bachelor's Degree in Musical and Sound Arts trains innovative artists, accomplished professionals, and rigorous researchers, capable of creating new pathways for the development of interdisciplinary arts in the country.

The degree program offers an excellence-level curriculum for the development of musical thinking, artistic sensibility, artistic creation, and the formation of critical and evaluative criteria for music from Ecuador and around the world, drawing on our musical heritage. As a school that is not exclusively focused on classical music, jazz, or rock, students acquire theoretical and practical knowledge grounded in research into the legacy of Ecuadorian and Latin American music, while also making use of technological resources to enhance their creativity.

Graduate Profile

Graduates of the Musical and Sound Arts degree program will be equipped to work as musicians across a wide range of fields, including live and studio performance, teaching, research, arranging, and composing music for film and television. Today's professional landscape demands that musicians perform successfully in diverse settings, demonstrating both instrumental ability and knowledge of a variety of musical genres.

Graduates of UArtes also have a broad grounding in Ecuadorian and Latin American music, as well as in the use of new technologies applied to music, which will also prepare them to pursue graduate studies in the musical field.

Faculty

The School of Sound Arts has a faculty composed of musicians and academics who are active on both the national and international scenes, with extensive artistic and academic careers. They hold master's degrees and PhDs. Faculty members engage in a wide range of artistic and technical work that contributes to the local and international scene performing, designing sound for spaces, organizing concerts and programming, leading workshops, and delivering lectures as musicians, composers, and producers.

Tracks

  • Musical Creation
  • Performance
  • Music Pedagogy

For more information, write to escuela.artes-sonoras@uartes.edu.ec or call (593)4-259-0700 ext 3081.

Resources

Musical and Sound Arts — Degree Plan

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