The Department of Music at Santa Clara University provides an intellectual and stimulating artistic environment fostering individual expression and creativity through the study of music and musical performance.
Featured Stories
Student Spotlight: Musical Excellence on Display from SCU Students
This year’s Concerto and Aria Competition winners are four seniors who are members of the University Orchestra.

SCLOrk Students Share their Talent at Numerous Bay Area Concerts
High profile outside performances at Dolby Labs in San Francisco, Linux Audio Conference at Stanford University, and Garden of Memory in Oakland brought SCLOrk -- the Santa Clara Laptop Orchestra -- to entirely new audiences and raised the visibility of Santa Clara University in the music technology industry and electronic music scenes.

Sam Pluta Experiments with His Own Music
Experimental artist Sam Pluta: ‘I wanted to be able to invent my own type of music’

Mind Your Music
Using EEG technology and a musical improviser system to allow users to create music using their own brain activity