Music

Department Head: Owen Collins; collinso@wlu.edu

Academic Division: The College

The Washington and Lee University Department of Music provides exceptional experiences in music training in the context of an education in the liberal arts tradition by developing students’ abilities to perform, create, contextualize and analyze music. All W&L students have opportunities to pursue their musical interests through participation in the Department’s classes, ensembles, applied lessons and events. Furthermore, the Department contributes to the region’s cultural life through its diverse musical offerings.

The Department offers numerous concerts each year including those by student ensembles, our Concert Guild series, and Sonoklect, the new music/jazz series. Performances are held in the state-of-the-art Wilson Concert Hall, which opened in August of 2006, and the Lenfest Center for the Performing Arts. Department Ensembles regularly tour the United States and Europe other countries.

HONORS: An Honors Program in music is offered for qualified students; see department head for details.

Note: Limits of ten credits in ensemble courses (MUS 108-116) and of nine credits for non-majors and 12 credits for majors from applied music courses (MUS 141, 241, 341, 441) allowable toward a degree. Credits taken in excess of these limits will be treated as repeats of the earliest unrepeated credit of each kind. A fee is charged for applied music; music majors are entitled to take one applied music course per term without charge. One credit is earned for ten 45-minute private lessons and a minimum of five hours practice a week during fall and winter terms and for eight 55-minute private lessons; and a minimum of five hours practice a week during the spring term.

CPD 451, Career and Professional Development Summer Internship (1 credit), is available to those students who desire academic credit for a summer internship in music.

Offerings

Music, B.A.  

Music, B.S.  

Music minor  

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began service as regular faculty at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank.

Anna Billias, D.M.A.—(2022)-2022
Lecturer of Music and Collaborative Piano
D.M.A., Shenandoah Conservatory

Anthony S. Cincotta II, D.M.A. -(2024)-2024
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Administrator of Music Operations
D.M.A., James Madison University

Christopher Dobbins, Ed.D.—(2015)-2021
Associate Professor of Music and Director of Instrumental Activities
Ed.D., University of Georgia

Akiko Konishi, D.M.A. —(2021)-2021
Assistant Professor of Music
D.M.A., University of Houston

Shane M. Lynch, D.M.A.—(2009)-2021
Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities
D.M.A., University of Washington

Gregory B. Parker, D.M.A.—(2013)-2013
Professor of Music
D.M.A., University of Missouri-Kansas CityTerry Vosbein, D.M.A.—(1996)-2006
Professor of Music
D.M.A., Cleveland Institute of Music