UNPARALLELED DIVERSITY OF MUSICAL FORMS
The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts offers rigorous training in an unrivaled variety of musical styles and cultures. This vibrant mix helps each student to acquire the musical fluency to work across conventional boundaries, expand his or her artistic and cultural horizons, and develop a global creative vision.

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED FACULTY
The music faculty consists of innovators and leaders in each specialty-composers, performers, performer-composers, creative artists and producers who have distinguished themselves at the highest levels. All faculty members are practicing professionals uniquely qualified to prepare students for the demands of a global music community.

PERSONAL ATTENTION, MENTORING
With approximately 260 students, the school offers a low 5:1 student-faculty ratio, small class sizes, and frequent one-on-one lessons. Every student works closely with his or her own mentor, a faculty member who serves as that student's artistic adviser.

EXTENSIVE PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES
The school's prolific performance calendar features more than 250 events every year, ranging from on-campus recitals to performances at REDCAT-the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex-and other high-profile venues in Los Angeles. Faculty members play alongside students in many of these concerts, while the most advanced students have opportunities to perform with faculty at other U.S. and international venues.

GLOBAL MUSIC PERSPECTIVE
As a reflection of CalArts' longtime commitment to cultural diversity and global understanding in the arts, the school vigorously promotes the study and practice of music across cultural boundaries. This global perspective gives students greater musical and cultural mobility and a dramatically more versatile skill set-important competitive advantages in the rapidly changing world of professional musicmaking.

SUPPORT FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK
CalArts' distinctive educational philosophy has always championed cross-pollination across all the arts. Music students routinely engage in creative work with their peers from other CalArts schools. The school views such work as normal practice for innovative artists, and fully supports individual interdisciplinary work as well as multidisciplinary and collaborative projects.

STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES, PRODUCTION TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES
In addition to comprehensively outfitted spaces for performance and rehearsal, the school offers a large and distinctly eclectic instrument collection and cutting-edge technical facilities-featuring a wide array of hardware and software tools; digital recording studios; studios for computer music and experimental media; access to networking; and research and development facilities for music technologies.

THE WILD BEAST
The state-of-the-art Wild Beast is the school's newest performance space. Named in honor of composer Morton Feldman's metaphor for the untamable in music, The Wild Beast serves as both a recital venue and an open-air, large-stage performance pavilion. This iconic new building now supplements the Roy O. Disney Music Hall, which is also used as a recording studio and a networked presentation space for multimedia.

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER (REDCAT)
REDCAT is CalArts' downtown Los Angeles center for the presentation of innovative performing, visual and media arts. Qualified music students are invited to perform here with faculty and visiting artists. Besides music performances, REDCAT's eclectic programming allows all CalArts students to experience a wide range of experimental work by a mix of emerging artists and internationally renowned practitioners.

CENTER FOR NEW PERFORMANCE (CNP)
The professional producing arm of CalArts serves as a laboratory for the creation of adventurous new music, dance, theater and interdisciplinary works-original projects that challenge and redefine the boundaries of contemporary performance. The CNP joins CalArts with the broader, international professional community.

COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP (CAP)
An award-winning, nationally recognized program, CAP links CalArts with local communities through free after-school and school-based arts programs for youth. Many CalArts music students gain valuable teaching experience by leading CAP workshops and classes at community art centers and public schools throughout Los Angeles County.