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Northern Vermont University is now part of Vermont State University! Please visit VermontState.edu for accurate information.

At the Height of Performance

Whether your passion is music, dance, theater, or the business side of the music industry, we provide a high-impact, professional training ground that focuses on creativity, collaboration, and innovative thinking. Our learning environment features small classes, one-on-one faculty attention, and excellent performance facilities.

Through internships; NVU choral, instrumental, and theater groups; and other performance and production opportunities on and off-campus early on, you’ll gain the artistic and technical skills you need to make your impact while you’re here and after you graduate.
 

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Northern Vermont University will join with Castleton University and Vermont Technical College to become Vermont State University on July 1, 2023. Learn more and apply for fall 2023.

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North is Action. Creation. Heart.

All of our performing arts programs offer a well-rounded education that will expose you to the different aspects of your field and prepare you with marketable skills.

Here are some program highlights:

  • As a music business and industry student, you’ll choose a concentration in audio production, music management, or music and self-promotion to gain the expertise you need for your career, working in our state-of-the-art recording studio
  • Students in our performance, art, and technology program choose a concentration in dance, music, theatre/musical theatre, immersive design, or social justice and activism. Your main “classroom” will the Dibden stage and your two senior seminar courses will prepare you for a career in the performing arts.
  • Music education majors will graduate ready to pursue Vermont licensure endorsement to teach music in grades pre-K through 12.
A group of female actors wearing white perform on a stage.

“I was blown away by the theater program here…It seemed like there’s more effort in making plays great here rather than just reading lines to an audience.”

- Brittney Malik ’19

APPLY TODAY. Do North.

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