Career Opportunities

Students who graduate from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls with a Music degree have a great variety of professional fields open to them. The following are some of the careers that our recent graduates have entered or that are available to those with a music degree.

Music

• Composer (arranger, copyist, orchestrator)
• Conductor
• Music Director (religious institution)
• Music Educator (elementary, secondary, and post-secondary)
• Music Librarian 
• Music Researcher
• Performer-Professional Musician
• Studio-Individual Teacher

Music Industry

• Arts Administrator
• Instrument Repair
• Manager-Booking Agent
• Manufacturer-Importer-Wholesaler (instruments, accessories, electronics, recordings, software)
• Promotions-Marketing
• Music Dealer (management, sales)
• Music Software Programmer
• Newspaper Critic-Reporter
• Publisher-Editor
• Tuner-Technician

Television and Radio Industry

• Copyright-Clearance Administrator
• Disc Jockey-Video Jockey
• Music License Administrator
• Music Editor-Producer-Composer
• Post-Production Scoring
• Program Director
• Promotions-Marketing
• Sound Mixer