Why Choose Music at Bushnell?
Bushnell’s Music program provides a personalized and immersive learning environment where you develop musical artistry, technical production competencies, and the theological foundation essential for effective worship leadership. Small class sizes foster close faculty mentorship, integrating performance instruction, audio and visual technologies, and Christian spiritual formation. The program’s flexible design allows you to develop strengths in worship leadership, music production, composition, live performance, or media arts. Through applied coursework, ensemble participation, and a culminating capstone experience, you refine your creative skills and gain practical expertise to serve confidently in church, studio, and ministry-focused settings.
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ensemble options across choir, band, The Grove Collective, and worship leadership teams
Develop stylistic versatility across classical, gospel, jazz, contemporary worship, and global traditions
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production-related courses available
Including sound, lighting, video, and studio techniques for hands-on technical training
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concentrations for specialized preparation
Worship Arts or Production. Choose the path that fits your calling
What You’ll Study
How the Curriculum is Structured
Internship Experience
Internships are a central component of the Music program, offering direct engagement with professional ministry and production contexts. You complete supervised placements in churches, touring groups, recording studios, event-production companies, or live-performance venues. These experiences allow you to apply musical knowledge, production techniques, and worship leadership skills in real environments while receiving mentorship from practitioners in the field.
The internship builds professional readiness, expands your network, and helps clarify vocational goals within worship ministry, music production, and the broader creative arts industry.
Concentrations & Musical Ensembles
Worship Arts Concentration
Prepares you for worship leadership in church and ministry settings through training in worship theology, musicianship, and team leadership. You’ll develop Christ-like leadership and discipleship built on biblical principles while applying a biblical theology of worship and the arts. Integrate scriptural, historical, and theological foundations into corporate worship planning while demonstrating advanced musicianship through technical skill, theoretical knowledge, and emotional intelligence.
Production Concentration
Equips you for technical roles in live events, recording studios, and media production through coursework in audio, lighting, video, and studio techniques. You’ll design and produce digital media using current technologies and industry-standard tools to serve the church and broader ministry contexts. Plan and produce live worship events through team collaboration, technical excellence, and creative expression.
Musical Ensembles
As a Music student, you’ll engage in a range of musical ensembles that foster artistic development, spiritual formation, and professional preparation. Ensemble opportunities include:
Through these experiences, you’ll develop stylistic versatility, collaborative musicianship, and practical performance skills across classical, gospel, jazz, contemporary worship, and global traditions. You may also participate in Grove Live Production, where you gain hands-on training in audio, lighting, and media support for campus and off-campus events.
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Frequently Asked Questions?
Worship Arts focuses on worship leadership, musicianship, and theological foundations for leading congregational worship. Production emphasizes technical skills in audio, lighting, video, and studio work for live events and recording environments. Both concentrations share core music coursework but specialize in different vocational outcomes.
Some ensembles like The Grove Collective require auditions and demonstrate highest levels of musical proficiency, spiritual maturity, and relational integrity. Other ensembles like University Choir and Bushnell Chorale require audition and consent of instructor. Participation opportunities are available for various skill levels.
Yes. Private lessons are available in voice, guitar, piano, and other instruments. These applied lessons help you develop technical skill and performance ability under faculty mentorship.
Absolutely. Production students gain hands-on training through Grove Live Production, where you work with audio, lighting, and media support for campus and off-campus events. You’ll also complete an internship in a professional production environment.
Students complete supervised placements in churches, touring groups, recording studios, event-production companies, or live-performance venues. Faculty help you find internship sites that match your concentration and career goals.
Yes. Many students pair Music with Christian Ministry, Bible & Theology, or Business to prepare for diverse vocational paths in ministry leadership, nonprofit management, or entrepreneurship in the creative arts industry.
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