The mission of the Mead Witter School of Music is: to provide a rich, integrated program of undergraduate and graduate education that promotes the highest levels of professional, creative, and scholarly development while challenging students to achieve their greatest potential, to cultivate an environment that inspires creativity, stimulates intellectual curiosity, and fosters critical thinking, and to serve the university community, the public, and the profession through performance, composition, scholarship, music education, outreach, and engagement. The Mead Witter School of Music enriches students' educational experience by hosting guest artists and scholars for master classes, recitals, colloquia, seminars, and festivals. Mead Witter School of Music organizations and ensembles perform more than 350 recitals and concerts every year, making a significant contribution to the cultural life of the university and the wider Madison community. Mead Witter School of Music views its goals and objectives as complementary to those of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, which include to provide an environment in which faculty and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom and values that will help ensure the survival of the present and future generations with improvement in the quality of life. The University of Wisconsin?Madison School of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), and has been an institutional member of NASM since 1966.