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A wide variety of performance opportunities await our students each year, with orchestras, bands, choirs and opera, jazz nonets and combos, small ensembles, and more.
A variety of programs and initiatives operate continuously or annually to enhance learning experiences and help students prepare for their future in music.
The MSU College of Music supports and challenges students, values innovation and creativity, and helps every community member achieve professional excellence.
Judy Palac, associate professor of music education, is the author of “Collaborating for Musical Wellness: It Takes a Village”, which appeared in American Music Teacher.
Assistant professor of music education, Juliet Hess, published two articles in Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education: “Unsettling binary thinking: Tracing an analytic trajectory of the place of indigenous musical knowledge in the academy” and “Upping the ‘anti-‘: The value of an anti-racist theoretical framework in music education.” She also published “Decolonizing music education: Moving beyond tokenism” in the International Journal of Music Education
Associate professor of musicology Kevin Bartig translated and annotated Sergei Eisenstein’s essay “PRKFV,” which appeared in Three Oranges: The Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation.
Mitch Robinson, associate professor of music education, recently published an invited chapter, “A Tale of Two Institutions. Or. . . Myths and Musings on Work/Life Balance,” which appears in On The High Wire: Education Professors Walk Between Work And Parenting published by Information Age Publishing. He also published an article on the uses of data in music teacher evaluation, “The Inchworm and the Nightingale: On the (Mis)use of Data in Music Teacher Evaluation,” in Arts Education Policy Review.
Michael Callahan, assistant professor of music theory, is the author of “Teaching and Learning Music Theory at the Keyboard: Challenges, Solutions, and Impacts” in Music Theory Online.
Marcie Ray’s article “Teaching Critical Music Literacy Across the Curriculum” appeared in Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy, Vol. 3.
Assistant professor of musicology, Sarah Ann Long, co-authored (with Inga Behrendt) Antiphonaria: A Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (c.1100–c.1800),Volume 1, published by the Belgian publisher Brepols in 2015.