For current students: Fall 2024 Ensembles Audition Information
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.
Sam and Mary Austin Orchestra Fanfares Project | 2023-2024 Premieres Playlist
Hub New Music | Spring 2021 Premieres Concert Series
Video Game Reel | Eileen Snyder (MM Composition, 2024)
Made in collaboration with students in the MSU GameDev Program
Video 5 (Fragments/Motion) | Edward Stumpp (DMA Composition, 2020)
Feedback (solo clarinet) | Chris Kaminski (MM Composition, 2020)
Variations for Piano | Bronwen McVeigh (BM Composition, 2017)
Nostalgia (for flute, cello, and piano) | Charlie Han (DMA Composition, 2020)
I Find No Peace (soprano, violin, and piano) | Keaton Garrett (MM Composition, 2020)
Piano Trio | Hannah Boissonneault (BM Composition, 2020)
NODE | Kyle Landry (DMA Saxophone with studies in composition, 2018)
Ice Fields – Charlie Cooper (BM Composition, 2018)
Time Gone By (for english horn and string quartet) | Christian Kolo (BM Composition, 2018)
Undergraduate composer Megan Anderson conducts a reading of her work with members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
The Electronic Music Workshop.
Student composer workshop with Khemia Ensemble.
Student composer workshop with Sandbox Percussion.
Composition students in free improvisation on a premiere concert.
Professor Ricardo Lorenz, composition students, guest composer Karel Husa, and Professor Emeritus Jere Hutcheson.
Undergraduate composer Christian Kolo workshops his music with members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Doctoral student Edward Stumpp performs a work for piano and interactive electronics.
Workshop with guest flutist Mimi Stillman and pianist Charles Abramovic.
Workshop and reading with the MSU Wind Symphony and student composer Christian Kolo.
Musique 21 with conductor Kevin Noe and guest composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
Brooklyn Rider with composition students following workshops of their work.
Students perform with guest artists Crystal Mooncone.
Graduate student Sarah Palermo performs her work for bassoon, voice, and electronics.
Professor Ricardo Lorenz with MSU composition students and John Adams at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
MSU student composers with Steven Stucky at Music NOW Festival.
MSU student composers with guest composer Ricky Ian Gordon and Professor Jere Hutcheson.
Student composers with guest composer John Corigliano.
Masterclass with guest composer David Maslanka.