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.
The Michigan State University Keyboard Area fosters each student’s full potential through personalized instruction, ensuring excellence and professional success. Students can pursue degrees in composition, music education, and performance, with options to double major in unrelated fields or minor in music. An honors program is available for MSU Honors College students.
Led by distinguished faculty, the Keyboard Area at MSU provides an exceptional learning environment for students to define their paths and reach their potential. Individualized instruction is central to the program, supplemented by masterclasses and keyboard literature courses. Performance majors participate in the Piano Performance class, receiving coaching and critiques from the entire piano faculty. Undergraduates also take an accompanying class, taught by the Director of Collaborative Piano, focusing on collaborative artistry with instrumentalists and vocalists. Performance experience is gained through solo and chamber recitals, studio classes, and various programs.
A master’s degree in piano pedagogy is offered as well as undergraduate courses that provide opportunities to teach and observe children’s classes at College of Music Community Music Schools in East Lansing and Detroit.
An evening of music for two pianos with works by Schumann, Scriabin, Stravinsky and Ravel. ARTISTS: Wei-Qing Tang, Daniel Bazin and Ralph Voltapek.
MSU pianist Ralph Votapek presents an evening of works by J.S. Bach, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy and Sergei Prokofiev.
Join us for a vibrant duo piano recital featuring Latin American rhythms and masterpieces by Guastavino, Ponce, Pinto, Piazzolla, Copland, and Bolcom, performed by MSU pianist Derek Kealii Polischuk and Sarkis Baltaian.
Featuring pianist Stanislav Khristenko, newly appointed assoicate professor of piano, this solo recital presents an evening of preludes by composers including Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Gershwin, Kapustin, Schoenberg, Rachmaninov, Silvestrov, and Szymanowski.
Internationally acclaimed Italian pianist Antonio Di Cristofano, a frequent judge at international competitions and masterclass instructor worldwide, resides in Grosseto, Tuscany, where he directs the Scriabin International Piano Competition.
“May the Fourth Be With You” as four grand pianos perform space-themed music from films like Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey at Fairchild Theatre.
Presenting Beethoven’s Pianos Sonatas No. 12 through 15.
MSU pianist Zhihua Tang, in collaboration with clarinetist Mingzhe Wang and guest musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, presents a recital featuring works by Beethoven, Joan Tower, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, op. 49.
Pianist is the newest addition to an esteemed group of keyboard educators.
Organ and choir recording delving into Virgil Thomson's music is first of its kind.
New release by Derek Kealii Polischuk and student collaborators celebrates women composers.
Funding proves instrumental for faculty research and production of books and recordings.