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.
COMMUNITY
MUSIC
SCHOOLS
MSU’s two Community Music Schools are committed to providing accessible and affordable music instruction, music therapy clinical services, and performance opportunities for all, regardless of age, ability or income.
Since its founding in 1993, the original Community Music School (CMS) location in East Lansing has offered music and its inherent possibilities to everyone in the community. In fall 2009, a second CMS opened in Detroit’s Cultural Corridor to serve Metro Detroit residents.
CMS offers private lessons on over twenty different instruments, more than fifteen classes and ensembles, five different summer camps, and music therapy services.
CMS East LansingCMS-D offers youth and adult classes and ensembles, lessons for nearly any instrument, voice, jazz, concert band, choir, early childhood classes, and music therapy. A variety of summer camps are offered for youth.
CMS DetroitIn both locations, financial aid is offered to students with need, and students and clients range in age from infancy to 90+ years of age.
The MSU Community Music Schools are a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education and ArtServe Michigan.