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.
This concert features Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture, Borodin’s Symphony No. 2, and the winning work from the Jere Hutcheson Composition Competition, conducted by Katherine Kilburn.
The concert, conducted by Kevin L. Sedatole, features guest composer Frank Ticheli and tubist Phil Sinder with the Wind Symphony performing works by Ticheli, Williams, and Larsen.
Double Bassist Ira Gold works with MSU bass students.
The MSU Symphony Orchestra and choirs unite for a powerful evening of music, featuring Brahms, Strauss, and Mozart’s Requiem. Experience soaring voices, rich harmonies, and timeless emotion.
The concert features guest composer Frank Ticheli and MSU oboist Nermis Mieses. Performances include works by Gala Flagello, Frank Ticheli, Julie Giroux, David Maslanka, David Biedenbender, and Omar Thomas, conducted by David Thornton and Dana Sedatole.
“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.