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.
Moni Simeonov, violinist and chair of the Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Institute of the Colburn School works with MSU Students.
Antonia Di Cristofano works with MSU piano students.
Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, encompassing all human emotions from doubt to triumph, will be performed alongside a student-composed Fanfare, conducted by Octavio Más-Arocas.
Watch student entrepreneurs pitch innovative music business ideas to a live audience and judges, competing for up to $2,500 in funding.
Delight in seasonal selections reflecting Asian cultures and traditions.
Part of the MSUFCU Jazz Artist in Residence.
Rick Roe works with MSU Jazz students.
Experience an extraordinary chamber recital featuring oboe, trumpet, and the Red Cedar Organ in MSU’s Alumni Memorial Chapel, with artists Nermis Mieses, Justin Emerich, and Hae Won Jang.
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.
Rick Row, renowned jazz pianist, combines intricate harmonies and lyrical improvisation in captivating musical narratives. His repertoire ranges from timeless standards to original compositions.
Join us for a special recital celebrating Philip Sinder’s 43rd and final year at MSU, featuring solo and chamber works for tuba performed by Sinder and friends.
A evening of quintessential romantic music for piano featuring works by Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Schumann, and Chaminade performed by MSU pianist Eric Zuber.
Generously sponsored by Michael and Paula Koppisc.
Enjoy a violin recital by MSU’s Dmitri Berlinsky, accompanied by alumnus Jiarui Cheng on piano, featuring Schubert’s Fantasy for Violin and Piano and a diverse selection of classical pieces.
The program, conducted by Arris Golden, features works by Fletcher, Magnuson, Woolfenden, Thomas, and Morales-Matos.
Stella Chen will work with MSU students and have an interactive conversation with Dmitri Berlinsky, MSU professor of violin.
This concert features music from Jurassic Park, The Sound of Music, Harry Potter, and the Concert Orchestra Concerto Competition winner, conducted by Katherine Kilburn.
Saxophonist Nicolas Prost and jazz pianist Sébastien Paindestre present “At the Border of Jazz,” blending classical precision and jazz spontaneity with works by Shorter, D’Rivera, Marsalis, and others, featuring pieces written exclusively for the duo.