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.
With consecutive Wednesday recitals throughout July and into August at the MSU Beaumont Tower, we present performances featuring one of the most recognizable sounds of MSU. Located next to the MSU Museum on West Circle Drive, each concert begins at 6:00 p.m., rain or shine (canceled if there is severe weather is present). Concerts are free and open to the public. Picnics welcome.
Click here to view details about performances scheduled for this series.
The Summer Carillon Series was established in 1996 through the generosity of Dr. Milton Muelder whose career spanned more than 40 years at MSU. “People enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of an outdoor recital and you can’t get much better than the scenery MSU has to offer,” said MSU Carillonist Jon Lehrer. “All are welcome to attend and even bring along a picnic and spread out a blanket while they listen. It’s a great opportunity for children to come to a recital, too, as they don’t have to sit and be quiet all the time.”
All Carillon recitals are free and open to the public. Beaumont Tower is located in the West Circle Drive oval area on the MSU campus. It is recommended that those attending park at Stadium Lot #62. After each recital, the tower will be open for tours and a demonstration of the carillon. Click here for a map to Beaumont Tower.
Groups wishing to arrange a tour of the tower and carillon should contact University Carillonist Jon Lehrer at least one month before the proposed date of the tour.
Except where noted, tours of the tower and carillon are free and are usually offered for at least 20 minutes either before or after a concert. In a few instances, tours may occur during a carillon performance.
The carillon performance chamber is on the fourth floor of the tower (73 steps up) behind the clock face. There is no elevator or restroom facility in the structure.
MSU College of Music and Community Music School are offering students the opportunity to learn to play MSU’s 49-bell carillon in Beaumont Tower, on either a credit or not-for-credit basis.
Our carillon is a fully mechanical, touch sensitive keyboard instrument played with the hands and feet and is one of only several hundred of its kind.
Are you…
Then you are welcome to participate! Interested students should contact University Carillonist Jon Lehrer for more information.