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.
Committee membership is updated immediately following MSU College of Music elections, before new terms take effect.
Area | Faculty | Expires |
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Brass | Justin Emerich | Spring 2026 |
Composition | David Biedenbender | Spring 2027 |
Conducting | Sandra Snow | Spring 2027 |
Musicology/Ethnomusicology | Kevin Bartig | Spring 2025 |
Jazz Studies | Rodney Whitaker | |
Music Education | Karen Salvador | Spring 2025 |
Music Theory | Michael Callahan | Spring 2027 |
Percussion | Gwen Dease | |
Piano | Deborah Moriarty | Spring 2025 |
Strings | Suren Bagratuni | Spring 2026 |
Vocal Arts | Richard Fracker | Spring 2027 |
Woodwinds | Mingzhe Wang | Spring 2025 |
Faculty | Category | Expires |
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Elden Little | Performance | Spring 2026 |
Cara Stroud | Academic | Spring 2025 |
Nermis Mieses | Performance | Spring 2025 |
Sarah Long | Academic | Spring 2026 |
Richard Desinord | At-Large: no area rotation | Spring 2025 |
Faculty | Category | Expires |
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Chris Scales | Academic | Spring 2026 |
Zhihua Tang | Performance | Spring 2026 |
Marcie Ray | Academic | Spring 2025 |
Xavier Davis | Performance | Spring 2025 |
TBD | At-Large: no area rotation | Spring 2025 |
Emily Henley | Staff | Spring 2026 |
Lupe Dominguez | Staff | Spring 2025 |
TBD | Student | Spring 2026 |
TBD | Student | Spring 2025 |
Faculty | Category | Expires |
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Octavio Más-Arocas | Performance | Spring 2025 |
Nick Schumacher | Acad: Theory/Comp | Spring 2027 |
Ken Prouty | Acad: Ed/Musicology | Spring 2025 |
Melanie Helton | Performance | Spring 2027 |
Michael Callahan | At-Large: Theory/Comp | Spring 2025 |
Faculty | Expires |
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Eric Zuber, chair | Spring 2026 |
Dmitri Berlinsky | Spring 2027 |
James Sullivan | Spring 2025 |
Alexis Bacon | Spring 2026 (on leave 2024-25) |
Faculty | Category | Expires |
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Karen Salvador | Acad: Ed/Musicology | Spring 2027 |
Walter Blanding | Performance | Spring 2027 |
James Sullivan | Acad: Theory/Comp | Spring 2025 |
Marc Embree | Performance | Spring 2025 |
Ryan Shaw | At-Large: Ed/Musicology | Spring 2024 |
Faculty | Category |
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Michael Kroth, Chair | Associate Dean of Undegraduate Studies |
Christine Bastian | Assistant Dean of Operations |
Alexis Bacon | Academic |
Kenneth Prouty | Academic |
Jane Bunnell | Applied |
Michael Dease | Applied |
Justin Baker | IT Services |
Jen Shangraw | Recording Services |
Andrea Worful | Budget |
Chuck Roberts | Operations/A&I |
David Foster | Piano Technology |
Faculty | Expires |
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Gordon Sly, chair | Spring 2025 |
Jon Weber | Spring 2026 |
Derek Polischuk | Spring 2027 |
Faculty | Term |
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Guy Yehuda | 2024-2026 |
Committee | Faculty | Term |
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University Committee on Academic Governance | Gordon Sly | 2023-2026 |
University Committee on Undergraduate Education | Anthony Stanco | 2024-2027 |
University Committee on Curriculum | Zhou Tian | 2024-2027 |
University Committee on Faculty Affairs | Melanie Helton | 2023-2026 |
University Committee on Faculty Tenure | Michael Dease | 2022-2025 |
University Committee on Graduate Studies | Sarah Long | 2024-2025 |
University Academic Hearing Boards | Katherine Kilburn James Sullivan Walter Blanding | 2024-2027 |
Committee | Faculty | Term |
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University Committee on International Studies and Programs | Walter Blanding | 2023-2025 |
University Committee for the Library | Ryan Shaw | 2023-2026 |
University Committee on Honors Programs | James Sullivan | 2023-2025 |