Announcing the Joyce Castle Campaign for KU Opera. With this effort, we have a fantastic opportunity to create a permanent fund supporting the opera program at KU. In doing so, we honor an extraordinary champion of this vital program in the School of Music. Read more...
PROTECT KU: READ ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY AND KU MUSIC PLANS TO REOPEN CAMPUS
- General Information for Spring 2021 music students: music.ku.edu/safety
- Protocols for ensembles: Band, Choral, Jazz, and Orchestras
- Details on the university’s protocols for re-opening campus can be found at Protect KU.
Among the finest music schools in the United States, the KU School of Music offers comprehensive programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. For generations, the School of Music has provided the soundtrack to KU's rich traditions. Our students perform on the world's biggest stages, learn from leading experts in their fields and take their studies beyond the classroom to concert halls, clinics, schools and hospitals.
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KU Cello Club Conference highlights
KU Cello Club Conference: April 14-17, 2021
Behind the Music: Exploring Social Issues in Music
Panel: Addressing Social Issues in Music with Du Yun, Mazz Swift, and inti figgis-vizueta
Gabriella Bernard presented at the Global Scholars Seminar
KU Jazz Ensemble I earns top DownBeat Student Music Award
LAWRENCE, KS – KU Jazz Ensemble I, under the direction of Dan Gailey, has been named co-winners as the best graduate college large jazz ensemble in the country in the 44th Annual DownBeat Student Music Awards.
Student News: Sara McClure awarded graduate student research travel grant
Sara McClure (PhD candidate, musicology) was recently awarded the Graduate Student Research Travel Grant from the Hall Center for the Humanities. She'll be using the award to research concert life in 19th-century St. Louis, Missouri, particularly at the Missouri Historical Society and Gaylord Music Library at Washington University, for her dissertation.
Registration Now Open
Our 2020 camp was a resounding success, with over 1,900 participants from over 40 states and 6 countries!
While we look forward to resuming our in-person camp in the future, we will once again offer our virtual camp this summer. Thanks to the generous support of the Band of Angels program, our 2021 Virtual Midwestern Music Camp will once again be FREE for all participants. Signup today!