Training
•Official music concentration within Hillsdale's standard major fields
•Broad liberal arts music curriculum emphasizes performance, theory, and music history within a classical education framework
•Senior recital required on primary instrument or voice, or a half recital plus an approved project in theory, history, pedagogy, composition, or conducting
•Students may double major in music and another discipline
Performance & Productions
•Music majors participate in an appropriate ensemble and private study on their primary instrument or voice each semester
•Campus ensembles include orchestra, choir, chamber choir, big band, pep band, and chamber ensembles
•Professional Artists Series brings eminent musicians to campus for master classes and clinics
Professional Development
•Music scholarship process includes a fall prescreen and spring audition for invited candidates
•Student music organizations include Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha, and Mu Alpha
Facilities
•John E.N. and Dede Howard Music Hall includes two recital halls, 25 practice rooms, a jazz studio, and a percussion studio
