Department of Music

Department of Music

The Department of Music is a community of scholars, creators, and performers dedicated to exploring music’s past, present, and future.

Department of Music

The Department of Music is a community of scholars, creators, and performers dedicated to exploring music’s past, present, and future.

Through multiple modes of inquiry and experience, the department advances new ways of understanding music as both creative expression and cultural practice throughout the world. The department promotes musical education, research, and engagement at the highest standards of excellence on an open and inclusive basis.

Academics

Music Making

The Department of Music at Brown offers a huge array of performing opportunities, all available for academic credit.

Ensembles

Students may choose to join one of the department's many performing groups
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Individual Lessons

Students seeking to improve their playing or singing ability have the option of taking individual private lessons with about thirty professional musicians from the greater Boston-Providence area.
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Recent News

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Brown Daily Herald

Brown alum and student help produce hit Broadway show ‘John Proctor is the Villain’

Before becoming a producer on the show, Nathan Winoto ’25 — a senior studying music, sociology and economics — was involved in theater at Brown. Since joining his first year, he has directed various productions at Brown, including Ensemble’s “Tick, Tick… Boom!” and Brown Opera Productions’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” In an interview with The Herald, Winoto said that joining his first Broadway show has been “very exciting.”
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