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.
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.
Lessons and Ensembles in Fall 2024
Ensembles and 1-on-1 lessons begin their meetings soon. Auditions come first and take place starting in Week 1 of the semester. Sign up for your audition today!
Academics
Undergraduate
Our diverse curriculum combines creative courses in composition, technology, and performance with speculative studies in history, theory, ethnomusicology, philosophy, and musical aesthetics.
Graduate
At Brown, your degree is what you make it: the more adventurous you are, the more exciting your program is likely to be.
Music Making
The Department of Music at Brown offers a huge array of performing opportunities, all available for academic credit.
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.
Recent News
News from the Department of Music
Professor Butch Rovan's FRUDI Interface Selected as One of the Top Innovations of 2024 by Innovations@Brown
Voting will help determine whether Professor Rovan's interface, FRUDI, advances to the final stage of the Innovation@Brown award selection process
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News from the Department of Music
James May Selected by New Music Mosaic in 2024-25 Call for Collaborators
PhD candidate in Music & Multimedia Composition to compose new work for saxophone and viola in 2024-25
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RIFoundation.org
Enongo Lumumba Kasongo Receives Grant from Rhode Island Foundation
Assistant Professor of Music Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo was one of three musicians awarded $30,000 grants from the Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund at the Rhode Island Foundation.
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