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The Department of Music showcases #ThrivingArtists of all disciplines and encourages its students to develop their relationship to the discipline of music as they explore the world through the lens of a superb liberal arts education. The Department of Music prepares students to excel as performers, educators, composers, entrepreneurs, and patrons of the musical arts. Whether you aspire to make music your profession or simply participate in music classes and activities, you have a place here. There are several opportunities to support the Department of Music below:
Department of Music: Music Excellence Scholarship Fund
The Department of Music at Miami University has established a tradition of excellence throughout its long history. The newly established Music Excellence Scholarship Fund will support undergraduate students majoring in Music through renewable scholarship awards.
Department of Music General Fund
This discretionary account provides immediate funding to help support the various needs of the department, including hosting visiting artists and scholars.
Instrumental Area:
Miami Clarinet Ensemble Goes To Ireland
The Miami University Clarinet Ensemble hopes to perform at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest in Ireland in Summer 2024. Donations will help with funding for travel and overall expenses.
Marching Band
This fund can be used at the discretion of the band director for immediate expenses that are needed to help the band succeed. This year the fund will help us take the field again after not being able to perform last year. We aim to provide a great experience for the 2023 football season for new and returning members for the MUMB!
Steel Band
The Miami University Steel Band has established a tradition of excellence over its 30-year history. The ensemble has given hundreds of performances, invited prominent guest artists to campus and made critically acclaimed recordings. Funds raised will help the Steel Band produce its 2023-2024 concert season, including our 30-year Anniversary Celebration, on Saturday, April 20, 2024.
Symphony Orchestra
Miami University Symphony Orchestra is selected to perform at the National Conference of the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) in Nashville, TN in the Spring 2024! This will help the orchestra pay for transportation, food, and accommodations.
Gary A. and Jennifer Kelley Speck Wind Ensemble Endowment
The Miami University Wind Ensemble is composed of the fifty finest wind and percussion performers on campus....and hundreds of alumni. The ensemble performs traditional wind band literature, chamber music, and new works entering the repertoire. True to the spirit of an outstanding liberal arts university, the ensemble is open to students of all disciplines by audition each semester. Show your support for the Wind Ensemble by making a donation today!
Choral and Voice Area:
Choraliers
The Miami University Choraliers has been selected to perform at the 2024 Ohio Music Educators Association Professional Development Conference in Columbus, February 1-3. Funds raised will help defray costs associated with this invited conference performance.
Men's Glee Club
In 2022, Glee Club announced its campaign, the March to a Million as we march to $1 million in endowment funds, an unimaginable figure for an organization that had no endowment at all not so long ago. Our plan is to celebrate this monumental success at the Glee Club’s Home Concert in the spring of 2024. We enter this annual campaign with three goals: to reach 200 individual donors, to raise $20,000 and to reach 10 sustaining donors in the 1907 Tradition of Excellence Circle. All gifts to Miami University Men’s Glee Club are greatly appreciated. With the increasing costs of performing, touring, concert attire and other annual needs, each gift makes a difference to the Glee Club. Your gift to the Glee Club is a gift to Miami and helps benefit the student’s overall Miami Experience. Your support also helps sustain the traditions and aspirations of the Glee Club as a world-class men’s choral organization.
Opera Program
Miami Opera Theater has won four national awards, confirming our long tradition of success. Donations will help us ensure that these experiences of excellence continue serving our students well into the future.
Vocal Arts Fund
Miami Vocal Arts is an exciting part of the growth of our voice program at Miami. Whether an educator, singer, arts administrator, or lawyer, alumni feel strongly that their education in the voice program at Miami was an important start to their success. Donations will allow Vocal Arts at Miami continue to thrive, funding master classes, special projects and performances, and competitive scholarship opportunities.
