Past Events

Among its many performance opportunities, the Music Department offers students who are both advanced performers and are interested in the academic study of music the chance to participate in the Marian Anderson Performance Program. Open to music majors and minors who successfully audition, this program allows select undergraduate students to merge their academic and performance instruction to become well-rounded musicians.

Penn Chorale is an ensemble that sings a variety of choral music, concentrating on music composed in the 21st and late 20th centuries. Join the Penn Chorale on Sunday, March 19, 4:00 PM for a Spring Concert that touches on the many facets of the season.

The newly formed Penn Chamber Orchestra will be presenting their very first concert with some of the most iconic works of the genre, featuring music by Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn.

In this concert, Trefoil, “a hearty trio of medieval minstrels” (Philadelphia Inquirer) active since the start of the current millennium, will present songs from the Pennsylvania Chansonniere by Machaut and his contemporaries. With its trademark combination of voices and medieval plucked strings, Trefoil will bring these meta-texts alive in “otherworldly harmonies” (New York Times) with “subtlety, blend and nuance” (NPR) for the modern listener.

Composer Ted Moore will teach a week-long workshop March 6-10, 2023 on incorporating machine learning into creative and artistic practices. His workshops will focus on using the FluCoMa (Fluid Corpus Manipulation) toolkit in the MaxMSP programming language.

Please join us for a live concert performance by the Daedalus Quartet, either in-person or virtually!

As part of the 2022-23 Penn Music Colloquium Series, the Penn Music Department presents Marcos Balter, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, to discuss his recent works.