The Kansas State University Music Program

Degrees and Accreditation. The Music Program offers degrees with specializations in the following areas: performance, performance with pedagogy emphasis, theory-composition, music education, music theater, and music history. A music minor is also offered.

Ensembles. The Music Program offers a fantastic variety of ensemble opportunities to all students at Kansas State University. Large ensembles include the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Concert Choir, and the K-State Marching Band—The Pride of Wildcat Land. Small ensembles offer instrumentalists and vocalists a broad range of chamber music settings to explore diverse musical styles such as classical, jazz, Latin, pop, and early music.Students who participate in ensembles enjoy many performance and travel opportunities. Students perform in Kansas State University’s own McCain Auditorium, All Faiths Chapel Auditorium, and other venues across campus and throughout Manhattan.Our ensembles perform at major regional, national, and international conferences and have traveled throughout the world. Some particularly notable destinations include Paris, London, Australia, Fiji, Ireland, Hawaii, Italy, and Dallas for the 2012 ATT Cotton Bowl. While a competitive audition is required to participate in many ensembles, some ensembles are open to any student. Please visit the ensemble and individual studio websites for more specific information and details about large and small ensembles at Kansas State University.

Keyboard Instruments. Organs include Austin Organs Op. 2352 (1961), the last three manual organ designed by James B. Jamison and the recipient of a Historic Organ Citation by the Organ Historical Society, a nine-rank mechanical organ by Werner Bosch Orgelbau (Op. 670, 1970), and a three-rank continuo organ by J.W. Walker & Sons (1989), a gift of the late Marion Pelton. For the performance of early music, the department owns two-manual harpsichords built by Anderson Dupree (1983), a gift of Robert and Jennifer Edwards and Rainer Schütze (1971), a gift of Marion Pelton. The Austin organ, housed in All Faiths Chapel Auditorium, has undergone major renovations. The first phase of the renovation, an investment of $60,000 took place in 2010. The second and final phase of the renovation, estimated at $80,000, was undertaken in 2012.

The Music Program’s Bullock Wing and Chandler Wing include eleven new upright pianos acquired between 2010 and 2012. Additional spaces contain two seven-foot grand pianos, acquired new in 2010 and 2012, respectively. In 2012, The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance acquired two upright pianos and a seven-foot grand piano for Nichols Hall. A new upright piano was acquired for McCain’s Graduate Seminar Room in 2011. The Wilson Chamber Music Room features a seven-foot Steinway grand piano, acquired in 2010.

McCain Auditorium. Kansas State University’s McCain Auditorium is the campus cultural center for the live performing arts. McCain has a rich history of bringing world-class engaging experiences to northeastern Kansas. McCain, which seats 1,751, serves students, faculty and staff, along with the general public. Performances are accessible to anyone to enjoy, and McCain hosts many family-friendly events.


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