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The Department of Music at Wayne State - where Detroit is your classroom.

The Department of Music cultivates music as a contemporary and global art, grounded in a long historical tradition, by combining higher education with professional training and experience for its undergraduate and graduate/professional students. The Department offers students of music opportunities to learn, grow, and develop their skills and disciplines in an urban cultural setting. With close proximity to Detroit's cultural center, students have access to the resources of such premiere institutions as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Public Library, the Detroit Opera House, and Orchestra Hall. The long historical relationship between the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Department allows students to study and coach with exceptional guest artists and resident artist-faculty who are specialists in all musical styles and media. Building on the strengths of its geographic and cultural setting, the Department maintains public access to its performances and degree programs, offers high-level professional and academic standards and unique creative and scholarly opportunities appropriate to a large research university, and cultivates a deep aesthetic understanding of music in our students and the larger urban arts community.

10/13/2026

🎤Voice Area Recital🎤

🗓Tuesday, October 20, 2026
⏰️7:30 PM
📍Schaver Music Recital Hall
🎟Free Admission

Join us for our first Voice Area Recital of the semester! A recital showcasing Wayne State students studying applied voice. Various repertoires and styles will be performed!

10/06/2026

🔉 Want to share your talents? 🔉

Join Wayne Sound Share at Dee Dee Bridgewater's Jazz Club (located underneath the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center) on Oct. 8th and Nov. 4th at 5:30pm for Open Mic 🎙️

🎧Come play your music and build with other artists in Wayne State’s community. Bring unfinished songs, beats, DJ sets, sound art, and sounds we haven’t thought of! 🎧

🧃Refreshments provided 🧃

❗FREE EVENT❗

🔗 Sign up: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=yd4c5R2BHUe75t09jVTCiwMhV_eM6EhLn2_c0AUX8SVUQVJCTjIwWVhRUVZCUUJORlBXSkhTQVQ5Vi4u&origin=QRCode&qrcodeorigin=presentation&route=shorturl

10/06/2026

🔔 Please Note the Date Change!

The Faculty Recital Series featuring Professor Kypros Markou, originally scheduled for October 7, has been rescheduled to November 11.

📅 New Date: November 11
🕐 7:30pm
📍Schaver Music Recital Hall

We look forward to seeing you then! 🎵

09/21/2026

📣CALLING ALL MIDDLE, HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, AND ADULT WOODWIND PLAYERS! 📣

🎺Woodwind Day @ Wayne State Fall 2026🎺
📅 Saturday, November 21
⏰ 9am-4pm
📍 Old Main Building at Wayne State University
🎟 Free Admission – All are welcome!
🔗Registration: https://cfpca.wayne.edu/music/community/outreach/woodwind-day

The Annual Woodwind Day@Wayne State is open to all area middle school, high school, college, or adult woodwind players with a passion for improvement in their musical abilities. The day is hosted by the Department of Music, the Woodwind Area faculty, and the undergraduate and graduate flute, clarinet, double reed, and saxophone studios. All participants will perform in the combined Detroit Woodwinds Ensemble.

09/18/2026

🗣High School Choir Directors: It's not too late to nominate your students for the Wayne State Sings! event this November 🎶

🎶Wayne State Sings!
📅 Friday, November 13, 2026
📍Wayne State University, Old Main

⏳Director nominations due October 2, 2026
🔗Nominate today: https://cfpca.wayne.edu/music/community/outreach/wayne-state-sings

Participants will engage in collaborative music-making, voice masterclasses, and music workshops led by university faculty. The experience will culminate in a festival concert featuring a mass choir directed by Dr. Erika Tazawa, Director of Choral Activities. Wayne State Sings! is designed for students grades 9-12. Official invitation of participants will be based on the recommendation and assessment of their chorus director and music teachers.

09/15/2026

🎻Faculty Recital Series: Hai Xin Wu, violin🎻

🗓Wednesday, September 23, 2026
⏰️7:30 PM
📍Schaver Music Recital Hall
🎟Free Admission

Join us for an exhilarating concert featuring Assistant Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony and Wayne State faculty member, Hai Xin Wu who will be joined by Dr. Zhihua Tang, associate professor of Collaborate piano at Michigan State University. The program will include Schubert Fantasy for violin and piano, and Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy, among others.

09/14/2026

📣CALLING ALL MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL BRASS PLAYERS! 📣

🎺Brass Day @ Wayne State 2026🎺
📅 Sunday, October 25th
⏰ 1-5pm
📍 Old Main Building at Wayne State University
🎟 Free Admission – All are welcome!
🔗 Register: https://cfpca.wayne.edu/music/community/outreach/brass-day

The Brass Day@Wayne State is open to any and all area middle and high school brass students with a passion for improvement in their playing abilities. Participants join WSU brass faculty for masterclasses and clinics, and enjoy a student showcase, faculty recital, and brass ensemble reading sessions. The event is FREE and includes a WSU Brass Day t-shirt.

09/04/2026

📣Calling all performing artist students!Are you interested in pursing an undergraduate or graduate degree in the performing arts!? 🎭🎶🎹🎺

✨Michigan Performing Arts College Fair ✨
📆 Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ 11am Admissions Panel, 12-2pm College Fair
📍 4715 Cass Ave.
🎟 Free Admission – All are welcome!
🔗Register Today! https://cfpca.wayne.edu/music/admissions/admissions-events/michiganperformingartscollegefair

The Wayne State College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts, in partnership with the Michigan State University College of Music and University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD), will host the Michigan Performing Arts College Fair on Saturday, October 10, 2026 at Wayne State University’s Hilberry Gateway building.

The event will begin at 11:00 AM with an Admissions Panel, during which admissions representatives from institutions across the nation will share insight and perspective on the performing arts admissions process. Following the panel, the event will transition into a College Fair from 12:00 to 2:00 PM, during which attendees will have the opportunity to speak with admissions representatives from the nation’s top colleges, universities, and conservatories to learn about their programs in all areas of the performing arts!

This unique event is geared toward students who are interested in pursuing a degree in the performing arts, both at the undergraduate or graduate level. Students, parents, and teachers are all welcome to attend.

09/03/2026

🎹Interested in pursuing an undergraduate or graduate music degree in the heart of Detroit?! Fill out an application to audition today! 💻

🔗 https://cfpca.wayne.edu/music/admissions/how-to-apply

🎶2026-2027 Audition Dates🎶
Friday, November 6, 2026
Friday, February 5, 2027
Friday, February 19, 2027
Friday, March 5, 2027
Friday, April 23, 2027

💰We offer talent and need-based scholarships. Applicants must audition by March 5 for full consideration.

09/02/2026

Join us in celebrating our Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts / Wayne State University Department of Music faculty, students, and alumni who will be featured in various performances this weekend at the Detroit Jazz Festival!

✨Wayne State Music Highlights for Monday, September 7th✨

🎟 Location: Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center
🕥11:30am: Detroit Public Schools Community District Jazz Showcase & Tottori Jazz Mission International Jam

🎟 Location: Pyramid Stage (Hart Plaza)
🕥3:30pm: Roberta Gambarini and the Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, featuring several WSU Jazz Alumni

🔗 See Full Wayne State Music Lineup: https://cfpca.wayne.edu/music/news/dee-dee-bridgewaters-jazz-club-grand-opening-wayne-state-universitys-dept-of-music-swings-into-26-detroit-jazz-festival-69983

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1321 Old Main
Detroit, MI
48202

Telephone

+13135771795

Website

http://music.wayne.edu/

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