DePauw University Institute of Music

DePauw University Institute of Music The Institute of Music offers majors in performance, music education, music business and music with a second major in the College of Liberal Arts.

The DePauw Institute of Music provides an excellent musical and intellectual foundation that prepares undergraduate musicians to be adaptive leaders, equipped to actively engage their communities and pursue a breadth of career paths. The DePauw Institute of Music has an established tradition of educating leaders in virtually every facet of music, including performers, educators, composers and admi

nistrators. With more than 150 concerts, recitals and master classes each year and a full range of ensembles, DePauw students enjoy many opportunities to learn their art through performance. The Institute of Music is located in the Green Center for the Performing Arts. The GCPA houses three performance halls, faculty studios, practice and rehearsal rooms, the Music and Media Library, the Music Instructional Technology Center, and a recording studio for student and faculty use. The GCPA also features state-of-the-art environmental controls and soundproof architecture.

FIRST FRIDAY (9/4@6PM, M2): Start the school year with a musical adventure at Music on the Square's Instrument Petting Z...
09/01/2026

FIRST FRIDAY (9/4@6PM, M2): Start the school year with a musical adventure at Music on the Square's Instrument Petting Zoo. Learn about DePauw Creative School's Community Music Program, meet our student instructors and sound out your hidden musical talents in the friendly atmosphere of Music on the Square (21 N. Indiana St). Free and fun for all ages! 🎶🎷🥁🎻🎶

For information, contact Prof. Ming-Hui Kuo ([email protected]).

We pause momentarily from our regularly scheduled programming to share this tribute to the ever-original, ever-sparkly, ...
08/26/2026

We pause momentarily from our regularly scheduled programming to share this tribute to the ever-original, ever-sparkly, supremely talented multi-hyphenate Dolly Parton (1946–2026) 😇:

Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. https://nyti.ms/4wTb58D

Come sing with us! Putnam County Choir resumes 8/25@7PM!
08/24/2026

Come sing with us! Putnam County Choir resumes 8/25@7PM!

SUNDAY (8/23@4PM, M2): Old friends and former DePauw University piano professor Lorna Griffitt and her husband, the virt...
08/23/2026

SUNDAY (8/23@4PM, M2): Old friends and former DePauw University piano professor Lorna Griffitt and her husband, the virtuoso violinist Harotune Bedelian, reunite Sunday with emeriti music professors, pianist Claude Cymerman and cellist Eric Edberg, to perform music by Clara Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Bizet and Saint-Saëns. Their free concert at Music on the Square (21 N. Indiana) is sponsored by the Greencastle Summer Music Festival and dedicated to the memory of our beloved friend, mentor and former faculty member Maureen Carkeek. 😇 🫶

Be heard! Come sing with the DePauw and Putnam County Festival Choirs! 🎶
08/18/2026

Be heard! Come sing with the DePauw and Putnam County Festival Choirs! 🎶

08/11/2026

WEDNESDAY (8/12@7PM Gobin): The final concert of the Greencastle Summer Music Festival features DePauw director of jazz studies Steve Snyder! Check it out. It's free! 🎶

Advice to new Tigers from one of our favorite faculty members: "Take advantage of every resource you need—we're here for...
08/11/2026

Advice to new Tigers from one of our favorite faculty members: "Take advantage of every resource you need—we're here for you." — Prof. Craig Paré, director of bands

08/05/2026

WEDNESDAY (8/5@7PM Gobin Church): Preview of Ming-Hui Kuo, George Kolodsick and Percussion Group DePauw's free concert for Greencastle Summer Music Festival 🎶

08/05/2026

WEDNESDAY (8/5@7PM Gobin Church): George Kolodsick '26, winner of our annual Concerto Competition, performs with his teacher Dr. Ming-Hui Kuo and Percussion Group DePauw in Greencastle Summer Music Festival's "A Cornucopia of Musical Colors" exploring the expressive and imaginative sound of marimba!

PREMIERING SATURDAY! DePauw wishes music alum Andrew Harris ‘04 and the cast and creative team of the Santa Fe Opera a t...
07/31/2026

PREMIERING SATURDAY! DePauw wishes music alum Andrew Harris ‘04 and the cast and creative team of the Santa Fe Opera a thrilling opening night for the American premiere of Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s groundbreaking opera Lili Elbe (Aug. 1–27). This is Harris’s third season with Santa Fe!

The production, directed by James Robinson, brings to life the artists’ milieux of 1920s-30s Paris and Copenhagen. Tune in to NMPBS ¡Colores! Saturday (8/1@4PM) for a conversation with Tobias Picker and Lucia Lucas about the story of the opera and what it means to bring this acclaimed work to U.S. audiences. www.youtube.com/

Lili’s journey — marked by love, loss and self-discovery — is the t...

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Greencastle, IN
46135

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