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Want to know more about the Department of Music? Unsure exactly of the first year requirements for your prospective major? Interested in finding...
The Music Department provides all Princeton University students with the opportunity to learn from world-renowned composers, historians and theorists, to take instrumental or voice lessons in the private studios of eminent professional performers and performance courses in chamber music, opera, vocal ensembles, and to audition to perform with our six jazz groups, three choruses, two orchestras, a wind ensemble, a lap top orchestra. Students may also participate in a host of student-run ensembles including numerous a cappella groups, chamber music collective, an early music ensemble, opera company, composers collective, and a piano collective.




Scheide Professor of Music, Chair of the Department of Music, and Director of the Program in Italian Studies

Michael Pratt is the conductor of the Princeton University Orchestra and Director of the Program in Music Performance

The Anthony H. P. Lee '79 Director of Jazz at Princeton University, Mahanthappa is an award winning alto saxophonist/composer who is widely known as one of the premier voices in jazz of the 21st century.