If you’re looking for a welcoming ensemble where you can play music with friends, the Symphonic Band might be just what you’re looking for.

Fresh Flutes is an ensemble know for amazing instruments, edgy music, and new techniques — but it’s the camaraderie and the musical challenge that makes it remarkable.

Hip-Hop Culture and Digital Practice (MUS-202) uses the tools and language of contemporary hip-hop to help you better understand both the music and its cultural context. From day one, you’ll be immersed in the study, creation, and performance of music with an African American aesthetic and production style that is frequently underrepresented in academia.

In Introduction to Music Studies (MUS 100), you will explore music and the ways it can shape our lives. You will expand your understanding of music’s importance in our society as a formative component of history, culture, identity, and creativity, while learning some basic skills that can help you become more creative, skilled, and equitable musicians yourselves.

Through her experiences in distinguished summer festivals and on-campus performance ensembles, Claire Davis ’22 found her place within the music department as well as a path to her future.

Auditions for the Grinnell Singers will take place Aug. 26–28.

The Grinnell Jazz Ensemble, joined by Toronto-based tenor saxophonist Alex Dean, will present a concert featuring music composed, arranged, and performed by musicians from Canada on Friday, Dec. 6.