The Department of Music provides an intensive course of study for music majors within Notre Dame’s rich liberal arts tradition. Our students engage performance, music theory, music history, and ethnomusicology in collaboration with a professionally accomplished faculty of performers and scholars.
In addition, the Department contributes to the broader musical life on campus through course offerings and abundant ensemble opportunities for majors and non-majors alike. Formal study of music at Notre Dame is complemented by the Department's extensive presentation of faculty and guest artist concerts, scholarly lectures, and student performances.
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Hailed as “one of the brightest new music ensembles on the scene today” by Gramophone Magazine, Bent Frequency is a performance ensemble that brings the avant-garde music tradition to life through adventurous programming. At Notre Dame, they will present an exciting mix of contemporary saxophone and percussion duos, including a commission by faculty composer John Liberatore.…
The ensemble of faculty and students from the Department of Music and Sacred Music at Notre Dame will perform medieval Gregorian chant and chant-based polyphony from the Renaissance. Organ music by Frescobaldi and other early keyboard composers will be played on the 1680 Neapolitan organ at the beginning, middle, and end of the program.…
Directed by Alexander Blachly, the Notre Dame Chorale along with the Festival Baroque Orchestra presents works from the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries, including a Bach cantata.
For tickets call 574-631-2800 or performingarts.nd.edu.…