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Carleton College

Department of Music

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Northfield,Minnesota 55057
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DEGREES OFFERED

Bachelor of Arts in Music

Minor in Music Performance

Minor in Music


The Music Department is a vibrant department that enrolls over five hundred students every term in a flexible and broad curriculum that offers an array of courses in performance, composition, theory, history, popular music, electronic music, media, and ethnomusicology.

Notable Alumni Include:

Julian D. Killough-Miller, David L. McFerrin, Patricia Nieman, William E. Sturman, Julian B. Pozniak, Patrick M. O’Reilly, Rohan Mukherjee, Woo Jin Lee, Jack E. Hardwick, Stella J. Fritzell, Jennifer A. Facciani, Amanda E. Crawford, Mikyla R. Carpenter, Noah P. Brackenbury.




Faculty Info:

Gwen Anderson, Laura Caviani, Susan Crawford, Lynn Deichert, Liz Ericksen, Loren Fishman, Andy Flory, Janean Hall, Zacc Harris, Gao Hong, Martha Jamsa, Jay Johnson, Greg Keel, Yaron Klein, Merilee Klemp, Mark Kreitzer, Mark Krusemeyer, Justin London, Connie Martin, Andrea Mazzariello, Brooke McCorkle, Matthew McCright, Nikki Melville, Elinor Niemisto, Nina Olsen, Matthew Olson, Zachery Pelletier, Rick Penning, Ann Pesavento, Thomas Rosenberg, Melinda Russell, JC Sanford, Travis Schilling, Hector Valdivia, KrisAnne Weiss, David Whetstone, Marcia Widman.



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Past Student Productions

SHOW THEATER
Everybody
(10/21/21 - 10/30/21)
Carleton College
Bull
(2/27/20 - 2/29/20)
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Songs For A New World in Broadway Songs For A New World
(11/14/19 - 11/16/19)
Carleton College
The Heidi Chronicles
(10/18/19 - 10/26/19)
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The Dance and the Railroad
(5/3/19 - 5/11/19)
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The Lover
(4/18/19 - 4/20/19)
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ASSASSINS in Broadway ASSASSINS
(4/26/18 - 4/29/18)
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