New Student Days - Fall 2008   AUDITION INFORMATION Placement in ensembles and lessons:  Tuesday, August 26, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. & 4:30-6 p.m.  Piano auditions:  Wednesday, August 27, 10 a.m.-12 Noon & Thursday, August 28, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sign-up for an audition time on the board in the music wing of the Drew Fine Arts Bldg.  Bring a solo piece to your audition.  Students maybe asked to play scales and sightread.    To contact a faculty member over the summer, please go to Student Forms at this website.

Music The Music Department is widely recognized for its excellent training of students in performance, education, history, theory and composition. For more than 50 years the department has provided a training environment for College of Liberal Arts students, producing musicians of distinction for careers in a variety of professional fields, and educating amateurs to know and make music. The faculty are dedicated professional musicians who are active in both performance and teaching. The department has been an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) since 1961. Our discipline is best experienced by the making of music, through singing, playing, composing, improvising and moving. It is enhanced through reflective study, critical thinking, and analytic and historic contextual study. The synthesis of the physical, intellectual, and spiritual knowing of music is both our method and our goal. All music courses, lessons, and ensembles are open to nonmajors. Some of those require students to be highly skilled, others require intermediate level skills, others are designed to initiate the newcomer to the study of music. Hamline's ensembles include students from all areas of the College of Liberal Arts. These ensembles range in size from large (45) to small (4), and include the A Cappella Choir, instrumental chamber ensembles, Jazz Band, jazz combos, Orchestra, Renaissance (Chamber Singers), Wind Ensemble, and Women's Chorale.