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A Performing Arts School Within a Major University
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance educates the artists, scholars, educators and entrepreneurs of the future. Students are prepared with expert skills, instilled with passionate enthusiasm, and emboldened to challenge and inspire the world through the power of the performing arts.
Melody Racine, Interim Dean
School of Music, Theatre & Dance - Performances & Events
Looking Back: 20th Century Dress from the Historic Costume Collection
9/24/2017-9/29/2017 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10/1/2017-10/6/2017 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Duderstadt Center (Media Union), Gallery - Faculty & Staff
SMTD's faculty are celebrated artists and scholars who are equally acclaimed as brilliant teachers.
Christopher Harding, Associate Professor of Piano Performance and Chamber Music, and Chair of Piano
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Recognizing extraordinary excellence in performing arts entrepreneurship, leadership, and social impact, the EXCELprize will insure sustainability of festival in future years.
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Michigan Muse is SMTD's alumni magazine.
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SMTD has partnered with the Gershwin family to bring the music of George and Ira Gershwin to students, scholars, performers and audiences across campus and worldwide.
- Facilities
SMTD has an array of facilities for study, practice, research, performance, inspiration, and collaboration. Hill Auditorium (above) is one of several fine performance venues on campus.
Performing Arts Technology
Media Gallery
Michigan Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Techno Artist Carl Craig
PAT Overview: faculty members describe the program and the variety of skills students gain.
more PAT videos
A moment from the April 2016 Gypsy Pond installation
A glimpse of the past 20 years of the Digital Music Ensemble
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PAT 313 - Electronic Chamber Music
In C (1964) by Terry Riley - Digital Music Ensemble
Litany for the Whale (1980) by John Cage - DME (ensemble-only version)
Litany for the Whale (1980) by John Cage - DME (audience-interaction version)
Two cultures that don't often meet - music and hockey - combined for an unprecedented performance event.
Selected clips from the 2014 PAT Showcase Concert
PAT graduate Macklin Underdown's tunes as fthrsn
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Media Arts Graduate student Conor Barry's group Men of The Cloth
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Senior PAT major Simon Alexander-Adams' web 7" for everythingischemical
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Sophomore PAT major Isaac Levine's let me into your life for no reason
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Freshman PAT major Jonathan Chun's Fratricide EP
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The willo collective's first compilation
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Digital Music Ensemble plays vidGod -- music by Stephen Rush, book by Michael Rodemer.
Four Organs (1970) by Steve Reich - Digital Music Ensemble
Digital Music Ensemble and Pauline Oliveros - Sound Piece 1
Interview with Professor Stephen Rush about his new work, "U.S. Grant", Fluxus, his creative process and some of his influences.
