Engagement

Through our engagement efforts with our community partners, we endeavor to build a more inclusive and musical society.

If you interested in financially supporting School of Music community engagement efforts, please contact:  

Peter Rozga
Office of Institutional Advancement
220 Johnston Hall
101 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
rozga001@umn.edu
612-624-2848

To connect with the School of Music about a potential partnership opportunity, please contact this email address.

Since 2009, the School of Music has been exploring engagement opportunities that are beneficial for both our community partners and our students and faculty.

Single Project Community Engagement Grants

For the past 10 years, the School of Music Community Engagement Team awarded dozens of mini-grants to faculty and students with community engagement projects.  The grants defrayed the costs that typically make such projects unattainable: travel, busing, printing, and commissioning scores and parts, among other incidentals. This year, the Community Engagement Leadership Team will be pausing for a year of reflection to assess and develop the mini-grant program based on feedback from previous grant recipients and community partners. Past projects have included:

  • DMA Conducting candidate, Amanda Weber, started a women's choir at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Shakopee at the request of the prison's director of education. 
  • Undergraduate alumnus, Spencer Brand, organized a U of M Brass Symposium for his alma matter, Alexandria High School,
  • DMA Conducting alumna, Caroline Hand, partnered with Blaine High School to launch an "R-Word Campaign" concert that featured an inclusive group of the high school choir and the special education students, who were supported by a chamber group of music education and music therapy majors.

Check out the previous projects funded by School of Music Community Engagement Grants.