Music
Join Butler's Vocal and Instrumental music groups to become part of a strong community of musical talents. Improve your vocal range and instrumental music skills while practicing and performing with other musicians in a huge variety of musical styles. Whether you sing high or low, play in a concert band, orchestra, or rock on a bass guitar, you leave our program on a solid path to becoming a professional musician.
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Train Beyond the Double Bar - Your Best is Still Ahead
Challenge your music abilities in our nationally recognized music programs. Study under instructors who have industry experience as published authors, active performers, clinicians and are ready to be your personal tutors. Create music in a dynamic atmosphere designed for you to become true professionals.
Make Instrumental Music Magic
Share your musical instrument talent with others as you perform in front of live audiences. You'll have plenty of performance time so you can develop, challenge and hone your instrumental skills as we help you become a trained musician.
Perform in one of our instrumental ensembles with up to 80 students, including Concert Band, Show Band & Jazz Combo, Percussion Ensemble and more. Being a part of our bands means you’ll perform all over the nation, having the opportunity to take private lessons from our professional instructors along the way.
Learn all about our ensembles here.
Harmony is Key in Our Piano Lab
Refine your piano and keyboard skills in our state-of-the-art lab, designed to support both individual practice and collaborative learning. With multiple workstations and flexible pairing options, your instructor will guide you in targeting your strengths and expanding your musical abilities.
Vocalize Your Dreams
It’s a blazing fast two years full of butterflies, excitement, stage time, and fun all wrapped up in a nice financially affordable package. The Vocal Music Department will keep you movin’ with performances happening every few weeks.
Project your vocals in our small ensembles, including Chambers Singers, A Cappella, Headliners and Barbershop Quartets. Our large Concert Choir is known throughout the area for excellence. Check out our vocal groups.
Learn technique, style and how to perform professionally for a live audience. Take advantage of our relationship with area professionals, including the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Music Theatre of Wichita, The Kansas Dance Academy, the SmorgasChorus and the Wichita Grand Opera. Our students are often given the chance to perform, intern and study with these industry organizations. Guest clinicians come from all over to instruct you. We’re sort of a big deal.
Grizzlies in the Wild
Our graduates are literally across the whole nation. From Grammy winning Choral singers to characters at Disney, our students can be found everywhere. Perform professionally, write music, or seek a career in music education. Go into publishing, recording or producing. It’s at your fingertips when you complete a degree with us. What makes us special? We start you early. As a freshman or sophomore, you’ll take to the stage right away. The small class experience gives you one-on-one training large institutions can’t offer. Your employer will know the difference between you and a four-year institution student. When you’re a music or dance student at Butler, it’s known.
What You Can Do with a Music Degree
No matter what your dream job is, our instructors will give you the foundation to get started in your career in positions like:
- Band or Choir Director
- Musical Theatre Performer
- Church Musician
- Composer/Songwriter
- Music Therapist
- Event/Concert Promotion
- Musicologist
Box Office
To reserve tickets for our Fine Arts performances, view our box office information here.
Classes You'll Take
These are some examples of courses in our Music program.
- Theory of Music
- Aural Skills
- Concert Choir
- Concert Band
- Applied Piano
Music (Associate of Arts)
Make, Listen and Feel the Music at Butler
Perform Your Way to a Scholarship
Take advantage of our books and tuition scholarships by auditioning for one our of performance scholarships. The best part? You are not required to major in the field for which the scholarship is granted.
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