Department of Performing Arts

Prospective Students

Should you decide to attend Georgetown, you'll be getting a letter over the summer inviting you to the Performing Arts Open House where you can meet all of the student leaders and professional staff. The Open House is usually the day before classes begin.

Music at Georgetown University

Georgetown has a very active performing arts program, and the music program has just begun a period of rapid expansion.  The new music curriculum, staff and ensembles are largely focused music of the Americas.  While we still play and teach most of the usual suspects (Bach, Beethoven and the boys), we offer lots of jazz, popular, film and folk music, technology, performance, twentieth-century music and musical theatre.

The Music Program consists of courses and degree programs, and a wide variety of student-run and professionally-led groups and ensembles operated by the Department of Performing Arts.

Music Degrees

Georgetown University is proud to annouce a new major in American Musical Culture. This degree is designed for students interested in pursuing careers and/or graduate study in: American Studies, arts management, cultural criticism, entertainment law, media studies, music journalism or musicology. A minor in music is also offered and consists of courses in music history, criticism, theory, composition, audio technology and performance. For more info on both the major in American Musical Culture and the minor, click here!

Music Courses

We also offer a wide range of academic courses from early modern European music to popular American and world music of the present day.  For a complete list of courses (performance, theory and history) click here!

Submission of Supplemental Music Materials

Applying to Georgetown? Interested in sending recordings of your performance or your resume directly to members of the music faculty? For more info about how to submit supplemental music materials, click here!

Performing Groups

For students interested in performing music at Georgetown, there's a great variety of academic and co-curricular groups (which award college credit) including A Cappella groups, Jazz and pep bands and several orchestras. For a complete listing of ensemble offerings click here!

Music Lessons

Lessons are available to all students in most instruments through the Levine School of Music at its Northwest DC Campus (Upton Street).

Practice Rooms

Practice rooms are available.  Students taking music lessons are given first priority, but after the third week of the semester, the rooms are then available to all the performing arts students and then to the general student body. Please see our facilities page for more information.

Theater at Georgetown University

Theater Degrees

The major in Theater and Performance Studies includes a balance of creative and scholarly courses, as well as courses that explicitly integrate the two. For more info on both the major in Theater and Performance Studies and the minor, click here!

Theater Courses

For a complete list of courses click here!

Submission of Supplemental Theater Materials

Applying to Georgetown? Interested in sending recordings of your performance or your resume directly to members of the theater faculty? For more info about how to submit supplemental theater materials, click here!

Performing Groups

There are a number of ways to participate in theater at Georgetown. Perform. Design, Direct. Build. Work backstage. Write. Take your pick, and join us!

Theater and Performance Studies Program Season
Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society
Black Theatre Ensemble
Nomadic Theatre
Georgetown Players