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Include dance and music in your NC State experience

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Experience dance and music at NC State

Our dance companies, music ensembles, minors and affiliated student organizations are open to all students at NC State, regardless of major. Join your Pack today.

Perform with us 
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Study arts entrepreneurship, dance or music

We offer a wide range of music courses that satisfy your major’s GEP requirements, in addition to performance ensembles and minors in dance, music or arts entrepreneurship. Follow your interests where they lead.

Find a minor or course 
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Find your Pack

Join one of more than a dozen student organizations devoted to dance or music interests, both performing and non-performing, and make friends for life.

Join your Pack 

Upcoming Events

All Events
Mar 26

Sunday7:30 PM

Wolfgang A Cappella Spring Concert
Mar 29

Wednesday12:00 PM

The Lunchbox Series: Monica West and Tara Z. Mullins
Apr 02

Sunday4:00 PM

Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra: Rituals and Renewals

Connect With Us

At NC State, our student-performers come from every college on campus to perform in our dance companies, music ensembles, study music or arts entrepreneurship, and find their community.

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“[The department is] genuinely one of the happiest communities I’ve ever been a part of. Everybody in the department is there because they care about making music with other people.”

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Anna Lee, ’22

Founder & President, Music Theory Club
Minor in Flute Performance

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Home of the Power Sound of the South®

With more than 300 active members in the world’s most dangerous marching band, and thousands of alumni all over the world, our Wolfpack is strong.

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Spring 2023 Departmental Recitals

The Department of Performing Arts and Technology’s Spring recitals will take place on March 23, March 28, April 4 and April 13 at 7:00 p.m. in Price Music Center room… 
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Announcing the New Department of Performing Arts and Technology

It’s a historic day for dance and music at NC State. After being charged to bring dance and music faculty together into one department last year by Vice Chancellor and Dean… 

Trumpet Section Leader Joshua Fesmire Receives Toni Christine Masini Scholarship

The NC State Department of Music named trumpet section leader, Joshua Fesmire, as the recipient of the 2022-2023 Toni Christine Masini Memorial Scholarship. 

Inspire lifelong performing

When you support the Department of Performing Arts and Technology, you’re providing resources that enable NC State students to continue learning and performing now and into the future, just like these Power Sound of the South® alumni.

Join our passionate alumni community in their commitment to the student-performers of NC State by making a gift to the Dance or Music Enhancement Funds.

Dance or Music Enhancement 
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Flute performance minor and 2019-20 Toni Christine Masini Memorial Music Scholarship recipient Reece Neff, ’20, speaks with Mickie Masini, Toni’s mother, following the scholarship presentation at the ECU football game on Aug. 31. Photo by Dan Jahn.