Perform

Your home for performance

All courses, including our dance companies and music ensembles, are open to every student at NC State. With over 60 classes to choose from, more than 20 performing groups and dozens of student organizations, we provide opportunities that meet you where you are. Whether you’re interested in serious study of your art form or just want to get together with new friends for a casual jam session, you can continue performing no matter what major you choose.

In the Department of Performing Arts and Technology, we believe music and movement are essential expressions of the human experience. We’re here to help you follow your interests wherever they lead, and inspire lifelong involvement in the arts. dance and music community at NC State is vibrant and welcoming. Come join your Pack.

The [department] community has been my main community since coming to college. I’ve bonded with the other students in marching band, pep band and symphonic band every year.
Miranda Smith
Business Administration and Economics, 2022

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Ensembles

Take one or more of our ensemble courses which provide performance opportunities for student-performers with varying experience levels. Find your Pack while receiving high-quality instruction and doing something you love.

Image of a group of a cappella performers singing on stage. One of them is vaulting over the back of another.

Student organizations

Many of our affiliated student organizations provide opportunities to perform with a group of student-performers who share your specific interests. Check out our student-run vocal groups and clubs.

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Beginner classes

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to play the piano, read sheet music or improve your singing technique, enroll in one of our courses designed for beginners. Meet fellow students who share your curiosities while learning a new skill.

Take your study further with a minor

The Department of Performing Arts and Technology offers a minor in arts entrepreneurship, a minor in dance and a minor in music. The music minor has two available tracks in performance or general studies.

Arts Entrepreneurship Minor

Dance Minor

Music Minor

Resources for Students

Whether you’re enrolling in one of our performing groups or just looking for a place to get your fingers on the keys of a piano for an hour, we have resources to help you continue making music at NC State. All NC State students are eligible to reserve practice rooms at Price Music Center. Instrument rentals are available for students enrolled in our ensembles or pursuing a music performance minor.

The amount of resources @ncstatemusic gives us to ensure we stay musically engaged is truly amazing. Whether it be a practice room in Price or a studio room in Broughton, I can always find a place where I can enjoy making music. #GivingPack
— Carlos Molina (@itsyaboicarno) March 24, 2021

Practice rooms

Reserve a practice room in Price Music Center.

Equipment rentals

Rent an instrument or uniform for an ensemble.