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The performance of music is at the heart of the department's mission, practice, coursework, and community. Harvard's music concentration and its graduate program seek two complementary goals: to inform the performance of music through study of theory, composition, musicology, and ethnomusicology, and to provide the academic training and discipline that will benefit young scholars and composers. So, too Harvard's resources are both musical and scholarly. The Harvard's library system is one of the best in the world, its faculty is deeply involved in both research and teaching, and its campus is a hive of musical activity that includes master classes, concerts, student recitals, and the performance of new compositions.
"I have been overwhelmed by the quality of music-making at Harvard. The thing is, if you have an idea for something you want to do, Harvard has resources beyond your wildest dreams to make it happen. Where else in the world could I have, as a freshman, performed as principal flute in a Puccini Opera, had a piano concerto premiered, been asked to write a piece by students in a chamber music course, and done two solo recitals in a beautiful hall?"—Zach Sheets '13