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The Mary Pappert School of Music is a leader in the field of educating aspiring professional musicians. Whether your interests lie in performance, technology, education or therapy, the School of Music has the faculty and resources to prepare you for your future career.

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Top Tier Ranking

U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 ranking of America’s Best Colleges placed Duquesne University in the top tier of over 1,400 colleges surveyed.

The report evaluates universities on the basis of 15 different qualities, including peer assessment, graduation and retention, class size, student/faculty ratio, selectivity, SAT/ACT scores, freshman retention, alumni giving, financial resources and more.

Spotlight

Renowned composer, John Adams receives honorary doctorate from the Mary Pappert School of Music.

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Mark Koch, assistant chair of the guitar department and director of the Guitar & Bass Workshop, recently received an exclusive Artist/Educator endorsement from Benedetto Jazz Guitars.

Master's degree candidate, Rochelle Agnew, has won a position in the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater violin section.

The Duquesne University Quadraphonic Saxophone Quartet has won the Pennsylvania Chamber Music Award in the Music Teachers National Association competition at Slippery Rock University.

Faculty member, Sean Jones, performs at the White House with Wynton and Branford Marsalis.

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Composition student, David Hidek, will have his piece, The Innermost Point, read by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at their annual Student Reading Session which will take place at Heinz Hall on February 20, 2010.

MPSM Highlights

Events

February 7
Music on the Mount:
Virtuoso Woodwinds
St. Mary of the Mount,
Mount Washington, 3 p.m.
$10 Suggested Donation

February 12
Aria Night
Duquesne University
Opera Workshop
Guenko Guechev, director
PNC Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
$10 Suggested Donation

February 14
Musique on the Bluff:
The French Seasons
Debussy Diversely
PNC Recital Hall, 3 p.m
Pre-concert event at 2:15 p.m.
$10 Suggested Donation

February 14
Wind Symphony and
Symphony Band
Robert Cameron, director
Carnegie Music Hall, 8 p.m.
$10 Suggested Donation

Please note that the February 11 Contemporary Ensemble concert has been canceled.