Department of Music

Percussionist, Phil O'Banion, meets with students from Ingrid Arauco's Music 266 Composition class where he performs music the students wrote. (l-r) Ingrid Arauco, Damon Motz-Storey, Phil O'Banion, Mason Emmert, Samuel Walter, Luis Rivas.

Associate Professor of Music Heidi Jacob, conductor, leading students in the Bi-College Orchestra.(2013)

There are many ways in which Haverford is an ideal place to pursue your musical interests in the context of a challenging liberal arts curriculum. Our academic courses offer a creative approach to music theory, our curriculum in music history deals with music in the social context and embraces world music and jazz, and our applied music program and ensembles give students abundant performance and frequent tour opportunities.

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COOL CLASSES: “Encoding Music: Digital Approaches to Scores and Sound”

In this music course, musicians and computer scientists team up to explore two key dimensions of the digital revolution for music: data about music, and music as data.
New release of "Lilacs" for choir by Heidi Jacob

Heidi Jacob's new composition "Lilacs" is featured on the newly released CD by Navona Records VOICES OF EARTH AND AIR VOL. 4, a choral celebration of the human commonality we find within music. Brought to life by Prague’s Kühn Choir, these choral works are sure to entrance and entice listeners with flowing tonality and tactful text settings that demonstrate the powerful storytelling capabilities of vocal music.