Music

Find Your Music Within

Our music department offers opportunities to student musicians across all disciplines — taught by exceptional faculty in world-class facilities. Together, we prepare dynamic leaders for the modern musical community.

 

Why Study Music at CSB+SJU?

  • Outstanding faculty of practicing musicians.
  • Student ensembles tour nationally and internationally.
  • Many opportunities to double major.
  • Workshops in popular music topics such as song writing and composing for video games.
  • A quarter of all CSB and SJU students are in music classes or ensembles each semester.

Join an Ensemble!
Choral Placement Hearings
Instrumental Ensemble Auditions 

 
 
 

Program Overview

Meet the Profs

While committed to teaching and creating music, the music faculty are also accomplished performers.

Faculty

Be in the Know

Application to the Music Major, Student Handbook, Music Library Resources, Student Performance Series

Prospective and Current Student Resources

Life as a Music Major

Educating all students (not just majors and minors) through music courses, ensembles, and lessons.

Learning Outcomes
Music Majors After Graduation

Music Department News

Saint John’s Abbey featured on PBS NewsHour:

‘Monastery invests in craftsmanship by expanding its hand-crafted pipe organ’

Pipe organs have a storied history throughout Western civilization, but demand for the king of instruments has seen a steady decline in recent decades. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one attempt to change that.

PBS NewsHour

College of Saint Benedict
Saint John’s University

Dr. Amy Grinsteiner
Chair, Music Department

CSB BAC A119
320-363-5717

SJU Music 106
320-363-3375

Kelly Brueske
Coordinator, Music Department

CSB BAC A116
320-363-5796

SJU Music 110
320-363-3371