Georgia College Department of Music

Please join us Wed., Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall (Porter Building - 3rd floor- back of building) for our Faculty and Guest Artist Recital, "Crossing Languages & Crossing Hearts" Here is the Program and the livestream link is: https://youtube.com/live/BDKtJ5yjJeA

Crossing Languages and Crossing Hearts on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. will be in person and also live streamed: https://youtube.com/live/BDKtJ5yjJeA

The CME@GC is hitting the ground running for the 2026-27 school year! 🚀 We have two exciting events happening on Saturday, August 15:🎼
Composition Workshop
Led by: David Johnson
Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location: Porter 228Cost:
FREE ($10 for lunch)
Who: Student composers looking to develop their pieces!🏫
Action: Contact [email protected]. to reserve your space
Teacher WorkshopTopic: "Teaching to the standards – not the concert"
Led by: Dion Muldrow
Action: Use the link below to register!📧

2026-27 CME@GC Professional Development Workshops Workshop events are hosted in Teams. Please attend all for which you register. Workshops are online 12pm -1pm EST on the indicated dates. Please complete the form only once. Contact [email protected] for registration questions.

Few adults play musical instruments, and even fewer do so in a group, Caroline Mimbs Nyce wrote in 2024. What health benefits might they be giving up? https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

“Kids receive plenty of music education, but as people get older, they fall out of practice. Many stop picking up their instrument,” Nyce writes. “This is unfortunate, in part because plenty of research shows that adults could benefit from playing music.”

Playing music helps build larger brain networks and new pathways. “Musicians tend to have better attention than nonmusicians,” Nyce continues. “Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression. For older people specifically, research has shown potential cognitive benefits along with a possible decrease in dementia risk.”

Adults may be skipping out in part because music education is associated with childhood and coursework. And after people grow out of music education in their childhood, they tend to think that music is a special talent, Nyce writes, not something that just anybody can learn.

“Of course, people are busy; they simply may not have the luxury of sitting down to study Bach once a week, much less the money to pay for an instrument or private lessons,” Nyce writes.

Playing music in groups has additional benefits, such as allowing adults to feel more trusting of and connected to one another, and to the world in general. But while it’s easy to go to a park or gym and pull together a game of pickup basketball, “piecing together people at the same skill level to play a concerto or even just jam in a garage is another matter.”

Nyce herself recently began to play the recorder. “I plan to keep learning,” she writes, “not because it strengthens my neuropathways per se (though I certainly don’t mind that), but because making music, even when it’s silly—perhaps especially when it’s silly—is just a whole lot of fun.”

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Clarinet quartet performed in Macon Georgia today.

The findings come as children’s lives have increasingly become saturated with social media

We are extremely excited to welcome Dr. Zandra Bell-McRoy as our new tenure-track Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music!

Senior Recital: Kelsey Carpenter, saxophone

Welcome, new graduate students