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Butler University
Butler University is most proud of its tradition of excellence and innovation. Challenging and enabling students to meet their personal and professional goals has guided the University since 1855. Today, Butler is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian university, with a total undergraduate enrollment of more than 3,800 students. The University is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
As one of America’s oldest music institutions, Butler’s programs prepare young musicians to become outstanding teachers, solo artists, and leaders in the cultural community. Programs in performance combine quality private study, engaging classroom work, and a variety of performance ensembles. Aspiring musicians/teachers pursue diverse field experiences in their first year of study. The arts administration program prepares talented artistic students for careers in arts-related, not-for-profit organizations and in the business world. Arts administration students regularly intern at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Opera, Kentucky Center for the Arts, and many of Indianapolis’s finest cultural institutions.
Campus and Surroundings Indianapolis, Indiana’s state capital and the twelfth-largest city in the nation, boasts a variety of cultural activities, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the world’s largest children’s museum. Citywide celebrations are plentiful, including ethnic festivals, art fairs, and outdoor music festivals.
Program Facilities Clowes Memorial Hall is a 2,200-seat performance hall that hosts a variety of events, from community arts groups to national and international touring companies and many University performances. A new performing arts complex is currently under construction. The first phase of the complex, a 47,000-square-foot addition to Lilly Hall called the Courtyard Building, was completed in spring 2003. This new building houses a choral rehearsal hall, an instrumental rehearsal hall, dance studios, a theater studio, an electronic music lab, and a percussion studio. The second phase, the 140-seat Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall, was completed in fall 2004. The third phase is a 450-seat performance hall/proscenium theater with adjustable acoustical features.
Faculty/Alumni Studio instruction at Butler is always with professional members of the faculty, and classrooms are led by outstanding scholar educators. The award-winning group includes editors of definitive editions of the songs by Debussy and Schubert; nationally known composers in demand as composers-in-residence; an outstanding performing faculty; individual artists with opera companies and orchestras throughout the world; winners in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, MacAllister Awards, Bodky Competition, and the Van Cliburn Competition; and conductors who have given the downbeat on the podium in the world’s great concert halls.
Butler’s program prepares students for the future with its graduates pursuing master’s programs at the Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, Boston University, Florida State University, the University of Michigan, and Indiana University.
Student Performance Opportunities In addition to numerous solo recital opportunities, students participate in a variety of large and small ensembles. Instrumental students may play in groups that range from chamber-style winds, string quartets, and piano trios to the larger Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the University’s full-scale Butler Symphony Orchestra. Singers might find themselves in intimate ensembles like the Jordan Jazz or Madrigal Singers or in larger staged productions of the Butler Opera and the University Choir or Butler Chorale. Students regularly combine forces to present titan works, such as Orff’s Carmin Burana, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, or Bernstein’s Candide.
Special Programs Butler has a strong commitment to new programs, technology, and facilities, including a new recording industry studies major, in collaboration with the media arts department that places students in studios for hands-on learning experiences. Each year, more than 30 visiting artists perform on campus and interact with students. Butler music students have worked with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, Andre Watts, Richard Stolzman, Denyce Graves, Jeffrey Kahane, Cleo Laine, Dale Warland, Marvin Hamlisch, John Holloway, H. Robert Reynolds, Karel Haus, and Suzanne Vega.
Cooperative Agreements Butler University has collaborative relationships with many local arts organizations, including the Indianapolis Opera. The following are located on campus: Dance Kaleidoscope, Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, American Pianists Association, and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir.
Career Placement Services and Opportunities Butler students sing, play, conduct, teach, and inspire. Students with undergraduate Butler music degrees continue their studies at some of the country’s finest advanced-study programs, including Indiana University, the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard Opera Program, Florida State University, and the Eastman School of Music.
Former Butler students are on the stage and in the pit for major Broadway shows like Les Misérables, Blast!, and Phantom of the Opera. The music education program has a 99 percent placement for teachers. Butler’s music education students are regularly cited as outstanding young educators by the Music Educators National Conference and hold teaching positions at public and private schools all over the country. Butler has maestros on the podium at the Warner Brothers Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic, Ft. Smith Symphony, and on Broadway.
Application ProceduresDeadline--freshmen and transfers: continuous. Required: essay, high school transcript, college transcript(s) for transfer students, minimum 2.0 high school GPA, letter of recommendation, audition, SAT I or ACT test scores, music application. Recommended: minimum 3.0 high school GPA, interview. Auditions held 5 times on campus; recorded music is permissible as a substitute for live auditions when distance is prohibitive and videotaped performances are permissible as a substitute for live auditions when distance is prohibitive.
ContactMs. Kathy Lang, Admission Representative, Jordan College of Fine Arts, Butler University, Lilly Hall - 138B, 4600 Sunset Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208; 317-940-9656, fax: 317-940-9658.
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