Who We Are

Housed within the Arts Department in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, our mission is to provide inclusive spaces for Rensselaer students to gather, collaborate, learn, and perform. We aim to provide opportunities and program music that reflects the diversity of our student musicians. We also seek to use music to build connections within the Rensselaer campus and with the local community. We hope you will join us as a musician, listener, or supporter.

Did You Know?

• Students in the Ensemble Program represent every school on Campus and over 20 different majors.
• Students in the Ensemble Program have the opportunity to perform on stage in the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center's world-class Concert Hall.
• All students in the Ensemble Program are eligible to participate in the annual Rensselaer Concerto Competition, whose winner(s) perform a solo piece with the RPI Symphony Orchestra.  

What’s On

WMHT Next Generation Festival

Sunday, March 22 

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

3pm.  RPI Orchestra will perform Smetana's “Die Moldau” 

RPI Orchestra/ESYO Concert

Mahler’s Symphony no. 1, Grieg Piano Concerto with 2025 Concerto Competition Winner Armstrong Wang ’26, and the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with 2025 Concerto Competition Winner Lawrence Miao ’25.  Guest conductor Etienne Abelin, ESYO Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, will conduct Smetana’s “Die Moldau”.  

EMPAC Concert Hall

March 31st, 7pm

RPI Wind Symphony Concert 

DCC 308

April 15th, 6pm. 

Music of Gould, Whitacre, Copland, and Hailstork

RPI Concert Choir Concert 

Chapel and Cultural Center 

2125 Burdett Avenue

April 16th, 6pm.

Morton Lauridsen’s Lux aeterna, plus works by Tallis, Biebl, and a stunning setting of Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika.