Student Opportunities
Throughout your years at Washington, take advantage of the opportunities offered through the music major. Participate in departmental productions or ensembles, attend conferences, explore music from multiple roles, and earn leadership roles in organizations that matter to you. Build your skillset, and your résumé, while making academic and personal connections. All of your experiences will culminate in a Senior Capstone Experience (SCE), a year-long independent research project.
Find the Perfect Opportunity
Internships
- Participate in the Open Studio project, connecting local performing artists with students seeking careers in music production and recording.
- Work on Hip Hop Time Capsule, a month-long summer collaboration between Kent County High School students, Washington students and faculty, and museum professions to create original music from samples pulled from the Chesapeake Heartland digital archive.
- Earn the Clarence Hodson Prize, a competitive grant aimed at rewarding creativity, imitative, and intellectual curiosity. The prize supports an internship, undergraduate research or creative project, or other form of study anywhere in the world.
- Arrange your own internship experience through your own connections, or by tapping into the Center for Career Development's extensive network. Music students have often interned at the Smithsonian Center for Folk Life and Heritagein Washington, D.C., and at the Mainstay venue in Rock Hall.
Research
- Take private music lessons each semester with world-class performers and educators.
- Complete a Senior Capstone Experience (SCE) in the form of a solo recital, original recording or production, original composition, or research.
- Participate in a short-term study abroad program to Cuba, traveling abroad with music faculty.
- Work with faculty on their research.
- Earn the Clarence Hodson Prize, a competitive grant aimed at rewarding creativity, initiative, and intellectual curiosity. The prize supports an internship, undergraduate research or creative project, or other form of study anywhere in the world.
- Create your own research project. Support, financial or otherwise, is available across campus, including through the Hodson Collaborative Research Program or the Cater Society for Junior Fellows.
To get started thinking about what research you might be able to do at Washington College, review our faculty's areas of expertise.
Get Involved
Build your résumé and expand your social circle simultaneously by joining clubs, honor societies, and more that help you connect with folks with similar interests.
- Hodson Collaborative Research Program
- Libby and Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Clubs: Makers Union, Musicians' Union, Open Mic Club, Radio Free George, WACappella
Stevie Lyles '26
Centreville, Maryland
MAJOR
- Music Major
- Ethnomusicology and Arts Management and Entrepreneurship Minors
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
- Hodson Collaborative Research Grant
- Open Studio Intern
CAMPUS ACTIVITIES
- Cater Society, Vice President
- Theatre Productions
- “I’m incredibly thankful and lucky to have had this opportunity working with Dr. Schweitzer. It’s really interesting being able to work more as colleagues in this project while also being student and mentor. I’m able to freely share and develop my own thoughts, and my ideas are taken very seriously.”