Community
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| 'Tea and Flowers, Purity and Grace,' performed by the Brandeis Theater Company |
The arts at Brandeis foster a community within the university and the Greater Boston area. Almost every student at Brandeis is involved in the arts, whether it be through theater, fine arts or music. More than 1,500 students participate in fine arts courses every year, while some 200 participate in the six music department ensembles, and student actors, designers and directors collaborate with professional theater artists and the resident Brandeis Theater Company.
The visual and performing arts communities that are developed and nurtured in the classroom also play large roles in extracurricular life. Brandeis is home to dozens of student performing groups ranging from classical music ensembles to the famous Brandeis a cappella groups and Undergraduate Theatre Collective. Our university arts community celebrates annually with the popular Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, which draws audiences from all over the Boston area and beyond.
OPPORTUNITY
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| Brandeis offers world- class opportunities to experience and study with leading arts professionals |
Because the City of Boston, home to some of the most important visual and performing arts organizations in the country — including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Museum of Fine Arts and American Repertory Theater — is situated merely a stone’s throw from Waltham, being a student at Brandeis offers world-class opportunities to experience and study visual and performing arts with leading arts professionals. Students work closely with a faculty of faculty of professionals, academics, guest artists and visiting artists.
In residence at Brandeis are the Naumburg Award-winning Lydian String Quartet and Brandeis Theater Company. Through close faculty relationships and university resources, students have valuable internship and study opportunities with local music organizations, theaters and museums, during the school year, summers and following graduation.
Recently Brandeis students have interned with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New Repertory Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, Metropolitan Opera, Berkshire Theater Festival and Shakespeare & Co.
JUSTICE
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| Music Unites Us is grounded in the belief that music can further understanding of diverse cultures. |
The arts play a powerful role in Brandeis’ commitment to social justice. We believe that artists need to participate in the world as citizens.
The visual and performing arts are more than decoration and entertainment. They help nurture multiculturalism, provide a humanistic balance to modern technology, and inspire creative responses to the complex issues facing our world.
Whether most interested in theater arts, fine arts or music, students at Brandeis have an unending commitment to social justice. Our students produce cutting-edge theater that challenges the issues our world faces today (Sondheim musicals, new plays, Shakespeare); perform the world premieres of music by artists like Edwin Geist, a Holocaust-era composer whose music was lost after he perished in a Lithuanian ghetto; and create works of art inspired by crises such as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
We believe that creativity, community and arts participation are essential to global citizenship and a new vision for the 21st century.