Accreditation
The National Association of
Schools of Music
Faculty Spotlight
Patricia Grutzmacher, Music Education
Dr. Grutzmacher is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at Kent State University.
About the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music
The mission of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University is to advance the art of music by preparing students for productive musical careers, broadening intellectual perspectives, fostering artistic, humanitarian and ethical values, and promoting the goal of responsible citizenship through professional and avocational study. Music faculty and staff are engaged in teaching, performing and creating, research, service, and partnerships that address the needs of a complex and changing world. The eight-campus system provides for the needs of varying and contrasting communities through the study and performance of music, and through programs that form a supportive and inclusive network characterized by excellence and innovation in teaching. Through discovering, integrating, and applying knowledge in a comprehensive and diverse range of bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree programs, the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music provides a dynamic learning environment that fosters artists, scholars, and teachers who will assume leadership roles in a global society.
Part of the College of Arts, The Hugh A. Glauser School of Music provides excellent music instruction to students at the undergrad and graduate levels who wish to pursue careers in music performance and music education. Kent State University provides numerous opportunities for students to study and create music including our new online Masters in Music in Music Education program.
Long known for its music education heritage, the Hugh A. Glauser School of music is home of many of the nation's premier performance groups including The Miami String Quartet, one of the most respected quartets in America.
The Hugh A. Glauser School also participates in the Kent/Blossom Music Festival, an annual program which brings music students from all over the world to Kent State University each summer to study alongside The Cleveland Orchestra for six weeks of intensive chamber music and performance instruction at the professional level. The program features a professional concert series, as well as 12 free concerts featuring the Kent/Blossom Chamber Players.
The Kent/Blossom Music program has propelled hundreds of remarkable young musicians into the ranks of major orchestras, opera companies and conservatory facilities throughout the United States and around the globe. Twenty former Kent/Blossom students are members of The Cleveland Orchestra. Known career placements also include 157 chairs in American and international orchestras, 14 chamber ensembles and more than 52 American and foreign music faculties. Affiliations include the Atlanta, Baltimore, Berlin Philharmonic, Boston, Chicago, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Minnesota, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Toronto orchestras; the Emerson, Grancino, Miami, Borromeo, Arriana and Euclid string quartets and the Boehm Woodwind Quintet.