Music
Whether you are a newcomer or an experienced musician, you'll find your rhythm in Peddie's music program.
Classes cover diverse fields of music at various levels of expertise, as well as musical theory and history. If you want to continue your studies outside of the classroom, you can take private lessons, accompany our theatrical performers as part of the Pit Orchestra and perform at school and community events.
You'll have the opportunity to participate in three choral groups, as well as seven instrumental ensembles that span everything from rock to classical to jazz to exclusively percussive instruments (including trash cans). Musical professionals often visit campus to provide higher-level discussion about their craft.
Ensembles
Vocal
Instrumental
Symphonic Orchestra
String, wind, percussion and keyboard
Concert Band
Wind, percussion and keyboard
String Orchestra
Performs standard orchestral repertoire
The Pulse
Standard jazz, contemporary jazz and popular music (by audition)
Chamber Orchestra
Challenging standard orchestral repertoire (by audition)
Guitar Ensemble
Guitar, bass and drum ensemble that performs classic and contemporary rock 'n roll and popular music
Percussion Ensemble
Anything you can shake, scrape or strike
2018-19 Performances
Fall Music Concert
New Falcon music Chapel
Winter Vespers
WINTER Music Concert
Arts Calendar
Printmaking
Born and raised in Paris, France of Haitian heritage, Edwige emigrated to the United States at the age of 9. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking with honors from the Maine College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in Maine, Connecticut, Oregon and New York. Edwige was awarded the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist award in 2013 and a Maine Arts Commission Good Idea Grant in 2011. Edwige has printmaking art project with the Edmunds Consolidated Schools in Edmunds, ME and participated in several group shows that explored issues of race, including The Other Side of Shade(2013) and Undoing Racism in the Joanne Waxman Library at the Maine College of Art (2009). In addition to her art based projects, Edwige has been an artist resident at Tides Institute & Museum of Art in Eastport, ME, the Quimby Colony in Portland ME and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson VT. She is currently an advisor to the People of Color Fund at the Maine Community Foundation. She lives in Portland, ME with her husband and son.
One of Peddie's oldest traditions, the J. Walter Reeves Speaking Contest is named for a longtime teacher of drama and public speaking at Peddie. Students share personal stories in front of judges and an audience of their peers.
Students from the Honors Theater Class produce, direct, design and act in One-Act plays
Students from the Honors Theater Class produce, direct, design and act in One-Act plays
The Latest
![2018 Amphion, Peddie literary magazine]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1548948146/peddie/e1h3horwpesofoktzddd/Amphion2018c.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1548948146/peddie/e1h3horwpesofoktzddd/Amphion2018c.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1548948146/peddie/e1h3horwpesofoktzddd/Amphion2018c.jpg","width":792}])
Amphion has been awarded the elite designation of REALM First Class.
![Freshman musical student director Sara Lougy '20 speaks to freshmen before they take the stage]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1542390328/peddie/vkenjybedzk2dcfycfxh/SaraDirecting.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1542390328/peddie/vkenjybedzk2dcfycfxh/SaraDirecting.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1542390328/peddie/vkenjybedzk2dcfycfxh/SaraDirecting.jpg","width":800}])
The Freshman Musical was a class that set Sara Lougy '20 on a trajectory that would define her Peddie experience.
Meet our Faculty
Alan Michaels
M.M., Mannes College of Music
Marisa Green
M.M., Yale University
Zachary Krieger
M.M., Westminster Choir College
It's what they do
Our music faculty are working artists; when they are not in the classroom, they are seeking out opportunities to perform and develop their crafts. Here's where our music faculty were this summer: