NATIONAL BAND ASSOCIATION
The purpose of the Southern Miss student chapter of The National Band Association is to promote the excellence of band throughout the state, promote pride and enthusiasm in the band movement, and to encourage interested students to pursue careers in music. This student organization is geared to support music education majors at Southern Miss, as well as those interested in our profession.
PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA
Sinfonia was born on October 6, 1898 at the New England Conservatory in Boston, when a group of thirteen young men under the guidance of Ossian Everett Mills met “to consider the social life of the young men students of that institution” and “to devise ways and means by which it might be improved.” Mills, bursar of the Conservatory, sought to create an Order in which men with a shared love of music could develop the virtues of manhood in themselves and in their fellows.
Sinfonia became a national fraternity on October 6, 1900, with the admission of a group of men at the Broad Street Conservatory in Philadelphia. Since that time Sinfonia has grown into the largest music fraternity in the world, with more than 150,000 initiates, and chapters on over 200 college and university campuses across the nation.
SIGMA ALPHA IOTA - KAPPA EPSILON
Sigma Alpha Iota (SAI) is an international fraternity for women who come together to enjoy the fellowship of music and to promote and develop music worldwide.
SAI was founded on June 12, 1903 at the University School of Music in Ann Arbor, Michigan.