About Music Education at Southern Miss
Music Education has been a driving force in the southeastern United States since the early years of The Pride of Mississippi Marching Band in the 1940’s. Dr. Raymond Mannoni assembled a nationally recognized School of Music that, throught education and performances, prepared decades of some of our region’s finest music educators. His deanery lead to the expansion of music that currently includes student and faculty major performing ensembles such as The Symphony Orchestra, The Southern Chorale, The Wind Ensemble and The Symphonic Winds, Southern Arts Faculty Brass Quintet, Category 5 Faculty Woodwind Quintet.
For more than sixty years, music education and performance have been at the heart of the univeristy’s first nationally accredited program. Those traditions and expectations continue to thrive in the hearts and minds of the students and faculty in the School of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi.