Kansas Wesleyan University Department of Music

Welcome back, Coyotes! The Music Department at Kansas Wesleyan is excited to share a lot of wonderful music with our university and community this year. Our calendar of events is on the university website, but will also be shared here. We look forward to you joining us!

The three Music Education seniors had their last first day of college yesterday - only one more semester until they go out into the world to student teach!

Katie Comley ’22 is familiar with the Kansas Wesleyan Music Department. She spent four years with the Philharmonic Choir and the Wesleyan Chorale, often as a soloist.

She’ll be the one holding the baton starting in August as the assistant professor of vocal music for this year.

Read more about Comley's return to campus at https://www.kwu.edu/about/news/comley-22-joins-music-department-for-upcoming-year/!

Kansas Wesleyan Alumna
Morgan Parker, ’19 - Drummer

Performing @ Starlight Theatre in K.C.

Join President Thompson and Michelle Dolan in K.C. on July 7th for the performance of

A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical

Specifics –

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026

6:30 p.m. Pre-Performance Happy Hour and meet Morgan – Starlight Theatre – Encore Bar

8:00 p.m. curtain – A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical

Website to purchase tickets: https://tickets-center.com/tickets/1427766

Starlight Theatre
4600 Starlight Road
Kansas City, MO 64132


Let me know if you are coming, and I will look for you at the Encore Bar before the show!


Michelle Dolan
Executive Director of Music
Kansas Wesleyan University
Pioneer Hall, Room 225
100 E. Claflin Ave.
Salina, KS 67401
(785) 833-4338 (office)
(785) 829-6182 (cell)
[email protected]

Congratulations to our Music Majors!
We are so proud of you!!!

Tonight!

After a wide-ranging season, the Kansas Wesleyan Philharmonic Choir and Wesleyan Chorale are ending the academic year with a department concert with a patriotic theme, “A Salute to America.”

The free concert will be at 7 p.m. Friday, May 8, in Sams Chapel.

The choir has had a busy, productive year. Besides its regular concerts this semester, it has sung opera, comic operetta in “The Pirates of Penzance” in collaboration with Theatre Salina, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in collaboration with the Salina Symphony.

Final exams for students will start next week, with Commencement to be at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 16, at Tony’s Pizza Events Center in downtown Salina.

Coming up this Friday and Saturday!!
Join us!!!

Welcome Coyote musicians!!!