Choral groups include the Choir and the Carleton Singers. Pro Musica, specializing in Renaissance music, includes both instrumentalists and singers.
All groups hold open auditions, offer credit, and perform once or twice each term.
Informal vocal ensembles such as the Knights and Knightingales and faculty and student jazz and rock combos perform often for social gatherings. Students interested in any sort of performance group will find many opportunities for participation. For the music lover, the Music Department sponsors a large variety of concerts and lectures during the year. In addition to ethnic music of India, Japan, and Sephardic Jews, recent concert series and convocation artists have included the Kronos Quartet, Salif Keita, Zeitgeist, Sergiu Luca and Malcolm Bilson, The Waverly Consort, Ursula Oppens, Musicians of Swanne Alley, Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, and Sounds of Blackness. In addition, many students have performed in junior and senior recitals, mixed student recitals, and chamber music ensembles.