page_title: List of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia chapters
section_title: Oldest Chapters
hierarchical_section_title: List of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia chapters / Oldest Chapters
caption_attribution_description: English: The Zeta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia from the 1908 Savitar Yearbook of the University of Missouri
context_page_description: The chapter is the basic unit of organization in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. The designation of chapter has been given to at least three different kinds of organization over the history of the Fraternity: collegiate, alumni, and professional. The only form currently in use, the collegiate chapter, is defined as an organization at a college, university, or school of music that has been granted a charter by the Fraternity. There are currently 251 active collegiate chapters spread across 38 provinces in the United States, and 450 chapters have been chartered in total over the history of the organization.
  Alumni chapters existed between 1966 and 1976, after which they were designated as professional chapters by the 1976 National Assembly at the University of Evansville. Professional chapters, notable for being able to initiate brothers, lasted from the creation of an experimental chapter in Washington, D.C. in 1974 until the final two professional chapters dissolved in the 1985-1988 triennium. During the 1997 National Assembly in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Fraternity returned to the idea of an organizational space for alumni engagement by establishing alumni associations.
context_section_description: The Alpha chapter, founded in 1898 at the New England Conservatory of Music as the Sinfonia Club, was active until 1977. It experienced a brief revival from 1991 to 1995, but closed once more and has remained inactive. The Delta chapter at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York was chartered on January 28, 1901, and is the oldest continuously active chapter of the fraternity.  Three other chapters have passed the 100 year milestone:  the Zeta chapter at the University of Missouri (chartered 1907), the Iota chapter at Northwestern University (chartered 1910), and the Mu chapter at the University of Oklahoma (chartered 1912).
caption: The Zeta Chapter at the University of Missouri School of Music in 1908
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