Recital Fee Policies

When students hold a degree recital at the Butler School of Music, that event is automatically assigned event staff, including a recording engineer and a stage manager. All on-campus recorded recitals incur a $150 recital fee, charged to students’ university account.

After scheduling rounds for each semester are complete and assignments have been confirmed, recital fees stay on a student’s account, whether the student performs the recital or not.

If a student cancels a recital after the final round of scheduling, the only way to have the $150 recital fee returned is to fill out an appeal form and attach a justification for your cancellation. Those appeals are reviewed by an anonymous committee of faculty members, so that the scheduling office is not unilaterally deciding the fate of student fees.