Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is a national social music fraternity. A small group of students led by Ossian Everett Mills founded the fraternity
at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts in 1898 for the primary purpose of bringing musicians together.
Phi Mu Alpha is the largest music fraternity in the nation with more than 150,000 initiates and with chapters on over two hundred college and university campuses across the United States.
The Object
The Object of Phi Mu Alpha is an ideal set forth by our founders.
"The Object of this fraternity shall be
for the development of the best and truest fraternal spirit;
the mutual welfare and brotherhood of musical students;
the advancement of music in America
and a loyalty to the Alma Mater."
Phi Mu Alpha: not just a greek letter society.
There are many different groups in Auburn that you can get involved with and a ton of different ways that you can spend your time.
A lot of other campus organizations are specialized and focus on improving only a small aspect of who you are and what you do.
One group might help you become a stronger athlete. Another organization might help you become a smarter student.
Those groups have wonderful missions and provide valuable experiences for their members.
Phi Mu Alpha is different.
“Fraternity seeks to upbuild the whole man, to make of him a manlier man, a more musicianly musician.” - Percy Jewett Burrell, Former National Fraternity President
Phi Mu Alpha does focus on music, but we are not in any way limited to it.
Our first goal is that each of our members continuously grows as a person through his experience with the fraternity.
“Our business is the making of men; and the all-important question for us ‘Are Sinfonians any better for being Sinfonians?
Do they leave our portals physically, mentally, morally stronger, cleaner, purer – in fact more worthy men that when they enter?’” - Ossian E. Mills,
Fraternity Founder
If you've read this far and haven't lost interest, you're probably the kind of person we're looking for.
"This it is to be a man of the highest type. To be
and not to seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the
true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it."
-Ossian Everett Mills, March 15, 1912