March 2, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – The concert features a new arrangement of Por Una Cabeza for harp ensemble by Professor Rachel Ellins, as well as student arrangements including Katie Miksch’s arrangement of music from the video game Halo and Rachel Franklin’s arrangement of Arwen’s Vigil by The Piano Guys. The concert also includes a new work entitled The Gypsy in […]
March 2, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
The Symphonic Band, directed by Dr. Richard Frey, continues the 2015-2016 school year with Night Dreams, a program inspired by the darkness and shortened days of winter. Graduate conductor Chase Morin conducts Frank Ticheli’s Rest, and the highlight of the program will be CSU faculty Peter Sommer tackling David Biendenbender’s challenging and emotional work, Dreams in the Dusk, for solo alto saxophone and wind band.
March 1, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – A recital featuring students from CSU’s voice studios, including the Freshman Voice Studio.
February 29, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Enjoy an evening of contemporary chamber music for flute featuring K. Dawn Grapes and CSU colleagues, including Tim Burns, piano; Margaret Miller, viola; Peter Sommer, saxophone; Adam Torres, piano; and guest artists Cary Dodson, clarinet and Joe McConathy, organ. Featuring the music of Tatiana Nikolaeva, Charles Koechlin, and CSU faculty composer James David.
February 27, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – This popular annual competition features CSU’s top undergraduate vocal students competing for over $50,000 in scholarship monies including the top Singer of the Year Award, the Charles and Reta Ralph Undergraduate Scholarship, the Most Improved Award, and the James McDonald Memorial Scholarship. The awards are based on the students’ vocal performance and on progress toward […]
February 26, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Under the direction of Maestro Wes Kenney, the select chamber orchestra – ranging from 10–40 members – performs music from the Baroque to contemporary while specializing in the Classic period music of Mozart and Haydn. This concert features Igor Stravinsky’s Danses Concertantes and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s “Much Ado About Nothing” Suite.
February 10, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
The University Symphony Orchestra, directed by Wes Kenney, hosts the 2015-2016 Concerto Competition Finals featuring CSU’s finest soloists. This year’s ‘star search’ finalists are: Landon Adams and Ben Justis, percussion, performing Avner Dorman’s Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! (Spices); Paola Zamario, violin, performing Aram Khachaturian’s Concerto for Violin (Mvt. 1); and Rachelle Crowell, flute, performing Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto. These soloists, chosen through audition for the annual highly competitive competition, compete for monetary awards. In addition to the solo showcase pieces, the orchestra performs George Gershwin’s Catfish Row.
February 19, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
Symphonies of Winds and Percussion, with guest Chris Van Hof, trombone
February 24, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm –
The Jazz Ensembles share the stage with the great trombonist and composer, Marshall Gilkes, who has performed with great big bands around the world including the Maria Schneider Orchestra and the WDR Big Band. His most recent recording, “Koln,” features excellent and inventive arranging for big band. Jazz Ensembles I and II, under the direction of Peter Sommer and Wil Swindler, invite you to this special evening featuring this amazing improviser and composer!
February 21, 2016 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – It Could be Anything, CSU’s New Music Ensemble, embodies the spirit of the new music culture and is dedicated to performing innovative, collaborative, and exciting works of living composers, as well as the important contemporary works from composers of the recent past. Under the direction of Dr. Wesley Ferreira and Professor Andrew Jacobson, this concert […]
