Keyboard Area Recital / FREE
April 29, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Students from Dr. Bryan Wallick’s piano studio perform selected works.
Past Productions & Events
2025
Jazz Ensembles Concert: Roy Haynes Legacy Concert
April 29, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Jazz Ensembles I and II present a concert dedicated to the legacy of great jazz drummer, Roy Haynes who passed away in November 2024, just short of his 100th birthday. The program, directed by Wil Swindler and Darren Kramer, includes music associated with Haynes and other pieces that honor his life in jazz.
Virtuoso Series Concert: Faculty Chamber Music
April 28, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The CSU Music faculty present a program that includes works for various groupings of instruments and voices, including Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet, and “Improvisation on a Blue Theme” by Canadian and Grammy-winning composer John Thrower.
Saxophone Studio Recital / FREE
April 27, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Students of saxophone professors Peter Sommer and Dr. Dan Goble present a recital of solo and chamber works for saxophone, including classic and contemporary literature featuring a dynamic range of expression and musical interplay.
University Symphony Orchestra Concert: Coming Home– A Side-By-Side with NoCoYo (Folk Tales and New Worlds)
April 27, 2025 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Coming Home: A Side-By-Side with NoCoYo (Folk Tales and New Worlds) The concert celebrates new beginnings as we welcome the Northern Colorado Youth Orchestra to perform side by side with the Colorado State University Symphony Orchestra. The program opens with Giuseppe Verdi’s La forza del destino Overture, conducted by NoCoYo music director and CSU alum, […]
CSU Percussion Ensemble Festival Concert / FREE
April 26, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – This concert features the CSU Percussion Ensemble and a presentation of awards to the Percussive Arts Society Percussion Ensemble Festival participating ensembles.
Wind Symphony Concert: The Road is Life
April 25, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Road is Life The Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Rebecca Phillips, finishes the season with a celebration of music at CSU! Guest conductors include first year conducting master’s students David Davis and Cameron Honnen performing cornerstone repertoire in the wind band medium. Second year conducting master’s student James Mepham conducts his final performance at […]
Student Chamber Music Recital / FREE
April 24, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – The concert performed by undergraduate music majors and minors features music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, and Antonin Dvořák.
All Choral Showcase: Unclouded Day
April 23, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Unclouded Day On the final showcase of the year, the Chamber Choir, conducted by Dr. James Kim, performs 20th- century masterpieces, including Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir and William Walton’s Cantico del Sole. The Concert Choir, conducted by Dr. Nathan Payant, features works by American composers, including Shawn Kirchner, Florence Price, Reena Esmail, and […]
Lecture – Music in Need of Some Explanation: Social media as labor in contemporary classical music with professor John Pippen
April 23, 2025 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm –
For the past thirty years, social media has been integral to how contemporary classical ensembles made their music valuable. My paper places social media in an ethnographic and historical context to consider how musicians produce value through their labor. In the 2000s, such media fed optimistic narratives of musicians as people doing what they loved, in a sense not “working” at all. I argue that musicians use social media to create “production-tracking use values.”