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.
Past Productions & Events
2025
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.”
Woodwinds Chamber Ensemble Concert II / FREE
April 18, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Over the course of two evenings, student ensembles perform trios, quartets, and quintets prepared through a combination of self-directed rehearsals and coaching by woodwind faculty Ysmael Reyes, Galit Kaunitz, Wesley Ferreira, Dan Goble, Peter Sommer, and Cayla Bellamy.
Jazz Combos Concert Part II
April 17, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Jazz Combos, directed by Peter Sommer, David Mequitic, and graduate conducting student Sam Lumsden, demonstrate small group jazz, focused on improvisation. The concert features great tunes from the jazz repertoire and original student compositions and arrangements.
Guest Artist Concert: Nicholas Gledhill, Horn / FREE
April 17, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Join us for a diverse horn recital featuring CSU alum Dr. Nicholas Gledhill, instructor of horn at Colorado Mesa University. Dr. Gledhill is joined by CSU faculty artists Dr. Jooyeon Chang, piano, and Dr. John McGuire, horn, on an exciting program exploring the works of Eugene Bozza, Elizabeth Raum, Cait Nishimura, James Naigus, and more. […]
Brass Area Chamber Music Concert / FREE
April 16, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Brass area students from the trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba studios perform an evening of chamber music in various settings and styles, including a brass quintet, trombone quartet, trumpet ensemble, tuba/euphonium quartet, and more.
Woodwinds Chamber Ensemble Concert I / FREE
April 16, 2025 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Over the course of two evenings, student ensembles perform trios, quartets, and quintets prepared through a combination of self-directed rehearsals and coaching by woodwind faculty Ysmael Reyes, Galit Kaunitz, Wesley Ferreira, Dan Goble, Peter Sommer, and Cayla Bellamy.
Voice Area Recital / FREE
April 15, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – A recital of vocal music by students from the studios of Dr. Nicole Asel, Dr. Tiffany Blake, and Professor John Lindsey.
Virtuoso Series Concert: Forest Greenough, Bass, and Sphere Ensemble
April 14, 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Music for Motion Sphere Ensemble presents the world premiere of Music for Motion, a commission written by American composer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Carter Pann, with a program of works featuring an exploration of movement. The concert features faculty artist Dr. Forest Greenough on double bass. Sphere Ensemble is a 14-piece band of string players: […]