Past Productions & Events

2024

CSU Marching Band

2024 Spring Game Extravaganza: Experience game day with the CSU Marching Band:

April 20, 2024 @ 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Join the Band at the CSUMB Spring Game Extravaganza! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE EXTRAVAGANZA Experience what it’s like to perform with the CSU Marching Band during the Green and Gold Football Scrimmage on Saturday, April 20, 2024. This event is open to high school students, transfer students, associate degree graduates, and current CSU […]


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2024 CSU Marching Band Spring Game Extravaganza

April 20, 2024 @ 9:00 am – 3:30 pm –

Join the CSU Marching Band on Saturday, April 20, 2024 and experience what it’s like to perform with the band during the Green and Gold Football Scrimmage! This event is open to high school juniors, seniors, transfer students, associate degree graduates, and current CSU students who want to see what it’s like to be in the CSU Marching Band. Official schedule to be announced. 

To register for the 2024 CSU Marching Band Spring Game Extravaganza, click here.


2024 Clarinet Composers Festival Mangani Mania Promotional Poster

2024 Clarinet Composers Festival: Mangani Mania!

April 20, 2024 @ 8:30 am – 9:30 pm – Mangani Mania! A celebration of the clarinet compositions of living composers, this year’s event features the many works of Italian guest artist, Michele Mangani who will be a major part of the celebration. Highlights of the festival include Mangani’s talk on his compositional process and the pieces being performed on the festival concerts. Middle/high school […]


Spring 2024 Wind Symphony "Garden of Dreams" Promotional Poster

Wind Symphony Concert: Garden of Dreams

April 19, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Garden of Dreams For its final concert of the season, the CSU Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Jayme Taylor, sets forth on an epic exploration of music and visual media with a presentation of Julie Giroux’s Symphony No. 6 “The Blue Marble,” and David Maslanka’s A Child’s Garden of Dreams. Immerse yourself in a unique […]


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Music Research Colloquium Series: Dr. Elain Hill – Acting as Prayer

April 19, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm – Music Research Colloquium Series presents the final lecture of the school year. Dr. Joel Bacon, CSU’s chair of Organ and Liturgical Studies, has invited Dr. Elaine Hild to present her lecture Acting as Prayer: The Pilgrim Play from Medieval Fleury, France. Students from Dr. Bacon’s MU 496E class on Medieval Liturgical Drama will sing excerpts from […]


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Voice Area Recital / FREE

April 16, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – A recital of vocal music by students from the studios of Dr. Nicole Asel, Dr. Tiffany Blake, and Professor John Lindsey.


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CSU Trombone Choir Concert / FREE

April 14, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – The CSU Trombone Studio presents an evening of music composed and arranged for trombone ensemble, directed by Dr. Drew Leslie. This concert features the CSU Trombone Choir as well as the NoCo Bones, which is a large trombone choir made up of CSU students and area high school trombonists. The varied pieces showcase the beauty […]


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Brass Area Chamber Music / FREE

April 12, 2024 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Brass Area students are featured in an evening of chamber music in a variety of settings and styles, including brass quintet, trombone quartet, trumpet ensemble, tuba/euphonium quartet and more! The program features students from the studios of Dr. Stanley Curtis, Dr. John McGuire, Dr. Drew Leslie and Prof. Steve Dombrowski.


Spring 2024 Jazz Combos Promotional Poster

Jazz Combos Concert

April 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – The Jazz Combos present an evening of small-group jazz. Directed by Dr. Seth Lewis, Tom Amend, and Sean Sullivan, the combos present a program of jazz standards, great hidden gems, and original music by combo members.


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Guest Artist Series: Michelle Kesler, Cello, and Scott Holden, Piano

April 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Michelle Kesler, cello, and Scott Holden, piano perform several 20th-century sonatas for the instruments, including Ethel Smyth’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor op. 5, Eugene Ysaye’s Sonata for Solo Cello in C minor, op. 28, and Benjamin Britten’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65. Dr. Michelle Kesler, associate professor of cello […]