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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
ANA: (from left to right) pianist Anne Kissel, cellist Natasha Farny, and soprano Angela Haas ANA CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Featuring the performance of Toward the...
The Musical Journeys Program of the Fredonia School of Music continues its exciting new program for children and parents to discover the joys of experiencing music while singing, moving, listening, dancing, and playing.
Ethos New Music Society will be hosting a concert featuring soprano Jamie Jordan on Friday, January 28 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The event begins the 11th annual NewSound festival, a month-long showcase of contemporary music. Free and open to the public.
Performed on Saturday, Dec. 11, this community-wide holiday tradition symbolizes goodwill between the university and its community, and features the Fredonia Women’s Choir, I-Fei Chen-Markham on piano, and Father Sean Duggan playing organ with Mr. Justin Pomietlarz conducting.
Now in its fifth season, the annual Holiday Concert for the Community will be performed Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. The production showcases the Fredonia College Choir under the direction of Dr. Gerald T. Gray and features an international cast of soloists and Baroque players from Boston, Cleveland and Toronto, alongside Fredonia’s world-class faculty and members of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra.
For the 11 th year in a row, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has bestowed its ASCAPLUS Award, an honor reserved for artists whose works are most often performed in public venues, to James Piorkowski, SUNY Fredonia Distinguished Professor of Guitar.
Joining the Arts & Humanities Brown Bag Series’ year-long exploration of creativity, SUNY Fredonia Assistant Professors of Music Rob Deemer and Andrew Seigel, together with SUNY Fredonia students Michael Mendoza and Isaac Tayrien, will give a talk entitled, “From ‘What if…?’ to ‘What next?’: Taking the Creative Process Past the Premiere.”
The SUNY Fredonia Concert Band will give its final concert of the semester Thursday, November 18, at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall under the direction of Erin Otto Meissner.The program, entitled “Classics and Contemporaries,” includes works by Shostakovich, Bach, and Offenbach, and concludes with a set of tangos for wind band by contemporary American composers Michael Gandolfi and John Mackey.
Reed Library is calling for online votes of support to win a $50,000 award from Pepsi to digitize and restore the internationally-valued Sigurd Rascher Saxophone Collection. The project has hovered at 197th place for two weeks, but organizer Melissa Widzinski says there are 15 days left to vote and she is pushing to get every vote possible to help the project make the Top Ten.
The healing power of drumming as part of Southern Italian music and dance will be featured in a guest artist appearance by Alessandra Belloni on Monday, Nov. 15 at the Fredonia School of Music. Entitled, "Rhythm is the Cure," her presentations include a workshop and concert.