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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.
The Wind Ensemble will conclude its spring season with an exciting concert, featuring the premiere of a work by student composition major Wolfgang Scheitinger and graduate wind conducting assistant Benjamin Kohn at the podium, at King Concert Hall.
Amber Nellett, a candidate for a Master of Music degree in Music Education, presented a research poster, "Identity, Belonging, And Agency in a Vernacular Music Club," at the Eastern Division National Association for Music Education Conference.
The Fredonia Chamber Choir, conducted by Dr. Vernon Huff, was selected as one of four semi-finalists for the 2023 American Prize for Choral Performance (university division, large program).
As the culminating event to the Sunday, April 16 Fredonia Day of Percussion, the Ghanaian dance troupe, SAAKUMU, will return to SUNY Fredonia.
The Buffalo Philharmonic and SUNY Fredonia’s Hillman Opera program are joining to celebrate Mozart’s beautiful fairy tale opera, “The Magic Flute,” in a semi-staged performance of the cherished, lighthearted masterpiece.
“Dragonfly,” a composition for four guitars, written by SUNY Distinguished Professor James Piorkowski, was recently published by Guitar Chamber Music Press.
The SUNY Fredonia Music Therapy Club is hosting several events to celebrate Music Therapy Awareness Week from March 27 to April 1.
The Fredonia School of Music will present Academy Week: Festival Music of Japan, on June 19-23, with expert instruction in the Wakayama-Shachu style of Edo Bayashi festival music and Shishimai, a Japanese traditional lion dance that is performed at many ritual events to bring good luck to communities and chase away evil.
Faculty members including Reed Library Senior Assistant Librarian Mandi Shepp and Visiting Assistant Librarian Katelynn Telford, with School of Music Associate Professor Jill Reese, collaborated on a new exhibit that honors SUNY Fredonia Music Education alumni Dr. Bennett Reimer, '54, and Roberta Guaspari, '69.
Acclaimed trumpeter, composer and educator Derrick Gardner will spend Thursday and Friday, March 23 and 24, at the School of Music, leading master classes and performing in concerts with the Fredonia Jazz Orchestra and Fredonia Jazz Sextet in Rosch Recital Hall.