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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.
Eight students who’ve advanced beyond the preliminary rounds of the annual Concerto Competition will each perform on Sunday, April 28, at 1 p.m. in King Concert Hall.
The most heavenly of musical sounds – a room full of harps – will be presented by harpists of all ages in the grand finale concert that culminates the annual Harp Day at SUNY Fredonia in Mason Hall on Sunday, April 28.
So large and extensive is the sixth edition of this year’s Student Composer Concert series, presented by Ethos New Music Society and the Fredonia Music Composition Studio in Juliet J. Rosch Recital Hall, that it will be performed in two parts.
Symphonic renditions of popular video gaming melodies designed to “transport you to worlds beyond imagination” will be performed by the SUNY Fredonia Video Game Orchestra at its spring concert on April 11.
The Fredonia Guitar Society will host “The Guitar Style of Jimi Hendrix,” a lecture/demonstration devoted to the legendary musician who radically redefined the expressive potential of the electric guitar, by Dr. Thomas Millioto on Friday, March 22.
James Burton III, who’s quickly earning a reputation as one of the most sought-after performers and educators within the jazz community, will conduct two master classes and perform with two student ensembles on Friday, March 22.
Improvisation will be center stage in a joint workshop and concert featuring guest artist Jiří Pazour, a master musician and improviser from the Czech Republic, and his piano partner, School of Music Adjunct Lecturer Ann Park-Rose.
Katherine Wynn, a senior Music Performance major, will present a research paper at the “Women in Music” conference at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
School of Music Lecturer and alumnus Andrew Martin Smith and former adjunct lecturer Jamie Leigh Sampson were commissioned by the Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts to collaborate in the creation of new musical compositions in celebration of the total solar eclipse crossing North America.
Mark Fewer, a violinist who’s performed around the world and is described as “genre-bending” by The National Post, a major Canadian newspaper, will visit SUNY Fredonia on March 20.