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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.
Tenor Kyle van Schoonhoven, a 2011 graduate of the Fredonia School of Music, will perform Gustav Mahler’s song cycle of lost love and despair, “Songs of the Wayfarer,” arranged by Arnold Schoenberg, with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on June 4, 5 and 6.
The Fredonia School of Music has announced details of the final phase of a multi-year recording project by the Fredonia Wind Ensemble. The effort was funded by The Sorel Medallion in Recording Grant and the Carnahan Jackson Foundation, both through the Fredonia College Foundation, as well as a Sigma Alpha Iota Project Grant.
Charles Mossey, a senior Music Performance major from Waterford, was recently awarded the Oasis Guitar Jury Prize, a $500 cash award that recognizes the Fredonia guitar student who exhibits the greatest improvement over the course of a semester.
The Fredonia School of Music hosted its annual Concerto Competition on May 3 with a virtual audience. Winners of the prestigious competition are offered the opportunity to perform with major School of Music ensembles
The Fredonia School of Music will host a virtual Awards Convocation on Friday, May 7, at 3 p.m.
A series of virtual experiences celebrating the lives and works of underrepresented composers will be showcased at the annual Robert Jordan Piano Festival during April.
GuitarFest 2021 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., will be dedicated to the music of SUNY Distinguished Professor James Piorkowski, who heads the guitar program at the Fredonia School of Music.
Music by female composers that spans the 19th century to the present will be performed by three State University of New York at Fredonia School of Music faculty members – Assistant Professor Leonidas Lagrimas (piano), Adjunct Lecturer Laurie Tramuta (mezzo soprano) and Adjunct Instructor Landon Gray (trumpet) – at a virtual recital on Thursday, March 11, at 8 p.m.
High school pianists are invited to join All Things Piano, a fun, casual Zoom conversation with faculty from Fredonia’s School of Music, to be presented on Saturday, March 13, at noon. Healthy approaches to deal with performance anxiety will be among several topics Professor Fr. Sean Duggan and Assistant Professor Eliran Avni will explore at the meet-up session.
The Fredonia Percussion Guild at Fredonia’s School of Music will host a free virtual Day of Percussion for middle school, high school and college students on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 9 a.m.