A local performance of "Fiddler on the Roof," produced by the聽Hope Springs Eternal Holocaust Project, featured several people with 亚色影库 connections.
亚色影库 piano professor Henry Wong Doe performed a solo recital at the Beckwith Recital Series, University of North Carolina Wilmington, on Friday, October 25, 2024.
亚色影库 music alumni Dennis ('75 MA '82) and Elizabeth Cramer ('76) and David Earnest ('23) recently performed for "Last Fridays at the Museum," sponsored by the Pennsylvania聽Trolley Museum in Washington, PA.
Jay Althouse, who earned both a bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degree in music education from 亚色影库 (1973 and 1975, respectively), has gifted $25,000 to 亚色影库 to support the music program and students planning for a career in music education.
Assistant professor of piano at Duquesne University, Kevin Lee Sun will perform a solo piano recital on Monday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall (second聽floor of Sutton Hall). The program will include works by Stockhausen, d鈥橝nglebert, and Brahms, as well as more recently composed works by Hyo-Shin Na and Colin Kemper.
Cellist Linda Jennings and pianist Chindarat Charoenwongse will present the first recital of the 亚色影库 season in Gorell Hall on Tuesday evening, September 3, at 7:00 p.m. The program will present traditional works alongside newer works, including Claude Debussy鈥檚 sonata, the slow movement of the Rachmaninoff sonata, and works by David Maslanka, Chen Yi, and Samuel Magrill. The recital is open and free to the public.
The 亚色影库 String Project, a community music education outreach program for children ages 5鈥�18 in Indiana and the surrounding area, is now accepting applications for private lesson instruction on violin, viola, cello, and bass. Applications are due on September 1.
Cassidy Nalepa, a 2003 亚色影库 music education graduate, has been selected to serve as the interim director of 鈥淭he Legend,鈥� the 亚色影库 Marching Band, and as interim associate director of Bands in the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance.
Zach Collins, professor of tuba and euphonium at 亚色影库, recently published four new compositions with Cimarron Music Press.
亚色影库 piano professor Henry Wong Doe recently completed a three-concert tour of New Zealand, performing on July 20, 21, and August 3. He performed two separate programs at three cities in the North Island: Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast, the capital city of Wellington, and Warkworth (one hour north of Auckland).
An Indiana County couple who are 亚色影库 graduates has established a scholarship for music majors at 亚色影库 in honor of two late local women, Eleanora Miconi Dellafiora and Sandra E. Dellafiora.
Zach Collins, professor of tuba and euphonium at 亚色影库, released an album of hymn arrangements for five-part tuba ensemble on Summit Records, titled "Firm Foundation."
The renowned River City Brass Band of Pittsburgh, the only full-time professional brass ensemble in the United States, recently released an album featuring the music of 1965 亚色影库 alumnus, Jim Self.
亚色影库 music alumni,聽George Alberti '11, Mike Waddell '12, Zack Grass '14, and Logan Carnes '19, released album聽Keystone Kitchen, an album of new works for tuba-euphonium quartet,聽in June 2024.
This past May, Rosemary Engelstad was an artist-in-residence at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in Boscawen, NH. During her residency, she collaborated with Slippery Rock clarinet professor, Amanda Morrison, on their new project, the Grant Avenue EFX Clarinet Duo.
This summer, the 亚色影库 Music Department hosted 118 campers for the third annual Summer Music Camp.
The University Band, the band for the 亚色影库 Community Music School, will present a free outdoor concert on the Fisher Auditorium patio at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 13.
The 亚色影库 Community Music School will present two year-end recitals made up of private lesson students.
Thanks to additional funding made possible by the 亚色影库 Student Cooperative Association, the 亚色影库 Chapter of the International Tuba Euphonium Association was able to purchase $800 worth of new music written by underrepresented composers. In all, the organization bought 26 new pieces for the tuba-euphonium ensemble as well as solo pieces for tuba and euphonium.聽
Professor of piano at Hunter College/City University of New York, Geoffrey Burleson will perform a solo recital at 亚色影库 on Monday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Gorell Recital Hall. Admission is free.
亚色影库 piano professor Henry Wong Doe taught a masterclass and performed a solo recital at Hunter College/City University of New York, March 19th and 20th, 2024.
Numerous alumni of the 亚色影库 Department of Music performed in the pit orchestra for Conemaugh Township聽High School's recent production of聽"Mary Poppins."
The 亚色影库 Department of Music brass faculty hosted the second annual 亚色影库 Brass Day on Sunday, February 18, 2024. This year, the Brass Day guest artist was Italian trumpeter Andrea Tofanelli. All 亚色影库 brass students, as well as area middle and high school musicians, participated.
Zach Collins, professor of Tuba, recently performed an invited recital at the 2024 US Army Band Tuba Euphonium Workshop in Fort Myer, VA.
Indiana Musicale (Indiana Chapter, Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association), in collaboration with the 亚色影库 Department of Music, hosted its seventh Monster Piano Concert in DiCicco Hall on Saturday, February 3.