Spotlight
The 18-member Commanders Jazz Ensemble from the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West will headline a concert of Big Band music at Sonoma State’s Weill Hall Friday, May 11, 2018 at 7:30 pm.
Members of the Sonoma State University faculty and selected students will perform music by American composer Charles Ives in Schroeder Hall on March 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are on sale for Sonoma State University’s Department of Music spring 2018 season that consists of more than 30 student, faculty and visiting artist performances at the Green Music Center, and ten showings of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” at Evert B. Person Theatre.
The third annual Jewish Music Series from August 31–November 30 leans toward the spiritual, with a dash of klezmer and avant-garde.
Alexander Kahn, conductor of the Sonoma State University Symphony Orchestra, announces the orchestra’s 2017-18 concert season.
Known primarily for their work on opera and concert stages across the US and abroad, acclaimed baritone Zachary Gordin and pianist/conductor Bryan Nies join forces on April 27, 2017 to present an intimate recital of vocal music highlighting the works of Venezuelan/French composer Reynaldo Hahn.
The Navarro Trio closes its 25th season as resident chamber music artists at Sonoma State with works by Beethoven, Taneyev and Dvořák on April 23 at 2 p.m. in Schroeder Hall.
A group of former Sonoma State University music students is getting the band(s) back together for the first annual Alumni Recital on April 15 at 2 pm in Schroeder Hall. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Ezra G. Rust Scholarship fund.
Six Sonoma State Music majors competed in the second annual Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition on March 23. Orchestra conductor and head judge Alexander Kahn has announced that Jamelia Brown, soprano and Spencer Causey, horn, are the winners.
The SSU Symphony Orchestra honors Earth Day with its April 22 concert, entitled Songs of the Earth. The 7:30 pm performance in Weill Hall will feature the world premiere of Moritūra Terra, the prize-winning work from the orchestra’s inau