Spotlight
This last Sunday, our Symphony Orchestra returned to the stage of Weill Hall with a terrific performance including two feature solos by SSU students.
This triumphant return marks the first student concert performed live and in person in a year and a half.
Dr. Douglas Leibinger, Director of Jazz Studies, was asked by Miguel de Armas (founding member of Cuba's NG la Banda), along with the Canada Council for the Arts to write some arrangements of de Armas' compositions.
The Press Democrat interviewed Director of Orchestral Activities, Dr. Alex Kahn about the return of the Sonoma State University Symphony Orchestra back to a live and in person concert on Weill Hall stage at the Green Music Center.
The Sonoma State STAR recently wrote an article about the return of our Jewish Music Series
On September 1st, San Francisco Symphony’s principal trumpet Mark Inouye (pictured center), gave a masterclass to students in SSU’s Instrumental Repertoire class.
Brian Wilson, Music Theory Program Director and Jewish Studies Program Director, was a featured composer at the 53rd International Horn Society symposium. French Horn player Daniel Nebel performed Wilson's 'The Water Garden' for solo horn at a live-stream session.
Jack Harlow Adkins, while pursuing his master's in voice at Indiana University, was given the great opportunity to sing abroad, in Germany, in a few professional opera performances.
On August 20–29, current SSU student, Andrew Cedeño, along with SSU alumni, Christa Durand, Margaret Starr, Rodrigo Castillo, and Erica Dori, will be performing in Music to My Ears' virtual production of, The Old Maid and the Thief: A Radio Opera.
