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The Navarro Trio are Sonoma State's Chamber Artists-in-Residence
Navarro Trio Wraps Up Its 25th Season

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.

SSU alumni in the band, Muse
They're Getting The Band(s) Back Together

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.

Two Winners Named in 2nd Annual Concerto Competition

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.

Cameron Kaiser
Orchestra Concert to Feature Composition Contest Winner

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

Brombaugh Op. 9 organ in Schroeder Hall
Organ Takes Starring Role in Faculty Recital

Sonoma State University’s annual Wind Power concert on February 23 will feature Jonathan Dimmock, organist, playing Buxtehude’s Magnificat primi toni and chamber works with winds on Schroeder Hall’s renowned Brombaugh pipe organ

SSU President Judy Sakaki with Symphonic Wind Ensemble Conductor Andy Collinsworth
President Sakaki To Perform With Symphonic Wind Ensemble

The Sonoma State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble presents an evening of musical collaborations with President Judy K. Sakaki as guest narrator in Aaron Copland's iconic "Lincoln Portrait." The concert is Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center. 

Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell
Jewish Music Series Turns Two

Music of the Middle East, jazz-influenced improvisations, klezmer and liturgical melodies will comprise the 2nd annual Jewish Music Series at Sonoma State University.

Keith Brion rehearses the SSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Band Icon Keith Brion to Conduct Symphonic Winds

World renowned bandmaster Keith Brion will guest conduct the Sonoma State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble on a program of wind band classics at 7:30 pm May 13 in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center.

Chamber Singers
Choirs to Perform Shakespeare in Schroeder

The Sonoma State University Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Singers will honor the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death with settings of his texts on April 29 at 7:30 pm in Schroeder Hall. 

Alexander Kahn
Rhoslyn Jones, Orchestra to Perform "Knoxville, Summer of 1915"

Acclaimed lyric soprano Rhoslyn Jones will sing Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Sonoma State University Symphony Orchestra on May 1 at 7:30 pm in Weill Hall.