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Allen Rivera playing marimba in Schroeder Hall
Senior Spotlight

|| SENIOR SPOTLIGHT || Allen Daniel Rivera | @adrpercussion | BM Percussion Performance | American Canyon | I feel the most alive when I am on stage.

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A winner for the 2020 Sonoma State University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition has been chosen!

The event was held virtually this year, due to the Shelter-in-Place restrictions that have shut down concert life across California and the world. Rather than compete live, participants submitted recordings of their performances.

Department of Music
Virtual Senior Recitals

Out of adversity comes growth and adaptation!

Student playing guitar
Students Continue to Perform from Home

The talented members of our department have continued to shine as they record themselves playing a variety of classic pieces, original works, and their own arrangements of different pieces.

student sitting at piano ready to play
Piano Masterclass announced for March 16 - CANCELED

Michael and Jessica Chow Shinn, co-founders and artistic directors of pianoSonoma will be offering a piano master class at Sonoma State University on Monday, March 16 from 10:00-11:30 in Schroeder Hall at the Green Music

Opera Singer with piano in background
2020 Songs Celebrates Women!

This spring, Sonoma State University voice students and faculty present a series of performances - 2020 Songs - in which singers will examine the work of women composers and lyricists in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ratification and adoption of the 19th Amendment giving

Choir standing and singing in choir loft
Everlasting Light at Santa Rosa Symphony - San Francisco Classical Voice

Read what the San Francisco Classical Voice had to say about our Sonoma State University Symphonic Chorus: bit.ly/sfcvarticle_s

José Soto Jr. singing in front of a group of mariachi students
SSU Music Education Alumnus makes Sonoma County '30 under 30' list

José Soto Jr., an Sonoma State University alumnus and Music Education major, was recognized among a group of inspiring individuals in Sonoma County under 30 for the second year in a row for his work at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts.

A college student plays the musical instrument, the French horn, during symphony rehearsal
Orchestra ready to play out the season
Jessica Rivera, Staff Writer

Ready to play out the rest of the school year, the Sonoma State University Symphonic Orchestra is putting on their last show of the semester titled “Season Finale: Late

Sonoma State Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Orchestra Season Finale

Sonoma State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Kahn, Music Director

Program: Saint-Saens, Concerto No. 1 for Cello in A Minor (Brynn Dally, soloist and 2018 Concerto Competition Winner)
Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D Major