Year: 2013

The spring semester student recital schedule begins Saturday, March 16 at 1:30 p.m. with the joint recital of juniors Nick Mason, trumpet and Chris Allen, bass trombone. Nick Mason and Chris Allen will be accompanied by pianist Beth Winterfeldt and joined by the other members of the Christ Chapel Brass for the final selection on…

“Music is one of those things I’d feel completely empty if I didn’t have,” says Sophie Haber Wertz ’15, violinist in the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra’s first violin section. You can’t accuse her of overstatement. Playing since childhood, she received a Gustavus music scholarship and her college music career thus far has included performing across South…

The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to welcome The Hot Dish Trio to the campus on Sunday, March 3, for a performance in Jussi Björling Recital Hall at 7:00 p.m. With assistant professor of music Karrin Meffert-Nelson, clarinet joined by violinist Leslie Shank and pianist Susan Billmeyer, this performance is free…

Benedictine monk and American pianist Seán Duggan, OSB, will be the guest of the Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College on Sunday, March 3 and will present a recital of the music of J.S. Bach beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the College’s Jussi Björling Recital Hall. This performance is part of the Department’s Colloquium…

The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to present Laura Cavani and the Laura Caviani Trio in concert, Monday, February 25, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Jussi Björling Recital Hall. The Trio includes Laura Caviani, piano, Chris Bates, bass and Dave Schmalenberger on drums. The concert is a part of the Department’s…

After nearly a century of silence, recently discovered compositions by Norwegian/American composer Theodora Cormontan have returned to the stage. Ninety years after Cormontan’s death, St. Peter and Gustavus musicians Bonnie Jorgensen, piano and Michael Jorgensen, baritone, will bring the music of this little-known composer to life on the Jussi Björling stage on Sunday, February 24,…

The Gustavus Department of Music is pleased to present Barbara Leibundguth in a faculty flute recital on Sunday, February 17 at 3:30 p.m. Accompanied by pianist Sonja Thompson, Leibundguth will present her recital in Jussi Björling Recital Hall on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus. The performance is free and open to the public.

The Gustavus Choir, one of the nation’s foremost Lutheran college choirs, will present it annual Home Concert at 7:30 p.m., Saturday evening, February 16, at Christ Chapel on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus. Under the direction of Dr. Gregory J. Aune, the choir is returning from its nine-day concert tour through California, Arizona, and New…

One of the nation’s foremost collegiate concert bands, the Gustavus Wind Orchestra, returns from a 10-day concert tour though the Midwest to celebrate its 135th season of music making with its annual Home Concert. Under the direction of Conductor Douglas Nimmo, the wind orchestra will present its Home Concert at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, February…