Author: Al

Ten student musicians will present junior or senior recitals this weekend in the Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Along with the department faculty, professional accompanists and their fellow student musicians, these recitalists will perform recitals throughout the weekend in Jussi Björling Recital Hall on the Gustavus campus. All of…

A busy weekend of student recitals at Gustavus Adolphus College signals the beginning of an increasingly busy last few weeks of the spring semester. Five solo and one shared recital will fill the weekend in Björling Recital Hall with music as varied as piano, voice, oboe, trumpet and trombone. All of the recitals to be…

The Lefler Lecture Series and the Gustavus Department of Music are thrilled to welcome GRAMMY® nominated composer and Guggenheim Fellow Chuck Owen to campus on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. An avid outdoorsman and moving water aficionado, Owen will speak to a community audience in Björling Recital Hall at 7:00 p.m. about his approach to depicting…

Gustavus Adolphus College Department of Music welcomes flutist Tim Lane to the campus for a guest recital on Sunday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in Jussi Björling Recital Hall. Dr. Lane will present this recital accompanied by pianist Szu-Ling Wu. The performance is free and open to the public. Tim Lane has been a faculty…

The coming weekend in the Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College will be a busy one with a home tour concert, guest and faculty recitals, and student recitals on Sunday, April 10 by flutist Beige McConaughey at 3:30 p.m. in Jussi Björling Recital Hall and an organ recital by Zachary Anderson in Christ Chapel…

The Gustavus Wind Orchestra from Gustavus Adolphus College, one of the nation’s most storied collegiate concert bands, will conclude its 2016 concert tour with its Home Concert on Saturday, April 9 at 1:30 p.m. In its second year under the direction of conductor and music director James Patrick Miller, the ensemble will present its Home…

The Office of the Chaplains and the Department of Music at Gustavus will open this weekend’s recital schedule with an organ recital by Cantor and Organist of Christ Chapel Chad Winterfledt on Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. This faculty organ recital is free and open to the public. Dr. Chad Winterfeldt is Cantor of…

Three recent Gustavus Adolphus College alumnae who were named winners, and one who received honorable mention, of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF), studied music along with their study in the sciences while students at Gustavus. Of the four Gusties honored, Helen Wauck ’14 was a member of the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra,…

It’s difficult to imagine the thoughts in Theodora Cormontan’s mind in 1887 as she stood on the deck of the Hekla and sailed from Norway for America with her father and sister, leaving behind an established music career of performance, teaching and composition. As the coastline faded in the distance, the 46-year-old Norwegian composer probably…