Category: Music

For its 127th concert season, the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Ruth Lin have set their sights east and will be presenting concerts through Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia. The 73-member ensemble will leave the campus on March 27 and return April 3. On the tour, the ensemble will present concerts in St.…

Under the direction of first-year jazz studies director Dave Stamps, five jazz combos from the Department of Music will present a showcase of their work on Sunday, March 22 in Jussi Bjorling Recital Hall. This jazz performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the public at no charge. The Jazz Guitar Ensemble…

The Department of Music at Gustavus is pleased to announce the junior voice recital of Karen Holt, soprano and Chase Fasbender, baritone, to be presented on Sunday, March 22 at 3:30 p.m. This joint recital, accompanied by St. Peter pianist Bonnie Jorgensen, will be presented in Jussi Bjorling Recital Hall. The performance is free and…

The Gustavus Philharmonic Orchestra and Conductor Justin Knoepfel will welcome featured violin soloists Conor O’Brien and Jill Olson Moser to their spring concert on the Bjorling Recital Hall stage on Sunday, March 22 at 1:30 p.m. This performance is free and open to the public. Justin Knoepfel has selected 3 works for the Philharmonic’s spring…

The Vasa Wind Orchestra, Karrin Meffert-Nelson, conductor and the Gustavus Wind Orchestra, James Patrick Miller, conductor, will combine efforts on Saturday, March 21 to present their spring concerts in Bjorling Recital Hall. The program will open at 1:30 p.m. with the Vasa ensemble and conclude with the Gustavus Wind Orchestra. Tickets are not required for…

Soprano Jennessa Runia will open a busy weekend of music performances with her senior vocal recital in Bjorling Recital Hall on Friday, March 20. Accompanied by pianist Emily Rudquist, Jennessa will begin her recital at 7:30 p.m. The recital is free and open to the public. A senior biology major with minors in sociology/anthropology and…

A busy spring semester of student recitals opens on Saturday, March 14 at 3:30 p.m. with Violist Karin Dye’s student recital. Ms. Dye will be accompanied by pianist Beth Winterfeldt and assisted by a number of string players from the Gustavus Symphony Orchestra. This recital is free and open to the public. Karin Dye is…

Music faculty members Barbara Leibundguth, flute and Yumiko Oshima-Ryan, piano, will present a faculty recital Saturday, March 14 at 1:30 p.m. in Jussi Björling Recital Hall. The recital, “In the Wind, Japanese Contemporary Music: Shakuhachi to Progressive Rock,” will be open to the public at no charge. Tickets are not required. Saturday’s program will include…

The flute and piano duo of Tim Lane and Namji Kim, members of the music faculty at UW Eau Claire, will present a guest recital in Jussi Björling Recital Hall on Friday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. The recital is sponsored by the Department of Music at Gustavus and will be presented at no charge…

The Woodwind Quintet from the Minnesota Opera Orchestra will present a recital on the Gustavus campus in Björling Recital Hall on Monday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m. This performance is brought to Gustavus as part of the Department of Music’s Colloquium Series and will be presented for member of the the Gustavus and St. Peter…