Category: Music

The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to announce the annual combined concert by the woodwind chamber ensembles on Sunday, November 23 at 3:30 p.m. Sunday’s concert will include 7 ensembles ranging from the flute choir to saxophone quartets and quintets to a chamber wind ensemble of 10 students. The performance is…

The Adolphus Jazz Ensemble and the Gustavus Jazz Lab Band, both under the direction of first-year jazz studies director Dave Stamps, will present their fall (maybe “Early Winter”) concert on the Björling Recital Hall stage on Sunday, November 23 at 1:30 p.m. Admission to this joint concert by the two jazz ensembles is free and…

The Gustavus Philharmonic Orchestra and Conductor Justin Knoepfel will present their fall concert in Jussi Björling Recital Hall on Saturday, November 22 at 1:30 p.m. This concert is the final performance by the orchestra for this semester and is free and open to the public. For this concert, Justin Knoepfel has selected works by George…

The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to announce the senior piano recital of Lakeville South High School graduate Shelby Roles. Roles, a senior biology major and religion minor at Gustavus from Prior Lake, will present her senior recital on the Jussi Björling Recital Hall Stage on Sunday, November 16 at 7:30…

The 2014 Brassworks! Concert at Gustavus Adolphus College will include two of the most often heard brass ensembles from the Department of Music: the Gustavus Brass Choir and the Christ Chapel Brass Quintet. The ensembles, lead by Conductors Heidi Johanna Miller and James Patrick Miller, will present this joint concert on Sunday, November 16 at…

The Gustavus Wind Orchestra, with Conductor James Patrick Miller, and the Vasa Wind Orchestra, conducted by Karrin Meffert-Nelson, will present a joint concert in Jussi Björling Recital Hall on the Gustavus campus on Saturday, November 15 at 1:30 p.m. This concert will feature both ensembles in solo performance and is free and open to the…

The Gustavus Symphony Orchestra is pleased to welcome Gustavus flutist Barbara Leibundguth to the stage on Sunday, November 9, for its Fall Concert in Björling Recital Hall. The concert, conducted by Ruth Lin, will begin at 1:30 p.m. and admission is free. The Symphony’s program for Sunday’s concert will open with Otar Gordeli’s Concerto for…

With the assistance of the Gustavus Artist Series and the Johnson Endowment for the Arts, the Department of Music at Gustavus is pleased to bring the Dana Landry Jazz Trio to the Gustavus campus for a residency and concert November 6-8. The residency activities will take place throughout the day on Friday, November 7 with…

The Annual Gustavus Honor Band Festival and Concert will celebrate its 26th year on November 2 and 3 with the arrival of over 230 high school musicians from 58 high schools in Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and South Dakota. With the increased attendance, the High School Honor Band will split to create two concert bands with…