Category: Music

A quartet of student recitals featuring piano, voice and bass trombone are on the schedule for another busy weekend of senior recitals at Gustavus Adolphus College. Ashley Tibbetts, piano and mezzo soprano, Kirsten Bouma, mezzo soprano, and Azra Halilovic, piano and soprano fill Saturday’s calendar. Scott Simpkins, bass trombone, concludes the weekend with a recital…

As part of the College’s annual Honors Day celebration, Saturday, May 1, the Gustavus and Vasa Wind Orchestras will present their final concert of the season in Christ Chapel. This spring winds concert begins at 7:00 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

Nearly every year Associate Professor of Music Steve Wright takes his Gustavus Jazz Lab Band to the prestigious Eau Claire Jazz Festival hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, not only to perform for a knowledgeable and appreciate audience but also to compete against some of the stellar college and university jazz programs in the…

The Gustavus Choir, the premier choral ensemble at Gustavus Adolphus College as well as one of the nation’s premier Lutheran college choirs, returns this week from it annual concert tour to present its Home Concert in Christ Chapel, Saturday, May 1, at 3:00 p.m. This performance, conducted by Gregory Aune, is free and open to…

Five Gustavus Adolphus College Department of Music seniors have been selected by audition to perform in the 2010 Seniors Honors Recital, Saturday, May 1 in Björling Recital Hall. The honors recital is a part of the annual Honors Day celebration and begins at 1:30 p.m. The recital is free and open to the public.

The Södra Vätterbygdens Folkhögskola Choir of Jönköping, Sweden, will present a concert at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Christ Chapel on Monday, April 26, as part of its concert tour of the U.S. This performance is free of charge and begins at 4:30 p.m. in Christ Chapel.

Spring concerts for the percussion ensembles and the Adolphus Jazz Ensemble set the stage for Sunday, April 25, at Gustavus Adolphus College. Two performances are scheduled in Jussi Björling Recital Hall at 1:30 and 7:00 p.m.

The Department of Music at Gustavus continues the schedule of senior and junior recitals with performances by double bassists Kelsey Manning and Michael Nesbit, clarinetist Sara Thorstenson and saxophonist Pauli Jackson this Saturday, April 24 in Bjorling Recital Hall. These student recitals are free and open to the public.

Following a 4-day concert tour which included performances in Sun City West, Phoenix, and Tucson, the Choir of Christ Chapel and Conductor Patricia Kazarow, return to the campus for its home concert on Friday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Christ Chapel.

The Gustavus Oratorio Festival, sponsored by the Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College, brings high schools choirs from around the region to campus. The Festival provides an opportunity to study choral music at the college level and to participate in the Festival Concert, presenting choral masterworks with a full symphonic orchestra. The 2010 Gustavus…