Category: Music

Sunday, April 18, represents another busy day in the Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College with three student recitals scheduled on the St. Peter, Minnesota, campus.

The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, will present two senior recitals Saturday, April 17. Trombonist Tom Oelfke opens the afternoon schedule at 1:30 with pianist Brenda Moore. Kelsey Jentink, horn and Tom Liska, tuba, follow at 3:30 p.m. with pianists Brenda Moore and Beth Winterfeldt. The performances are free…

The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College hosts six student recitals this weekend in Jussi Björling Recital Hall. Opening the weekend on Friday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m., are juniors Sean Prichard, percussion & piano and Logan Burnside, alto & tenor saxophone. This recital is free and open to the public.

The Luleå Youth Chamber Orchestra of Luleå, Sweden, performed in Christ Chapel during Morning Worship, Wednesday, April 8, as part of its concert tour of the upper Midwest. Directed by Monika Jonasson, the chamber orchestra presented Stefan Nilsson’s Gabriella’s Song and Jean Sibelius’ Andante Festivo.

The Gustavus Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of interim conductor Gregory Aune, has returned from its annual spring concert tour to present the final “home” concert of the tour in Christ Chapel, Sunday, April 11 at 1:3o p.m. The performance will include selections from the tour program and includes works by Schubert, Faure, Elgar, Greig,…

Following a 6-day concert tour on the East Coast and preceding an appearance at the Eau Claire Jazz Festival, the Gustavus Adolphus College Jazz Lab Band returns to Gustavus to play a home concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 10 at Jussi Björling Recital Hall.

The Department of Music at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to present a senior bass trombone recital by Scott Simpkins, Sunday, April 11 at 3:30 p.m. Simpkins is accompanied by pianist Brenda Moore and the members of the Christ Chapel Brass in this recital presented in Björling Recital Hall.

Senior soprano Amy Jahnke will present her final voice recital at Gustavus on Saturday, April 10, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Accompanied by pianist Ashley Tibbetts, Ms. Jahnke will present her senior recital in the college’s Jussi Björling Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public.

A number of small ensembles will join with the Gustavus and Vasa Wind Orchestra to present their annual “Winds of Spring” concert in Christ Chapel, Friday, March 19. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. and includes performances by the two wind orchestras as well as the Department of Music’s Saxophone Quartet, the Wind Sinfonia, Trombone…

The Department of Music is pleased to present “Five Brits & a Witt: Music from the British Isles and America,” performed by the Leibundguth-Witt Duo in Jussi Björling Recital Hall, Sunday, March 21 at 3:30 p.m. This performance by Gustavus flute instructor Barbara Leibundguth and Carl Witt, pianist and composer, is free and open to…