Thursday, April 25 Georgia College & State University will present “Sound Sculptures XIX: Journeys & Remembrance” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. Directed by music faculty, Dr. David H. Johnson, this concert features newly composed, electronic compositions by Georgia College students that take an adventurous step forward and emotional look back. A $5 donation is encouraged. Online donations can be made at https://give.gcsu.edu/g/department-of-music/ All proceeds benefit music...
SSaturday, April 20 Come join us for a celebration of spring as Georgia College’s music ensembles gather on the lawn of Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion for a 6 p.m. “Music at the Mansion” concert. Free and open to the public, this annual concert features the university’s Wind Symphony, Women’s Ensemble, Orchestra, University Chorus, the Saxophone Choir, saxophone quartets and jazz combos. Come hear great musical compositions, like “Rhapsody for Saxophone Quartet,” by Eric Ewazen,...
Thursday, April 18 Georgia College & State University’s Music Therapy Program and the Life Enrichment Center present “Old Time Rock and Roll,” a production featuring musicians with “disAbilities” and music therapy students in the Creative Expressions Performance Groups. The concert will be at 6 p.m. in New City Church at the Mill, 224 E. Walton Street, Milledgeville. This year’s live music will take you back to one of America’s greatest musical styles with “Hotel California” by The...
Thursday, April 11 Georgia College & State University’s Music Theatre Scenes class will present “Revolutions,” at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell Auditorium. Dr. Dana Gorzelany-Mostak will direct the cast of 22 student performers with Dr. Hue Jang on piano. Two students, Tyler Harris and Hallie Thompson, act as assistant directors. The concert features poignant and comical tunes from favorite musicals like “Do You Hear the People Sing?” in Les Misérables; “Matchmaker” in Fiddler on the Roof;...
Saturday, April 6 GCSU’s three choral ensembles will present a combined concert at 7:30 p.m. in First Baptist Church, 330 S. Liberty Street. “Choral Billboard Top Hits” will feature choral selections from standard repertoire frequently performed by choirs around the world. The works, which span four hundred years, are by noteworthy composers like William Byrd, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Daniel...
Thursday, April 4 A lecture and concert, “Cultural Diplomacy and Music,” featuring Georgia College & State University’s Martha Daniel Newell Visiting Scholar, musicologist and pianist Dr. Evren Kutlay, will be at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. Kutlay will present the role of diplomacy in music throughout the centuries. Dr. Kutlay will perform solo piano for most of the program, but will also be joined by the GCSU Orchestra, violinist Bryan Hall, the Max Noah Singers select ensemble,...
Monday, March 25 A guest artist recital, featuring the Cantare Brass Quintet, will be at 6 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall at Georgia College & State University. The quintet brings together a group of dynamic chamber musicians, committed to delivering exceptional performances. Established in 2023, the ensemble has performed at universities and community music programs throughout the United States. Members are Dr. Maximilian McNutt, lecturer of trumpet at the University of Virginia; Dr...
Thursday, March 14 Georgia College & State University’s Department of Music is hosting its third biennial Terry Endowed Concert, entitled “En Mémoire” at 7:30 p.m. in Russell Auditorium with guest solo artists Riley Greer, a vocalist, and Stephen Hoy, a trombonist. They will perform alongside choral and instrumental ensembles, student pianists and guest artists. The GCSU Wind Ensemble will use selections from Hector Berlioz’s masterwork, “Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale.” Called...
Friday, March 8 Georgia College & State University’s Jazz Band presents “Tuneful Jazz” at 7:30 p.m. in Russell Auditorium. The band consists of 15 students on trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar bass and “trap set”—drums, cymbals and other percussion instruments. This year’s concert is a joyful combination of uplifting tunes like Hoagy Carmichael’s “The Nearness of You” and Ted Nash’s timeless, childhood classic, “Old MacDonald.” Whistle all the way home, unable to forget other great...
Saturday, Feb. 10 Georgia College’s Max Noah Singers will present “Valentine’s Day Rendezvous” at 7:30 p.m. in Magnolia Ballroom at the Student Activity Center. This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment. A variety of old and new love songs, from Cole Porter to the Broadway hit, “Dear Evan Hansen,” will be performed by the full ensemble, in addition to solos and duets. A $5 donation is encouraged. Online donations can be made at alumni.gcsu.edu/music...