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Thursday, Jan. 30 Georgia College & State University’s Department of Music presents a Faculty Recital, “Singing Through Life,” 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall, featuring  Samantha Frischling, soprano; Camilla Packroff, soprano; Laurie Peebles, flute; and Lev Ryabinin, piano.  They will perform art songs and arias that highlight different aspects of life, love and humanity.  It spans a wide variety of works from Baroque chamber cantata arias and German Lieder to a contemporary art...

Tuesday, Jan. 28 Georgia College & State University welcomes guest artists for an evening of ‘Songs of Sunshine, Love, Conflict, and Death,” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall, featuring members of the 1716 Collective of the University of North Georgia: Yue Yin, coloratura soprano; Benjamin Schoening, lyric baritone; and David Peoples, piano, percussion, and composer. The concert will include music for soprano or baritone and piano with literature from notable 19th century poets...

Rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 24 Georgia College & State University’s Department of Music presents a Faculty Recital, 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall, featuring Steven Taylor, cello; and Hue Jang, piano. They will perform classical and modern music by Franz Schubert and Dmitri Shostakovich. Schubert’s Sonata in A minor, “Arpeggione” was written for an experimental Viennese instrument, similar to a bowed guitar. This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment...

Georgia College’s Max Noah Singers will embark on their annual tour Monday, Dec. 16, singing holiday songs in various cities in Georgia. They will finish with a homecoming performance in Milledgeville on Wednesday, Dec. 18.Five sets of songs, connected by poetry readings, include settings of traditional carols, Latin motets, and original compositions about the season. Audiences will be treated with holiday favorites like “Ding, Dong, Merrily on High” and “Christmas Time Is Here.” The...

Friday, Dec. 6 Georgia College and State University’s 17th Annual “Holiday Concert” at 7:30 p.m. in Russell Auditorium will help get you in the spirit of the season. The entire music department comes together for this uplifting tradition. Old favorites and new tunes will be performed by the Wind Symphony, String Quartet, Flute Choir, Saxophone Choir, Orchestra, Women’s Ensemble, MNS Bass Quartet, Max Noah Singers (MNS), MNS Treble Quartet, Jazz Combo,  Jazz Band and University Chorus...

Monday, Nov. 25 Georgia College & State University presents a 7:30 p.m. faculty recital, “From Voice Studio to Stage,” in Max Noah Recital Hall. Faculty Youngmi Kim, soprano, Bryan Hall, violinist, and pianists Hue Jang and Lev Ryabinin will perform selections studied by students in the university’s voice studio. They’ll perform Classical, Romantic and 20th-Century period compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, John Duke, Adolphe Adam and Frederick...

Thursday, Nov. 21 This year’s Creative Expressions concert, performed by Georgia College & State University music therapy students and adults with ‘disAbilities’ from the Life Enrichment Center in Milledgeville, will be at 6 p.m. in New City Church at the Mill. “When You Wish Upon a Star” will bring the magic and wonder of Disney’s uplifting animations to your evening. A $5 donation is encouraged. All proceeds benefit music scholarships or the GCSU Department of Music through GCSU...

Thursday, Nov. 14 Georgia College & State University’s Music Department presents the “GCSU Opera Scenes Ensemble: Desire & Destiny” at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall. Fourteen students and a community member will perform six scenes from different operas, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Gaetano Donizett’s L’elisir d’amore, Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, Georges Bizet’s Carmen...

Saturday, November 9 GCSU’s three choral ensembles will present a combined concert at 7:30 p.m. in First Baptist Church on 330 S. Liberty Street. “Americana” will feature choral works by American composers which span over two hundred and fifty years. The selections are by such notable composers and arrangers as William Billings, Amy Beach, William Dawson, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Emma Lou Diemer, Gwyneth Walker and Moses Hogan. University Chorus and Max Noah Singers will perform...