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Saturday, April 27 Georgia College & State University’s Music Department and Allied Arts will hold the 35th Annual JazzFest from 1:20 to 8:30 p.m. on Front Campus. The evening features live performances from local middle and high school bands and Georgia College Alumni Band, as well as a performance by the Georgia College Jazz Band featuring renowned trumpeter and vocalist, Joe Gransden. JazzFest offers local schools an opportunity to showcase their student bands in a 30-minute performance...

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;...

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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,...

Tuesday, April 2 At 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital at Georgia College & State University, guest artist and tenor Dr. Jonathan Yarrington will perform Franz Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin.” Faculty pianist Owen Lovell will accompany Yarrington for this rare and complete performance of Schubert’s iconic song cycle written in 1823 at the end of the Viennese classical era. The concert title translates into “the Fair Maid of the Mill,” based on 20 poems by the German poet Wilhelm Müller...

Thursday, March 28 Georgia College & State University’s chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s early quartet masterpiece, “Op. 18 No.4,” which pays musical homage to Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet,” as well as a piano quintet by Antonín Dvořák, featuring exotic Czech idioms with its Dumka movement.  Two guest artists—Jennifer Drake, viola, and Ismail Akbar, cello—join faculty members and violinists David H. Johnson and...