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Tuesday, Sept. 9 A Guest Artist Recital, “Beethoven’s Hammerklavier,” featuring pianist Francisco Silva will be at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall at Georgia College & State University. This performance will feature three of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas: Opus 90, 101, and 106, nicknamed the “Hammerklavier”-- considered to be the most difficult of his 32 sonatas. This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment. A $5 donation is encouraged. Online donations...

Thursday, Sept. 4 The Allen Duo faculty recital, “Musings,” will be at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall at Georgia College & State University. The duo consists of faculty members Andrew J. Allen and Elise Naber-Allen, who along with pianist Lev Ryabinin, will perform flute and saxophone duets, as well as compositions for solo instruments and electronics. This concert will feature a host of 20th and 21st century music from French impressionism to avant-garde explorations, including...

Tuesday, Sept. 2 A Faculty Chamber Recital, “Voice of the Whale,” will be at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall at Georgia College & State University. The faculty members Rebecca Cooke, clarinet; Laurie Peebles, flute; Steven Taylor, cello; and Hue Jang, piano will perform Classical and 20th Century music.   The trio by Beethoven is playful, while the “Voice of the Whale,” by George Crumb is mystical and a fantasy-like. This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment...

Georgia College & State University’s undergraduate and graduate programs had a strong presence at the 2025 Southeastern Regional American Music Therapy Conference with 41 students, alumni and faculty in attendance. The event highlighted the university’s ongoing contributions to the field of music therapy, with GCSU graduates and faculty presenting research, clinical applications and innovative programming.Alumni and faculty delivered six concurrent presentations and one research poster...

Come out and enjoy Georgia College & State University's Jazz Jam Session Tuesday, April 15, 7-9 p.m. at Amici Café, downtown Milledgeville, presented by Jazz at GCSU.  Hosted by our faculty and student jazz musicians, the GCSU Jam Session is open to all members of the community interested in working on their jazz and improvisation skills. Bring your instrument if you want to play or come just to enjoy the menu and the live music at Amici Café. We hope to see you there!

The music and music therapy majors of Georgia College & State University’s saxophone studio can often be heard on campus, performing in the Wind Symphony, Jazz Band, saxophone quartets, combos and as soloists. From Friday, March 14ththrough Sunday, March 16th, however, they were many miles away from Milledgeville representing the Bobcats at the North American Saxophone Alliance’s Region 7 Conference at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.The Saxophone Alliance was founded nearly...