Join Flautist Leslie Stroud, Pianist Matthew Odell, and PSU Faculty Member and Clarinetist Meghan Donahue for an afternoon of solo and chamber works from the 20th and 21st Century. This event is free and open to the public!
The 2022-2023 Sidore Lecture Series focuses on Building Justice in our communities and our world, today and beyond. What is social justice? What would that look like? Who benefits from social justice and who benefits from resisting it?Lectures will explore the broad spectrum of justice issues facing us today and how we can modify society towards a more “just” future. ...
LET CHAIRS SAIL THROUGH THE AIR WITH THIS STORMING NEW TRAD QUARTETGadan is the new project created by four experienced and well-known musicians in Irish trad and European folk/rock scene, with years of touring in the major European and US festivals of traditional and contaminated folk music. An impactful repertoire with a powerful live appeal and a sound comparable to ...
Ashley Gagne, soprano, is a senior Music Education major with a concentration in voice. She has been a member in Plymouth State University Chorale all four years and the auditioned Chamber Singers ensemble for two years under the direction of Harmony Markey, and also serves as a choral assistant for both ensembles. This recital is a culmination of Ashley’s work ...
New Hampshire Music Festival Chamber Ensemble performances on Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm through July. More information is available at the link below. July 11th: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Phantasy for Oboe and Strings in F minor, Op. 2 14’ Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major, RV 45 12’ George Onslow (1784 –1853) String Quintet No. 30 in E ...
Acacia chamber music returns to PSU to present an all-new arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, by renowned composer and arranger Bob Neighbor, with Leslie Stroud performing on flute, alto flute, and piccolo; Meghan Donahue performing on clarinet, bass clarinet, and alto saxophone; and Matthew Odell as pianist. The program rounds out with the Saint-Saens Tarantelle and Petit Suite ...
Celtic Flutes will take you on a journey across Ireland and Scotland from bog towns, to meadows, abandoned castles, and mountain peaks. Explore traditional Celtic folk tunes and learn the history behind them. Featuring PSU faculty, Aubrie Dionne, and guests Erin Dubois, piccolo, Kylie Elliott, and Rose Hinkle on alto flute.
The world is a fascinating place! The 2023-24 Sidore Lecture series will explore how curiosity and creativity feed passion for life. 9/14/2023 Trevor ChandlerGetting Along Is Boring, Let’s Fight: Embrace Conflict and Live the Most Interesting Life Political toxicity and polarization continue to strain our institutions and civic cohesiveness with studies showing less trust between Republicans and Democrats than between ...
Cheryl Savageau will read from her poetry collections Dirt Road Home and Mother/Land, which explore facets of New England / Indigenous place and identity. Siobhan Senier writes, in Studies in American Indian Literature, that Savageau’s poetry “comes out of a long line of Abenaki writing traceable all the way back to the precontact birchbark maps called awikhiganak” and “challenges readers ...
"The World in Her Hands; music of contemporary female composers," is a celebration of songs in many American musical traditions including music theater, cabaret, jazz, and spirituals. Featured composers include Georgia Stitt, Goldrich & Heisler, Christine Jobson and Margaret Bonds. Hannah Bio Hannah Murray, lyric soprano, received her B.A. in vocal performance from Connecticut College, and her M.M. in vocal ...
Iranian American poet Farnaz Fatemi will read from her award-winning 2022 collection, Sister Tongue, as well as from new work. The poems in Sister Tongue explore negative spaces—the distance between twin sisters, between lovers, between Farsi and English, between the poet’s upbringing in California and her family in Iran. In her foreword to the book, former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy ...
To complete their music education, PSU Music Education seniors must pass a jury performance. Once they pass, they are welcome to show off their work in a Senior Recital. This event is free and open to the public.