music

Concert series featues Inga Zornes

The Atrium Music concert series will host WSU violinist Inga Zornes, with Chelsea Bloomberg on the piano on Friday, Oct. 13 at 12:15 p.m. Both these student musicians will graduate this year and this recital offers a great opportunity to hear the artistry they’ve mastered.  Their program includes pieces by Beethoven, Rachmaninov and Vieuxtemps, and an […]

Jazz ensembles in concert with trumpeter Dean McNeil

PULLMAN- A concert featuring the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band and VOJAZZ vocal jazz ensemble will be presented at 8:00 pm Tuesday, October 3 in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The special guest at the concert is Dean McNeil, a composer, arranger and trumpeter. McNeil hails from Canada where he is Head of the Department of Music […]

Professors place second in international piano competition

Jeff Savage, assistant professor of music, and Karen Hsiao Savage, piano instructor in the School of Music and Theatre Arts, Washington State University, placed second at the Concours Grieg: International Competition for Pianists in Oslo, Norway. “It was a great experience,” said Karen Hsiao Savage. “We expected to see great talent, and indeed the level […]

Feast experience combines gourmet meal, art, music

PULLMAN -Washington State University will host the first Feast of the Arts for 2006 on Friday, Sept. 29 with a reception beginning at 6 p.m. in the Todd Hall Atrium and dinner at 7 p.m. in Todd Hall Dining Room 268. The Feast of the Arts is a series of events held during the weekends of […]

School of Music presents ‘Little Shop of Horrors’

PULLMAN– Washington State University’s School of Music, for its fifth annual summer musical, has chosen to present the cult classic, “Little Shop of Horrors.” This 1980 off-Broadway musical was made even more popular by the 1986 movie version, starring Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, Jim Belushi and Bill Murray.  The production will be presented in Bryan […]

WSU Vancouver to host folksinger Anne Feeney

Renowned folksinger Anne Feeney will perform at WSU Vancouver at noon on Thursday, April 27 in Student Services Building Room 129.Praised by folksinger icons Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips as “the best labor singer in North America,” Feeney will sing and talk about the songs that social movements have incorporated in their struggles past and […]

Solstice Wind Quintet to perform

The Solstice Wind Quintet will present a spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 26 in Bryan Hall Theater on the WSU-Pullman campus. The distinguished faculty ensemble, which has been in residence at WSU since 1978, is known for intimate, friendly performances in the chamber music tradition. Members of the quartet include Ann Marie Yasinitsky, […]

Solstice Quintet concert March 26

The Solstice Wind Quintet will present a spring concert on Sunday, March 26 at 3 p.m. in the WSU Bryan Hall Theatre. This distinguished faculty ensemble, which has been in residence at WSU since 1978, is known for intimate, friendly performances in the best chamber music tradition.Sunday’s concert will feature music by Cuban jazz composer […]

Music on the menu

“Reverend Jack,” a movement from Horace-Alexander Young’s extended work titled “Distant Voices: A Jazz Suite,” will be performed by WSU faculty at the Celebrating Excellence Recognition Banquet on Friday, March 24. Gerald Berthiaume, director of the School of Music and Theater Arts and a member of the Academic Showcase committee, said the committee was very […]

Jazz concert to celebrate Black History Month

A concert featuring the award-winning Washington State University Jazz Big Band and VOJAZZ vocal jazz ensemble will celebrate Black History Month at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14 in Kimbrough Concert Hall.The concert will open with VOJAZZ performing under the direction of Noel Barbuto. Barbuto has sung as a featured artist with Opera Plus, the Coeur […]