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Concert
Venue
Time
General
Public
Faculty/Staff/
Seniors/Alumni
Students
31
Musica Nova: In memory of Paul R. Goldstaub
CH
7:30 p.m.
$10
$7
$5
February
Concert
Time
General
Public
Faculty/Staff/
Seniors/Alumni
Students
6
Tri-Cities Opera presents Rossini’s
The Italian Girl in Algiers
8 p.m.
Call 607-772-0400 for tickets
FT
7
Guest Artist: Pianist Gleb Ivanov
CH
7:30 p.m.
$20
8
Tri-Cities Opera presents Rossini’s
The Italian Girl in Algiers
FT
3 p.m.
Call 607-772-0400 for tickets
$15
15
Jonathan Biggers Lecture/Recital: Go for Baroque!
FA21
4 p.m.
$7
26, 27, 28
Speed Dating Tonight
OC
8 p.m.
Call 607-772-0400 for tickets
March
Concert
Venue
Time
General
Public
1
Speed Dating Tonight
OC
3 p.m.
Call 607-772-0400 for tickets
1
Sonata Masterpieces for cello and piano
with Stephen Stalker and Stephen Zank
CH
3 p.m.
$10
$7
$5
7
Harpur Chorale and Women’s Chorus
CH
7:30 p.m.
$7
$5
free
8
University Wind Symphony:
Just Like a Concert in the Park
OCT
3 p.m.
$7
$5
free
10
Friedheim Memorial Lecture/Recital:
Music for the 16th-century Spanish vihuela
CRH
7:30 p.m.
$5
$5
free
12
Opera Scenes
CH
7:30 p.m.
$10
$7
$5
$5
Faculty/Staff/
Seniors/Alumni
$10
free
Students
14
University Symphony Orchestra: Dark Passions
OCT
7:30 p.m.
$7
$5
free
21
Lontano Ensemble: Music Now!
CRH
7:30 p.m.
$7
$5
free
April
Concert
Venue
Time
General
Public
Faculty/Staff/
Seniors/Alumni
Students
1
Harmony Club Fundraiser Concert
CRH
7:30 p.m.
$10 suggested donation
16
Faculty Recital: Zachary Sweet, cello,
and Michael Salmirs, piano
CRH
7:30 p.m.
$7
17
Tri-Cities Opera presents Gounod’s Faust
FT
8 p.m.
Call 607-772-0400 for tickets
19
Tri-Cities Opera presents Gounod’s Faust
FT
3 p.m.
Call 607-772-0400 for tickets
$5
free
19
Guest Artist: Organist Craig Phillips
UP
4 p.m.
$10
$7
$5
23
Harpur Jazz Ensemble with Camille Thurman
OCT
7:30 p.m.
$7
$5
free
26
University Wind Symphony: Once Upon a Time
CH
3 p.m.
$7
$5
free
28
Percussion Ensemble
CH
7:30 p.m.
$7
$5
free
May
Concert
Venue
Time
General
Public
Faculty/Staff/
Seniors/Alumni
Students
3
University Chorus and Symphony Orchestra:
Mendelssohn’s “Lobgesang”
OCT
3 p.m.
$7
$5
free
7
Harpur Chorale and Women’s Chorus Spring Concert
CH
7:30 p.m.
$7
$5
free
8
Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble
WT
7:30 p.m.
$5
$5
$5
VENUE LEGEND:
On-Campus at BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
CH Chamber Hall - Anderson Center
CRH Casadesus Recital Hall - Fine Arts Building
FA21 Room 21 - Fine Arts Building
OCT Osterhout Concert Theater - Anderson Center
WT Watters Theater - Fine Arts Building
Off-Campus, BINGHAMTON, NY
FT Forum Theater
TM Trinity Memorial Church
UP United Presbyterian Church
OC Tri-Cities Opera Center
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Spring 2015 Season
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GUEST RECITALS
Saturday, January 31
Saturday, February 7
Musica Nova: In memory of
Paul R. Goldstaub
Guest Artist: Pianist Gleb Ivanov
This concert celebrates the creative
imagination of Paul Goldstaub, Professor of
Composition at Binghamton University. A
diverse program of his solo and ensemble
compositions for vocal, instrumental and
keyboards will be presented by the music
faculty and students of Binghamton University
and Ithaca College.
Sunday, February 15
Jonathan Biggers Lecture/Recital:
Go for Baroque!
Jonathan Biggers presents a recital featuring
“Stylus Phantasticus (Fantastic Style)” works
by Buxtehude, Böhm, Bruhns and others.
The drama of the Baroque comes to a new
height in the extremely virtuosic and fiery
works by these predecessors of J.S. Bach,
presented by Biggers on the splendid Wolff
Organ at Binghamton University.
Sunday, March 1
Sonata Masterpieces
for cello and piano with
Stephen Stalker and
Stephen Zank
Join Stephen Stalker, cellist,
and Stephen Zank, pianist, as
they perform three magnificent
sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy
and Franck.
Tuesday, March 10
Friedheim Memorial Lecture/Recital with Paul Sweeny
and Christina Salasny, soprano: Music for the
16th-century Spanish Vihuela
During the Renaissance, while the lute was
the most popular plucked instrument in
Europe, the Spanish favored the vihuela de
mano, an instrument that was tuned like a
lute but built in the shape of a guitar. This
fascinating program will include dance music,
accompanied songs, arrangements of sacred
and secular vocal music and a wide variety of
free-form fantasias.
Thursday, April 16
Zachary Sweet, cello,
and Michael Salmirs, piano
Zachary Sweet, Binghamton University’s new
instructor of cello, and Michael Salmirs will perform
perform Leos Janácek’s “Pohádka”, Daniel
Godfrey’s “Arietta” and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s
“Sonata in G Minor”.
ENSEMBLES
ENSEMBLES
PHOTO BY CHRISTIAN STEINER
FACULTY RECITALS
Hailed by The New York Times as “...a young supervirtuoso, with musical sensitivity and an appreciation
of style...”, Ivanov will perform compositions by
Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt.
Whether your taste is for instrumental or choral, classical, jazz or
popular, renaissance or contemporary, Binghamton University’s
over 300 student musicians present a full range of skillful and
exciting performances throughout the year.
Saturday, March 7
Harpur Chorale and
Women’s Chorus
Saturday, March 21
Lontano Ensemble: Music Now! Odaline de la Martinez,
conductor and artistic director
Praised by The Observer for it’s
“thrilling” performances and The
Times as “entrancing”, the London
based ensemble Lontano presents a
varied evening of fresh, tuneful and
exciting music for strings, winds, piano
and percussion — including a recent
piece by Binghamton University’s
composition professor Daniel Thomas
Davis. The program will also feature the world premiere performance
of several short pieces written specifically for Lontano by the Music
Department’s most advanced student composers. Sunday, April 19
Tuesday, April 28
Percussion Ensemble
Sunday, March 8
University Wind Symphony:
Just Like a Concert in the Park
Although the weather may still be cold
outside, you’ll be ready for a wonderful
concert in the park as we capture the
spirit of this great summer pastime. Our
guests, the Vestal Community Band,
led by Jerry Natoli, will join Dan Fabricius and the Wind Symphony for
this enjoyable program filled with popular, amusing and patriotic music.
Guest Residency Artist: Organist Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips, one of the most noted performers and
composers in the “organ world,” presents an exciting
weekend of activities including a composition master
class, a workshop on his own compositions, and
a solo recital. The concert features his own works
including “Fanfare” and “Scenes from a Gallery,” with
Georgetta Maiolo, flute, and Janey Choi, violin, as well
as grand works by French Symphonic composers.
University Chorus and Symphony Orchestra:
Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise)
A unique marriage of symphonic
and cantata forms, this choral/
orchestral masterpiece is also known
as Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No.
2.” The chorus and orchestra will be
joined by soloists from the Master
of Music in Opera program (sung in
English).
Thursday, May 7
Harpur Chorale and
Women’s Chorus Spring
Concert
Saturday, March 14
University Symphony Orchestra: Dark Passions
Speed Dating Tonight!
Music Director Timothy Perry returns to lead Binghamton
University’s 75-piece symphony orchestra in two tempestuous
masterworks of the Romantic Age: Brahms’ “Tragic Overture,
Op. 81” and Tchaikovsky›s brilliant “Symphony No. 4 in
F minor”.
A Comic Opera in One Act by Michael Ching featuring MM in Opera
students at the Tri-Cities Opera Center. Call 607-772-0400 for tickets.
Thursday, April 23
OPERA
February 26, 27, and 28 at 8 p.m. and March 1 at 3 p.m.
Thursday, March 12
Opera Scenes
Graduate and undergraduate voice majors present scenes
from some of the world’s greatest operas. Performers are
of the Stage Techniques class taught by Visiting Associate
Willie Anthony Waters, and are vocal students of Assistant
Thomas Goodheart and Associate Professor Mary Burgess.
Sunday, May 3
and arias
members
Professor
Professor
Tri-Cities Opera
As part of the Master of Music (MM) in Opera program, and in
conjunction with TCO’s Resident Artist Training Program, these
productions regularly feature MM in Opera candidates in leading
and supporting roles.
Friday, February 6 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 8 at 3 p.m.
Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers
Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 19 at 3 p.m.
Gounod’s Faust
All Tri-Cities Opera performances will be held at the Forum Theatre in
Binghamton. Call 607-772-0400 for tickets.
Harpur Jazz Ensemble Concert with Camille Thurman,
saxophone
The Harpur Jazz Ensemble, directed by
Mike Carbone, studies and performs
new and classic jazz compositions.
Binghamton
alumna,
saxophonist
Camille Thurman ’09 returns to campus
to join the ensemble as guest soloist.
Sunday, April 26
Friday, May 8
Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble
The presentation will include African music performed by a full
ensemble of drummers and dancers. African dance-drumming typically
juxtaposes several art forms
together including storytelling,
pantomime, oral history and
community wisdom. It is an
excellent way to introduce
authentic African culture to
anyone who may have little
understanding of modern Africa.
AND MORE!
University Wind Symphony: Once Upon a Time
Wednesday, April 1
From a legend of the Pacific Northwest to music from opera, from Nordic
mythology to some very contemporary sounds replicating a train ride;
this concert presents a variety of stories told through music. Conductor
Dan Fabricius leads the Wind Symphony for a fascinating journey into
the creative minds of the composers
who created these marvelous pieces.
Highlights include Steven Reineke’s
“Fate of the Gods”, Eric Whitacre’s
“Ghost Train” and Jaromír Weinberger’s
“Polka and Fugue”.
Harmony Club Fundraiser Concert
The Harmony Club will celebrate the 200th birthday of Adolph Sax and
his inventions, and take you through a historical, musical journey of the
saxophone.
Thursday Mid-Day Concerts
Free Thursday Mid-Day Concerts will be held February 26 through May
7 at 1:20 p.m. while classes are in session.