Music

The SUNY New Paltz Faculty Jazz Ensemble presents "The Gig." Members of the Jazz faculty will join together to present an evening of the art of Jazz improvisation. In the tradition of most Jazz performances, each member will bring their selection of repertoire to be performed without a formal rehearsal. The audience will experience a live jazz performance in its most spontaneous, creative format. Members of the ensemble will introduce each other and the compositions throughout the evening.

A concert that explores love and its many dimensions. Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble is a professional choir based in Ewing, New Jersey, composed of the area's greatest educators, performers, and artists. Their varied concert program will feature new works and old favorites.

The Symphonic Band present a joint concert of music for winds and percussion in collaboration with the Highland High School Concert Band (Dan Shaut, director).

The latter half of the Shea-Kim duo’s two-year exploration of touch: Touch as a feeling, emotion, sound and technique—this time with the soundscapes of 20th and 21st century composers.

A choral concert featuring music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Runestad, Hagenberg, and more!

Frondescence is a collection of music inspired by nature and our place as humans living in the natural world amidst so many changes. Ryan MacEvoy McCullough joins Professor Christiana Fortune-Reader to feature music of contemporary composers including Clarice Assad, Toru Takemitsu, Phyllis Chen, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kaija Saariaho, and Caroline Shaw.

Piano students of professor Alex Peh perform piano four-hands by Mozart, Barber, Brahms and Bach.

The debut concert of SUNY New Paltz's New Music Ensemble will perform two iconic pieces "In C" by Terry Riley and "Clapping Music" by Steve Reich. The concert will also feature student compositions and a performance by the Experiments in Comp class.

Students from Professor Kent Smith’s vocal studio present the culmination of their semester’s work in an evening of art songs and arias.

Described by the New Paltz Oracle as a "melting pot of diverse musical genres, instruments, sounds and experiences," the Student Comp Concert returns with new original works by music students in the composition program.

College Youth Symphony and Symphonic Band, directed by Adam Fontana, present their final concert of the semester, featuring works by Buxtehude, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Shuying Li, and the consortium premiere of Gala Flagello’s Love and Nature.

SUNY New Paltz students in the Chamber Jazz Ensemble perform in a variety of jazz and jazz-influenced styles.

This choral concert features seasonal favorites and readings that mark the passage from the darkness of winter to the light of spring.

Image: watercolor by Kate Grishakova

SUNY New Paltz students in the Chamber Jazz Ensemble perform in a variety of jazz and jazz-influenced styles.