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CANCELED! Due to unforseen circumstances, this concert has been canceled and will not be rescheduled this season. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Howard Center Management

Simply known as “The Voice,” Sandi Patty is one of the most highly acclaimed performers of our time with five Grammy Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, three platinum records and five gold records. Sandi is the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history with 40 Dove Awards. Though her career is heavily rooted in the gospel music industry, Sandi has also extended her musical genre and has performed with symphonies across the country and headlined the title role in soldout performances of the musical “Hello Dolly” in January 2012. In addition to her prolific musical career, Sandi is also an accomplished author of seven books, receiving the 2006 Silver Angel Award for her bestseller, “Broken on the Back Row.” Join us for an evening with Sandi Patty as she shares her message of hope, life and love.

Tickets go on sale: July 1

James Lee III, professor of music theory and composition at Morgan State University, is an accomplished pianist and composer widely praised for his work in both areas. He is viewed by notable musicians of our time as one of the most promising young contemporary composers. A son of the Great Lakes State, former student at Andrews University, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Lee returns to premiere “Violin Concerto No.2 “Teshuah” performed by Carla Trynchuk, violin, and the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Wild. In all of his writing, Lee aims to “compose music to reach the inner soul of the listener that elevates them regardless of race and religious affiliation."

Tickets go on sale: July 1

The Jazz Ambassadors is the official touring big band of the United States Army.  Formed in 1969, this 19-member ensemble has received great acclaim at home and abroad performing America’s greatest original art form, jazz. The band’s diverse repertoire includes big band swing, bebop, Latin, contemporary jazz, standards, popular tunes, Dixieland, vocals and patriotic selections, many of which are written or arranged by members of the Jazz Ambassadors. This program entitled “The Greatest Generation” is a tribute to World War II servicemen and servicewomen.  It will include a video that is narrated with historical elements from World War II.  The Jazz Ambassadors’s rigorous touring schedule and reputation for excellence has earned it the title “America’s Big Band.”

"Tickets Available Friday, February 28, 2020 - Limit 4 Tickets Per Order"

Adriana Perera is professor of music theory and composition at Andrews University. She is a prolific composer with her main interest being sacred music. More than 200 sacred pieces written by her are currently performed by choirs, orchestras and soloists around the world. This concert of her compositions will be performed by various artists including Julie Moore, mezzo-soprano; Charles Reid, tenor; Wayne Bucknor, piano; Carla Trynchuk, violin; Claudio Gonzalez, viola; Chris Wild, violoncello; and Karin Thompson, violoncello; just to name a few. Also performing will be the University Singers, conducted by Stephen Zork, and the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Wild. 

Tickets go on sale: July 1

Andrews University Symphony Orchestra’s “Young Artist Concert”

Featuring Andrews University music students Danya Wilson (violin), Betania Cañas (flute), Jason Marquez (clarinet), Tyler Ninalga (piano), Vivian Raimundo (soprano), Annelise Burghardt (soprano) and Nehemias Calsin (conductor)

The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra is pleased to continue its annual Young Artist Concert, showcasing students that have been selected as winners of the Department of Music’s Young Artist Competition.

The Young Artist Competition was a culmination for students of selecting then practicing their solos for multiple months, then performing them for music faculty after the students had committed the music to memory. Unsurprisingly, many talented and deserving students auditioned and it was a difficult process to select only six students to perform their solos with the Symphony Orchestra this month.

For 2020, it is notable how varied the winning selections are, encompassing music composed by American, French and German composers taking inspiration from jazz (Gershwin’s "Piano Concerto in F"), musical theater (Bernstein’s "Candide"), the Hindu Goddess of Wealth (the “Bell Song” from "Lakmé"), a Polish polonaise dance (Weber’s "Clarinet Concerto No. 2"), and gypsy music (Ravel’s "Tzigane"), as well as a "Flute Concertino" by Cécile Chaminade. The soloists will be Department of Music students Danya Wilson (violin), Betania Cañas (flute), Jason Marquez (clarinet), Tyler Ninalga (piano), Vivian Raimundo (soprano) and Annelise Burghardt (soprano).

Following the six soloists, all members of the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra will join forces to perform Richard Wagner’s monumental "Overture to Die Meistersinger" under the baton of Nehemias Calsin, a graduate student in orchestral conducting that hails from Peru. Wagner’s overture is the introductory number for his 1868 opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," depicting the Renaissance era guild of Master Singers in Nuremberg, Germany.

Program

George Gershwin—"Piano Concerto in F," first movement—Tyler Ninalga, piano

Leonard Bernstein—"Glitter & Be Gay" from "Candide"—Vivian Raimundo, soprano

Cécile Chaminade—"Flute Concertino"—Betania Cañas, flute
 

- Intermission -
 

Maurice Ravel—"Tzigane"—Danya Wilson, violin

Carl Maria von Weber—"Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E-flat Major," 3rd movement (alla Polacca)—Jason Marquez, clarinet

Leo Delibes—"Bell Song" from "Lakmé"—Annelise Burghardt, soprano

Richard Wagner—"Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"—Nehemias Calsin, conductor

Come join us for the Wind Symphony Winter Concert, featuring our annual partnership with the Southwestern Michigan College Brass Band under the direction of their new conductor, Mark Hollandsworth. We will be featuring several classic works for band, including Joseph Jenkins exuberant "American Overture for Band," Gustav Holst’s seminal "First Suite in Eb," one of the first serious works for wind band, and Oliver Nickel’s transcription of "Danzón No. 2," a contemporary classical work by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez inspired by Cuban dance rhythms. We will also perform to gorgeous melodies, Frank Ticheli’s lush arrangement of the folk song "Shenandoah," and a lullaby "Song for My Children," by Andrew Boysen Jr.

Program

(Repertoire by the Southwestern Michigan College Brass Band)

"Fanfare" from "La Peri" (Paul Dukas)

"Emblem of Freedom March" (Karl King)

"Dances" from "Terpsichore" (Michael Praetorius)

"Nimrod" from "Enigma Variations" (Edward Elgar)

"Fiesta!" (Philip Sparke)
 

- Intermission -

"American Overture for Band" (Joseph Jenkins)

"Shenandoah" (Frank Ticheli) 

"First Suite in Eb" (Gustav Holst)

Chaconne
Intermezzo
March

"Song for My Children" (Andrew Boysen, Jr.) 

"Danzón No. 2" (Arturo Márquez/trans. Oliver Nickel) 

Wind Symphony

Conductor: Byron Graves

The Andrews University Wind Symphony maintains a significant travel schedule throughout the Great Lakes area and seeks to provide high quality music programs and concerts representative of Adventist education and Andrews University. The Wind Symphony has performed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and throughout the United States.

Violinist Carla Trynchuk and pianist Chi Yong Yun will be performing a recital including works by Beethoven and Brahms.  They are both music faculty at Andrews University and as soloists and recitalists have performed internationally in more than 20 countries. 

An alum of Oakwood University, Mallory McHenry is currently a Doctoral candidate at the University of Texas in Austin where she also obtained her Master of Music degree with concentration in Harp Performance. She is based in Texas where works for the Austin District Music Teachers Association and runs the McHenry Suzuki Studio where she offers both harp and piano lessons to aspiring musicians. 

Maestro Victor Yampolsky visits the Department of Music
 

In our orchestra rehearsals at Andrews we’ve discussed how performing a variety of compositions can shed light on how artists have experienced our world, throughout history. Therefore, it also makes sense that our students should be able to benefit from hearing multiple perspectives in our classrooms on campus. That is a primary reason we are pleased to welcome an esteemed musician to our campus to grace us as a guest instructor on February 11, 2020. On this date, Maestro Victor Yampolsky will lead a Master Class for the Department of Music’s string musicians, then shortly after will direct an Open Rehearsal with the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra. During the orchestra’s Open Rehearsal on the HPAC stage, from 7-9pm, Maestro Yampolsky will be amplified while working with the orchestra and all members of the public are invited to attend and listen. This opportunity will mark a year since Maestro Herbert Blomstedt visited us, interacting with our community in Presentations and an Open Rehearsal with the AUSO.
 

Maestro Victor Yampolsky is connected to Andrews University’s Department of Music since he was the primary professor and mentor for the Symphony Orchestra’s current conductor, Chris Wild, throughout Wild’s doctoral studies at Northwestern University in Illinois. Wild notes that “musicians such as Yampolsky are in rare company, in that he spent significant time studying and working intimately with some of the 20th Century’s greatest musicians, studying with violinist David Oistrakh and composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, and collaborating with composer Dmitri Shostakovich while Yampolsky was both assistant concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Therefore, my tentative plan and hope is that we will prepare and present a Russian piece for him on February 18, and that both students and any interested members of our community may attend and enjoy listening to Maestro Yampolsky enlighten the orchestra.”
 

Wild adds “when I had the opportunity to share a lunch with Maestro Blomstedt last winter in Berrien Springs, he asked who I had studied conducting with, and he mentioned that he knew my teacher’s father, the pianist Vladimir Yampolsky. This was of little surprise, since the elder Yampolsky frequently recorded with Moscow’s finest musicians, including David Oistrakh.” And so, Victor Yampolsky was raised in a musical family, and eventually found himself pursuing a career in the family trade, studying violin with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory. After establishing himself as a leader of the Moscow Philharmonic’s violins and also a budding young conductor, he sought an opportunity to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States. During his inquiries to secure such an opportunity, he learned that a recommendation from a prestigious American musician might help him secure the necessary documentation for such a move. Therefore, Yampolsky summoned the courage to approach Leonard Bernstein following a performance that Berstein conducted at the Vatican in Rome in 1973. A private audition for Bernstein was scheduled in the days following, and within a year Yampolsky was a violinist member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Yampolsky’s proximity to Bernstein continued for years thereafter, as Yampolsky became conductor for the annual summer high school festival orchestra at Tanglewood, while Bernstein conducted Yampolsky and the rest of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s members next door, at Tanglewood in western Massachusetts. Eventually, Yampolsky left Boston to pursue a conducting career that included posts as Music Director of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Peninsula Music Festival, and Director of Orchestras at Northwestern University. Wild summarizes that “when studying under Maestro Yampolsky, he conveyed to me his conviction that there cannot be any compromise when becoming a conductor. Conductors have a great privilege and responsibility to ensure that a rich heritage of music making is passed along to new listeners without it becoming diminished.”
 

Chris Wild, Andrews University Symphony Orchestra Conductor

Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Chris Wild

The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra is the core ensemble of the orchestral program at Andrews University. In addition to their current series at the Howard Performing Arts Center, the Symphony Orchestra travels within the Great Lakes region as well as internationally. Since 2006, the orchestra has performed in Italy, Austria, Germany, France, the Philippines and Costa Rica.

More information coming later...

More information coming later...

Wind Symphony

Conductor: Byron Graves

The Andrews University Wind Symphony maintains a significant travel schedule throughout the Great Lakes area and seeks to provide high quality music programs and concerts representative of Adventist education and Andrews University. The Wind Symphony has performed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and throughout the United States.

Simply known as “The Voice,” Sandi Patty is one of the most highly acclaimed performers of our time with five Grammy Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, three platinum records and five gold records. Sandi is the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history with 40 Dove Awards. Though her career is heavily rooted in the gospel music industry, Sandi has also extended her musical genre and has performed with symphonies across the country and headlined the title role in soldout performances of the musical “Hello Dolly” in January 2012. In addition to her prolific musical career, Sandi is also an accomplished author of seven books, receiving the 2006 Silver Angel Award for her bestseller, “Broken on the Back Row.” Join us for an evening with Sandi Patty as she shares her message of hope, life and love.

Tickets go on sale: July 1

James Lee III, professor of music theory and composition at Morgan State University, is an accomplished pianist and composer widely praised for his work in both areas. He is viewed by notable musicians of our time as one of the most promising young contemporary composers. A son of the Great Lakes State, former student at Andrews University, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Lee returns to premiere “Violin Concerto No.2 “Teshuah” performed by Carla Trynchuk, violin, and the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Wild. In all of his writing, Lee aims to “compose music to reach the inner soul of the listener that elevates them regardless of race and religious affiliation."

Tickets go on sale: July 1

Adriana Perera is professor of music theory and composition at Andrews University. She is a prolific composer with her main interest being sacred music. More than 200 sacred pieces written by her are currently performed by choirs, orchestras and soloists around the world. This concert of her compositions will be performed by various artists including Julie Moore, mezzo-soprano; Charles Reid, tenor; Wayne Bucknor, piano; Carla Trynchuk, violin; Claudio Gonzalez, viola; Chris Wild, violoncello; and Karin Thompson, violoncello; just to name a few. Also performing will be the University Singers, conducted by Stephen Zork, and the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Wild. 

Tickets go on sale: July 1

Feel the buzz, thrill and chancy emotions of contemporary music.  This program showcases the contemporary works of budding artists from Andrews University, as well as music composed by faculty members and the host, Dr. Max Keller. 

University Singers

Conductor: Stephen Zork

The Andrews University Singers is the select choir of the Department of Music and represents Andrews University locally, nationally and abroad through concert tours, television broadcast and audio recordings. They have given highly acclaimed international concert tours throughout the countries of Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Chile, Bahamas, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

One of the most versatile and charismatic violinist today, Brian Lewis is an exceptionally dedicated and gifted performer whose passionate artistry has been heard and embraced around the world.

Wind Symphony

Conductor: Byron Graves

The Andrews University Wind Symphony maintains a significant travel schedule throughout the Great Lakes area and seeks to provide high quality music programs and concerts representative of Adventist education and Andrews University. The Wind Symphony has performed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and throughout the United States.

More information coming later...

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Andrews University Symphony Orchestra’s “Young Artist Concert”

Featuring Andrews University music students Danya Wilson (violin), Betania Cañas (flute), Jason Marquez (clarinet), Tyler Ninalga (piano), Vivian Raimundo (soprano), Annelise Burghardt (soprano) and Nehemias Calsin (conductor)

The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra is pleased to continue its annual Young Artist Concert, showcasing students that have been selected as winners of the Department of Music’s Young Artist Competition.

The Young Artist Competition was a culmination for students of selecting then practicing their solos for multiple months, then performing them for music faculty after the students had committed the music to memory. Unsurprisingly, many talented and deserving students auditioned and it was a difficult process to select only six students to perform their solos with the Symphony Orchestra this month.

For 2020, it is notable how varied the winning selections are, encompassing music composed by American, French and German composers taking inspiration from jazz (Gershwin’s "Piano Concerto in F"), musical theater (Bernstein’s "Candide"), the Hindu Goddess of Wealth (the “Bell Song” from "Lakmé"), a Polish polonaise dance (Weber’s "Clarinet Concerto No. 2"), and gypsy music (Ravel’s "Tzigane"), as well as a "Flute Concertino" by Cécile Chaminade. The soloists will be Department of Music students Danya Wilson (violin), Betania Cañas (flute), Jason Marquez (clarinet), Tyler Ninalga (piano), Vivian Raimundo (soprano) and Annelise Burghardt (soprano).

Following the six soloists, all members of the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra will join forces to perform Richard Wagner’s monumental "Overture to Die Meistersinger" under the baton of Nehemias Calsin, a graduate student in orchestral conducting that hails from Peru. Wagner’s overture is the introductory number for his 1868 opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," depicting the Renaissance era guild of Master Singers in Nuremberg, Germany.

Program

George Gershwin—"Piano Concerto in F," first movement—Tyler Ninalga, piano

Leonard Bernstein—"Glitter & Be Gay" from "Candide"—Vivian Raimundo, soprano

Cécile Chaminade—"Flute Concertino"—Betania Cañas, flute
 

- Intermission -
 

Maurice Ravel—"Tzigane"—Danya Wilson, violin

Carl Maria von Weber—"Clarinet Concerto No.2 in E-flat Major," 3rd movement (alla Polacca)—Jason Marquez, clarinet

Leo Delibes—"Bell Song" from "Lakmé"—Annelise Burghardt, soprano

Richard Wagner—"Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"—Nehemias Calsin, conductor

Come join us for the Wind Symphony Winter Concert, featuring our annual partnership with the Southwestern Michigan College Brass Band under the direction of their new conductor, Mark Hollandsworth. We will be featuring several classic works for band, including Joseph Jenkins exuberant "American Overture for Band," Gustav Holst’s seminal "First Suite in Eb," one of the first serious works for wind band, and Oliver Nickel’s transcription of "Danzón No. 2," a contemporary classical work by Mexican composer Arturo Márquez inspired by Cuban dance rhythms. We will also perform to gorgeous melodies, Frank Ticheli’s lush arrangement of the folk song "Shenandoah," and a lullaby "Song for My Children," by Andrew Boysen Jr.

Program

(Repertoire by the Southwestern Michigan College Brass Band)

"Fanfare" from "La Peri" (Paul Dukas)

"Emblem of Freedom March" (Karl King)

"Dances" from "Terpsichore" (Michael Praetorius)

"Nimrod" from "Enigma Variations" (Edward Elgar)

"Fiesta!" (Philip Sparke)
 

- Intermission -

"American Overture for Band" (Joseph Jenkins)

"Shenandoah" (Frank Ticheli) 

"First Suite in Eb" (Gustav Holst)

Chaconne
Intermezzo
March

"Song for My Children" (Andrew Boysen, Jr.) 

"Danzón No. 2" (Arturo Márquez/trans. Oliver Nickel) 

Wind Symphony

Conductor: Byron Graves

The Andrews University Wind Symphony maintains a significant travel schedule throughout the Great Lakes area and seeks to provide high quality music programs and concerts representative of Adventist education and Andrews University. The Wind Symphony has performed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and throughout the United States.

Violinist Carla Trynchuk and pianist Chi Yong Yun will be performing a recital including works by Beethoven and Brahms.  They are both music faculty at Andrews University and as soloists and recitalists have performed internationally in more than 20 countries. 

An alum of Oakwood University, Mallory McHenry is currently a Doctoral candidate at the University of Texas in Austin where she also obtained her Master of Music degree with concentration in Harp Performance. She is based in Texas where works for the Austin District Music Teachers Association and runs the McHenry Suzuki Studio where she offers both harp and piano lessons to aspiring musicians. 

Maestro Victor Yampolsky visits the Department of Music
 

In our orchestra rehearsals at Andrews we’ve discussed how performing a variety of compositions can shed light on how artists have experienced our world, throughout history. Therefore, it also makes sense that our students should be able to benefit from hearing multiple perspectives in our classrooms on campus. That is a primary reason we are pleased to welcome an esteemed musician to our campus to grace us as a guest instructor on February 11, 2020. On this date, Maestro Victor Yampolsky will lead a Master Class for the Department of Music’s string musicians, then shortly after will direct an Open Rehearsal with the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra. During the orchestra’s Open Rehearsal on the HPAC stage, from 7-9pm, Maestro Yampolsky will be amplified while working with the orchestra and all members of the public are invited to attend and listen. This opportunity will mark a year since Maestro Herbert Blomstedt visited us, interacting with our community in Presentations and an Open Rehearsal with the AUSO.
 

Maestro Victor Yampolsky is connected to Andrews University’s Department of Music since he was the primary professor and mentor for the Symphony Orchestra’s current conductor, Chris Wild, throughout Wild’s doctoral studies at Northwestern University in Illinois. Wild notes that “musicians such as Yampolsky are in rare company, in that he spent significant time studying and working intimately with some of the 20th Century’s greatest musicians, studying with violinist David Oistrakh and composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein, and collaborating with composer Dmitri Shostakovich while Yampolsky was both assistant concertmaster and assistant conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Therefore, my tentative plan and hope is that we will prepare and present a Russian piece for him on February 18, and that both students and any interested members of our community may attend and enjoy listening to Maestro Yampolsky enlighten the orchestra.”
 

Wild adds “when I had the opportunity to share a lunch with Maestro Blomstedt last winter in Berrien Springs, he asked who I had studied conducting with, and he mentioned that he knew my teacher’s father, the pianist Vladimir Yampolsky. This was of little surprise, since the elder Yampolsky frequently recorded with Moscow’s finest musicians, including David Oistrakh.” And so, Victor Yampolsky was raised in a musical family, and eventually found himself pursuing a career in the family trade, studying violin with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory. After establishing himself as a leader of the Moscow Philharmonic’s violins and also a budding young conductor, he sought an opportunity to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States. During his inquiries to secure such an opportunity, he learned that a recommendation from a prestigious American musician might help him secure the necessary documentation for such a move. Therefore, Yampolsky summoned the courage to approach Leonard Bernstein following a performance that Berstein conducted at the Vatican in Rome in 1973. A private audition for Bernstein was scheduled in the days following, and within a year Yampolsky was a violinist member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Yampolsky’s proximity to Bernstein continued for years thereafter, as Yampolsky became conductor for the annual summer high school festival orchestra at Tanglewood, while Bernstein conducted Yampolsky and the rest of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s members next door, at Tanglewood in western Massachusetts. Eventually, Yampolsky left Boston to pursue a conducting career that included posts as Music Director of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Peninsula Music Festival, and Director of Orchestras at Northwestern University. Wild summarizes that “when studying under Maestro Yampolsky, he conveyed to me his conviction that there cannot be any compromise when becoming a conductor. Conductors have a great privilege and responsibility to ensure that a rich heritage of music making is passed along to new listeners without it becoming diminished.”
 

Chris Wild, Andrews University Symphony Orchestra Conductor

Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Chris Wild

The Andrews University Symphony Orchestra is the core ensemble of the orchestral program at Andrews University. In addition to their current series at the Howard Performing Arts Center, the Symphony Orchestra travels within the Great Lakes region as well as internationally. Since 2006, the orchestra has performed in Italy, Austria, Germany, France, the Philippines and Costa Rica.

More information coming later...

More information coming later...

More information coming later...

Wind Symphony

Conductor: Byron Graves

The Andrews University Wind Symphony maintains a significant travel schedule throughout the Great Lakes area and seeks to provide high quality music programs and concerts representative of Adventist education and Andrews University. The Wind Symphony has performed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and throughout the United States.

More information coming later...

Simply known as “The Voice,” Sandi Patty is one of the most highly acclaimed performers of our time with five Grammy Awards, four Billboard Music Awards, three platinum records and five gold records. Sandi is the most awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history with 40 Dove Awards. Though her career is heavily rooted in the gospel music industry, Sandi has also extended her musical genre and has performed with symphonies across the country and headlined the title role in soldout performances of the musical “Hello Dolly” in January 2012. In addition to her prolific musical career, Sandi is also an accomplished author of seven books, receiving the 2006 Silver Angel Award for her bestseller, “Broken on the Back Row.” Join us for an evening with Sandi Patty as she shares her message of hope, life and love.

Tickets go on sale: July 1

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Please join us for an evening of wonderful music with the Kettering Praise Orchestra.

Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra

Kathryne Salo, principal flutist for SMSO, will dazzle on Ibert's virtuosic flute concerto.  Rounding out the program are Elgar's piece for strings, Britten's first musical composition and Mozart's familiar and iconic symphony.

Program:

Introduction and Allegro   Elgar

Sinfonietta   Britten

Flute Concerto   Ibert

     Kathryne Salo, Flute

Symphony No. 40   Mozart

James Lee III, professor of music theory and composition at Morgan State University, is an accomplished pianist and composer widely praised for his work in both areas. He is viewed by notable musicians of our time as one of the most promising young contemporary composers. A son of the Great Lakes State, former student at Andrews University, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, Lee returns to premiere “Violin Concerto No.2 “Teshuah” performed by Carla Trynchuk, violin, and the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Wild. In all of his writing, Lee aims to “compose music to reach the inner soul of the listener that elevates them regardless of race and religious affiliation."

Tickets go on sale: July 1

The Jazz Ambassadors is the official touring big band of the United States Army.  Formed in 1969, this 19-member ensemble has received great acclaim at home and abroad performing America’s greatest original art form, jazz. The band’s diverse repertoire includes big band swing, bebop, Latin, contemporary jazz, standards, popular tunes, Dixieland, vocals and patriotic selections, many of which are written or arranged by members of the Jazz Ambassadors. This program entitled “The Greatest Generation” is a tribute to World War II servicemen and servicewomen.  It will include a video that is narrated with historical elements from World War II.  The Jazz Ambassadors’s rigorous touring schedule and reputation for excellence has earned it the title “America’s Big Band.”

"Tickets Available Friday, February 28, 2020 - Limit 4 Tickets Per Order"

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Adriana Perera is professor of music theory and composition at Andrews University. She is a prolific composer with her main interest being sacred music. More than 200 sacred pieces written by her are currently performed by choirs, orchestras and soloists around the world. This concert of her compositions will be performed by various artists including Julie Moore, mezzo-soprano; Charles Reid, tenor; Wayne Bucknor, piano; Carla Trynchuk, violin; Claudio Gonzalez, viola; Chris Wild, violoncello; and Karin Thompson, violoncello; just to name a few. Also performing will be the University Singers, conducted by Stephen Zork, and the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Wild. 

Tickets go on sale: July 1

Feel the buzz, thrill and chancy emotions of contemporary music.  This program showcases the contemporary works of budding artists from Andrews University, as well as music composed by faculty members and the host, Dr. Max Keller. 

University Singers

Conductor: Stephen Zork

The Andrews University Singers is the select choir of the Department of Music and represents Andrews University locally, nationally and abroad through concert tours, television broadcast and audio recordings. They have given highly acclaimed international concert tours throughout the countries of Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Chile, Bahamas, Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

One of the most versatile and charismatic violinist today, Brian Lewis is an exceptionally dedicated and gifted performer whose passionate artistry has been heard and embraced around the world.

Wind Symphony

Conductor: Byron Graves

The Andrews University Wind Symphony maintains a significant travel schedule throughout the Great Lakes area and seeks to provide high quality music programs and concerts representative of Adventist education and Andrews University. The Wind Symphony has performed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and throughout the United States.

Pre-concert conversaton starts at 3:00 pm.

SMSO provides the score to another one of astronomer Jose Salgado’s breathtaking Science and Symphony films. Also featured will be The Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra performing side-by-side with SMSO.

This year marks the fourteenth and final season of Maestro Fountain’s musical tenure in southwest Michigan. In his time with the SMSO, Fountain has led a transformation of the orchestra’s performance level, repertoire and scope and introduced new initiatives like a summer concert series, a choral partnership (Southwest Michigan Symphony Chorus) and instrumental music instruction for underprivileged and at-risk youth in the County (Music Makers).

The SMSO is a wonderful ensemble, and a wonderful organization. It provides a truly important service to its community. It deserves, and will attract, musical director talent that can help ensure its continued success going forward. – Robin Fountain

PROGRAM

• Debussy, NocturnesFeaturing
• Jose Salgado’s Breathtaking Science and Symphony KV 265 Film 
• A Female Chorus 
• Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5

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