Events

Collegiate NAfME members from Pacific University and their instructor, Kendra Kay Friar, share their personal connections to four curricular innovators from history: Nathaniel Clark Smith, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Belle Ortiz, and Lois Choksy. The presenters will connect their in-progress professional identity development to the pioneering work of historical role models. Repertoire and pedagogical suggestions pioneered…

Watch the spring band concert with special guest composer Nicole Piunno. Being the last term for Josh Friesen, the graduate teaching assistant will conduct the University Band, and his own original composition will be performed by the Wind Symphony.Here is a sampling of the pieces to be played:UNIVERSITY BAND"Flashing Winds" - Jan Van der Roost"Safely…

Respighi, beloved magician of orchestral colors, pays tribute to the “Eternal City” in his richly imagined Pines of Rome, transporting you to famous pine stands around Rome…to a splendid estate, mournfully to a catacomb, to the moonlit Janiculum hill with the haunting song of a nightingale, and to the Appian Way, with blazing trumpets and the thunder…

Come see the Spring Wind Ensemble Concert with Guest Ensemble the Chemeketa Community College Wind Ensemble and guest composer Nicole Piunno. The program includes "Sunflower Studies" by Nicole Piunno, "Come Sunday" by Omar Thomas, "Festive Overture, Op. 93" by Dmitri Shostakovich, and "Mayfly" composed by PSU's very own Juan Castañeda.

Uniting two pillars of the Ashland Community, Southern Oregon University’s commercial music ensemble, MUSIX, will join Mt. Ashland Ski Area in presenting a night of original songs written and performed by the students of SOU MUSIX. What better way to kick off summer on the mountain than by enjoying crisp mountain air and unique student…