Music

SUNY Oswego’s annual “Collage” concert, supporting music department scholarships, will feature a range of student and faculty performers starting at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 6, in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

Performers from the campus and community will come together for the SUNY Oswego music department’s annual holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, 103 W. 7th St. in Oswego.

International-award-winning pianist Robert Auler, professor and chair of music at SUNY Oswego, will present a Focus on Faculty concert of classical works at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in the college’s Sheldon Hall ballroom.

Damian Schofield, director of SUNY Oswego's graduate program in human-computer interaction (HCI), has earned the 2019 President's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity at the college, while composer Paul Leary of the music department received the Provost's Award for Scholarly...

SUNY Oswego and community choral singers will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Requiem” in a free concert, open to the public at Saturday's spring appearance of the Oswego Festival Chorus.

Juliet Forshaw, a member of the SUNY Oswego music faculty, will appear in concert Sunday, April 14, with duo partner Michael Judge and bassist and 2012 Oswego alumnus Taylor Ricks to perform "Living on Faith" and other original songs of...

SUNY Oswego faculty member Paul Leary, who specializes in music technology, composition and flute, will offer a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 31, in Tyler Hall's Room 11, featuring two students, his wife, one or more of his electronic...

A master of the traditional Japanese horizontal harp or zither, the koto, Masayo Ishigure will bring to SUNY Oswego the talent that led to her playing on a Grammy Award-winning soundtrack by famed composer John Williams.

JR Fralick, a "vocally suave" and multifaceted solo tenor, will conduct a recital of powerful 19th century Russian arias at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, in SUNY Oswego's Sheldon Hall ballroom.

*UPDATE (Jan. 19): Due to forecast winter storm, this performance has been postponed to a future date.* SUNY Oswego music faculty member Paul Leary has been finishing a composition that meshes music and science, computer programming and artistic skills --...

International concert pianist and SUNY Oswego music professor Robert Auler will present a concert of favorite works at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom.

The Oswego Jazz Project, a combo of four professional musicians on SUNY Oswego's music faculty, will mark the return of accomplished bassist Danny Ziemann in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, in Sheldon Hall ballroom.

SUNY Oswego professors Ampalavanar Nanthakumar of the mathematics department and Eric Schmitz of music have earned the 2018 President's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity.

SUNY Oswego alumna Dr. Hilary McManus will return to campus to discuss her role in a global initiative for women in science and her February journey to Antarctica at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, April 26.

SUNY Oswego’s presentation of “Urinetown: The Musical” offers a satirical view on what many communities experience: official corruption, corporate greed and an ecological crisis.

Members of SUNY Oswego's College-Community Orchestra will perform pieces by Bach, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn and Mozart in a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Sheldon Hall ballroom, joined by students from the college's "Intermediate Ballet Technique" class and...

SUNY Oswego music faculty members, alumnae and twins Evangeline and Elizabeth Canfield will perform four-hand piano duets in a Focus on Faculty concert at 7:30 p.m. April 20 in the Sheldon Hall ballroom.

"An Afternoon with the Oswego Jazz Project" will feature the SUNY Oswego faculty combo with special guest trumpeter Tom Manuel at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 8, in Sheldon Hall ballroom.

The talents of a world-class musician will come together with a storied musical instrument when Mutsumi Tsuuzaki performs a concert titled "Recalling Xylophone Days: The Return of a Legendary Xylophone" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, in SUNY Oswego's Sheldon...

SUNY Oswego second-year music major Christopher Spinelli, who has been playing piano since age 3, will demonstrate his skills among professional musicians for "Pocket Concertos," a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 21, in Sheldon Hall ballroom.

SUNY Oswego senior music major Jacob Saeva plans to ride a college grant all the way to "Boston and Back," the title of an in-production album of music Saeva has worked hard to create this spring.

SUNY Oswego faculty and student musicians will raise scholarship funds during the eclectic and fast-moving annual "Collage" concert, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 2, in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

Accomplished concert instrumentalists Trevor Jorgensen on saxophone, oboe and clarinet and accompanist Robert Auler on piano will present a Focus on Faculty recital titled "Timepieces" at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25, in SUNY Oswego's Sheldon Hall ballroom.

SUNY Oswego's music department will celebrate the works of black composers at its Black History Month Recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 11, in Room 50 of Tyler Hall.

The College Community Orchestra, under the direction of SUNY Oswego music professor Dr. Juan F. La Manna, and dancers from the community and college will perform Tchaikovsky's famous "Sleeping Beauty Waltz" at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, in Tyler Hall's...

SUNY Oswego music professor and concert pianist Robert Auler will headline a recital titled "Chopin Celebration" for the Focus on Faculty Series at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, in Sheldon Hall ballroom.

SUNY Oswego music professor Robert Auler recently took part in two landmark concerts that literally transcended borders.

The SUNY Oswego music department will offer its annual "Collage" concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 3, in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre, with all proceeds supporting the Music Department Scholarship Fund.

To celebrate the grand reopening of renovated Tyler Hall and Waterman Theatre, the SUNY Oswego theater and music departments will stage a contemporary twist on the classic musical “The Wizard of Oz,” swapping out the yellow brick road for train...

SUNY Oswego faculty member, composer and percussionist Eric Schmitz and five colleagues will honor the jazz and music education legacy of the late Fred Sturm in a “Suite for Fred” performance at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Sheldon Hall...

A new era in the fine and performing arts at the college will begin unfolding Monday when students enter the new main entrances of Tyler Hall to find bright, modern, flexible, accessible and technologically sophisticated spaces, from the lobby to...

Ashraf Attia of SUNY Oswego’s School of Business faculty, who studies cross-cultural and e-commerce marketing and many topics in sales and service, and music faculty member Robert Auler, who has performed globally and worked locally to raise the profile of...

A new CD features the music of a family of composers: SUNY Oswego music faculty member Eric Schmitz, his father and his brother.Ravello Records recently published “ACE Composers: 21st Century Chamber Music by Alan, Christopher & Eric Schmitz,” a collection linked by...

International concert pianist and SUNY Oswego music faculty member Robert Auler will pay tribute to classical and jazz greats in a recital titled “Outtakes” at 3 p.m. Sunday Nov. 15 in Sheldon Hall ballroom.The Focus on Faculty Series performance will...

Guest bassist Dave Welsch will join Oswego Jazz Project at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, in Sheldon Hall ballroom for the season’s second SUNY Oswego Focus on Faculty concert.Welsch has played with Oswego Jazz Project in the past, as well...

When SUNY Oswego bassist and bass instructor Danny Ziemann could not find the right text to help teach jazz bass lines, he decided to write one—“The Low Down: A Guide to Creating Supportive Jazz Bass Lines”—and include audio files supporting...

SUNY Oswego has begun assembling the first class for the new Oswego Youth Conservatory, reaching out to area schools by offering extracurricular training in choral singing to middle school, high school and home-schooled students ages 12 to 18.Thanks to a...

Danny Ziemann, the double bass instructor in SUNY Oswego’s music department, won second prize in the jazz division of the International Society of Bassists double bass performance competition, held in June in conjunction with the bassists’ biennial convention at Colorado...

OSWEGO—Violinist Jon Shallit and pianist Howard Spindler will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3, in SUNY Oswego’s Sheldon Hall ballroom in a recital titled “The Evolution of the Violin and Piano Duo Sonata from the Early Classical Period to...

SUNY Oswego students blending creative writing, illustration, filmmaking, music, design and computer skills have teamed the last two semesters to launch Exist, a multimedia magazine app inspired by the college’s Graphic Flash fiction-and-artwork exhibitions.With the assistance of nearly $10,000 from...

Pianist Juan La Manna, professor of music at SUNY Oswego, will offer a free music recital featuring works of Brahms, Mozart and more at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 8, in Sheldon Hall ballroom on campus.La Manna will play “3 Intermezzi,...

Violinist Ahreum Kim, new last fall as a member of the SUNY Oswego music faculty, will make her campus concert debut in collaboration with colleague and pianist Robert Auler at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in Sheldon Hall ballroom as...