Guest Artists from around the world: Jania Aubakirova, pianist and Director of the Kazakhstan National Conservatory, Mr. Alfred Kpebesaane, Ghanaian xylophone master, and IC alum, Steve Solook, percussion. Guest Artists from around the world: Jania Aubakirova, pianist and Director of the Kazakhstan National Conservatory, Mr. Alfred Kpebesaane, Ghanaian xylophone master, and IC alum, Steve Solook, percussion.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Guest Recital: Steve Solook, percussion
7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Black History Month Concert
8:15pm | Ford Hall
The Ithaca College West African Drumming and Dance Ensemble, Worlds of Music Class, IC Students, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and a guest artist from Ghana, Mr. Alfred Kpebesaane, Ghanaian xylophone master
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25
IC-CU Orchestral Composition Premieres
4:00pm | Ford Hall
Elective Recital: Underclassmen Bass Recital
8:15pm | Nabenhauer Recital Room
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Composition Premieres III
7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Students of Jorge Grossmann and Evis Sammoutis
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Master Class: Jania Aubakirova, piano chamber music
7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
Guest Recital: Jania Aubakirova, piano
7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Bach: The Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Mozart: Piano Sonata, K. 330
Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in C minor, op. 13 (”Pathétique”)
Chopin:
Waltzes: E-flat Major, op. 18, no. 1; A minor, op. 34, no. 2
Nocturnes: D-flat Major, op. 27, no. 2; Fis dur, op. 15, no. 2 Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, op. 47
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, op. 52
Jania Aubakirova is the director of the Kazakhstan National Conservatory
Concert Band and Campus Band
8:15pm | Ford Hall
Benjamin Rochford, Aaron Burgess, and Gregory Harris, conductor
(This concert will be webcast live and available on-demand a few days after the concert at www.ithaca.edu/music/live)
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
Mary Hayes North Competition for Senior Piano Majors
2:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Master Class: Jania Aubakirova, piano
7:00pm | Hockett Family Recital Hall
Jazz Ensemble
8:15pm | Ford Hall
Mike Titlebaum, director. Music of Thelonious Monk, arranged by Mike Titlebaum
(This concert will be webcast live and available on-demand a few days after the concert at www.ithaca.edu/music/live)
SUNDAY, MARCH 4
Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert
4:00pm | Ford Hall
Winners of the annual concert competition perform: Soprano Megan Jones will present "Ou va la jeune Hindoue" by Leo Delibes, saxophonist Sara Mercurio will do a movement from the Tomasi saxophone concerto, and pianist Ivan Yumagulov will perform the first movement of the second piano concerto by Saint Saens. The orchestra will also play Ottorino Respighi’s Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows, 4 impressions for Orchestra)
Octavio Mas-Arocas, conductor
(This concert will be webcast live and available on-demand a few days after the concert at www.ithaca.edu/music/live)
MONDAY, MARCH 5
Percussion Ensembles
8:15pm | Ford Hall
Gordon Stout and Conrad Alexander, directors
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