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Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 9:51am
Composers Awarded Prestigious Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards
Written by Andrew Paa
Kent State faculty members Dr. Adam Roberts and Chris Coles have been awarded Individual Excellence Awards by the Ohio Arts Council. Each will receive a $5,000 grant in recognition...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 2:21pm
FEB 18, 2020 — In July 2019, the Cincinnati Opera premiered the original work, "Blind Injustice," to sold-out audiences in Cincinnati’s famed Music Hall. Chagrin Arts, the Glauser School and the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP) have partnered to bring "Blind Injustice" to Northeast O...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 1:28pm
Three Students Invited to Perform with the College Band Directors National Association North Central Division Conference Intercollegiate Band
Written by Andrew Paa
Two Women Graduate Student Conductors Take the Reigns of the Kent State University Orchestra March 8
Monday, February 17, 2020 - 10:13am
Kent, OH — The Kent State University Orchestra presents a special student-led concert on March 8 at 3 p.m. It will feature the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music’s orchestral conducting graduate students Karen Ní Bhroin and Victoria Petrak leading the orchestra in several selections...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 11:58am
For over a century, it has been believed that Ludwig Van Beethoven had gone “stone deaf” years before he debuted his Ninth Symphony in May 1824; however a Kent State University professor believes otherwise and tells BBC Radio about crucial evidence he uncovered that suggests Beet...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 - 2:50pm
Saxophonists Invited to Perform at the North American Saxophone Alliance in MarchWritten by Andrew Paa
The Kent State University Saxophone Ensemble is set to travel to Tempe, AZ March 6-9, 2020 to perform at the invitation of the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA). The perf...
Friday, February 7, 2020 - 4:54pm
Kent, Ohio – On Sun., March 1 at 7 p.m. the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music’s Verve Chamber Players present their spring concert in Ludwig Recital Hall. The hall is located in the Center for the Performing Arts at 1325 Theatre Drive on the Kent Campus. Free parking is available i...
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 10:29am
It is February when music students’ thoughts turn to…summer internships?
If you have not yet begun a search for a summer music career expanding experience – whether it is internships, part-time or full-time work, volunteering, research, freelancing – now is the time.
Where do y...
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 9:43am
Pianist and future conductor, Gréta Pásztor, is set to perform Franz Liszt’s “Totentanz” with the Kent State University Orchestra as the graduate winner of the annual concerto competition. She is a second-year graduate student pursuing master's degrees in both piano performance a...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 10:57am
Positive energy filled the room on the night of Kent State University’s Piano Division Scholarship Gala Concert. The Hugh A. Glauser School of Music welcomed nearly 100 donors, alumni, faculty and students at the Piano Division’s performance on Jan. 26.