Michigan State University will begin construction this week on a 37,000-square-foot Music Pavilion that will expand the Music Building on the university’s north campus. The project, which includes…
Ava Ordman has never thought of herself as a pioneer in the world of brass performance and teaching. She’s just someone, she says, who decided to play trombone, inspired…
Listeners might think that the two song cycles that soprano Melanie Helton and pianist Derek Polischuk paired on their new recording, Anxiety Attack, are oddly matched. But according to the artists, as they…
MSU doctoral candidate Kyle Landry captured first place in 2017-18 North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) composition competition for his composition, Aeolian Harp. The North American Saxophone Alliance is an…
Gabriel Moreau, an Honors College sophomore majoring in physics in Lyman Briggs College and music in the College of Music at Michigan State University, has been named a…
An associate professor of composition at Michigan State University has become a Grammy nominee. Tian Zhou is one of the nominees in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category…
A trombonist in the jazz studies program at Michigan State University has become the second trombone student from the College of Music to win the Trombone Symposium Michael…
MSU Jazz Studies senior Eric Smith, a 21-year-old singer/songwriter from Birmingham, Mich., won the 2016 Opportunity Detroit People’s Choice Award at the Detroit Music Awards in April 2016….
Michigan State University’s 2015-16 production of A Room with a View was awarded first place in the Division IV production competition of the National Opera Association. Due to the…
Composer Carter Pann’s saxophone quartet work – The Mechanics: Six From the Shop Floor – was recently named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in music. Commissioned…
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