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Junior Recital: Pillsbury, Bass-Baritone; October 24, 2025, Nicholas Pillsbury, Zeph Mussman

School of Music Programs

This is the twenty-seventh program of the 2025-2026.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 24, 2025

Friday Evening

9:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Lukaszczyk, Saxophone; October 24, 2025, David Lukaszczyk, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

This is the twenty-sixth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 24, 2025

Friday Evening

6:00 p.m.

Convocation Recital: October 24, 2025, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

This is the twenty-fifth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 24, 2025

Friday Afternoon

1:00 p.m.

Charles W. Bolen Faculty Recital: Babbitt, Trombone; October 22, 2025, Mark Babbitt, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

This is the twenty-fourth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 22, 2025

Wednesday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Guest Artist Recital: Nicolas, Piano; October 20, 2025, Riyad Nicolas

School of Music Programs

This is the twenty-third program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 20, 2025

Monday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Isu Wind Symphony: From The White House To Our House; October 19, 2025, Dr. Anthony C. Marinello Iii, Col. John R. Bourgeois, Wesley Anderson, Dr. Tim Fredstrom

School of Music Programs

This is the twenty-second program of the 2025-2026 season.

Center for the Performing Arts

October 19, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Frattini, Percussion; October 18, 2025, Jon Frattini

School of Music Programs

This is the twenty-third program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 18, 2025

Saturday Evening

6:00 p.m.

2025-2026 Performance Forum - October 17, 2025, Ian Lewis, Rishi Gurnani, Virgilio Vazquez, Laura Gonzalez, Nia Morgan, Roey Dushi, Verse Tomac, Rebeca Sierra, Aj Meyer, Karen Trujillo, Nicholas Weathers, Joseph Muhl, Jacob Lomboy, Mia Cotton, Daniel Cruz, Juanita Jaimes, Derek Lund, Ingryd Herrera, Juan Diaz Quijano, Santiago Moreno, Omar Mata, Kade Gordon, Devin Foster

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Learning How To Practice Takes Practice, Micah Killion, Robert Duke

John J. Cali School of Music Scholarship and Creative Works

Effective music learning depends on effective music practice. Although time spent with teachers is an important component of young musicians’ development, time spent alone practicing is perhaps even more consequential. Researchers and teachers have offered many prescriptions about effective music practice, yet observations of young musicians’ actual practice reveal that their behavior in the practice room is often quite unlike what teachers envision. The most important aspects of effective practice are the thinking, perceiving, and decision-making that serve to organize how musicians spend their time. We discuss how to help students focus their attention in ways that lead to the …

New Beginnings: Lindenwood Wind Ensemble (October 16, 2025), Lindenwood University

Student Music Performance Programs

Event program for the New Beginnings: Lindenwood University Wind Ensemble (October 16, 2025).

Alumni Guest Artist Recital: Fairchild, Horn; October 16, 2025, Cassidy Fairchild, Liam Ufkes

School of Music Programs

This is the twentieth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 16, 2025

Thursday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Round The Tárrega Bend, Julian Bream

Soundboard Scholar

In this previously unpublished talk from 2004, delivered two years after his retirement from public performance, Julian Bream traces his own career in relation to the evolution of the modern guitar, recounting his early encounters with nineteenth-century guitars, the introduction of nylon strings to replace gut, innovations in guitar construction, and a transformative meeting with Andrés Segovia. But at the heart of the talk is his approach to sound. Bream discusses the essential elements of his tone production, including his right-hand position with its characteristic “three-quarter Tárrega bend” of the wrist, and his strong preference for the rest stroke. He …

Choral Collage Concert, (October 14, 2025), Lindenwood University

Student Music Performance Programs

Event program for the Choral Collage Concert, (October 14, 2025), Lindenwood University.

Between Sound And Theology: Timbral Performativity In Brazilian Religious Musicking, Marcell Silva Steuernagel

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

This article explores the performativity of timbre, summarizing key perspectives from the English-language scholarship on the topic and setting them in conversation with Latin American perspectives on timbre. In addition, it examines a performance of “500 Graus” (500 degrees), a song performed by Brazilian Pentecostal artists Cassiane and Shirley Carvalhaes, to demonstrate how the performativity of timbre unfolds within a particular expression of Latin American religious musicking. In doing so, it investigates the phenomenon of timbre between music and sound studies, and theology and church music studies, providing insights relevant to the study of timbre and the study of religious …

Afternoon Of Brass: October 12, 2025, Dr. Andrew Rummel, Dr. Sharon Huff

School of Music Programs

This is nineteenth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Center for the Performing Arts

October 12, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

Soundscapes, Pioneers, And Practices: Laying The Foundations Of The Russian Guitar, Wojciech Gurgul

Soundboard Scholar

A review of The Seven-String Guitar in Russia: Its Origins, Repertoire, and Performance Practice, 1800–50, by Oleg Timofeyev (Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023), Worldcat, publisher's website

2025-2026 Performance Forum - October 10, 2025, Diego Suarez, Rebeca Sierra, Caroline Dratnal, Lillian Platte, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Maria Savelyeva, Kade Gordon, Patrick Hengstler, Dj Combs, Devin Foster

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Nathan Sherman, Viola, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Isu Philharmonia String Orchestra: October 8, 2025, Samuel Chen

School of Music Programs

This is the eighteenth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 8, 2025

Wednesday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Gresham Duo: October 7, 2025, David Gresham, Momoko Gresham

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall

October 7, 2025

Tuesday Evening

7:30 p.m.

2025-2026 Master Class And Piano Recital - Hieyon Choi (Piano), Hie Yon Choi, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Ziling Wang

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

Ronald Crutcher, Cello, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Fall Concert: Treble And Concert Choir; October 5, 2025, Mark Grizzard, Andrew Bruhn

School of Music Programs

This is the sixteenth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Center for the Performing Arts

October 5, 2025

Sunday Evening

6:00 p.m.

A New Day: Sogns Of Wisdom, Love, And Hope: University Glee And Belle Voix; October 3, 2025, Tim Fredstrom, Andrew Bruhn

School of Music Programs

This is the fifteenth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Center for the Performing Arts

October 5, 2026

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

University Glee And Belle Voix: A New Day: Songs Of Wisdom, Love, And Hope; October 5, 2025, Tim Fredstrom, Belle Voix

School of Music Programs

This if the fifteenth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Center for the Performing Arts

October 5, 2025

Sunday Afternoon

3:00 p.m.

2025-2026 Master Class - Nancy Goeres (Bassoon), Nancy Goeres, Jacob Lomboy, Aneliya Novikova, Derek Lund, Ethan Thompson, Keegan Neely

Master Classes

No abstract provided.

Guest Artist Recital: Harnsberger And Jones, Marimba; October 3, 2025, Andy Harnsberger, Caitlin Jones

School of Music Programs

This is the fourteenth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 3, 2025

Friday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Guest Artist Recital: Harnsberger, Marimba And Jones, Marimba; October 3, 2025, Andy Harnsberger, Caitlin Jones

School of Music Programs

This is the fourteenth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

October 3, 2025

Friday Evening

7:30 p.m.

2025-2026 Performance Forum - October 3, 2025, Laura Gonzalez, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Patrick Hengstler, Noah Suarez, Ethan Thompson, Ziling Wang, Isabella Swalm, Elizaveta Goryunova, Elena Swalm, Peter Pao, Nabil Hetman, Mia Cotton, Daniel Cruz, Juanita Torres, Michael Shipps, Derek Lund

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Hearing The Difference: Just Intonation Techniques Utilizing Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions In Viola Performance, Calj Green Umezono

Theses and Dissertations

Difference tones, also known as distortion product otoacoustic emissions, are the result of active phenomena in the human cochlea during the conversion of sound waves into bioelectrical signals. Difference tones make it possible to explore alternative musical tuning systems beyond the twelve-tone, equally tempered regime. Musicians have investigated difference tones since the 18th Century in Euro-American musical contexts, but their application has so far been limited in scope. Advances in science, technology, and music theory from the late 19th Century through the early 21st Century have given present-day violists the opportunity to more fully understand the virtues of difference tones …