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Opera A La Carte: April 9, 2026, Dr. Justin Vickers, Charlie Freudenheim, Daniel Dong, Pepe Prados

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and forty-seventh program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 9, 2026

2025-2026 Senior Recital - Jose Diaz (Percussion), Jose Ignacio Diaz, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Paola Nava, Jonathan Monk

Junior and Senior Recitals

No abstract provided.

Creative Constraints And Studio Ecology: Rethinking Collaboration In Contemporary Music Practice, Sean Foran

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

Presentation at SAE New Zealand Research Seminar Series

This presentation explores how creative constraints can function not as limitations, but as methodological tools within contemporary music production and musical improvisation. In an era of near-unlimited technological possibility in the recording studio, the question of how musicians make effective creative decisions becomes increasingly significant.

Drawing on two practice-based research projects, (1) a constrained studio recording study built around the aphorism “no more than four,” and (2) an interdisciplinary improvisation project using poetry as both stimulus and constraint, this research examines how deliberately imposed limitations shape collaboration, decision-making, and musical outcomes in …

Jazz & Contemporary Combos, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Senior Recital: Carlos Felipe Leon Castro, Viola; April 8, 2026, Carlos Felipe Leon Castro, Daniel Zhenghui Doug

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and forty-sixth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 8, 2026

Wednesday Evening

7:00 p.m.

Freshman Recital: Wesley Guyer, Bassoon; April 8, 2026, Wesley Guyer, Eugene Howard

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and forty-fifth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 8, 2026

Wednesday Evening

6:00 p.m.

2025-2026 Master Of Music Recital - Jacob Lomboy (Bassoon), Jacob Lomboy, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

Performance Forum - April 3, 2026, Betania Canas, Sheng Yuan Kuan, Brooke Gunter, Ana-Maria Uzunova, Charlotte Lohmann, Maria Savelyeva, Diego Suarez, Emma Joyce, Li Yang Liu, Julia Jacobsen, Anttuan Rios Pelaez, Hanting Peng

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Collaborative Piano Recital: April 7, 2026, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and forty-fourth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 7, 2026

Tuesday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Spring 2026 Recital The Slide Collection: April 6, 2026, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and forty-third program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 6, 2026

Monday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Global Sounds, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

Senior Recital: Carson Mullins, Oboe; April 4, 2026, Carson Mullins, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-eighth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 4, 2026

Saturday Afternoon

12:30 p.m.

Senior Recital: Ya'natika Morgan, Soprano; April 4, 2026, Ya'natika Morgan, Olesia Pupina

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and forty-second program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 4, 2026

Saturday Evening

9:00 p.m.

Bass Studio Recital: April 4, 2026, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and sixty-fifth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 4, 2026

Saturday Afternoon

12:00 p.m.

Sophomore Recital: Thomas Jamero, Clarinet; April 4, 2026, Thomas Jamero, Momoko Gresham

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and forty-first program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 4, 2026

Saturday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Convocation Recital: April 3, 2026, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-fourth program of the 225-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 3, 2026

Friday Afternoon

1:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Stacy Schroeder, Clarinet; April 3, 2026, Stacy Schroeder, Thaddeus Spencer, Ryan Rubio, Kaden Filson, Momoko Gresham

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-seventh program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 3, 2026

Friday Evening

9:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Charlie Machamer, Jazz Piano; April 3, 2026, Charlie Machamer, Darius Botley, Diego Martinez, Jameel Stephens

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-sixth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 3, 2026

Friday Evening

7:30 p.m.

Senior Recital: Brandon Campos, Cello; April 3, 2026, Brandon Campos, Zeph Mussman

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-fifth program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 3, 2026

Friday Evening

6:00 p.m.

2025-2026 Master Of Music Recital - Dj Combs (Bass Trombone), Dj Combs, Sheng Yuan Kuan

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

2025-2026 Master Of Music Recital - Juan Diaz (Trumpet), Juan Diaz Quijano

Master of Music Recitals

No abstract provided.

2025-2026 Ppc Recital - Ay Kawasaki (Flute), Ay Kawasaki, Sheng Yuan Kuan

PPC/PSDP Recitals

No abstract provided.

Sophomore Recital: Cassis Floyd; April 2, 2026, Cassie Floyd, Lu Witzig

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-third program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 2, 2026

Thursday Evening

7:30 p.m.

We're All Ramblers, Here: American National Identity As Articulated Through The Sounds And Stories Of Bluegrass Music, Greyson M. Sherman

Senior Theses

This creative thesis argues that bluegrass music, through its multicultural origins and its central "Rambler" archetype, articulates a distinctly American negotiation between freedom and rootedness — one that extends far beyond the genre's narrow popular image. Drawing on musicological scholarship and cultural history, the paper first recovers bluegrass's suppressed origins in the convergence of West African, Anglo- Celtic, and broader European traditions, complicating narratives that position the genre as exclusively white and Appalachian. It then introduces the Rambler — the restless, longing figure who haunts bluegrass lyrically and structurally — as both a product of that history and a metaphorical …

Cedarstone Arts Foundation Marketing And Media, Emmy-Kate Arnett, Amelia Bailly, Charlie Condra, Lorelai Lysaght

SPARK Symposium Presentations

For our project, we collaborated with Cedarstone Arts Foundation, a non-profit centered on providing free music education and instruments to childhood cancer patients. Our goal was to create social media platforms for the foundation and develop a key marketing strategy via said platforms, with the desired outcome of increased exposure and donations. To achieve our goal, we researched the most relevant media outlets for advertising. We helped create high-quality content that would raise awareness for their cause. We developed a general template for posting so that the foundation could confidently continue this strategy for the foreseeable future. We consulted with …

Columnas: The Honors Program Newsletter At Bentley University, Amanda Li, Wilson Jan, Michael Raphael, Alexandra Rieckehoff, Karina Wu, Michael Shehata, Nilufar Noorian, Eloise Weintraub

Honors Program

INSIDE THE MODERN WORLD

Page 2: Stepping Out by Amanda Li

Page 3: Inside the Corporate Slop Bowl by Wilson Jan

Page 4: The Silencing: An Evaluation of the Global Attacks on the Right to Protest by Michael Raphael

THE SOUND OF CHANGE

Page 5: The Social, Cultural, and Economic Impact of Bad Bunny by Alexandra Rieckehoff

Page 6: Streaming Changed Music, But Is It Fair to Artists? by Karina Wu

Page 7: Feeling the Music: How Haptic Wearables Are Changing the Way We Experience Sound by Michael Shehata

SHIFTING SYSTEMS

Page 8: The Story Behind Davos, One of the …

Resonant Cracks In The Music Curriculum: Integrating Social And Emotional Learning In The Secondary Music Classroom, Margaret E. Lerch

Education Doctorate Dissertations

Music education has long been recognized as a subject that encourages student learning beyond the walls of the music classroom. While elementary music programs often foster language development and social awareness, secondary music instruction tends to emphasize performance skills and technical development. The explicit secondary orchestra curriculum for this middle school includes only instrument skill-development standards and learning-target descriptions. In this fourth-marking-period sixth-grade orchestra class, coursework—including students’ journal reflections, classroom dialogue, and comparison soundscape projects—operated intentionally “within the cracks” of the formal curriculum to create opportunities for the students to express and engage with emotions, identity, belonging, empathy, perspective-taking, and …

Junior Recital: Hunter Kitterlin, Clarinet; April 1, 2026, Hunter Kitterlin, Momoko Gresham

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-second program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

April 1, 2026

Wednesday Evening

6:00 p.m.

Piano Studio Recital: March 31, 2026, Illinois State University School Of Music

School of Music Programs

This is the one hundred and thirty-first program of the 2025-2026 season.

Kemp Recital Hall

March 31, 2026

Tuesday Evening

7:30 p.m.

A Place To Perform: Designing Spaces For Student Artists Through Event Planning, Ava R. Jacobsen

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This thesis examines the creation of accessible performance spaces for student artists not enrolled in formal music programs. To address this gap, two First Friday events were hosted at The Gathering Grove in Lincoln, Nebraska, providing platforms for local student performers and engaging the community in live art experiences. The first event, an open mic night, highlighted the challenges of spontaneous performances, while the second, featuring designated performers, tested more structured event planning strategies.

Both events emphasized the importance of marketing, venue layout, audience engagement, and operational organization. Key lessons included the need for contingency planning, multi-channel promotion, and clearly …