CSC Music sets spring performance schedule

Brooks Hafey
Chadron State College Associate Professor of Music Dr. Brooks Hafey performs Keyboard Music Through the Ages: Early Romantic Dec. 5, 2022, in the Sandoz Center. (Photo by Abigail Swanson/Chadron State College)

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CHADRON – The Chadron State College Music department plans to host 16 music concerts and recitals for the spring semester. All performances are free and open to the public.  

Updates:

Due to illness, the concert on March 31 with Dr. Brooks Hafey, James Przygocki and Blake McGee has been canceled. It will likely not be rescheduled this semester.

The piano recital by Dr. Brooks Hafey scheduled for Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m. has been postponed to Monday, April 17, at 7 p.m.

The piano recital by Dr. Brooks Hafey scheduled for Sunday, April 23, at 3 p.m. has been postponed to Sunday, April 30, at 3 p.m.

 

Dr. Brooks Hafey kicks off the year with another installment in the Keyboard Music Through the Ages series featuring Late Romantic keyboard music Sunday, Jan, 22, at 3 p.m. in the Sandoz Center Chicoine Atrium.

The first guest artist recital is Feb. 4 and it will feature the University of Colorado Boulder’s Rob Psurny, tenor, accompanied by former CSC accompanist Bobby Pace on piano. The duo will perform the complete song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert in the Sandoz Center Chicoine Atrium at 7 p.m.

Nationally known saxophonist Bobby Watson will perform in Chadron State College's Memorial Hall Auditorium Feb. 6, at 7 p.m.

The High Plains Band and Choir Festival, consisting of high school musicians from across the region and featuring band conductor Dr. John Wojcik and guest choral conductor Dr. Marcela Molina will perform in the Memorial Hall Auditorium Feb. 7 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Hafey will continue the Keyboard Music Through the Ages series by exploring 20th Century keyboard music Feb. 19 at 3 p.m. in the Sandoz Center Chicoine Atrium.

Flutist Rachel Bergman of Sheridan College will perform Feb. 26 at 3 p.m., accompanied by Hafey in the Sandoz Center Chicoine Atrium.

A Guest Artist Recital March 12 will feature violinist Ioana Galu, associate professor of Music at the University of South Dakota, and Dr. Brooks Hafey on piano. The event is in the Sandoz Center Chicoine Atrium at 3 p.m.

Music faculty will perform in a recital March 18 at 3 p.m. in the Sandoz Center Chicoine Atrium.

CSC’s outstanding music students will present an honors recital March 19 at 3 p.m. in the Sandoz Center Chicoine Atrium

March 27, Robert Bowman, a Jazz bassist, will perform in the Sandoz Center Atrium at 7 p.m.

The Panhandle Day of Percussion Festival April 1 will conclude with a Percussion Ensemble Concert in the Memorial Hall Auditorium from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

CSC’s jazz ensembles, including the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Regional Jazz Band, will perform a concert April 3 from 7 to 8:30 pm in Memorial Hall’s Auditorium.

A drum line skill builder special event by Dr. Rick Puzzo for current and prospective members of the CSC Drum Line is planned for April 14 from 3 to 5 p.m. in Memorial Hall’s Room 104.

CSC’s Concert Choir and Community Choir will perform a concert April 15 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. under the direction of Dr. Joel Schreuder in Memorial Hall’s Auditorium.

On April 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m., CSC’s bands will perform a concert directed by Wojcik in Memorial Hall’s Auditorium.

CSC’s Guitar Ensemble will perform a concert April 28 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Hall Auditorium.

New music by CSC and Chadron composers will be performed April 29 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Hall Auditorium.

-Abigail Swanson

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