The Dana School of Music’s popular Music at Noon series will return this semester with an outdoor concert performed by the YSU Wind Ensemble Thursday, October 8, 2020, at 12:00 PM at the Harrison Field Common.
Though the 2020-21 YSU football season has been put on hold, YSU’s Marching Pride will perform its pre-game and halftime shows at the “Meet the Marching Pride” event Saturday, October 3, 2020, at 1:30 PM at Stambaugh Stadium. The event is free and open to the public.
The YSU Dana School of Music Wind Ensemble, directed by professor of music Stephen Gage, will host a year-end virtual concert Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 7:30 PM. The concert will include the premiere of the ensemble’s virtual performance of “Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Isaac Hraga, who will be the first Dana student to complete YSU’s new interdisciplinary minor in Video Game Design, recently presented research on the topic at the 2019 North American Conference on Video Game Music.
Jazz artist Kate Reid, whose latest recording was named 2019 Top Rated Album of the Year by Downbeat magazine, performs 7:30 PM, Friday, January 31, in YSU’s Ford Theater, Bliss Hall on the campus of Youngstown State University.
Students in Professor Dragana Crnjak’s special topics class on creating public art are partnering with Lit Youngstown to install a mural along Andrews Avenue in downtown Youngstown.
Junior vocalist Rachel Jones (student of Dr. Misook Yun) took second place at the Ohio Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing auditions in Toledo.
James Umble, Professor of Saxophone, has been selected as a featured guest clinician at the 42nd International Saxophone Symposium in January at the George Mason University Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfax, Va.
This past spring, our music making might have looked a little different, but our faculty and students found innovative ways to continue bringing performances to our community. Links to performances: YSU Alma Mater and YSU Virtual Wind Ensemble Stars and Stripes.
