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Judith Rae Solomon Gallery to feature work of YSU alumna

Judith Rae Solomon Gallery to feature work of YSU alumna

The Judith Rae Solomon Gallery will feature a new exhibit by YSU alumna Emily Goerig (M.A., ‘20) titled “A Visual Exploration of Adolescence: Growth, Identity, and Resilience” April 5 – 9, 2021. Goerig created her exhibit as part of her graduate degree show.

Dana School of Music professor named recipient of Distinguished Professorship Award

Dana School of Music professor named recipient of Distinguished Professorship Award

Professor of music Caroline Oltmanns has been named a recipient of a Distinguished Professorship Award for the 2020-21 academic year. Provided by YSU’s Office of Academic Affairs, Oltmanns was awarded for Excellence in Scholarship. These awards are given to YSU faculty members each academic year in recognition of their outstanding achievements.

Wean Foundation Park to host Summer Festival of the Arts

Wean Foundation Park to host Summer Festival of the Arts

The 2021 YSU Summer Festival of the Arts will be held at a new location this year when it moves a few blocks south from YSU’s campus to the new Raymond John Wean Foundation Park in downtown Youngstown. The festival, first held in 1999, attracts more than 80 artists and 15,000 visitors annually. It will be open to the public Friday and Saturday, July 17 and 18, 2021.

Jazz Alumni Spotlight On . . . Greg Parnell

Jazz Alumni “Spotlight On . . .” series to feature alumnus Greg Parnell

Volume three of the Jazz Alumni “Spotlight On . . .” series will welcome YSU alumnus Greg Parnell (B.M., ‘95) for a virtual interview Friday, March 19, 2021. Parnell is currently the president of Glenn Miller Productions, Inc. and is the founder and musical director of the Orlando Jazz Orchestra.

Faculty Ensemble

Dana School of Music announces new ensemble-in-residence

YSU’s Dana School of Music has announced the formation of a new faculty ensemble-in-residence, to be known as the Dana Ensemble. It will be comprised of a flexible, modular roster of Dana faculty that will perform live concerts multiple times each semester, often joined by regional guest artists. The ensemble will perform its debut concert, “Sounds of Spring,” Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 3:00 PM at the Powers Auditorium in the DeYor Performing Arts Center in downtown Youngstown.

 

Small but Mighty

“Small but Mighty” exhibit to open at Judith Rae Solomon Gallery

The Judith Rae Solomon Gallery has opened a new exhibit titled “Small but Mighty,” which is available to view on the second floor of YSU’s Bliss Hall Friday, February 26, through Friday, March 26, 2021. The exhibit, organized by professor of art Dragana Crnjak, features small-scale paintings that reflect her students’ explorations of color, surface, composition, and the synthesis between the formal and conceptual aspects of painting.

Opera soloist Anthony Roth Costanzo to join Pipino Performing Arts Series

Opera soloist Anthony Roth Costanzo to join Pipino Performing Arts Series 

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, a headlining Metropolitan Opera soloist and Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year, will give a virtual presentation and masterclass Wednesday and Thursday, 2021 as part of the Donald P. Pipino Performing Arts Series.

Jazz Alumni’s “Spotlight On . . .” series welcomes David Perrico (B.M., ’03)

Jazz Alumni’s “Spotlight On . . .” series welcomes David Perrico (B.M., ’03)

YSU’s Jazz Alumni program welcomed Dana School of Music alumnus David Perrico (B.M., ‘03) in the virtual second installment of their “Spotlight On . . . ” series February 25, 2021. An award-winning "Best of Las Vegas" trumpeter, composer, producer, and conductor, Perrico currently serves as the frontman of his newest creation, the Pop Strings Orchestra, at Caesars Palace and The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.

Just What the Doctor Ordered!

New Dana project lifts spirits of St. Elizabeth Hospital patients

YSU’s Dana School of Music has partnered with the Mercy Health Foundation on a new project titled “Just What the Doctor Ordered.” The project includes broadcasting four pre-recorded video performances by Dana students to patients at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Du Yun

Pipino series to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun

The Donald P. Pipino Performing Arts Series is set to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun for a virtual masterclass and presentation Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Yun won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 2017 for her second opera, “Angel’s Bone.”