The YSU Alumni Lecture Series is set to welcome musician and YSU alumnus Jason Moncrief for a virtual lecture and presentation Thursday, November 12, 2020, at 7:00 PM. Moncrief graduated from YSU in 2002 with a Bachelor of Music in tuba and flute performance.
YSU’s Dana Chorale was invited to participate in the Busan Choral Festival and Competition’s Virtual Choir Festival October 24, 2020. In combination with the Busan Teacher’s Choir based in South Korea, the two groups recorded a joint virtual performance of “You Do Not Walk Alone” by Elaine Hagenberg.
Six Dana School of Music students who play piano, guitar, saxophone, trombone, and the flute have been selected as the winners of a new music competition called the McDonough Honors Recital Series. As acting sponsor, the McDonough Museum of Art will feature the six winners in high-definition video performances on their YouTube channel.
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.”
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.
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.
