Music

Davenport artist Nathan Davis composes a new work for the Composer New Music Ensemble. Program will include other works by Davis and student composers. Evening also includes guest a performance by Laurel Massé.

Crossroads: This piano solo recital features work by Vivian Fung, Nahre Sol, and Alexina Louie interspersed among the miniatures of Robert Schumann's Carnaval Op. 9. 

Tina Chong's Biography

This concert featuring piano students in Dr. Alex Peh's studio perform works for multiple pianos including Terry Riley's newest work, Holy Lift-off; Steve Reich's Music for Six Pianos; and traditional works by Liszt, Beethoven, Debussy and Ravel. 

Students from Professor Kent Smith’s vocal studio present the culmination of their semester’s work in an evening of art songs and arias. 

Come celebrate the work of music students participating in chamber music, playing intimate works for small groups from the Romantic period to the present. 

Symphonic Band will present works by Jennifer Higdon, Shuying Li, and Omar Thomas. College Youth Symphony will present Antonin's Dvorak masterpiece, Symphony No. 9, "From the New World." 

Described by the New Paltz Oracle as a "melting pot of diverse musical genres, instruments, sounds and experiences," the Student Comp Concert returns with new original works by music students in the composition program. 

SUNY New Paltz students in the Chamber Jazz Ensemble perform in a variety of jazz and jazz-influenced styles. 

SUNY New Paltz students in the Chamber Jazz Ensemble perform in a variety of jazz and jazz-influenced styles. 

Carmina Burana. Carl Orff's iconic setting of 13th century secular texts about fortune, love, and life's brevity.