Music

Intercultural Music features guest performers from the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York and SUNY New Paltz music students. Led by Dr. Phyllis Chen and Dr. Jingwen Zhang, this culmination project for the Research and Creative Project features traditional Chinese music performed by members of the Chinese Music Ensemble and new works incorporating traditional Chinese instruments by composition students. The concert finale showcases an exquisite-corpse-like arrangement of "Fanatic Snake Dance" by the composition students 

Founding member of Grammy award winning vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, Laurel Massé is an internationally-known jazz performing and recording artist. 

Violinist Alex Shiozaki, cellist Robert Burkhardt, and pianist Nana Shi join forces to perform Maurice Ravel’s lush yet playful Piano Trio, in commemoration of his 150th birthday. The program also includes the piano trio of Fanny Mendelssohn, an oft-overlooked yet inarguably talented composer whose gifts were recognized by her peers, including her more famous brother Felix. 

The Professors are Mark Dziuba, Vinnie Martucci, Jeff “Siege” Siegel & Rich Syracuse. Their life's work is defined by the creation and performing of great music and sharing their lifetimes of performing and teaching experiences with the upcoming legions of aspiring jazz musicians.

Featuring choral favorites by Samuel Barber, W.A. Mozart, Rosephanye Powell, Jake Runestad, and more! 

Hear the artistry and virtuosity of the Department of Music’s outstanding students. 

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.