Music Department
The department is housed in the Green Music Center and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall.
Close to San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean, SSU’s NASM-accredited music program is housed in the 105,435-square-foot Green Music Center.
SSU offers generous scholarships and performance opportunities in instrumental, choral, jazz, and music theatre. Scholarship Auditions will be March 10th, 2013.
Sonoma State has been named one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country by Thebestcolleges.org. Ranking number 34 out of 50, SSU outranked prestigious universities as the University of San Diego and UC Santa Cruz in terms of campus setting.
One of the most requested campuses in the CSU system and regularly named a “Best Regional University” by U.S. News & World Report. SSU has also been named one of the “most wired” campuses in the nation by Forbes magazine. It is the only California university invited to be a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, the prestigious group of 25 universities and colleges across the nation committed to providing superior liberal arts and sciences education to their students.
Music News
SSU Wind Band Conducting and Music Education Symposium
June 24-28, 2013
Join us to further develop your skills in the art of conucting and music education pedagogy. Find out more
SSU Music to Host Jazz, Symphonic Band and Choral Invitationals
This coming year the music department will add two new educational outreach days - for high school Jazz and Wind Ensembles – in addition to the annual Choral Invitational. Activities will take place in Weill Hall and feature appearances by SSU’s premier student and faculty ensembles.
- Nov. 6 – Director of Choral Activities Jenny Bent will host the 11th Annual High School Choral Festival.
- Nov. 8 - Jazz Studies director Doug Leibinger will host the 1st Annual Sonoma State Jazz Day.
- March 9 – The inaugural Sonoma Invitational Wind Band Festival, hosted by Andy Collinsworth, director of Bands and Music Education.
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Featured Events
Otis Murphy joined the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest faculty members in its history, and where he is currently associate professor of music.
Dr. Murphy joins the SSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble on Friday, Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Hall to perform Claude Smith’s Fantasia for alto saxophone and band.
Dr. Murphy will conduct a Saxophone master class from 10 a.m. — Noon on Friday, Dec. 7, in GMC 1028. Info: racworth@sonoma.edu Free and open to the public. Read about it here.
Check out our full season of events! Many performances are free of charge.
Single ticket prices are $15 general; $12 faculty, alumni and staff; $10 seniors and students. All events are free to SSU students with ID.