Music Department
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 17th, 2012.
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
Joe Alessi, Ron Dziubla Headline Music Department Spring Concert Season
ROHNERT PARK, CA Jan. 31, 2012 _ LA jazz and recording musician Ron Dziubla and New York Philharmonic trombonist Joe Alessi will be the featured guest artists on the spring concert season just released by Sonoma State University's department of music.
The department, housed in the Green Music Center's music education hall, will also present three faculty chamber music recitals, the annual faculty composer's concert of new music, and performances by the University Chorus, Chamber Singers, Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra. The spring musical, running from Feb. 9-19 in Evert B. Person Theatre, is Oklahoma! presented in conjunction with the departments of music, theatre arts and dance. To buy tickets, call the SSU School of Performing Arts box office at (707) 664-2353. Full Story.
On February 8th Jazz Forum features SSU saxophone instructor Kasey Knudsen, along with guitarist Eric Vogler and vocalist Lorin Benedict.. Together they are called the Holly Martin. This configuration requires each individual to simultaneously take on multiple roles typically assigned individual players (soloist versus accompanist), thereby promoting more open-ended explorations of the material.
Featured Events
Feb. 12 Trio Navarro
"John and Clare: BFF" Join us for the first of two spring concerts by our Chamber Artists in Residence, the Trio Navarro. Now in their 19th year, Trio Navarro has performed virtually the entire “standard” piano trio repertoire. On Sunday, Feb. 12, at 4 p.m. in GMC 1028 they will perform piano trios written by two, truly best friends for life: Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms.
- Trio in G Minor, Op. 17 (1846), Clara Schumann
- Acht Stucke, Nos. 2, 3 and 7, Op. 83, Max Bruch
- Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 75 (1882), Johannes Brahms
Opening Feb. 9
Oklahoma!
"Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain..."
Come out and support SSU's multi-talented singers, actors and dancers! A co-production of the departments of Music and Theatre Arts & Dance, Oklahoma! runs from Feb. 9-19 and features Jon Ostlund as Jud, Vanessa Begley as Laurey and Zachary Hasbany as Curly. All shows take place in Evert B. Person Theatre.
Faculty and staff night is Thursday, Feb. 16! For all times and ticket prices, click on the link below.