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
Highlights of the
SSU Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus 2012-13 Season in
Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall
SEPTEMBER
Donald and Maureen Green Music Center
Grand Opening Weekend September 29-30
Sunrise Choral Concert
SSU Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus
Jenny Bent, conductor
Sunday, September 30, 7:00 a.m.
DECEMBER
Santa Rosa Symphony Concert
Titans of Opera
Bruno Ferrandis, conductor
Christina Major, soprano
Christopher Bengochea, tenor
SSU Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus
Saturday, December 1, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 2, 3:00 p.m.
Monday, December 3, 8:00 p.m.
Orchestral selections from Wagner's Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and
Götterdämmerung, combine with the best arias and choruses from Verdi's Il trovatore,
Aïda, Nabucco, and La traviata
MAY
Spring Choral Concert
Carmina Burana
SSU Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus
Jenny Bent, conductor
Sunday, May 5, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Featured Events
Jazz Orchestra with USAF Commander's Jazz Ensemble Holiday Concert
Doug Leibinger, director
Sunday, December 9 – 7:30 p.m.
Green Music Center, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Hall
Symphonic Wind Ensemble Fall Concert, Andy Collinsworth, conductor
With guests, Santa Rosa Junior College Wind Ensemble
Wednesday, October 24, 7:30 p.m.
Inaugural Sonoma Invitational Wind Band Festival
Saturday, March 9
Symphonic Wind Ensemble Festival Concert Andy Collinsworth, conductor
Friday March 8, 7:30 p.m.