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The Shenson Recital on Thursday, January 19th at 7:30 PM featuring Karim Sulayman, tenor; Danbi Um, violin; and Juho Pohjonen, piano will be livestreamed here. The program will include works by Handel, Rameau, Massenet, Schubert, Kreisler, Cole Porter, and others.

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Bayerische Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera) has just released a Blu-ray disc of their production of Stravinsky's opera Mavra which uses Stanford Director of Orchestral Studies Paul Phillips's sextet arrangement, published in 2010 by Boosey & Hawkes. The Blu-ray also contains Bavarian…

Our supplier for Messiah scores does not have any for us this year, so Sing-along Messiah participants should plan to have their own voice scores. We use the Prout edition, if you wish to research getting a copy online. Orchestral parts will be available as usual.

I’m delighted to announce that our colleague Mark Applebaum has won two prizes at the 50th Annual Book Show of the Publishers Professional Network. Mark's recent book Scribe / The Metaphysics of Notation— a signed, limited edition, two-volume art book anthology of hand-drawn scores made…

Timothy Zerlang, our University Carillonneur and Department of Music faculty (piano, carillon) is often heard, but rarely seen. Stanford Magazine made the climb to Zerlang's lair atop Hoover Tower to find out more about the solitary world of our carillonneur, how he got there, and just how…

On October 19th, the St. Lawrence String Quartet shared this sad news on their website:

With utmost sadness, today we said goodbye to our friend and colleague Geoff Nuttall. He died at age 56 with his wife Livia at his side. Geoff was an inspired artist whose loyalty to his chosen…

Jim Nadel, longtime member of the Department of Music's jazz faculty, is the newest entrant of DownBeat magazine's Jazz Education Hall of Fame. He has also run the Stanford Jazz Workshop on Stanford campus since 1972, having celebrated the SJW's 50th anniversary in Dinkelspiel Auditorium with an…

Stanford composer and music faculty Giancarlo Aquilanti's orchestral arrangements of songs by the Grateful Dead will be premiered next week when Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack join the National Symphony Orchestra for a five-night run at the Kennedy Center. Aquilanti has been…

U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West
Tuesday, September 27
7:00 pm
Bing Concert Hall

Free admission!

The U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West is dedicated to building and enhancing partnerships and friendships for the United States Air Force through world-class…

Paul Phillips, Stanford's Director of Orchestral Studies and conductor of our orchestras, is among the many artists taking part in this year's Flower Piano at San Francisco Botanical Garden. On Wednesday, September 14 at 5 PM on the Garden’s Great Meadow, Phillips will conduct S.F.-based…