In addition to teaching and inspiring students, faculty members in the College of Music spend much of their time performing concerts and recitals, giving master classes and clinics, presenting lectures and sharing their musical expertise in a wide range of areas.
This work takes faculty performers to locations in Michigan, across the country and all around the world.
Catch a performance, lecture or class this summer or fall at the following locations:
May 29 – Etienne Charles; Charleston, South Carolina, Spoleto Festival USA (Gaillard Performance Hall): With René Marie, 7 p.m.
June 13 – Etienne Charles; Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue Jazz & Blues Festival (Theatre at Meydenbauer Center): 2016 featured artist, 7:30 p.m.
June 6-27 – Michael Kroth; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado College Summer Music Festival: Wilson- Avatar Concerto for Bassoon June 24, Chamber concerts on June 9, 12, 14,16
June 8-9 – Ava Ordman; New York City, International Trombone Festival: With Monarch Brass; serving as festival panelist
June 12, 19, 26 – Suren Bagratuni, Deborah Moriarty and Richard Fracker; Todi, Italy, West Circle Series – Todi Festa della Musica
June 12 – Etienne Charles; Washington, D.C., DC JazzFest at The Hamilton: With Jimmy Greene Quartet, 7:30 p.m.
June 15 – Etienne Charles; Lansing, Michigan: Jazz on the Grand (with MSU Professors of Jazz)
June 25-July 16 – Philip Sinder; Traverse City, Michigan, Interlochen Arts Camp: Valade Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium Brass Faculty concert on July 5
June 25 – Guy Yehuda; Los Angeles FOOSA Symphony in L.A (Disney Hall): Mahler 2nd Symphony, Principal clarinetist and faculty
June 20-26 – Dmitri Berlinsky; Newburgh, New York, Newburgh Music Festival: Faculty Concerts on June 19
June 21-25 – Randy Napoleon; New York City, Birdland Jazz Club: With Freddy Cole Quartet
June 28-29 – Etienne Charles; New York City, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola: Concert, 7:30 p.m.
June 30, July 1 – Etienne Charles; San Jose, California: San Jose Jazz Summer Camp
July 2 – Ava Ordman, Madison; Wisconsin, National Women’s Music Festival Orchestra: Principal trombone
July 10-17 – Etienne Charles; Orlando, Florida, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts: With MSU Professors of Jazz
July 18 – Joseph Lulloff; Brevard, North Carolina, Brevard Music Center: Faculty Artist Chamber Concert Creation du Monde with wind faculty, 7:30 p.m.
July 23 – Guy Yehuda; Saarburg, Germany, Saarburg Chamber Music Festival: Solo and Chamber Music Concert
July 23 – Zhihua Tang; Newark, Delaware, Master Players Concert Series: Opening Gala Concert
July 24 – Suren Bagratuni; Halle, Germany, Euro Music Festival and Academy
July 29 – Etienne Charles; Newport, Rhode Island, Newport Jazz Festival
July 31-Aug. 13 – Ava Ordman; Santa Cruz, California, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Orchestra: Principal trombone
Aug. 1-8 – Michael Kroth; Door County, Wisconsin I, Peninsula Music Festival: Symphony Orchestra Concerts Aug. 2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20
Aug. 1-13 – Dmitri Berlinsky; Purchase, New York Summit Music Festival (Manhattanville College)
Aug. 9 – Guy Yehuda; Xian, China, International Woodwind Festival: Solo Recital Xian Conservatory of Music
Aug. 12-15 – Philip Sinder; Twin Lake, Michigan, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp: Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival (competition, concerts, clinics)
Aug. 26 – Dmitri Berlinsky; Long Island, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Grace Auditorium): With Southampton Arts Festival Players, 6 p.m.
Aug. 28 – Suren Bagratuni: Beijing, China Beijing International Music Festival and Academy
Sept. 9 – Suren Bagratuni: Ogden, Utah, Bonneville Festival
Sept. 14 – Randy Napoleon; Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl: With Freddie Cole “Sing the Truth Celebrating Lena Horne, Dinah Washington, Eartha Kitt, and Natalie Cole”
Oct. 11 – Joseph Lulloff; Dallas, Meyerson Symphony Center: Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble with the Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conducting, 7:30 p.m.
Nov. 5, 8, 11, 13 – Mark Rucker; Denver, Opera Colorado (Ellie Caulkins Opera House): La Faniculla Del West
Nov. 13 – Suren Bagratuni; Phoenix, Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Music
Dec. 20-24 – Randy Napoleon; New York City, Birdland Jazz Club: With Freddy Cole