Welcome to the Bailey School of Music 2023-2024 Season! 

We invite you to join us and experience the joy of a live performance in Morgan Concert Hall or via ArtsKSU Virtual. You will then understand that KSU Bailey School of Music is where talent is cultivated, creativity is nurtured, performers are inspired, and where passion is heard.

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March 2024

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    Steinway Spectacular
    Steinway Spectacular
    8:00pm
    at Bailey Performance Center, Morgan Concert Hall

    Virtual RSVP Friday Night Spotlight Series. Enjoy an evening of piano music performed by guest artists, Bailey School of Music faculty, and BSOM students. The Bailey School of Music is an All-Steinway School.

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    *CANCELED* Helen Kim, Violin
    *CANCELED* Helen Kim, Violin
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    This performance has been canceled. Ticket holders, please contact the Box Office for any ticket-related questions at 470-578-6650.

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    KSU Symphony Orchestra
    KSU Symphony Orchestra
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Orchestras Series. The KSU Symphony begins their 2023-2024 season with a program entitled “Tragedy & Triumph.” Brahms’s Tragic Overture opens the first half of the program followed by the Bassoon Concerto by Andrzej Panufnik, featuring guest artist Dr. Jeffrey Lyman, professor of bassoon at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. A powerful reflection on the tragedy of political violence, Panufnik’s concerto memorializes Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, an anti-communist Polish Catholic priest who was abducted and brutally murdered by Polish secret police in 1984. In contrast, the second half of the program celebrates the triumph of a master composer writing his first symphony. Completed when he was just 18 years old, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 1 is full of joy, youthful optimism, and craftsmanship indicative of his future stature as one of the great French composers of the late-Romantic Era. KSU director of orchestral studies Nathaniel F. Parker conducts the Brahms and Panufnik; guest conductor Dr. Jacob Harrison, director of orchestras at Texas State University, leads the Saint-Saëns.

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    Women in Music Festival: Summit Piano Trio
    Women in Music Festival: Summit Piano Trio
    7:30pm
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    Virtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Join the Summit Piano Trio--Bailey School of Music faculty artists Helen Kim, violin, Charae Krueger, cello, and Robert Henry, piano--for a performance that explores the impact of women in music.

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    Women in Music Festival: Voice Faculty Recital
    Women in Music Festival: Voice Faculty Recital
    7:30pm
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    Virtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Join the Bailey School of Music voice faculty artists for a performance that explores the impact of women in music.

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    Women in Music Festival: KSU Jazz Ensembles
    Women in Music Festival: KSU Jazz Ensembles
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Jazz Series. Join Bailey School of Music student Jazz Ensemble I led by Bailey School of Music Director of Jazz Studies Sam Skelton for a program that explores the impact of women in music.

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    Women in Music Festival: KSU Choirs
    Women in Music Festival: KSU Choirs
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Choral & Opera Series. Join the Bailey School of Music student choirs for a program that explores the impact of women in music.

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    KSU Voice Honors Recital
    KSU Voice Honors Recital
    7:30pm
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    Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by some of the most talented student vocalists in the Bailey School of Music.

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    Cooke String Quartets
    Cooke String Quartets
    7:30pm
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    Virtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of chamber music performed by Bailey School of Music student recipients of the John & Linda Cooke String Quartet Scholar Awards.

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    Student Composers Recital
    Student Composers Recital
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center, Morgan Concert Hall

    Virtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of works written by Bailey School of Music student composers--including multiple world premieres--performed by BSOM faculty and students. This concert is student-produced under the mentorship of BSOM composer-in-residence Laurence Sherr.

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    Fresh Air Friday
    Fresh Air Friday
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    at Legacy Gazebo

    Enjoy a short program of music performed by Bailey School of Music students and faculty in a relaxed and beautiful setting. 

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    Year of Senegal Performance: Khaware (Xaware)
    Year of Senegal Performance: Khaware (Xaware)
    8:00pm
    at Bailey Performance Center, Morgan Concert Hall

    Music, Song, Dance, and Hospitality to celebrate the Year of Senegal! Join the Department of Dance and Bailey School of Music in their collaboration. The Department of Dance will present Khaware (Xaware), directed by Dasha Chapman and Teresa Howard. This celebration of African dance features sabar, a Sengalese dance form accompanied by drumming. The KSU Percussion Ensemble, directed by John Lawless, will accompany the dancers with traditional Senegalese rhythms, using authentic instruments for this performance. Immerse yourself in an evening of total theatre with Khaware (Xaware). 

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    Fresh Air Friday
    Fresh Air Friday
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    Enjoy a short program of music performed by Bailey School of Music students and faculty in a relaxed and beautiful setting. 

    KSU Opera Theater & Symphony Orchestra Present: Die Fledermaus
    KSU Opera Theater & Symphony Orchestra Present: Die Fledermaus
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    Virtual RSVP Friday Night Spotlight Series, Choral & Opera Series, Orchestras Series. The Bailey School of Music's Opera Theater and Symphony Orchestra join forces to present a semi-staged production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.

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    KSU Opera Theater & Symphony Orchestra Present: Die Fledermaus
    KSU Opera Theater & Symphony Orchestra Present: Die Fledermaus
    8:00pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series, Orchestras Series. The Bailey School of Music's Opera Theater and Symphony Orchestra join forces to present a semi-staged production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.

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    KSU Jazz Combos
    KSU Jazz Combos
    5:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.

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    KSU Jazz Combos
    KSU Jazz Combos
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.

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    KSU Choirs
    KSU Choirs
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of choral music performed by the KSU Treble Choir, Men's Ensemble, Chorale, and Chamber Singers.

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    KSU Brass Ensembles
    KSU Brass Ensembles
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student brass ensembles.

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    Fresh Air Friday
    Fresh Air Friday
    12:30pm
    at Legacy Gazebo

    Enjoy a short program of music performed by Bailey School of Music students and faculty in a relaxed and beautiful setting. 

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    ArtsKSU Presents: An Evening with Composer David Biedenbender
    ArtsKSU Presents: An Evening with Composer David Biedenbender
    8:00pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Bands & Percussion Series. "Modern, venturesome, and inexorable...The excitement, intensity, and freshness that characterizes Biedenbender's music hung in the [air] long after the last note was played" (Examiner.com). ArtsKSU proudly presents an evening of music by award-winning composer David Biedenbender performed by the KSU Wind Ensemble--under the direction of David T. Kehler--and the KSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Daniel Lee. Biedenbender has written music for the concert stage, as well as for dance and multimedia collaborations, and his work is often influenced by his diverse musical experiences in wind, brass, rock and jazz bands, and by his study of Indian Carnatic music.

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    KSU Jazz Ensembles
    KSU Jazz Ensembles
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    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Jazz Series. Enjoy an evening of student jazz ensemble performances led by Bailey School of Music Director of Jazz Studies Sam Skelton and faculty artist Wes Funderburk.

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    KSU Mixed Chamber Ensembles
    KSU Mixed Chamber Ensembles
    5:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles. 

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    KSU Mixed Chamber Ensembles
    KSU Mixed Chamber Ensembles
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles.

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    KSU Philharmonic Orchestra & KSU University Band
    KSU Philharmonic Orchestra & KSU University Band
    7:30pm
    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Orchestra Series, Bands & Percussion Series. Enjoy performances by the KSU Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Bailey School of Music faculty Nancy Conley and the KSU University Band under the director of BSOM faculty Brandon Meeks.

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    KSU Jazz Guitar, Jazz Piano & Vocal Jazz Ensemble
    KSU Jazz Guitar, Jazz Piano & Vocal Jazz Ensemble
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    at Bailey Performance Center

    Virtual RSVP Jazz Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by the Bailey School of Music Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and BSOM jazz guitar and jazz piano students.

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    KSU Gospel Choir
    KSU Gospel Choir
    8:00pm
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    Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy a performance by the KSU Gospel Choir under the direction of Bailey School of Music faculty artist Oral Moses. Virtual RSVP

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    KSU Percussion Ensemble
    KSU Percussion Ensemble
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    Virtual RSVP Bands & Percussion Series. Experience an evening of percussion music performed by Bailey School of Music percussion students under the direction of BSOM Director of Percussion Studies John Lawless.

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    KSU Community & Alumni Choir
    KSU Community & Alumni Choir
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    Virtual RSVP Enjoy a performance by the KSU Community & Alumni Choir.

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