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While the Fredonia School of Music is planning for many student recitals and faculty performances during the semester, due to the pandemic, no in-person audiences...

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Hillman Opera ‘Beatrice and Benedict’ slated for fall

The 2020 Hillman Opera, produced each year by the Fredonia School of Music in conjunction with the Hillman Memorial Music Association, is breaking new ground...

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Fredonia Summer Music Festival pivots online with much success

The annual Fredonia Summer Music Festival was held online on July 1 and 2, with middle and high school band students participating in the free...

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Sorel Piano Competition and Fellows Program moved to virtual format

Applications are now open for the 2020 Claudette Sorel Piano Competition and Fellows Program at the SUNY Fredonia School of Music, and has been moved...

Dr. James Davis

Davis explores Civil War music at conference, writes articles for journals

School of Music Professor of Musicology James Davis gave a presentation, “Reconstructing Civil War Songs,” at the 46th annual conference of the Society for American...

Lynne McMurtry

McMurtry performs at music festival in British Columbia

School of Music faculty member and contralto Lynne McMurtry performed multiple concerts in July with pianist Alison d’Amato as part of the Vernon Proms Classical...

SUNY Distinguished Professor James Piorkowski

IMD to publish Piorkowski guitar composition

“Mila Rose,” a work for solo classical guitar written by SUNY Distinguished Professor James Piorkowski, is being edited and prepared for publication by Parisian publisher...

Bernhard presents research at Symposium on Eudaimonia and Music Learning

School of Music Professor Christian Bernhard II presented a research paper, "An Investigation of Happiness and Gratitude Among Music Educators," at the Symposium on Eudaimonia...

Dr. Leonidas Lagrimas

Lagrimas participates in piano forum

Fredonia School of Music Assistant Professor Leonidas Lagrimas was among the presenters in July at the Virtual National Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum, otherwise known as...

Dr. Nick Weiser

Weiser participates in bassists convention

Assistant Professor Nick Weiser of the School of Music, who is also the coordinator of Jazz Studies, performed in the digital world premiere of Nicholas...