The Golden Griffon Marching Band of Missouri Western State University will host the 32nd annual Tournament of Champions marching band competition on Tuesday, Oct. 10 at Spratt Memorial Stadium. Marching bands from 27 area high schools will compete beginning at noon. The Golden Griffon Marching Band will conclude the competition with a performance and the [...]
Children in third grade with no previous piano lessons or experience are invited to participate in a free piano workshop on Saturday, Oct. 7 at Missouri Western State University. Workshops will be held from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 1 p.m. in Potter Hall. Parents are requested but not required to stay onsite [...]
The Ensemble of Irreproducible Outcomes (EIO) will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6 in the Kemper Recital Hall, inside Spratt Hall on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The concert is free and open to the public. EIO is a Kansas City-based trio of David McIntire on saxophone, Ryan Oldham on [...]
The Department of Music at Missouri Western State University will offer its 25th annual Drumline Camp for junior high and high school percussionists July 16-19. Register at www.missouriwestern.edu by July 8. The Missouri Western Drumline Camp is designed to give percussionists entering grades 7 through 12 a hands-on experience with contemporary marching percussion while focusing [...]
The Missouri Western State University Concert Chorale will participate in the final concert of the St. Joseph Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-2017 Concert Series, “Mastery of Mozart and Beethoven,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29 at the historic Missouri Theater in Downtown St. Joseph. The Chorus, under the direction of Dr. Elise Hepworth, will join the St. [...]
Aung Moe Kyaw performing with the Founder & Director of Myanmar Music Festival, American pianist Kimball Gallagher. Aung Moe Kyaw, a Missouri Western State University music major from Myanmar, was invited to perform at a private concert in Washington, D.C. on April 21, 2017. The event was hosted by Derek Mitchell, former US [...]
The choral studies program in the Department of Music at Missouri Western State University presents their annual “Spring Fling” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 27 in the Fulkerson Center. The concert is free and open to the public. The Concert Chorale and Chamber Singers will present a varied repertoire, from spirituals and gospels to Renaissance [...]
Dr. Blake Tyson (left) and Clif Walker are guest artists during the MWSU Percussion Ensemble Festival April 25. Missouri Western State University’s Department of Music will host a Percussion Ensemble Festival on Tuesday, April 25 in the Fulkerson Center. All performances are free and open to the public. The festival begins at 2:30 [...]
April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and Missouri Western State University’s Department of Music will promote this American art form with its annual Spring Jazz Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18 in the Fulkerson Center. The jazz program will showcase its three major ensembles and several student soloists. The Vocal Jazz Ensemble, under the direction [...]
Dr. Kostis Hassiotis Dr. Kostis Hassiotis, an international oboist and professor, will visit Missouri Western State University for a guest lecture and guest recital on Wednesday, April 19. Both events are free and open to the public. Dr. Hassiotis teaches at the University of Macedonia and the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki. As a [...]
