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site people psu Search form Search home ABOUT ADMISSIONS AUDITIONS FACULTY Areas of Study PERFORMANCES & EVENTS Ensembles Research Outreach ALUMNI Giving Livestream Our Rotating Banner The President’s Concert, February 18 READ MORE New Recital Hall https://music.psu.edu/recitalhall READ MORE 2019-20 Application and Audition Information READ MORE For High School Musicians READ MORE Featured Performances and Events BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Starts: February 17, 2020 - 7:30pm Ends: Feb 17 2020 - 9:00pm 14th ANNUAL PRESIDENT’S CONCERT AND RECEPTION Starts: February 18, 2020 - 6:30pm Ends: Feb 16 2020 - 9:30pm BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC Starts: February 19, 2020 - 7:30pm Ends: Feb 19 2020 - 9:00pm View All Events For the complete concert calendar, click here. News Cook and Guzman honored for CD of premieres Kim Cook, distinguished professor of cello, and Christopher Guzman, associate professor of piano, were honored with an award for the Top Five CD Issues for 2018 by critics for Fanfare, one of the premiere journals of musical recordings. The CD, released by Naxos, features eight premieres by composer Paul Reale: Sonatas No. 1 and 2, Séance for Solo Cello, Four Folk Songs and the Wexford Carol. David Canfield from Fanfare praised the CD, saying, [... More - Homecoming Weekend Halftime Show Designed by Doctoral Student in Music Ed, Michquelena Potlunas Ferguson Next weekend, October 4-6, 2019, is Homecoming weekend at Penn State. The halftime show is dedicated to celebrating 120 years of Penn State’s Blue Band, and it was designed by Michquelena Potlunas Ferguson, a Ph.D. Candidate in Music Education, and a Penn State Alum (’07, B.S. Music Education)! The show will feature songs from throughout the ages, and as a traditional component of the Penn State Homecoming festivities, in addition to the Blue Band, the Penn State Alumni Blue... More - School of Music students volunteer in Jamaica Jillian Brannan (junior) and Geneva Maldonado (sophomore), music majors at Penn State University, were accepted and studied abroad this summer with the Jamaica Field Service Project. Both of these students completed service-learning work in the local schools, while living and studying in rural Jamaica. For ten days these Penn State students immersed themselves in the traditions, music, and culture of Jamaica alongside university students from across the United States... More - View All News Student Spotlight Celeste Belknap Full Story Congratulations to senior violin performance major Celeste Belknap who has been named as a recipient of an 2018 Erickson Discovery Grant. Celeste will travel to Moscow, Russia to research Nina Makarova’s "Symphony in D Minor" for... View All Student Spotlights Faculty Spotlight Marica Tacconi My Profile Prof. Marica Tacconi was one of 20 scholars invited to present at the International conference, San Miniato and the Mark of the Millennium” held in Florence (in May 2018) to mark the 1,000 anniversary of the founding of San Miniato... View All Faculty Spotlights Alumni Spotlight Eddie Sundra Full Story Congratulations to Eddie Sundra (BM, 2014) on winning the recent audition for Associate Principal/2nd/E-flat Clarinet with the Richmond Symphony ! Hailing from the greater Philadelphia... View All Alumni Spotlights WE ARE Building Learn more about our new recital hall Information for Current Students Information for Faculty and Staff Information for Non-Majors Employment Performer Hotline Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube Penn State School of Music • Music Building 1 • University Park, PA 16802-1901 • P/ 814.865.0431 • F/ 814.865.6785 N Allen Rd, between West Park Ave and Curtin Rd., north of the Spiritual...