Join us for an enchanting evening of music as soprano Emily Douglass and pianist Dr. Daniel Kuehler present a faculty recital. The program features a rich selection of works by renowned composers including Bellini, Fauré, and Strauss. Adding a unique experience to the evening, they will also premiere a new, original composition written by Dr. Mark Douglass

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Faculty Recital

Hillsdale College

Choral Evensong

Faculty Lecture Recital

Also featuring selected winners of the 2024 Annual Concerto/Aria Competition:Janae Israel, trumpet; Maria-Therese Romanos, soprano; Emiliya Smyk, mezzo

Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra Concert - May

Senior French Horn Recital

Senior Piano Recital - May

Faculty Cello Recital Hall

Annual Spring Concert under the direction of Robert Livingston

Wind Symphony Concert

Senior Bassoon Recital

Violin Studio Recital - May

Students of Brad Blackham will be performing

Piano Studio Recital 2

Students of Dr. Daniel Kuehler will be performing

Piano Studio Recital 3

Students of Mark Stachofsky will be performing

Voice Studio Recital 3

Students of Chris McCourry, Rob Killips and Randy Westmoreland will be performing

Jazz & Brass Studio Recital

Students of Kristi Matson will be performing

Voice Studio Recital 2

Students of Karl Schmidt will be performing

Voice Studio Recital

Harp Studio Recital

Students of Jon Ourensma and Dr Derek Stauff will be performing

Organ Studio Recital

Students of Dr. Daniel Tacke will be performing

Composition Studio Recital

Students of the various jazz instructors will be performing

Jazz Combo Recital

Junior Piano Recital

Senior Piano Recital

Senior Voice/Piano Recital

Students of the various violin instructors will be performing

Violin/Viola Studio Recital

Mr. Vizzutti is a singular trumpet talent having played with the finest musicians and bands and appearing on hundreds of recordings and movies.

Spring Big Band Concert

The Department of Theatre and Dance presents its biennial Festival, with performances that feature the work of directing and playwriting students. Advanced Directing students will produce and direct a wide range of one-act plays, while senior playwriting student John Jordan will offer a staged reading of an original, full-length work.

Festival of Student Work

Students of Dan Palmer will be performing

Guitar Studio Recital

Students of Lori Lefervé will be performing

Jazz Voice Studio Recital

Students of Jilienne Bowers will be performing

Violin Studio Recital

Featuring Mozart’s Requiem for Choir and Orchestra
Choir graduating seniors will be recognized.

College Choir & Chamber Choir Concert

Violin and Viola students will be performing

Violin/Viola Recital

Senior Organ Recital - April

Students of Taylor Flowers will be performing

Piano Studio Recital 1

The John E. N. and Dede Howard Department of Music offers a select number of students the opportunity of performing on world class instruments from the Hough Collection, as members of the Joy String Quartet. A gift from David and Bonnie Joy Hough in 2022, these exceptional instruments are pieces of historical significance crafted by Italian master luthiers from Cremona and Turin during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

Joy String Quartet Concert

Share the radiance of Eastertide amid the festive strains of the Christ Chapel Choir.  As the earth awakens to springtime, celebrate the season of new life in Christ with choral works commemorating the paschal mystery of the Resurrection.

Chapel Choir Concert: Easter Splendor

Senior Viola Recital

Students of Chris McCourry will be performing

Rob Roy Student Jazz Combo

The Tower Dancers’ 21st Annual Spring Concert features choreography by students, faculty, and guest artists. Works are presented in ballet and modern, highlighting the talent of our student performers.

Tower Dancers Spring Concert

Students of Chris McCourry, Rob Killips, & Randy Westmoreland will be performing

Brass Recital

Students from the Woodwind studios will be performing

Student Woodwind Studio Recital

Harpsichord Studio Recital

Our Woodwind faculty will be performing a variety of music

Faculty Recital - April

Performed under the direction of Dr. Timothy McDonnell

Evensong - April

Under the direction of Stacy Jones-Garrison students will be performing pieces written for four players. Expect an exciting variety of instrumentation and styles

Percussion Ensemble

Junior Voice recital

Senior Organ Recital

French Horn Studio Recital

Hillsdale alumnus and Professor of Piano Dr. Taylor Flowers and colleague Zoie Hightower present a program of lesser-performed and dynamic works for piano and viola/violin, including Ernst Bloch’s 1919 Suite for Viola and Piano and Poulenc’s Sonata for Piano and Violin, along with works by Brahms and Samuel Coleridge

B3 Hammond Organist master Tony Monaco will be performing with our own Lori Lefeveré, Larry Ochiltree & Chris McCourry. Come for the funk, stay for the soul.

Jazz Organ Recital featuring Tony Monaco

Senior Guitar Recital

Now, the Reduced Shakespeare Company tackles the subject it was born to reduce. From the high-brow to the low, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) covers comedy through the ages, from Aristophanes and Shakespeare and Moliere (Is Moliere funny? Why not?) to Vaudeville and Charlie Chaplin to The Daily Show and Anthony Weiner.

PAS: Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)

Hillsdale welcomes Stanislav Ioudenitch, Gold Medal winner of the 11th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and renowned for his playing and teaching throughout the world, and rising star Maria Ioudenitch, winner of the Ysaÿe International Music Competition, the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, and the Joseph Joachim International Competition.  This father-daughter concert showcases the richness and beauty of French repertoire, with works by Ravel, Boulanger, Poulenc, and Franck.

Guest Recital

 A selection of pops and film scores, along with selected winners of teh 2024 Student Concerto/Aria Competition.

Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra Concert

Inspired by a real event, Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption. When literary editor Alice Murphy meets a young soldier just home from World War II, she sets out on a journey to understand her past – and what she finds transforms both of their lives. Directed by Tory Matsos.

Bright Star – music, book & story by Steve Martin; music, lyrics & story by Edie Brickell

All three piano studios under the direction of Dr. Kuehler, Brad Blackham & Dr. Taylor Flowers will be performing a "Chopin Celebration"

Faculty Recital - February

Hillsdale College  Big Band will once again be competing in the Annual Elmhurst Jazz Festival. Come on down to Howard to get a preview of what they will be playing in the competition!

Elmhurst Jazz Festival Send Off Concert

Inspired as much by the contrast between the vocality of the viol and the cutting crispness of the harpsichord as by the mix of rich and varied timbres of their instruments, Hantaï and Gordis together seek a common sound that lies between the singing inertia of the bow and the percussive attack of the keyboard.

PAS: Jérôme Hantaï, viola da gamba, and Lillian Gordis, harpsichord

Lillian Gordis & Jerome Hantai will be conducing a masterclass

Masterclass

Student Junior Recital

Evensong

Instrumental recital by Canadian violinist Jasper Wood and pianist David Riley

Guest Artist Recital

Requiem in C minor by Haydn ( excerpts) also featuring works by Sweelinck, MacMillan, Berger, Willan. The Christ Chapel Choir and Orchestra, Michael Ruhling, conductor

Sacred Concert

Vocal Studio Recital

Wind Symphony Concert 2023

Join us for this holiday favorite in the magnificent Christ Chapel!  The service of Lessons & Carols was first celebrated at several prominent English churches in the beginning of the 20th century—most notably King’s College, Cambridge.  This heart-warming service intersperses readings from Scripture with choral masterworks and carols of the Christmas season.

Christmas Lessons & Carols

Vocal Recital

Orchestra/Choir Concert

Jazz Voice instructor Lori Lefervré will be performing

Faculty Recital 2023

Violin & Viola Studio Recital

Piano Studio Recital 2023 November

Cynthia Duda, bassoon; Jaimie Wagner, flute; Christopher Wheeler,oboe;  Alan Taplin horn;  & Andrew Sprung, clarinet will be performing

Faculty Woodwind Recital

Chamber Music Recital

The women of the music fraternity SAI will be performing.

SAI Concert

TrioGram

A new artistic impulse that emphasized extreme emotions and sublime moments emerged around 1770 that is prominently exhibited in the instrumental works of C. P. E. Bach and Joseph Haydn, and became the defining aesthetic of the German dramatic and poetic “Sturm und Drang” (“Storm and Stress”) movement, exemplified by the early writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Hillsdale 18th-Century Chamber Orchestra’s second salon of the semester features symphonies by Haydn and C. P. E. Bach, interspersed with portions of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther and other emotionally charged literature from the period that parallel the emotive poignancy of the music.

Sturm und Drang Salon

Harpsichord Studio Recital 2023

This concert features a broad range of sonorities; from sacred selections of the Renaissance to contemporary concert pieces; from anchors of the Western canon to folk idioms from across the globe.  “This is truly a concert with something for everybody,” says the choir’s conductor, Visiting Professor Brad Holmes.

Hillsdale College Choir & Chamber Choir Concert

Senior Piano Recital 2023

Fred Radke and the Harry James Orchestra

Student Woodwind Recital

The Hillsdale College Big Band, director Chris McCourry, will duke it out with the Harry James Orchestra, director Fred Radke

Annual Battle of the Bands

The director of the Harry James Orchestra, Fred Radke, will be performing in this solo trumpet concert. Taking place tonight at the Dawn Theater!! Downtown Hillsdale

Battle of the Combos

The Dawn Theater

Senior Violin Recital

Fred Radke & Christopher McCourry Concert

The Joy Quartet will be performing a noon recital

Joy Quartet Recital

Under the direction of Prof. James A Holleman

Symphony Orchestra Concert

Are you ready to embark on a journey of Love and Loss? Join us for a memorable Opera Workshop experience! Witness the magic as our talented Hillsdale music students bring to life scenes from timeless operas, curated from the masterpieces of Mozart, Donizetti, Puccini, and more! Immerse yourself in the tales of love, with its passionate highs and heart-wrenching lows, as our students delve into the depths of human emotions. The students will portray characters from different operas, showcasing their versatility and ability to bring the stories to life through music.

Opera Workshop

Seattle based flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny returns to Hillsdale College for a performance with the Hillsdale College Big Band. This concert will feature dueling flugelhorns!

Guest Recital: Dmitri Matheny, Flugal Horn

Vox GR’s 2023 - 2024 Season opens with An Old Belief, a concert anchored around Hubert Parry’s similarly titled piece from his set Songs of Farewell. The program explores the themes of loss and reunification, “That Old Time Religion,” and “A Tale as Old as Time - Love.” Renaissance gems and pieces from the “Seashores of Old Mexico” fill out this varied program which is offered at Central Reformed Church of Grand Rapids and in the Hillsdale College Chapel in Hillsdale, Michigan.

The Professional Choral Ensemble Vox GR

Craig Cramer will perform works by Bach, Buxtehude, Zahnbrecher, and Reger on the Paul Fritts & Co. organs in Christ Chape. Cramer was Professor of Organ at the University of Notre Dame for thirty-nine years until his retirement in 2020, and for the past two years was Visiting Professor of Organ at Yale University.

Guest Recital: Craig Cramer, organ

Mark Stone, African Percussionist, will join Chris McCourry, Stacy Jones and the Hillsdale College Percussion Ensemble, along with other guests, for a rollicking concert of other worldly music

Guest Recital: Mark Stone, African Percussion, with the Hillsdale College Percussion Ensemble

Chapel Choir Directed by Dr. Timothy McDonnell

Evensong 2023

Daniel Kuehler presents Messiaen’s Préludes: A Bird’s-Eye View from Three ‘Regards

Faculty Recital 2023 October

Home salons and coffee house gatherings were lively and invigorating social events in many cities in 18th-century Europe. People gathered to hear new and old music, read poetry and play excerpts, and discuss the latest scientific, political, and artistic news. The Hillsdale 18th-Century Chamber Orchestra and faculty guests from across campus invite you to hear the music of J. S. Bach and Georg Philippe Telemann as part of a salon experience, and hopefully compel you to consider why Don Quixote’s popularity and influence may have been as prominent in the mid-1700s as it is today.

Baroque Quixotic Salon

The Chamber Choir will be performing for the CCA seminar

Chamber Choir Performance

Annual Homecoming Alumni Choir Concert

An evening of music by the students of Daniel Palmer

Rough Draft Jazz Nights

Rough Draft

A concert of original transcriptions of J.S. Bach by Andrew Balio, principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony and the founder of the Future Symphony Institute.  Bach affirmed that "the aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."  Balio and organist Bruce Bengtson partner in an evening of this enduring, spiritual music.

Guest Recital: Andrew Balio, trumpet, and Bruce Bengtson, organ

Visiting artist Andrew Balio, Principal Trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony and President of the Foundation for the Future of Classical Music, will give a lecture on modernist trends in classical music and propose a way forward for the preservation of the Western classical canon.

The Musical Revolution that Failed

A recital featuring music from the British Isles, with works by Handel and Paisable alongside a collection of folk tunes and grounds.

Hillsdale College Fine Arts

Sep 28, 2024

Faculty Recital

15 - 22 Sep, 2024

Choral Evensong

Hillsdale College Fine Arts