UAlbany Music Program Announces Three Concerts in Four Days this March

University at Albany’s Department of Music and Theatre has announced three concerts, featuring the UAlbany Percussion Ensemble, throughout the first week of March. 

On March 3rd, at 7pm you can enjoy special guests from the Empire State Youth, Repertory & Chamber Percussion Ensembles, the Festival of Contemporary Music accompanying the ensemble. March 8 showcases The UAlbany Concert Band presenting a Concert in the Round. Lastly, The UAlbany Symphony Orchestra will perform the final concert on March 9th.

All events for the three-day concert will be located at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center. The center can be found on the uptown University at Albany campus at 1400 Washington Avenue.

The Festival of Contemporary Music program premieres The Empire State Youth Percussion Ensemble performing Joseph Ott’s landmark work, Quartet for Percussion. Under the direction of Christopher David Neubert, the ensemble will also perform a program of three works: Felix Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave Overture, Gabriel Faure’s Pelleas et Melisande and James Barnes’s Heatherwood Portrait.

Audience members can count on hearing works by Nathan Daughtrey, Elliot Del Borgo, Daniel Montoya and the enigmatic Rainforest Journey of Charlie Sivils, in addition to the second set of Chick Corea’s magical and haunting Children’s Songs and three of composer-educator Ney Rosauro’s Brazilian Myths. The Myths include recounting legends of a deadly Brazilian mermaid, the mystical protector of the avian wildlife of the Amazon Forest, and the evil headless horsewoman spreading fear and pestilence throughout the villages and towns. 

A Concert in the Round will feature the UAlbany Concert Band performing eight selections such as Charles Parker Peters’s American Legion, Robert Sheldon’s Beyond the Higher Skies, Arthur Benjamin’s Jamaican Rumba, Tyler Arcari’s Beacons (Guiding Lights), Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer and Claude T. Smith’s Serenade and Dance. Band director Kevin R. Champagne’s Octopercussiocity along with selections from the musical Rent will also encompass the concert. 

Concert tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff. Tickets purchased on the day of performances are $10 for the general public and $8 for students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff. All tickets must be purchased on-line from the UAlbany Performing Arts Center’s site.

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