Department of Music

We hope you can join us at RED Steakhouse in this elegant evening of dessert, wine and song presented by USD's College of Fine Arts and the Department of Music. $50/person. Formal or semi-formal dress encouraged. Visit https://usdfoundation.org/donate/opera. Indicate the number of guests and their names in the comment box; or call 605 677 6703. We hope to see you there!

The annual Quad State Honor Band Festival brings together the finest high school musicians from our region. Students will have the opportunity to work with John LaCognata, USD's Director of Bands, and with Todd Cranson, USD's Director of Athletic Bands. In addition, all festival students will have an opportunity to work with our guest composer/clinician and perform his music. This year's guest, Brant Karrick, joined the faculty of Northern Kentucky University in the fall of 2003 as Director of Bands. To learn more about Karrick, and about how you or your students can participate in the Quad State Honor Band Festival, please visit the website.

After two days of rehearsals, learning and fun, participants in the annual Quad State Honor Band Festival, the finest high school musicians in the region, come together for this evening's concert. USD's John LaCognata and Todd Cranson, together with guest composer/clinician Brant Karrick, will lead these students in an evening of music for parents, teachers and the public. To learn more about Karrick, and about this USD event, please visit the website.

The piano area of the USD Department of Music presents their students in this showcase event, open to the public at no charge.

Explore the human experience through Art, Drama, Education, English, Law, Music, Neuroscience and Philosophy. See elsewhere in this USD Events Calendar for information about specific events.

Dr. Diaz on "Irreducible Cognition: Toward an Embodied and Non-Reductive Study of Musical Experience." Sound, Color, Shape... is an interdisciplinary symposium meant to bring together students and faculty from all across the USD campus. This year, there will be presenters from five of the seven USD schools and colleges. The symposium explores the human experience and how we seek to understand our environment and the world around us. The environment we explore is not just limited to our physical surroundings, but also includes our social, political, philosophical, psychological or emotional realms. This and all S,C,S...Symposium events are open to the public at no charge. To learn more about Dr. Diaz, visit https://cogs.sitehost.iu.edu/people/profile.php?u=fmdiaz .

Presentation in Fine Arts Room 150 by USD's Jing Williams, Phd, Asst Prof of Education and Deborah Reeves, Prof of Music. Sound, Color, Shape... is an interdisciplinary symposium meant to bring together students and faculty from all across the USD campus. This year, there will be presenters from five of the seven USD schools and colleges. The symposium explores the human experience and how we seek to understand our environment and the world around us. The environment we explore is not just limited to our physical surroundings, but also includes our social, political, philosophical, psychological or emotional realms. This and all S,C,S... Symposium events are open to the public at no charge.

Dracyn Blount and Mikael Darmanie from 'Of Ebony Embers' talk about their work and their ensemble in Fine Arts Room 150. Sound, Color, Shape... is an interdisciplinary symposium meant to bring together students and faculty from all across the USD campus. This year, there will be presenters from five of the seven USD schools and colleges. The symposium explores the human experience and how we seek to understand our environment and the world around us. The environment we explore is not just limited to our physical surroundings, but also includes our social, political, philosophical, psychological or emotional realms. This and all S,C,S... Symposium events are open to the public at no charge. For more info about this ensemble: https://www.coreensemble.com/shows-on-tour/of-ebony-embers/ .

Of Ebony Embers in performance. Sound, Color, Shape... is an interdisciplinary symposium meant to bring together students and faculty from all across the USD campus. This year, there will be presenters from five of the seven USD schools and colleges. The symposium explores the human experience and how we seek to understand our environment and the world around us. The environment we explore is not just limited to our physical surroundings, but also includes our social, political, philosophical, psychological or emotional realms. This and all S,C,S... Symposium events are open to the public at no charge. For more info about this ensemble: https://www.coreensemble.com/shows-on-tour/of-ebony-embers/ .

Dr. Diaz meets with Music Ed students and other interested personnel in Fine Arts 150. Sound, Color, Shape... is an interdisciplinary symposium meant to bring together students and faculty from all across the USD campus. This year, there will be presenters from five of the seven USD schools and colleges. The symposium explores the human experience and how we seek to understand our environment and the world around us. The environment we explore is not just limited to our physical surroundings, but also includes our social, political, philosophical, psychological or emotional realms. This and all S,C,S...Symposium events are open to the public at no charge. To learn more about Dr. Diaz, visit https://cogs.sitehost.iu.edu/people/profile.php?u=fmdiaz .

"Moving Music" is the first collaboration between Yi Chun Lin's Sioux Falls Chamber Music Collective (SFCMC) and Angelina Gibson's ArtiTanzer Project (ATP). With this program, Gibson and Lin wish to put music and dance in dialogue with each other through hybridity, diversity and experimentation. Together, ATP and SFCMC examine what it means to create "moving music" through dance, but also how music itself, is in motion. Join two artistic forces in their exploration of the intertwinement of music and dance. For more information regarding these artists, please visit https://www.sfcmcollective.com/. This event is open to the public at no charge. A $10 donation is suggested.

Nicole Santos presents her junior piano recital, open to the public at no charge.