Collaborative Arts: Voice & Piano
Special guest artists soprano LaToya Lain and pianist Margo Garrett explore the powerful collaborative relationship between pianist and vocalist.
Winner of three Tony Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and even musical theatre itself!
The Shenandoah Conservatory Little Big Band explores the post-bop era of jazz with a concert featuring Charles Mingus' Moanin’ and Boogie Stop Shuffle, Miles Davis' So What, All Blues and Solar, John Coltrane's Lazy Bird and more!
The Westerlies have been hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as “skilled interpreters” and “adept improvisers" as they explore jazz, roots and chamber music influences to create the rarest of hybrids: music that is both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music).
Inspired by trial transcripts and public documents, We Are Pussy Riot tells the story of a Russian feminist punk rock protest group thrust onto the world stage in 2011, when a video of their unauthorized guerrilla performance opposing the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin went viral.
Featuring faculty choreographers Jacob Brent, Tiffanie Carson, Erica Helm and Stephanie Parkinson, as well as guest choreographer Christian von Howard.
Pulitzer Prize Composer Festival: EDGE Ensemble
Discover Joseph Schwantner’s distinctive voice in an intimate performance of his Distant Runes and Incantations, Taking Charge for flute, piano and percussion and Sparrows.
Pulitzer Prize Composer Festival: Large Ensembles
Shenandoah Conservatory’s premier instrumental and vocal ensembles perform Schwantner's world-renowned large ensemble works, including ...and the mountains rising nowhere and more.
Slipping effortlessly between new music classics and genre-bending musical experiences, the New York-based quartet Yarn/Wire forges a new boundary for music ensembles and brings a unique voice to today's most adventurous music.
Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium is a short, two-act opera that follows the story of the psychic Madame Flora who deceives her clients with fake séances. One of these sessions goes awry when she herself is touched by a spirit, plunging her into mental chaos.
