Recording artist and Cal Poly Pomona Music Professor Nadia Shpachenko’s new CD “The Poetry of Places” has been nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Best Classical Compendium for the album and for Producer of the Year Classical, for producers Victor…
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Bass trombonist Kevin Truong and pianist Jeffrey Sweede will share the top prize after they tied for first place in the music department’s 2019 Concerto Competition. Both winners will perform as featured soloists in a concert with the CPP Philharmonic…
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Cal Poly Pomona Music Professor Arthur Winer’s song “The Minor Key” won a Silver Medal in the 2019 Global Music Awards, an international songwriting competition. The song was released on Oct. 15 through Canaveral Skies Music and Winer’s band MacArthur.…
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A scholarship fundraiser, a percussion master class and a faculty piano concert are among the events the Department of Music has planned as part of its fall lineup of performances and classes with renowned clinicians. The Charles Lindsley Memorial Vocal…
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Music Professor Nadia Shpachenko’s recently released CD focuses on the importance of place. The eight-compositions on “The Poetry of Places” are works inspired by a diverse array of noted architectural landmarks from the Copland House in Cortlandt, New York to…
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Flutist Shannon Canchola, an adjunct music lecturer, will perform with her award-winning chamber ensemble ACE Trio at the Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC) convention. Each of the members of the ACE Trio will give their own master class, as…
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Distinguished Cal Poly Pomona music alumnus Joseph Klein will return to campus to conduct a free composer workshop for students. The workshop will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12 in Building 24, room 101. A composer of…
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Distinguished guest artists mezzo soprano Megan Ihnen, violist Michael Hall and the Villiers String Quartet will perform concerts and work with music students in March as part of the Shpachenko and Friends Chamber Music Festival. Megan Ihnen Known for their…
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A new composition titled Double Klondike (2018) by Kevin J. Garnica was recently premiered on campus. Yafei Lin and Vernon Snyder, performing as the Lin-Snyder Duo, debuted the piece at the CPP Piano Ensemble concert in November. Snyder is an…
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Service-learning courses in the music department give Cal Poly Pomona students an opportunity to work with the university’s community partners such as the Pomona Unified School District. The classes also enable the students to extend the learn-by-doing approach beyond the…
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