The Cal Poly Pomona Music Department Fall 2023 Shpachenko and Friends Chamber Music Festival is proud to feature renowned cellist Matt Haimovitz. Haimovitz, praised by The New York Times as a “ferociously talented cellist who brings his megawatt sound and…
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Justine Hawelu, a music industries studies student, was awarded the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) President’s Innovation Award (PIA). Hawelu was among 33 recipients across the nation and was invited to attend NAMM’s Believe in Music Week event in January 2021.…
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The Department of Music Spring 2020 series of events features student performances, special faculty presentation and appearances by renowned guest artists. Thomas Kotcheff, a Los Angeles based composer and pianist, whose music has been described as truly beautiful and inspired,…
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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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Cal Poly Pomona welcomed 195 students from Nihon Kogakuin Music College in Tokyo along with their faculty and staff on Nov. 14. The Nihon Kogakuin Cultural Exchange Event at the Bronco Student Center included dance performances, a presentation on cultural…
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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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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. Known for their effusiveness and…
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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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The Cal Poly Pomona Department of Music’s Spring 2019 series of events includes concerts, master classes taught by virtuosos and a musical theater workshop of Lin Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights.” The series will feature exceptional student performances and appearances…
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