Tew Recital Hall

Present Continuous

Directed by Dr. Annie Jeng and Dr. Luke Ellard, Present Continuous provides advanced performers with the opportunity of performing significant works of the new music repertoire.

Student Recital Feature

Gate City Wind Quintet

The Gate City Wind Quintet is a chamber music ensemble of first year students coached by Dr. Ryan Reynolds.

Community Music Lessons Strings

The Juliet Letters

Faculty and students come together to perform “The Juliet Letters,” a song cycle originally conceived as a concept album by singer/songwriter Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet.

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Calypsus Brass

Founded in 2021, Calypsus Brass is a professional chamber ensemble performing new works recitals, creating high-level professional recordings for composers, and working with chamber musicians at all levels. Calypsus Brass is committed to prioritizing recording and performing works of historically marginalized composers to uplift the highest quality of music.

Lindsay Kesselman, Assistant Professor of Voice and Choral Music

Casella Sinfonietta

The Casella Sinfonietta presents a faculty-student side-by-side concert of works by Steve Reich, Maria Schneider, and Aaron Copland, with video of Martha Graham’s original choreography for ‘Appalachian Spring.’

The Haven Trio

Haven Trio

Established solo artists soprano Lindsay Kesselman, clarinetist Kimberly Cole Luevano, and pianist Midori Koga joined as the Haven Trio in 2011. Now in its 13th season, Haven has commissioned a compelling body of repertoire from its extended family of composers.