Music

Doris Duke Award recipient and 2019 Guggenheim Fellow Jen Shyu, our 2022 Davenport artist-in-residence, will introduce us to her work, covering her song-writing process, ethnographic research and feature portions from her last three one-woman monodramas. This visit will give the campus community an opportunity to get to know Jen’s creative process prior to her hands-on workshop.

An evening of original compositions and arrangements performed by composer, jazz pianist and former Department of Music chair Vinnie Martucci. This concert will bring musicians from all genres to collaborate and improvise in a special farewell tribute.

The Professors are Mark Dziuba, Vinnie Martucci, Jeff “Siege” Siegel and Rich Syracuse. Their life’s work is defined by the creation and performing of great music and sharing their lifetimes of performing and teaching experiences with the upcoming legions of aspiring jazz musicians. Tonight’s performance will feature original compositions by all the members of the ensemble. Selections will be announced throughout the evening.

Hear the artistry and virtuosity of the Department of Music’s outstanding students.

Pianist Alex Peh explores the piano as a global instrument, creating a sound journey blending work that is contemporary, classical, improvised, and sacred. Featuring beloved masterpieces, and new world premieres, this concert is a first look at Peh’s work as a Fulbright global scholar exploring piano repertoire outside of Europe that defy normalized constructs of tuning, notation, pedagogy, and genre. This concert previews his June 18, 2022 solo piano debut at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, featuring a new body of piano repertoire from composers throughout the world, including the world premiere of works by composers Anna Clyne, Ne Myo Aung, and Nikos Ordoulidis.

The Concert Choir, College-Community Chorale, and special guests Voices of Unity present a program combining Renaissance madrigals, folk songs, spirituals and gospel music.

Featuring new works by student composers.

2022 Davenport Artist-in-residence Jen Shyu performs portions of her latest one-woman monodrama “Zero Grasses,” a new collection of songs devoted to the marginalized voices of women around the world, and a profound elegy to personal loss. This concert will also feature Jen with SUNY students and faculty in a a semi-improvised piece from her "You Are Everything" workshop on campus.

The SUNY New Paltz Symphonic Band and College-Youth Symphony will present a unique blend of works for winds, strings, and percussion, featuring music by Kevin Day, Claude Debussy, Kurt Weill, and SUNY New Paltz’s own Phyllis Chen.

Gamelan Si Betty: Distant Roots and Local Flowers

The complex percussion music of Java, Bali, and the US, performed by our ensemble on original instruments built by the American composer Lou Harrison. Directed by composer/scholar Jody Diamond.

Students from Professor Kent Smith’s vocal studio present the culmination of their semester’s work in an evening of art songs and arias.

SUNY New Paltz students in the Chamber Jazz Ensembles perform in a variety of jazz and jazz-influenced styles.

SUNY New Paltz students in the Chamber Jazz Ensembles perform in a variety of jazz and jazz-influenced styles.

The Choral Ensembles perform a program of highlights from the choral repertoire, including the Haydn Te Deum and the Vivaldi Gloria.