Past Graduate Music Series Events

The Graduate Music Series showcases the performance, compositional, and research capabilities of graduate music students, alumni, and other affiliates.

Please check our website for information about upcoming installments.
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2021

May

Graduate Music Series: Installment Four
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 8:00pm
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The fourth installment of the Graduate Music Series this spring will feature a presentation by current graduate student Stuart Wheeler.
Graduate Music Series: Installment Three
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 8:00pm
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The third installment of the Graduate Music Series this spring will feature presentations by current graduate student Webb Crawford and alumnus Eliot Bates MA ’97 with Ars Troitski.

April

Graduate Music Series: Installment Two
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 8:00pm
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The second installment of the Graduate Music Series this spring will feature presentations by current graduate student Ridvan Aydinli and alumnus and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music David Nelson Ph.D '91.
Graduate Music Series: Installment One
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 8:00pm
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The first installment of the Graduate Music Series this spring will feature alumnus Omar Fraire MA '17 and current graduate students Garrett Groesbeck and Hector Gonzalez.

2020

November

Graduate Music Series: Installment Seven
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 8:00pm
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The seventh installment of the Graduate Music Series will feature alumni composers Ian Davis MA ’19 and James P. Falzone MA '19.

October

Graduate Music Series: Installment Six
Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 8:00pm
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The sixth installment of the Graduate Music Series will feature Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology Thembela Vokwana and M.A. composition student Aliya Ultan.
Graduate Music Series: Installment Five
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 8:00pm
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The fifth installment of the Graduate Music Series will feature graduate student in composition Ryan Seward's work "Take any flat, plain piece of land, give it a name," inspired by the opening lines of poet Lawson Fusao Inada’s "Utica, North Platte."
Graduate Music Series: Installment Four
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 8:00pm
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The fourth installment of the Graduate Music Series will feature Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology Jocelyn Pleasant on "Music in the African Diaspora."
Graduate Music Series: Installment Three
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 8:00pm
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The third installment of the Graduate Music Series will feature graduate ethnomusicology students Garrett Groesbeck and Suhail Yusuf Khan.

September

Graduate Music Series: Installment Two
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 8:00pm
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The second installment of the Graduate Music Series will feature Ph.D. ethnomusicology student Anya Shatilova, Max Gibson MA '20, and Director of the Wesleyan University Jazz Ensemble Noah Baerman.
Graduate Music Series: Installment One
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 8:00pm
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The first installment of the Graduate Music Series will feature graduate music students Stuart Wheeler and Bianca Iannitti, and will also air on WESU Middletown 88.1FM during episode nine of "NetBlipz."