September 22, 2024

Bach & Beyond: Exploring Music for Solo Cello

Josh Aerie, cello

Bach & Beyond: Exploring Music for Solo Cello will take listeners on a musical journey during which cellist Josh Aerie will explore the cello, its range, its timber, and the many fun and challenging aspects of playing the instrument. Listeners will enjoy pieces by composers from a number of music eras including Johann Sebastian Bach, Benjamin Britten, Rick Sowash, and Alexander Tcherepnin.

November 17, 2024

A Potpourri of Song

Michael Snyder, tenor; Rebekah Scott, piano

Lyric tenor Michael Snyder, accompanied by pianist Rebekah Scott, will offer A Potpourri of Song, with selections ranging from Gershwin to Grieg and beyond. The songs on this concert will join the worlds of words, rhyme, and rhythm with moments of serenity by way of offerings from the American Songbook and works from the classical vocal repertoire.

February 23, 2025

Belles Voix

Conducted by Nancy Menk

Saint Mary’s College Belles Voix is a select 30-voice ensemble that regularly commissions and performs new works for treble voices. An outgrowth of this emphasis is the publication of the Saint Mary’s College Choral Series, a collection of new works for treble voices, published by earthsongs of Corvallis, Oregon. The Choir has performed throughout the United States and has appeared before state and division conventions of the Music Educators National Conference and the American Choral Directors Association.

April 27, 2025

Rose Wollman, viola

Violist Rose Wollman will present a program of miniatures for solo viola, exploring a vast range of styles and emotions. The program will be anchored by J.S. Bach’s masterful Suite no. 3 for solo cello, and branches off on exploratory tangents with music by composers as diverse as Astor Piazzolla, Grazyna Bacewicz, and Wollman herself. The pieces build upon and respond to each other, creating a unique listening experience that transports the audience through time and filters the music through different lenses.