Bird Studio (Booth Hall)

Music on a Friday Afternoon (or "MOFA") is an informal recital series where students showcase the music they've been practicing throughout the semester. A long-standing tradition in the Music Department, MOFAs allow students to gain performance experience while connecting with peers and community members.

Maya Angulo, Kailey Bae, James Henderson, Raiah Rofsky, Veronica Wang, Sherwin Zhang, and Ryan Yuzhe Zhu will perform as soloists, with piano accompaniment by Alan Geier and Shawn Costantino.

Selections include:

NOTE: This event's date was previously listed as November 14. It has been rescheduled for November 28.

Music on a Friday Afternoon (or "MOFA") is an informal recital series where students showcase the music they've been practicing throughout the semester. A long-standing tradition in the Music Department, MOFAs allow students to gain performance experience while connecting with peers and community members.

This week, soloists include Jon Donaldson '21, Anna Gray '22, Inez Leon '21, Louis Nguyen '22, Sandy Nguyen '21, Adelia Nunn '21, Naya Ramtahal '22, Eliana Sternin '19, and Jiaqian Wu '20.

Program

The Oxy Chamber Music program, coached by Gloria Lum and Stephanie O'Keefe, is made up of two divisions: Chamber Ensembles and Oxy New Music.

In addition to practicing secular rumba drumming, students of this course study the sacred rhythms of Santeria and learn to sing the songs of the Orishas in the Yoruba dialect of Lucumi. Come hear the culmination of their work at this public performance!

This is a CSP99 event.

Music on a Friday Afternoon (or "MOFA") is an informal recital series where students showcase the music they've been practicing throughout the semester. A long-standing tradition in the Music Department, MOFAs allow students to gain performance experience while connecting with peers and community members.

This is a CSP99 event.

Directed by Shawn Costantino, the Jazz Ensemble meets weekly to rehearse, learn basic jazz theory, and practice improvisational skills. Jazz enables people of diverse cultures, nationalities, and backgrounds to come together and communicate through the common language of music. Regularly playing to a full house, the ensemble brings the best of jazz to Bird Studio once every semester, with past performances including music by Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, Thad Jones, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson, Henry Mancini, Stevie Wonder, and many others.

Students of Junko Ueno Garrett will perform works by Chopin, Mozart, Gershwin, Beethoven, Durand, and Piazzolla. Featuring Kevin Grundy, Linjing He, Haobin Huang, Calvin Lesko, Will Saffran, Alex Twomey, Jiaqian Wu, and Iris Zhang.

Students of MUSC257 will premiere new works for viola, double bass, and percussion. Performed by faculty artists Michael Larco, Ted Botsford, and Yuri Inoo.

Program

Rain - Nina Marguglio
Finch - Nico Bluffin
Closed - Jonah Propp
Couch Piece - Alex Twomey
Whimsy - Raiah Rofsky
Sleep 0634 - Alessandro Bonomi

This is a CSP99 event.

This concert is made possible by the Benjamin H. Culley Fund.