Music Department and Music Center Concerts

Sat, Oct 06th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall

Part of Goshen College’s 2018 Homecoming activities, the Homecoming Music Gala is your first opportunity to hear the Goshen College ensembles. Performing will be the Goshen College Chamber Choir and Women’s World Music Choir, directed by Debra Detwiler; Men’s Chorus, directed by Joshua Boggs; and the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by José Rocha.

Wed, Oct 31st @ 7:30 pm — Rieth Recital Hall

Described by Gramophone Magazine as a pianist with a “strong lyrical bent and feeling for nuance,” Kate Boyd has performed solo recitals at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Schubert’s birth house in Vienna, the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the Musikhalle Hamburg, in addition to many places throughout the US and Canada. Recent concerts and conferences have taken her to Germany, England, Canada, Malaysia, Florida,California, Idaho, Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Michigan and Greece.

Boyd has received numerous awards and prizes, including 2016-17 Outstanding Professor of the Year, an Indiana Arts Commission Grant and a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, an award funded by the Lilly Foundation for creative artists of all disciplines.  Other awards and prizes include a Fulbright scholarship and fellowships at the Tanglewood Center, Blossom Music Center, the Banff Centre for the Arts, and Prussia Cove (England).

Boyd received her Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory, under the tutelage of Russian pianist Sedmara Rutstein; her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University, where she studied with renowned pianist and pedagogue Gilbert Kalish; and a Diploma from the Hannover (Germany) Academy of Music,where she studied with Israeli master teacher Arie Vardi. She also studied with Estonian pianist Arbo Valdma at the Cologne (Germany) Academy of Music, under the auspices of a Fulbright Grant. In addition to her major teachers, she received extensive coachings and attended residential masterclasses with Leon Fleisher, Peter Serkin, Gyorgy Sebok, John Perry, Reinbert DeLeeuw, and Ronald Copes, among others.

Kate Boyd currently serves as Professor of Piano and Piano Area Coordinator at Butler University, in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she was recently promoted to rank of Full Professor. In the summers she is on the faculty of the internationally-renowned Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan. Formerly, she was on the faculty of Heidelberg University, in Tiffin, Ohio, and for ten summers taught at Kinhaven Music School, in Weston, Vermont.

Fri, Nov 02nd @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall

Goshen College’s choral and instrumental ensembles will join together for an unforgettable concert in Sauder Concert Hall! Performing will be the Goshen College Chamber Choir, directed by Debra Detwiler, with the Goshen College Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of José Rocha.

Tue, Nov 06th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall

The Goshen College Men’s Chorus, directed by Joshua Boggs, will participate along with invited area men’s choral ensembles in a one day festival for men’s voices, culminating in an evening concert in Sauder Concert Hall.

Fri, Nov 16th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall

Two Goshen College wind ensembles will again share the stage as they each present half a concert in Sauder Concert Hall. Performing are the Goshen College Wind Symphony, conducted by José Rocha, and Goshen College’s big band, Lavender Jazz, conducted by Chris French.

Sat, Jan 19th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall

La Caccina is professional women’s vocal ensemble and non-profit arts organization based in Chicago, founded in 2011 by three friends who shared a passion for choral music. La Caccina finds its namesake in Francesca Caccini, a prolific Baroque composer known for her virtuosic musicality and beautiful singing voice. Following in Caccini’s footsteps, the women of La Caccina bring a wide range of expertise to the ensemble, enabling them to easily adapt to a wide range of musical styles – from Renaissance madrigals to South African folk songs, and from contemporary pop songs to classical masterworks such as Vivaldi’s Gloria in D and Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. Over the past seven seasons, La Caccina has collaborated with ensembles including Pavo String Quartet, the DuPage Symphony Orchestra, and bluegrass trio Glass Mountain, and has commissioned and premiered works by Katherine Pukinskis, Augusta Read Thomas, Matthew Harris, Ed Frazier Davis, and Eric Malmquist, among others. No matter the music, La Caccina’s expressive, emotional singing highlights the versatility of the treble voice and brings musical excellence, integrity, and honesty to every performance.

The performance will feature the Goshen College Women’s World Music Choir, directed by Debra Detwiler.

Sat, Feb 16th @ — Sauder Concert Hall

Student winners of the 2018-19 Goshen College Concerto-Aria Competition will perform with the GC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by José Rocha.

Performing are:

• Minhyuk Kim, piano – Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (mvt 1)
• Gogo Liegise, piano – Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 (mvt. 3)
• Abigail Greaser, violin – Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (mvt  1)
• Lisa Rosado Rivera, soprano – Rossini, “Una voce poco fa” from Il Barbieri di Siviglia
• Lukas Thompson & Josh Liechty, duet – Donizetti, “Cheti, cheti immantinente” from Don Pasquale
• Nathan Pauls, baritone – Kurt Weill, “Lonely House” from Street Scene
• Rebecca Choi, soprano – Mozart, “Batti, batti O bel Masetto” from Don Giovanni

Sun, Mar 03rd @ — Sauder Concert Hall

Sat, Apr 06th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall

The Goshen College Choirs will present their annual EARTHTONES concert of world choral music in Sauder Concert Hall. Performing are the GC Chamber Choir and Men’s Chorus, directed by Joshua Boggs, and Voices of the Earth, directed by Debra Detwiler.

The program will feature songs from a wide variety of cultures and sung in multiple foreign languages.

Tue, Apr 16th @ 7:30 pm — Rieth Recital Hall

Wed, Apr 17th @ 7:30 pm — Sauder Concert Hall

The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, directed by José Rocha, will present their spring semester concert in Sauder Concert Hall.

The concert will be highlighted by a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, featuring GC professor and violinist Solomia Soroka. The GCSO will also present a movement from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 “Little Russian.” The Wind Ensemble will present works by Prokofiev, Markowski, and Yozviak.