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For Current Students Only Joint Open House Event - with the department of theatre. More information will be on B-Engaged.

For current students only: Join Dr. Bill Culverhouse for our Open Sing with our University Choirs! Free to attend

Makenzie Melemed, piano, presents Keys Across America, a recital celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the United States through American Piano Music. The program highlights works by composers such as Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell and Arthur Foote, alongside pieces by Florence Price, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and others.





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Artist Biography

Recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant, American pianist Mackenzie Melemed is known for performances that combine refined pianism, thoughtful curation, and a natural gift for bringing audiences closer to the music. Equally at home in standard repertoire, lesser-known works, and new music, he has built a distinctive artistic profile around programs that balance beloved masterworks with unexpected discoveries, often framed by spoken introductions that invite deeper listening.

Praised for playing of “color, intention, and expressive power,” Melemed has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, Polish Radio Orchestra, and KBS Symphony, and has performed at major venues and festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia. A laureate of the American Pianists Awards and the China International Music Competition, he was the only pianist to receive a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Melemed’s artist-led projects reflect his interest in repertoire that connects past and present. Keys Across America, his large-scale all-American recital project celebrating the United States’ 250th anniversary, explores nearly two centuries of American piano music across more than 50 cities and includes new works written for him by Laura Kaminsky and Avner Dorman. His debut album, Tulevaisuus — Finnish for “future” — pairs Bach, Brahms, and Liszt with new works by Sir Stephen Hough, Kaminsky, and Dorman, each inspired by those earlier composers.

Since 2020, Melemed has been based in Finland, where he has developed a significant performance career following his success at the 2017 Maj Lind International Piano Competition. His fluency in Finnish, begun through language study at Columbia University, has helped shape a close relationship with the country’s musical life, leading to invitations from nearly all of Finland’s orchestras and many of its leading festivals.

A Steinway Artist, Melemed earned his BM, MM, and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert McDonald and Emanuel Ax. Born in Massachusetts, he began piano studies at age four and gained unusually extensive stage experience early in life, giving more than 500 performances by age 13 and appearing at The White House Holiday Open House celebrations from 2004 to 2008.


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Join us as two of the Music Department's largest ensembles - Symphony Orchestra and Wind Symphony - present a delightful sampler of performances of selected favorites! This performance is sponsored by David and Victoria Levene.

To Register for this event, please visit the Family Weekend webpage

Faculty artists Hippocrates Cheng and James Budinich present a new collaboration, combining an acoustic multi-instrumental performance with live electronic processing. Cheng’s live performance will be looped, chopped, and transformed through a new software environment created by Budinich, as they together forge a new acoustic-digital dialogue. Free Admission

��������Ƶ Choirs invites area high school students for a one-day workshop and energetic performance.

The ��������Ƶ Symphony Orchestra along with the University Wind Symphony perform a collection of works celebrating the University's 80th Anniversary. This concert highlights the talent and dedication of our student musicians from across the university. All are welcome to attend! This performance is free and open to the public.

Join us as our new and returning voice area graduate students perform Art Songs and opera arias. Including works by some of our favorite composers.

The Anderson Center for the Performing Arts brings in Cirque Kalabanté, performing with the Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble.

For More information visit the Anderson Center website.

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Love, Loss, and Prayer: A Woman’s Life in Song centers on "Frauenliebe und Leben" by Robert Schumann, the beloved cycle tracing a woman’s journey through love, marriage, motherhood, and loss.
The program also celebrates the 150th anniversary of Manuel de Falla with songs reflecting memory, grief, and a mother’s prayer for children spared from war. Completing the recital is a revival of rarely heard songs in French by Mexican composer Gustavo Campa, newly edited and presented as a U.S. premiere, all brought to life by Binghamton faculty artists Brenda Iglesias, contralto, and Curt Pajer, piano.

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Our students perform excerpts of works in a competition to be able to perform with our symphony Orchestra in March. Free Admission.

John Dowland (1563-1626), one of the greatest English composers of the late Renaissance, was a master of the lute and a composer of excellent songs with lute accompaniment. This program will feature a variety of both genres, illustrating his phenomenal skill and stylistic range. Free Admission.

A performance celebrating the flute at Binghamton! Enjoy the accomplishments of the campus flute community, from our most experienced to our newest flutists. Free Admission

An eclectic mix of solo trombone with piano works in recital format, including performances by the ��������Ƶ Low Brass Ensemble.  Expect to hear works in varying styles from Baroque to Jazz.

Students from the studio of Yaël Weiss, perform pieces they have been preparing in their lessons.

��������Ƶ Chamber Singers joins the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra with the Southern Tier Singers' Collective. The concert, Simple Gifts, Sacred Praise, features Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copland and Ludwig van Beethoven's, Mass in C.


Soloists for Beethoven
Sarah Fleiss, soprano
Samuel Higgins, countertenor
Landry Allen, tenor
Patrick Wilhelm, baritone

The ��������Ƶ Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Jennifer L. R. Greene, presents an mix of works that highlight a diverse repertoire for collegiate wind band.

Join us for our fall opera, The Child and the Enchanments (L'enfent et les sortilèges), by Maurice Ravel.

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Join us for our fall opera, The Child and the Enchanments (L'enfent et les sortilèges), by Maurice Ravel.

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Free Admission

Free Admission