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Hope College Music Department
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Welcome
The Hope College Music Department provides intensive training for students who have chosen music as their vocation. Because music enriches all of life, the department also seeks to provide for the student whose major field of study is one other than music an elective musical background, which will enhance the student's knowledge and understanding of music.
There are five programs of study leading to the Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Arts degree: a Bachelor of Arts with a major in music; and a Bachelor of Music program in vocal music education, instrumental music education, performance, or jazz studies.
Each year a number of awards are made to entering first-year students in the applied music fields of piano, voice, string and wind instruments, organ, and jazz.
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The department has a full-time faculty of 13, plus 29 part-time instructors. Performing groups for vocalists include the Chapel Choir, Collegium Musicum, Women’s Chamber Choir and College Chorus. Instrumentalists participate in Orchestra, Symphonette, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Arts Collective, and various chamber ensembles.
Robert Hodson, Department Chair
(616) 395-7647, hodson@hope.edu
Kathy Waterstone, Department Assistant
(616) 395-7650, waterstone@hope.edu |
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Upcoming Concerts & Events
Sundays at 2 | Great Performance Series | Hope College Arts | Jazz Series
Young Artists Piano Competition | Chapel Choir Tour
Friday, January 13 at 7:30 pm
Knickerbocker Theatre | tickets |
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet |
Saturday, January 14 at 2:00 pm
Dimnent Chapel |
Senior Recital
Robin Pulsifer, organ |
Sunday, January 15 at 2:00 pm
Wichers Auditorium |
"Sundays at 2" Recital Series
Gabe Southard, flute
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Saturday, January 28, 1:30-5:30 pm
Dimnent Chapel |
Hope College Young Artists Piano Competition |
Monday, January 30 at 7:30 pm
Dimnent Chapel
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Hope College Wind Ensemble Concert
Gabe Southard, Director |
Friday, February 3 at 7:30 pm
Dimnent Chapel |
Concerto/Aria Competition Winners
with the Hope College Orchestra |
Monday, February 6 at 3:00 pm
Wichers Auditorium |
Piano Masterclass
with Guest Artist, Dorian Leljak
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Monday, February 6 at 7:30 pm
Dimnent Chapel |
Guest Artist Recital
Dorian Leljak, piano |
Thursday, February 9 at 7:30 pm
Dimnent Chapel |
Jazz Arts Collective & Jazz Combos Concert
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Thursday, February 16 at 11:00 am
Wichers Auditorium |
Music Department Student Recital |
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Music Department News
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Prof Honored as Outstanding Jazz Musician
Music professor Edye Evans Hyde has been named the 2011 Musician of the Year by the West Michigan Jazz Society. The recognition celebrates her as "leading lady of theatre and song." Professor Evans Hyde has been teaching and performing jazz, blues and pop music for more 30 years in West Michigan, Los Angeles and Asia. | continue |
Bravo for Hope Alumna
A New York Times review of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Opera presentation of Vivaldi’s “Griselda" includes positive comments of the performance of alumna Meredith Arwady. read the review |
NPR Program to Feature Performance
by Hope Organist Huw Lewis
A performance by organist Dr. Huw Lewis will be featured beginning the week of Monday, Aug. 22, on “Pipedreams,” American Public Radio’s syndicated weekly program of organ music. The broadcast will be of Lewis’s premiere performance of “Invocation and Dance,” a composition for organ and orchestra by Hope alumnus Alfred V. Fedak. The concert, which took place at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Albany, N.Y., featured Lewis and the Franciscan Chamber Orchestra. continue / Pipedreams website |
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Concert to Feature Premiere of New Work Written at Hope
The last concert of the 2010-2011 school year at Hope College will offer a variety of firsts, including the world premiere of a work composed by two members of the faculty.
The concert, which will be held on Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, will feature the premiere of "Babel," co-written by faculty members Dr. Brian Coyle and Dr. Brad Richmond. Coyle is director of jazz studies and Richmond is director of choral activities at the college, and the event will also feature the first pairing of the college's Jazz Arts Collective with Hope's choirs. read more |
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Senior Sarah Ashcroft Wins Opera Grand Rapids Competition
Grand Rapids Press Coverage plus video
Senior Sarah Ashcroft has won the 2011 Opera Grand Rapids Collegiate Competition, held on Sunday at the Betty Van Andel Opera Center in Grand Rapids. Ashcroft was one of seven finalists - three of whom were from Hope - from Grand Rapids-area colleges and universities competing in the event after having been chosen from
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Music and Theatre Collaborate to Stage the Full Opera, "Street Scene" by Kurt Weill
Every year, the Hope College Music Department offers an Opera Workshop class that concludes
with a concert of selected opera scenes featuring the very best singers of the music program. Hope College Theatre has also presented many types of productions through the decades - Classical plays,
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Shakespearean comedies and tragedies, intimate contemporary character studies, an elaborately staged retelling of the holiday favorite "The Nutcracker," the Kennedy Festival-honored "Rose and the Rime," musicals, the list goes on.
This year, for the first time, the two programs have joined forces to stage a full opera, run of Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a 1947 play that is being presented as a major collaboration of the departments of theatre and music, and with support through a grant from the Kurt Weill Foundation. read more | view photos |
Dimnent's Skinner Organ Recognized for Historical Merit
See Photos/Articles of Organ Restoration
Listen to Skinner Organ (scroll down)
The Skinner Organ in Dimnent Memorial Chapel has been recognized "as an instrument of exceptional historic merit, worthy of preservation" by the Organ Historical Society. Since establishing the Historic Organ Citation program in 1975, the society has honored only 398 pipe organs across the United and in Canada. continue |
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Students Win Honors in State Singing Auditions
Four Hope students earned honors in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Michigan State Chapter Auditions, held at Grand Valley State University on Saturday, Nov. 6. continue |
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Hope Jazz Ensembles Release Compact Disc
The jazz program at Hope College has released a compact disc featuring performances by two of the college's ensembles. "Suspending Judgement" includes a total of nine tracks recorded by the Jazz Arts Collective and the Jazz Chamber Ensemble I during 2008 and 2009. Several of the pieces were written by members of the Hope community, including faculty members Dr. Brian Coyle, Dr. Robert Hodson and Steve Talaga, and 2009 graduate Michael Hobson. Find Out More | Listen |
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