SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music Welcomes Audiences for Upcoming Concerts & Recitals
The Crane Symphony Orchestra rehearses during the Fall 2024 semester.
SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music will feature its talented students and world-renowned faculty artists in a series of upcoming live performances to kick off the Spring 2025 semester.
Dr. Anna Hendrickson (oboe) will present a faculty recital along colleagues Jill Rubio (flute) and Doug Rubio (guitar), on Monday, Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m., in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater. The performance will include works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Fauré and Robert Lowry, as well as the world premiere of “Passages,” a new work by Gregory Mertl.
The Crane Wind Ensemble will present its first concert of the semester, titled “Masquerade,” on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m., in the Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall. The performance will feature Crane Concerto Competition Winner Nathaniel Cobb ’25 of Bakersfield, Vt., performing in the “Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Band, Op. 26,” by Paul Creston. Additional works include Francis Poulenc’s “Suite Française d’Aprés Claude Gervaise,” Erica Muhl’s “Smoke and Mirrors” and Gala Flagello’s “Love and Nature.” The concert will close with the “Masquerade for Band, Op. 192” by Vincent Persichetti.
The Crane Symphony Orchestra will take the Hosmer Hall stage on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m., conducted by Michael Colburn (Hon. ’12). The orchestra will present “Callirhoë, Suite d’Orchestre, Op. 37” by Cécile Chaminade and “Symphony No. 9, Op. 79” by Dmitri Shostakovich. Featuring 85 premier student performers, the Crane Symphony Orchestra is the second oldest college orchestra in the United States.
The Student Composers Forum will feature an evening of works composed by current Crane School of Music students, on Monday, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., in Snell Theater. In all, 11 up-and-coming composers will have their newest works performed, including pieces for a variety of small ensembles and fixed media.
The Crane Symphonic Band and Crane Concert Band will take the stage for a joint performance on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Hosmer Hall. The performance will include works by Pierre Leemans, Grace Baugher Dunlap, John O’Reilly, Arthur Frackenpohl, Francis McBeth, William Grant Still, Julie Giroux, Dwayne S. Milburn, Katherine Likhuta, Shuying Li, Kelijah Dunton and Stephen Danyew. The concert will highlight trumpet soloist Christopher Keach ’20, an alumnus and visiting assistant professor of trumpet at Crane. Conducted by Dr. Brian K. Doyle, the Crane Symphonic Band is SUNY Potsdam’s oldest wind band. The Crane Concert Band is conducted by Jill Nelson Roberts, and dates back to the earliest days of the Potsdam Normal School’s Special Music Department.
Directed by Dr. Michael Dudley, the Crane Jazz Ensemble will present a spring concert on Friday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Snell Theater.
The events are a community benefit of being home to one of the premier schools of music in the nation—and thanks to livestreaming, anyone anywhere can watch and enjoy. For program details and more information on these and other upcoming performances, please visit www.potsdam.edu/cranelive.
About The Crane School of Music:
Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York’s only All-Steinway institution and was one of the first Yamaha Institutions of Excellence. For more information, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.
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