Charles Yang and Peter Dugan

This classical-meets-rockstar duo violinist Charles Yang and pianist Peter Dugan will mix things up as they interact with MSU strings and piano students. Prizing versatility as the key to the future of classical music, the duo will conduct classes on improvising, functional theory, and a round table discussion on paving a career in today\u27s musical landscape.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-immersive-residency-2021-2022/1006/thumbnail.jp

Kaleidoscope Concert

A nonstop extravaganza celebrating the Cali School\u27s talented students and faculty, Kaleidoscope features the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Chorale, University Singers, Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, and auditioned chamber and solo artists.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-performances-2022-2023/1001/thumbnail.jp

University Wind Symphony (December 9, 2022)

The Wind Symphony presents the world premiere of In It Together by composer Armando Bayolo, featuring the ZZYZX Saxophone Quartet. The program will also feature the music of Nicole Piunno, Carolyn Bremer, and David Biedenbender.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-performances-2022-2023/1009/thumbnail.jp

Rhiannon Giddens

The acclaimed musician Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens co-founded the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, and she has been nominated for six additional Grammys for her work as a soloist and collaborator. Giddens’s lifelong mission is to lift up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Giddens is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, where she speaks about the African American origins of country music. She is also a member of the band Our Native Daughters with three other black female banjo players, and co-produced their debut album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival. Named Artistic Director of Silkroad in 2020, Giddens is developing a number of new programs for the organization, including one inspired by the history of the American transcontinental railroad and the cultures and music of its builders. She recently wrote the music for an original ballet, Lucy Negro Redux, for Nashville Ballet (premiered in 2019), and the libretto and music for an original opera, Omar, based on the autobiography of the enslaved man Omar Ibn Said for the Spoleto USA Festival (premieres in 2022). As an actor, Giddens had a featured role on the television series Nashville.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-immersive-residency-2022-2023/1001/thumbnail.jp

University Opera with University Symphony Orchestra - Gianni Schicchi and Buoso\u27s Ghost

Gianni Schicchi & Buoso\u27s Ghost Set in medieval Florence, the established Donati family are grieving around the deathbed of their patriarch, Buoso Donati. But when they find out he’s left their inheritance to the church - mourning turns to rage. They rope in a lower class fix-it guy, Gianni Schicchi, to change the will, in exchange for his daughter Lauretta marrying their young Rinuccio. Schicchi finds the perfect solution, executes the plan, and gets the Donati exactly what they deserve. In the sequel to Puccini’s masterpiece, Michael Ching’s Buoso’s Ghost, Schicchi discovers a dark Donati secret. When they come back to haunt him, Schicchi screams for mercy, until he conjures up a new plan, and summons the ghost of Buoso for a little help.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-performances-2022-2023/1013/thumbnail.jp

Choral Showcase #Inspired! University Singers and Guest High School Choirs

#Inspired! showcases the choral artistry of two guest HS choirs, the University Singers, and three combined choirs (SSAA, TTB, SATB) comprising HS and Collegiate singers, this concert celebrates the unique and powerful artistic community that is created through choral singinghttps://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-performances-2022-2023/1012/thumbnail.jp

University Symphony Orchestra

Join conductor Kyle Ritenauer and the Symphony Orchestra as they present works from classical and contemporary repertoire.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-performances-2022-2023/1003/thumbnail.jp

University Jazz Ensemble (March 19, 2023)

Join director Oscar Perez and the Jazz Ensemble as they present an exciting concert of classic and contemporary jazz.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-performances-2022-2023/1016/thumbnail.jp

2022-2023 Cali Immersive Residency Program

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University Jazz Ensemble (April 30, 2023)

Join director Oscar Perez and the Jazz Ensemble as they present an exciting concert of classic and contemporary jazz.https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cali-performances-2022-2023/1021/thumbnail.jp