COMING EVENTS
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Guest Artist
Composers' Guild Presents: Snapshots
Argus String Quartet
Wednesday, February 13 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: Free
The award-winning Argus String Quartet, previously in residence at Yale University and currently serving as Graduate Quartet in Residence at the Juilliard School, visits CSULB to premiere miniatures by seven CSULB student composers.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Recital
Musical Masterpieces of the Baroque Era
Friday, February 15 at 8pm
Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Experience this rare opportunity to hear our acclaimed faculty artists play musical masterpieces from the Baroque era on period instruments. John Barcellona – flute, Mark Uranker – harpsichord, David Garrett – viola da gamba.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Bob Cole Chamber Choir: Rivers of Light
Sunday, February 17 at 4pm
Daniel Recital Hall
Free Admission
Rivers of Light explores music of life, loss, and light, featuring Matthew Lyon Hazzard as guest conductor.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
New Music Ensemble
Tuesday, February 19 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
$10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Guest Artist Recital
Jeongwon Ham, Piano
Thursday, February 21 at 8pm
Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Pianist Jeongwon Ham presents a program a solo recital program featuring Beethoven's Eroica-Variations and the four Chopin Ballades. Dr. Ham has won numerous piano competitions, including the Bartók/Kabalevsky International Piano Competition, Epinal International Piano Competition, Paul Hindemith Piano Competition, Artur Schnabel Piano Competition, and the Simone Belsky Piano Competition.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Guest Artist Recital
Ken Aiso, Violin
Friday, February 22 at 8pm
Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/Free
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music and Carpenter Center Arts For Life Series
Bob Cole Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, February 27 at 8pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Free Admission (Reservations Required)
The Bob Cole Conservatory welcomes acclaimed conductor Neil Varon to lead this concert, featuring Mozart’s Overture from Abduction from the Seraglio, Sheridan Seyfried’s Double Concerto for Two Violins performed by Moni Simeonov and Igor Veligans, and Brams’ Symphony No. 4.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Concert Jazz Orchestra/Studio Jazz Band
Sunday, March 3 at 4pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
"Jazz at the Beach" presents the award-winning Concert Jazz Band and Studio Jazz Band.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music and Carpenter Center Arts For Life Series
Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band
Friday, March 8 at 8pm
Carpenter Center
Tickets: $10/$7
The Wind Symphony, under the direction of John Carnahan, and the Symphonic Band, under the direction of Jermie Arnold, perform new and traditional works for wind ensembles, including Early Light, by the late Dr. Carolyn Bremer.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Chamber and University Choirs
Friday, March 8 at 8pm
Los Altos United Methodist Church
Tickets: $10/$7
In this Double Bill Concert, the University Choir will present Nevertheless, She Persisted—selections they will perform as a featured ensemble at the California Choral Directors Association State Conference in San José. This set features music of women composers and arrangers including Felicia Sandler, Shireen Abu-Khader, Andrea Clearfield, and Andrea Ramsey. Chamber Choir will present Of Love and Protest—a set of pieces celebrating love and protest featuring the new composition This is How You Love by married couple composing duo Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Recital
Orpheus Duo – Piano
Sunday, March 10 at 4pm
Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Bel Canto and 49er Chorus
Monday, March 11 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Faculty Composers Concert
Tuesday, March 12 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Recent works from CSULB faculty composers. Program features new works by Rychard Cooper, Adriana Verdié, Alexander Elliott Miller, and Alan Shockley.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Concert Band
Thursday, March 14 at 7pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Carpenter Center
BiRDMANFiLM + LiVE DRUM SCORE
Friday, March 15 at 8pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Ticket Prices Vary
Experience the visually stunning 2015 Oscar winner for Best Picture by maverick director Alejandro Iñárritu accompanied live by renowned jazz drummer Antonio Sánchez, recreating his explosive, Grammy Award winning score that provides the heartbeat of the film. Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a kinetic film experience that plays like a single, continuous sequence of events, with Sánchez’s drums supplying the energy and drive that underlines the emotional weight of the story and perfectly expresses the restless intensity of the characters. Antonio Sánchez is “one of the most accomplished and in-demand drummers in jazz.” (NPR)
Sunday Afternoon Concert Series
Piaf! The Show
Sunday, March 17 at 2pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Ticket Prices Vary
Piaf! The Show is a musical fête to the legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf. This acclaimed French production stars Anne Carrere a “legitimate musical heiress” to Piaf with a “soaring voice” (The Guardian). The show narrates the rags-to-riches story of the Parisian singer’s career through her unforgettable songs, complemented by a visual tapestry of previously unreleased photographs and images of Edith Piaf’s Paris.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Woodwind Chamber Music
Tuesday, March 19 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music and Carpenter Center Arts For Life
Bob Cole Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, March 20 at 8pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Free Admission
The concert opens with Von Suppe’s Poet and Peasant Overture, after which the Concerto Competition winners from 2018 will be featured – Mezzo-Soprano Courtney Marsh-Ankerfelt performs Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Clarinetist Ryan Cortes offers Copland’s Clarinet Concerto. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 concludes the evening.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Percussion Ensemble
Thursday, March 21 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/Free
Carpenter Center
Pink Floyd LaserSpectacular
Friday, March 22 at 8pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Ticket Prices Vary
The cult favorite returns by demand after five sold out appearances! Experience two hours of legendary music of Pink Floyd, from Dark side of the Moon to The Wall, with mind-melding visuals in a breathtaking laser lightshow. Computer-choreography flashes vivid projections and cutting-edge laser technology with the Pink Floyd songbook pumping through the Carpenter Center’s state of the art sound system!
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Pacific Standard Time – Folsom Jazz Festival Farewell Concert
Wednesday, April 3 at 7pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Saxophone Ensemble
Wednesday, April 10 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Jazz Combo Night #1
Thursday, April 11 at 7pm
CSULB Nugget Grill & Pub
Free Admission
Every semester we host two combo nights at the Nugget Grill & Pub on the upper campus. Three combos are featured at each combo night and the event is always very popular. The smaller jazz groups allow improvisers to stretch out more than in big band settings. Typically the programs feature student arrangements and compositions, as well as their unique renditions of historically relevant small group material.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
String Chamber Music
Thursday, April 11 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/Free
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
New Music Ensemble
Friday, April 12 at 6pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
The program includes two world premieres of works commissioned by the NME: Robin Cox’s Defiance and an as-yet-untitled work by CSULB alumnus composer George Wheeler.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc
Friday, April 12-Sunday, April 14
University Theatre
Tickets: $25/$15
Sung in French with English subtitles.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Multi-Piano Extravaganza
Saturday, April 13 at 4pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $15/$10
An afternoon of musical celebration featuring the entire Bob Cole Conservatory piano faculty, award-winning alumni, and exceptional students performing memorable classics to benefit the Keyboard Studies program. Original works and arrangements for one to five pianos (100 fingers!). Reception to follow.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Brass Ensemble and Chamber Music
Sunday, April 14 at 4pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/Free
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Percussion Chamber Recital featuring University Percussion Group
Monday, April 15 at 8pm
Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/Free
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Conservatory Brass Quintet
Thursday, April 18 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/Free
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
University String Quintet
Friday, April 19 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/Free
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Piano Showcase
Saturday, April 20 at 4pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Composer's Guild
Monday, April 22 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Collegium Musicum
Tuesday, April 23 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
The Collegium Musicum explores instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century and, as a chamber orchestra, focuses on appropriate performance styles for older music in the twenty-first century.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Guest Artist Recital
Aperture Duo – Violin and Viola
Wednesday, April 24 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Carpenter Center Cabaret Series
Storm Large with Le Bonheur
Wednesday-Thursday, April 24 & 25
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Performance begins at 7pm/Dinner served at 6pm
Storm Large made a name for herself as a singer with Pink Martini and performing at Carnegie Hall. Large dazzles with her renditions from the American Songbook, Broadway showstoppers, and classic anthems along with her own gorgeous originals, performing live with her band Le Bonheur!
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Jazz Combo Night #2
Thursday, April 25 at 7pm
CSULB Nugget Grill & Pub
Free Admission
Every semester we host two combo nights at the Nugget Grill & Pub on the upper campus. Three combos are featured at each combo night and the event is always very popular. The smaller jazz groups allow improvisers to stretch out more than in big band settings. Typically the programs feature student arrangements and compositions, as well as their unique renditions of historically relevant small group material.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
University Wind Quintet
Thursday, April 25 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Bob Cole Chamber Choir with John Alexander
Friday, April 26 at 8pm
Los Altos United Methodist Church
Tickets: $10/$7
The award-winning Bob Cole Chamber Choir is excited to collaborate with renowned conductor John Alexander. Alexander is the Artistic Director Emeritus of Pacific Chorale, having served as Artistic Director and Conductor from 1972 to 2017.
Carpenter Center WOW! Series
Che Malambo
Saturday, April 27 at 8pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Ticket Prices Vary
The powerhouse Argentinian ensemble, Che Malambo, celebrates the South American cowboy tradition of the gaucho with their percussive dance and music spectacles. Malambo originated in the 17th century as a competitive duel testing strength, agility, and dexterity among the gaucho. Evolving to include zapateo, the fast-paced footwork inspired by galloping horses, malambo incorporates the drumming of traditional Argentine bombos and whirling boleadoras, a throwing weapon made up of intertwined cords and weighted with stones.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Piano con Brio!
Saturday, April 27 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
A collaborative concert presented by select students from the Piano Accompanying, Piano Ensemble, and the Piano Chamber Music classes. This varied concert features repertoire from the classical to modern eras.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
University Choir, Bell Canto, and Forty-Niner Chorus
Saturday, April 27 at 8pm
Los Altos United Methodist Church
Tickets: $10/$7
University Choir is a select ensemble of 50-75 voices. The University Choir has appeared before regional and national conventions of the ACDA and MENC, demonstrating its versatility in presenting works from the Renaissance through the 20th century. Bel Canto presents a variety of rich repertoire of music composed especially for treble voices, from the Middle Ages to the present.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Concert Jazz Orchestra/Studio Jazz Band
Sunday, April 28 at 4pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music Faculty Artist Recital
David Garrett and Friends
Sunday, April 28 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Concert Band
Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Laptop Ensemble
Wednesday, May 1 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band
Thursday, May 2 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Piano Plus!
Friday, May 3 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Celebrating Music 2019: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
Saturday, May 4 at 8pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $15/$10
Join our combined Bob Cole Conservatory of Music choirs, soloist and orchestra for Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.”
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Jazz Lab Band & Corner Pocket
Sunday, May 5 at 4pm
Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Orchestra at the Beach
Tuesday, May 7 at 8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music
Vocal Jazz with Pacific Standard Time, Jazz and Tonic
Saturday, May 11 at 4&8pm
Gerald Daniel Recital Hall
Tickets: $10/$7
The award-winning Pacific Standard Time is one of the most renowned vocal jazz ensembles in the United States. This show – featuring Pacific Standard Time along with Jazz and Tonic – typically sells out, so you are encouraged to buy tickets in advance.