Upcoming Concerts & Events

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Event Calendar

Apr
9
Thu
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, Fine Arts, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

The Harpur Jazz Ensemble and the Harpur Studio Jazz Band are thrilled to announce a spectacular evening of music featuring acclaimed pianist, Nick Weiser!

Join us in the Chamber Hall of the Anderson Center at 7:30 pm for what promises to be an unforgettable joint concert. The program is stacked with high-energy original big band compositions and thrilling, new takes on classic repertoire.

Be sure to catch the afternoon concert featuring the Harpur Jazz Quartet and Nick Weiser at 1:30 pm in the Casadesus Recital Hall. It's the perfect warm-up for a full day of world-class music!


These events are proudly made possible by the Karen and Robert Pompi Jazz Artist Series Endowment.


Free Admission.


ARTIST BIO

Dr. Nick Weiser is a rare kind of musician—equally at home as a classically trained pianist, creative improviser, and master jazz practitioner, unified by a commitment to using music as a bridge between people and communities. A pianist, conductor, bandleader, composer, arranger, educator, and scholar, Weiser has built a career defined by artistic versatility and genuine connection. Raised in the small town of Dighton, Kansas, he followed his passion for music to the University of Kansas and later to the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his M.M. and D.M.A. in Jazz Studies under the mentorship of Harold Danko, Bill Dobbins, and other influential teachers. 


Weiser has appeared throughout the United States and abroad, performing at the Santiago de Cuba International Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Festival, the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, New York City’s “Prez Fest,” and Carnegie Hall. His collaborative and sideman work continues to grow, with recent and regular performances alongside ensembles such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and the New York Voices. He has shared the stage with artists including Dick Oatts, Byron Stripling, Bob Brookmeyer, Christian McBride, and Peter Erskine, and recently premiered Dana Wilson’s Concerto for Jazz Piano and Wind Ensemble. As a recording artist, Weiser appears on albums by tubist Justin Benavidez, trumpeter Frank Gabriel Campos, and his own trio, i3o. His forthcoming 2026 solo piano release will reflect insights gathered during a full-year sabbatical supported by the 2024 John Stites Jazz Award, during which he studied with more than twenty-five of the living legends of jazz piano across the country. 


A devoted educator, Weiser is the architect and director of the Jazz Studies program at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where he has served since the program’s founding in 2017. Under his leadership, Fredonia’s ensembles and students have earned six DownBeat Student Music Awards in the past seven years. He conducts the Fredonia Jazz Orchestra as well as the DownBeat award-winning Fredonia New Jazz Ensemble and Fredonia Jazz Flextet. His scholarship and creative activity were recognized in 2021 with SUNY Fredonia’s Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award. 


In the broader community, Weiser serves as President of the Fredonia Jazz Society, a nonprofit organization he helped establish to bring world-class jazz performances and educational opportunities to Western New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Fredonia, he taught at Ithaca College and Cornell University and has maintained an active private studio for many years. 


Throughout all facets of his work—as performer, collaborator, educator, and organizer— Weiser remains guided by a belief in music’s power to elevate, inspire, and serve the communities that nurture it. 

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Chamber Hall, Anderson Center, Parkway E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

The Harpur Jazz Ensemble and the Harpur Studio Jazz Band are thrilled to announce a spectacular evening of music featuring acclaimed pianist, Nick Weiser!

Join us in the Chamber Hall of the Anderson Center at 7:30 pm for what promises to be an unforgettable joint concert. The program is stacked with high-energy original big band compositions and thrilling, new takes on classic repertoire.

Be sure to catch the afternoon concert featuring the Harpur Jazz Quartet and Nick Weiser at 1:30 pm in the Casadesus Recital Hall. It's the perfect warm-up for a full day of world-class music!


These events are proudly made possible by the Karen and Robert Pompi Jazz Artist Series Endowment.


Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html

Apr
10
Fri
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Join violin student performers from the studio of Noemi Miloradovic as they put on this semester's studio recital. The performance will feature works by Bach, Bartok, Brahms, Beethoven, and more!  Free admission.
Apr
11
Sat
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Michael Breslin, tenor presents a junior recital in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music degree requirements.  Free admission.
Apr
12
Sun
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Colin McCann, violin, presents Dawn, a student non-degree recital. This performance explores a range of works for violin from the Baroque to the twentieth century, featuring music by Igor Stravinsky, Eugène Ysaÿe, Jean-Marie Leclair, Clara Schumann, Joseph Haydn, and JS Bach. Violinist Colin McCann is joined by Bill Lawson, piano, Salome Lomidze, violin, and Nathan Slisher, cello, in a program that includes both solo and chamber repertoire. Together, these works highlight the evolving role of the violin across different styles and periods.


Free admission.
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free Admission.
Apr
13
Mon
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Immerse yourself in heartwarming music as pianists engage in a delightful performance of piano four hands and six hands!  Come and hear the music of Debussy, Dvořák, Fauré, Rachmaninoff, and others renowned composers. Free Admission
Apr
14
Tue
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Hailed as “a prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” by The Washington Post, Hub New Music, one of the country's leading contemporary music ensembles. They return to Binghamton for two dynamic and unmissable performances that showcase the extraordinary range of new music created by Binghamton faculty and students, alongside new works from Grammy and Pulitzer winning composers the ensemble has commissioned. In addition to highlighting student work, ranging from EDM to lush romanticism to experimental instrument design, the performances will also include a world premiere by Hippocrates Cheng, Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition, and the “breathtaking” (I Care if You Listen) work What if We’re Beautiful by Daniel Thomas Davis, Professor of Composition, which has been frequently performed across the country and was recently featured on National Public Radio.


ARTIST BIO:
Founded in 2013, Hub New Music is one of today’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Hub has expanded the repertoire for its distinct combination of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello with over two dozen commissions by today’s most celebrated composers. In its thoughtfully curated programs, Hub New Music performs works exclusively written for the ensemble that strike notes of contemporary relevance.


Recent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by Tanglewood, Seattle Symphony, Morgan Library, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Williams Center for the Arts, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, King’s Place (London), Thailand International Composer’s Festival (Bangkok), Soka Performing Arts Center, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Bowdoin International Chamber Music Festival, and the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Current touring projects include Daniel Wohl’s UFO-inspired electroacoustic piece Mirage, and What If We’re Beautiful, a program exploring queerness, chosen family, and identity with music by Daniel Thomas Davis and choreography by Aaron Loux & Brian Lawson. In recent seasons, Hub has collaborated on commissions with Angélica Negrón, Nico Muhly, Tyshawn Sorey, Donnacha Dennehy, Christopher Cerrone, Carlos Simon, and Kati Agócs, among others. The group has also developed genre-defying collaborations with the Asia/America New Music Institute, Boston’s Urbanity Dance, Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), and trumpeter/spoken word artist MK Zulu.

Hub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. The group’s recent album with Kojiro Umezaki, a distance, intertwined, featured five works for Hub & shakuhachi which I Care if You Listen called “beautiful, haunting music that presents a clear and authentic dialog between varied cultural paradigms and traditions.” Hub’s debut album, Soul House, released on New Amsterdam Records, was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” (Boston Globe) and “intensely poignant.” (Textura) In 2022, Hub’s album with Carlos Simon, Requiem for the Enslaved, was nominated for a GRAMMY award for Best Classical Composition.

Hub is sought after for its multifaceted educational residency programs, having been recent guests at Princeton University, University of Michigan, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, among many others. In 2021, Hub was a resident ensemble for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program for high school aged composers. Also in 2021, Hub launched its flagship K-12 educational program, HubLab, that uses improvisation and storytelling to create original pieces with students of all musical levels.


Free Admission
Apr
16
Thu
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Hailed as “a prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” by The Washington Post, Hub New Music, one of the country's leading contemporary music ensembles. They return to Binghamton for two dynamic and unmissable performances that showcase the extraordinary range of new music created by Binghamton faculty and students, alongside new works from Grammy and Pulitzer winning composers the ensemble has commissioned. In addition to highlighting student work, ranging from EDM to lush romanticism to experimental instrument design, the performances will also include a world premiere by Hippocrates Cheng, Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition, and the “breathtaking” (I Care if You Listen) work What if We’re Beautiful by Daniel Thomas Davis, Professor of Composition, which has been frequently performed across the country and was recently featured on National Public Radio.


ARTIST BIO:
Founded in 2013, Hub New Music is one of today’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Hub has expanded the repertoire for its distinct combination of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello with over two dozen commissions by today’s most celebrated composers. In its thoughtfully curated programs, Hub New Music performs works exclusively written for the ensemble that strike notes of contemporary relevance.


Recent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by Tanglewood, Seattle Symphony, Morgan Library, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Williams Center for the Arts, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, King’s Place (London), Thailand International Composer’s Festival (Bangkok), Soka Performing Arts Center, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Bowdoin International Chamber Music Festival, and the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Current touring projects include Daniel Wohl’s UFO-inspired electroacoustic piece Mirage, and What If We’re Beautiful, a program exploring queerness, chosen family, and identity with music by Daniel Thomas Davis and choreography by Aaron Loux & Brian Lawson. In recent seasons, Hub has collaborated on commissions with Angélica Negrón, Nico Muhly, Tyshawn Sorey, Donnacha Dennehy, Christopher Cerrone, Carlos Simon, and Kati Agócs, among others. The group has also developed genre-defying collaborations with the Asia/America New Music Institute, Boston’s Urbanity Dance, Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi), and trumpeter/spoken word artist MK Zulu.

Hub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. The group’s recent album with Kojiro Umezaki, a distance, intertwined, featured five works for Hub & shakuhachi which I Care if You Listen called “beautiful, haunting music that presents a clear and authentic dialog between varied cultural paradigms and traditions.” Hub’s debut album, Soul House, released on New Amsterdam Records, was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” (Boston Globe) and “intensely poignant.” (Textura) In 2022, Hub’s album with Carlos Simon, Requiem for the Enslaved, was nominated for a GRAMMY award for Best Classical Composition.

Hub is sought after for its multifaceted educational residency programs, having been recent guests at Princeton University, University of Michigan, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, among many others. In 2021, Hub was a resident ensemble for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program for high school aged composers. Also in 2021, Hub launched its flagship K-12 educational program, HubLab, that uses improvisation and storytelling to create original pieces with students of all musical levels.


Free Admission

Free Admission
Apr
17
Fri
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free admission.
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free admission.
Apr
18
Sat
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

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


Free Admission.

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Osterhout Concert Theater, Anderson Center, Parkway E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
The Binghamton University Wind Symphony presents, Make New Friends but Keep the Old, One is SILVER and the other GOLD. Come enjoy some classic works along with brand new compositions, including three premiers! There will be a little something for everyone on this concert.

Featuring Dan Miller, alto saxophone, with works by Percy Grainger, Malcolm Arnold, Dmitri Shostokovich, Roshanne Etezady, with premiers of Giovanni Santos, Randall Standridge, and graduate student composer Nicky Kuláy.

Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
Apr
19
Sun
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Featuring composers ranging from J.S. Bach to Steven Sondheim, Liam Flatley, tenor, explores what it means to be steadfast in one’s sense of devotion. Whether expressed by exalting the power of God like in Bach’s Magnificat, or explored through the struggle to be vulnerable enough to love and be loved in Sondheim's Company, devotion manifests in our lives in many ways and asks us to consider what gives our lives meaning. Additional works will also be featured by George F. Handel, Robert Schumann, Francis Poulenc, Daniel Catán, and Benjamin Britten.     


Free Admission.

3:00pm - 5:00pm
Chamber Hall, Anderson Center, Parkway E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Hippocrates Cheng, assistant professor of music theory and composition prestent, Re/Sonic, a concert of new music for east Asian instruments. This performance features nine distinguished artists of East Asian instruments who will premiere new compositions composed by Dr. Cheng. The program includes trio music for Chinese instruments (Dizi, Erhu, Pipa); trio music for Japanese instruments (Ryūteki, Hichiriki, Shō); trio music for Korean instruments (Daegeum, Haegeum, Gayageum), and a large ensemble piece for all nine instruments.




This concert is sponsored in part by, Harpur college, School of the Arts, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas.




FACULTY BIO:

Hippocrates Cheng 鄭靖楠 is an assistant professor of music theory and composition in the Binghamton University Music Department. He is a composer, theorist, ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist from Hong Kong. In 2024, he completed his Doctor of Music Composition with a minor in ethnomusicology at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His composition teachers included professors Don Freund, Eugene O'Brien, David Dzubay and Aaron Travers.

As an award-winning composer, Cheng writes contemporary classical music, new music for Asian instruments, jazz and music for interdisciplinary productions. As a multi-instrumentalist, he performs overtone singing, piano and viola while also practicing qin, dan bau and phin pia.

He draws on music theory, composition, ethnomusicology and sound studies in his research of both traditional and contemporary East Asian music. This intersectional approach is exemplified by his research on the music of the Hong Kong composer Doming Lam, the player piano and piano rolls in early jazz history, and braille music notation. His papers were selected by conferences hosted by AMIS, IAML, ICTMD, ISJAC, APME, AMS, the CUNY Graduate Center, the University at Buffalo, the University of Southern California, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Humboldt University, University College Dublin, the University of Malaya and the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago.

Cheng began his musical journey by learning to play piano, violin and clarinet in choir and ensembles. He pursued his Bachelor of Music in composition at the Hong Kong Baptist University under the guidance of Christopher Coleman and Christopher Keyes. In 2018, with the support of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, he completed his master's degree in Music Composition at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) with distinction. His composition teachers included professors Clarence Mak and Florence Cheung.

Before joining Binghamton University, he taught as an associate instructor in music theory at IU and as adjunct faculty at IU Northwest. As a guest lecturer, he gave lectures, talks, masterclasses and workshops at Butler University (USA), Ball State University (USA), University of Indianapolis (USA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China), Peking University (China), Lingnan University (Hong Kong), Senzoku College of Music (Japan), Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts (Japan), Mahidol University (Thailand), Chiang Mai Rajabhat University (Thailand), Naresuan University (Thailand) and Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (Thailand).

In June 2024, his chamber opera on anti-Asian hate, All of US, was premiered as the winning work commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana. In the summer of 2024, he was selected for an exchange program funded by Indiana University (IU) and the Free University of Berlin (FUB). During his residency in Berlin, he conducted research and created new works.

He is currently working on a creative research project titled "East Asian Music in the Contemporary World."

Ticketing information: https://www.binghamton.edu/anderson-center/events-list.html
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

Apr
21
Tue
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

Apr
22
Wed
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Members of the Binghamton University Composition Studio present new compositions. Featuring graduate and undergraduate composers, Music Now!, showcases the cutting edge work created by the studio.

Free Admission.

Apr
24
Fri
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free admission.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Fine Arts Room 21, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

Apr
25
Sat
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Percussion students will present an eclectic array of repertoire as they bring more percussive sounds to Casadesus Recital Hall. Marimbas, Snare Drums, Steel Drums and more will reverberate throughout the afternoon. Free Admission.
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Apr
26
Sun
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Chamber Hall, Anderson Center, Parkway E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Students from the Music Department Chamber Music Program present, Spring Soundings, an eclectic and exciting mix of chamber works spanning four centuries.


Free Admission.
Apr
27
Mon
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Fine Arts Room 21, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free Admission
Apr
29
Wed
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Peace Quad, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

Apr
30
Thu
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

7:30pm - 9:00pm
4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free Admission
May
1
Fri
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free admission.
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Binghamton University Art Museum, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY 13901, USA

In celebration of the Drawing Connections: Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition, the Momenta Quartet presents a genre-defying program of works by Binghamton composers, which were developed in a semester-long collaboration with the quartet — moving from pencil sketches to fully rendered structures. 


Free Admission.

May
2
Sat
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

7:30pm - 9:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

May
3
Sun
1:00pm - 1:45pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free admission.
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Osterhout Concert Theater, Anderson Center, Parkway E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
May
4
Mon
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, Fine Arts, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
Free Admission
May
5
Tue
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Chamber Hall, Anderson Center, Parkway E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA
May
6
Wed
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Casadesus Recital Hall, 4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Vestal, NY 13850, USA

Free Admission.

May
9
Sat
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Tri Cities Opera, 315 Clinton St, Binghamton, NY 13905, USA
University Composers premiere pocket sized operas, transforming stories written by local students into new works for the stage, performed by Tri-Cities Opera's resident artists.


Ticketing:
https://www.tricitiesopera.com/pop/


For more information about music department events please contact musinfo@binghamton.edu.