Upcoming Concerts & Events

Makenzie Melemed, piano, presents Keys Across America, a recital celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the United States through American Piano Music. The program highlights works by composers such as Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell and Arthur Foote, alongside pieces by Florence Price, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and others.





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Artist Biography

Recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant, American pianist Mackenzie Melemed is known for performances that combine refined pianism, thoughtful curation, and a natural gift for bringing audiences closer to the music. Equally at home in standard repertoire, lesser-known works, and new music, he has built a distinctive artistic profile around programs that balance beloved masterworks with unexpected discoveries, often framed by spoken introductions that invite deeper listening.

Praised for playing of “color, intention, and expressive power,” Melemed has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, Polish Radio Orchestra, and KBS Symphony, and has performed at major venues and festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia. A laureate of the American Pianists Awards and the China International Music Competition, he was the only pianist to receive a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Melemed’s artist-led projects reflect his interest in repertoire that connects past and present. Keys Across America, his large-scale all-American recital project celebrating the United States’ 250th anniversary, explores nearly two centuries of American piano music across more than 50 cities and includes new works written for him by Laura Kaminsky and Avner Dorman. His debut album, Tulevaisuus — Finnish for “future” — pairs Bach, Brahms, and Liszt with new works by Sir Stephen Hough, Kaminsky, and Dorman, each inspired by those earlier composers.

Since 2020, Melemed has been based in Finland, where he has developed a significant performance career following his success at the 2017 Maj Lind International Piano Competition. His fluency in Finnish, begun through language study at Columbia University, has helped shape a close relationship with the country’s musical life, leading to invitations from nearly all of Finland’s orchestras and many of its leading festivals.

A Steinway Artist, Melemed earned his BM, MM, and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert McDonald and Emanuel Ax. Born in Massachusetts, he began piano studies at age four and gained unusually extensive stage experience early in life, giving more than 500 performances by age 13 and appearing at The White House Holiday Open House celebrations from 2004 to 2008.


For more information about Mackenzie Melemed, you can visit his website

Join us as two of the Music Department's largest ensembles - Symphony Orchestra and Wind Symphony - present a delightful sampler of performances of selected favorites! This performance is sponsored by David and Victoria Levene.

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Binghamton University Choirs invites area high school students for a one-day workshop and energetic performance.

The Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra along with the University Wind Symphony perform a collection of works celebrating the University's 80th Anniversary. This concert highlights the talent and dedication of our student musicians from across the university. All are welcome to attend! This performance is free and open to the public.

Join us as our new and returning voice area graduate students perform Art Songs and opera arias. Including works by some of our favorite composers.

Faculty artists Hippocrates Cheng and James Budinich present a new collaboration, combining an acoustic multi-instrumental performance with live electronic processing. Cheng’s live performance will be looped, chopped, and transformed through a new software environment created by Budinich, as they together forge a new acoustic-digital dialogue. Free Admission

The Anderson Center for the Performing Arts brings in Cirque Kalabanté, performing with the Nukporfe African Drumming and Dance Ensemble.

For More information visit the Anderson Center website.

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Love, Loss, and Prayer: A Woman’s Life in Song centers on "Frauenliebe und Leben" by Robert Schumann, the beloved cycle tracing a woman’s journey through love, marriage, motherhood, and loss.
The program also celebrates the 150th anniversary of Manuel de Falla with songs reflecting memory, grief, and a mother’s prayer for children spared from war. Completing the recital is a revival of rarely heard songs in French by Mexican composer Gustavo Campa, newly edited and presented as a U.S. premiere, all brought to life by Binghamton faculty artists Brenda Iglesias, contralto, and Curt Pajer, piano.

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Our students perform excerpts of works in a competition to be able to perform with our symphony Orchestra in March. Free Admission.

John Dowland (1563-1626), one of the greatest English composers of the late Renaissance, was a master of the lute and a composer of excellent songs with lute accompaniment. This program will feature a variety of both genres, illustrating his phenomenal skill and stylistic range. Free Admission.

A performance celebrating the flute at Binghamton! Enjoy the accomplishments of the campus flute community, from our most experienced to our newest flutists. Free Admission

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.

Students from the studio of Yaël Weiss, perform pieces they have been preparing in their lessons.

Binghamton University Chamber Singers joins the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra with the Southern Tier Singers' Collective. The concert, Simple Gifts, Sacred Praise, features Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copland and Ludwig van Beethoven's, Mass in C.


Soloists for Beethoven
Sarah Fleiss, soprano
Samuel Higgins, countertenor
Landry Allen, tenor
Patrick Wilhelm, baritone

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The Binghamton University Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Jennifer L. R. Greene, presents an mix of works that highlight a diverse repertoire for collegiate wind band.

Join us for our fall opera, The Child and the Enchanments (L'enfent et les sortilèges), by Maurice Ravel.

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Join us for our fall opera, The Child and the Enchanments (L'enfent et les sortilèges), by Maurice Ravel.

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Our early music ensemble presents varied works from the 17th and 18th centuries.  Free Admission

bingLO, the Binghamton Laptop Orchestra, presents their Fall concert of new collaboratively crafted compositions. Focusing on live electronic performance, the group brings together notated composition, improvisation, and sound art.

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Binghamton University Choirs - Chamber Singers, Treble Chorus, and Harpur Chorale - present a wide variety of pieces from multiple genres, styles, time periods and languages.

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Join us and enjoy an evening of Music for guitar trio and quartet as well as folk song and dance arrangements,  with music by living composers. Free Admission.

Yarn/Wire is a new music quartet dedicated to the promotion of creative, meaningful live musical experiences in the US and abroad. Yarn/Wire achieves this by supporting composers and audiences through live performances, educational activities, and large-scale collaborative projects. Our artistic programming is driven by the desire to present music that reflects the full spectrum of our community at the highest level.

Artists:
Laura Barger, piano
Julia Den Boer, piano
Russell Greenberg, percussion
Dustin Donahue, percussion

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Join us as our voice area students perform selections of your favorite arias and art songs.

The Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra presents an exciting concert of new and classic works by some of your favorite composers.

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Immerse yourself in heartwarming music as pianists engage in a delightful performance of piano four hands and six hands!  Free Admission.

The program features a dynamic blend of contemporary percussion works alongside classical music reimagined for percussion ensembles. It showcases a diverse sound palette, incorporating a wide array of instruments such as metals, membranes, wood, and shakers. The performance also highlights the vibrant rhythms and unique textures of Caribbean music, with the Binghamton University Steel Drum Band, bringing the lively and melodic sounds of steel drums to the forefront. This mix of traditional and modern percussion elements blends classical arrangements with the infectious energy of Caribbean Steel Pan.

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Students in our Introduction to Composition class present new works in collaboration with the Bitter/Sweet/ exhibition in the Binghamton University Art Museum.

Momenta Quartet visits Binghamton University Music Department as Artists-in-Residence for a performance featuring guest composer Martin Suckling from University of York, United Kingdom.

Free Admission.

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Our newest faculty member, Yaël Weiss, Assistant Professor of Piano and Chamber Music, puts on a performance of some of her favorite and most dynamic works.

HYPERCUBE has built a reputation on high-energy performances with impressive execution. The NYC-based quartet embraces the boundaries of chamber music, featuring cutting-edge works for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion, while spanning electric and acoustic worlds.

HYPERCUBE has appeared as guest artist at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, the Music on the Edge (Pittsburgh), The Garrick Theatre (Newfoundland), Roulette Intermedium, the Nief-Norf Summer Festival (Knoxville), LPR presents (NYC), Le Vivier (Montréal) and the 40th International Festival of New Music “Manuel Enríquez” (Mexico City).

From championing original works such as Louis Andriessen’s Hout, and Philippe Hurel’s Localized Corrosion, to commissioning new works by composers Nicholas Deyoe, Farzia Fallah, Eric Wubbels, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Rick Burkhardt, Erin Rogers, Ashkan Behzadi, Nomi Epstein, and Juan Trigos.

HYPERCUBE has collaborated with partner organizations such as Experiments in Opera, Luna Lab, Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA), to bring new music to new audiences and participates in educational residencies such as Berklee Conservatory, Columbia, University of Virginia, Eastman School of Music, NYU, Brandeis, Cincinnati Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, Duke University, Oberlin Conservatory, Acadia (Nova Scotia), Wesleyan, and CalArts.

Since 2020, HYPERCUBE has hosted an annual composition lab. Cubelab workshops engage dozens of emerging composers in the creation of adventurous new works for mixed quartet alongside educational and professional development sessions.


Artists
Erin Rogers, saxophones
Jay Sorce, classical & electric guitar
Andrea Lodge, piano & accordion
Chris Graham percussion

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Retired faculty, Michael Salmirs gives a performance of familiar piano favorites.

Join us as we celebrate the talented winners of the Concerto & Aria Competition! Experience a wonderful Sunday evening of exciting music making, featuring repertoire spanning the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th-Century eras. Don’t miss this collaboration of musical artistry!

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Yaël Weiss, assistant professor of piano and chamber music, hosts performances celebrating the 200th anniversary of the death of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Free Admission.

Join the Binghamton University Opera Workshop as they put on an afternoon of opera scenes. Come and hear arias and art songs from some of your favorite operas and composers. 

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Momenta Quartet comes to Binghamton as we prepare our students to perform at Carnegie Hall.

Students, faculty, and alumni gather together to put on a performance at Weill Recital Hall in New York City. This concert will feature, new works and collaborations, as well as performances by noted department alumni. Ticket information coming soon

The Binghamton University Wind Symphony, directed by Dr. Jennifer L. R. Greene, presents an mix of works that highlight a diverse repertoire for collegiate wind band.

Binghamton University Choirs - Chamber Singers, Treble Chorus, and Harpur Chorale - present a wide variety of pieces from multiple genres, styles, time periods and languages.

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Live Stream

Free Admission

Free Admission

bingLO, the Binghamton Laptop Orchestra, presents their Fall concert of new collaboratively crafted compositions. Focusing on live electronic performance, the group brings together notated composition, improvisation, and sound art.

The Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra presents an exciting concert of new and classic works by some of your favorite composers.

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Live Stream

Immerse yourself in heartwarming music as pianists engage in a delightful performance of piano four hands and six hands!  Free Admission.

The program features a dynamic blend of contemporary percussion works alongside classical music reimagined for percussion ensembles. It showcases a diverse sound palette, incorporating a wide array of instruments such as metals, membranes, wood, and shakers. The performance also highlights the vibrant rhythms and unique textures of Caribbean music, with the Binghamton University Steel Drum Band, bringing the lively and melodic sounds of steel drums to the forefront. This mix of traditional and modern percussion elements blends classical arrangements with the infectious energy of Caribbean Steel Pan.

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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.

Transforming student stories into masterful mini-operas!

The Pocket Opera Project is telling stories with a distinct new voice! Local elementary and middle school students have been selected to have their story submissions transformed into mini-operas — in collaboration with Binghamton University composers.

These incredible “pocket operas” come with big theatrical moments and tell deeply human stories filled with adventure, tragedy, and magic!

K-12 students who would like a chance to see their story transformed into a “pocket opera” in 2027 are encouraged to enter the WSKG Student Writing Competition by May 1, 2026.

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