Enjoy a memorable evening of scenes, arias and duets from your favorite operas! JMU Opera Theater students will perform songs from operas like Puccini’s La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Verdi’s Rigoletto and La Traviata, and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. More

Join Red Wing Roots Music Festival for a Winter concert featuring full performances by The Steel Wheels and Sierra Hull. More

Under the direction of Dr. Chuck Dotas, the JMU Jazz Ensemble was founded in 1971 and is the premier jazz group in the School of Music at JMU. The ensemble has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Terrace Theater, Montreux International Jazz and Blues Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival and VMEA annual convention. The JMU Jazz Band is under the direction of Greg Thomas.  More

Bassoonist Sue Barber performs regularly with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Opera on The James, and Opera Roanoke. She has presented master classes and recitals in Asia, Europe, and throughout the United States. Barber has also performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, National Flute Association Conferences, several International Double Reed Society Conventions, and the Virginia Music Educator’s Annual Conference. She currently serves as professor of bassoon at James Madison University. Pianist and JMU faculty member Lori Piitz enjoys an exciting musical life that includes such diverse opportunities as a solo recital at Steinway Hall in New York City, and a four-hand recital at the Kennedy Center.  

The JMU Percussion Ensemble, directed by Casey Cangelosi, consists of nearly 30 students and has performed throughout the East Coast, including concerts at the Virginia Music Educators Association Convention and Virginia Days of Percussion. More

Piano virtuoso and recording artist Awadagin Pratt has attracted audiences to classical music around the world in his 30-year career that includes three performances at The White House. Pratt will display his “enormous dynamic range… [encompassing] grave quiet to immense thunder” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer) in an exciting program featuring Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B Minor; Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in D Major, Op. 23, No. 4; Chopin’s Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1; and more! More

The JMU Brass Band is the university’s premier brass ensemble. Directed by professor of music Kevin Stees, it is one of only a few collegiate brass bands in the United States. More

The JMU Concert Band is the band program’s largest concert ensemble. With a performance schedule of one to two concerts per semester, the Concert Band performs a wide variety of wind band repertoire. More

This “wildly-entertaining” (New York Daily News) musical showstopper features sizzling songs, dazzling dance numbers and a tantalizing tabloid tale! With a sassy score and Fosse-inspired jazz dance style, Chicago won six Tonys, including Best Revival of a Musical. This razzle-dazzle smash hit features students in JMU’s School of Theatre and Dance and School of Music. Contains adult language and sexual content.  More

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Today’s hottest rising stars in jazz music perform Songs We Love, a journey through the first 50 years of jazz song under the musical direction of acclaimed trumpeter Riley Mulherkar. In this uplifting concert, vocal virtuosos Vuyo Sotashe, Brianna Thomas and Shenel Johns join an all-star band to sing their way through decades of music, from 1920 to the early 1960s—featuring songs made popular by Ma Railey, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and more! More

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Direct from Sydney Opera House, Meeting Mozart follows the journey of the mischievous musical wunderkind, his wife and muse Constanze, and a string quartet to discover some of his best-known and beloved music—from variations on “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to his large-scale orchestral pieces. CDP Theatre Producers is Australia’s largest producer of high-quality theatre for young audiences. More

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The JMU Symphonic Band is under the direction of Stephen P. Bolstad. More

JMU Faculty members violist Diane Phoenix-Neal and pianist Paulo Steinberg will perform a stunning program  featuring compositions by Johannes Brahms and American composers Kevin Day and Reena Esmail. Diane Phoenix-Neal enjoys a vibrant teaching and national and international performing career as a collaborative artist and soloist.  Her performances have taken her to concert venues and music festivals throughout the world, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Paulo Steinberg has performed as a soloist and as a collaborative pianist across the U.S., Canada, South America, and Europe. 

Little Shop of Horrors is a Broadway classic. A meek floral assistant, Seymour, stumbles upon a plant-like alien from outer space. This plant, dubbed Audrey II after Seymour’s co-worker crush, makes promises of wealth and fame in return for one simple thing; BLOOD. Contains adult language, violence and strobe effects.   More

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Under the direction of Dr. Chuck Dotas, the JMU Jazz Ensemble was founded in 1971 and is the premier jazz group in the School of Music at JMU. The ensemble has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Terrace Theater, Montreux International Jazz and Blues Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival and VMEA annual convention.

Latin Fervor is a chamber music concert with exciting Latin American music, featuring JMU Piano Professor Paulo Steinberg, guest cellist Susan Lamb Cook, and guest violinist Ian Jessee, performing works by Villa-Lobos, Villani-Cortes, Camargo Guarnieri, Manuel Ponce, and Astor Piazzolla. More

Ksenia Nosikova plays an extensive repertoire of more than 30 piano concertos with “refined sensibility and pianism” that is “fascinating to watch and hear.” (New York Concert Review) She is a professor and chair of the Piano Area at the University of Iowa. More

The JMU Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band, under the direction of Stephen P. Bolstad, are committed to performing the great works of the wind band’s core repertoire while also exploring the best of contemporary composition. More

Veteran Lieder duo Kevin mcMillan, baritone, and Gabriel Dobner, piano, perform Franz Schubert's timeless, heartbreaking song-cycle Die schone Mullerin with projected translations. More

Considered one of the greatest operas of the 17th century, The Coronation of Poppea is Monteverdi’s final masterpiece. Composed in 1642, the Italian opera uses elegantly-crafted music of the Baroque era to paint a portrait of human beings wrestling with the demands of lust, honor, power and rank. Sung in Italian with English subtitles. More

The JMU Brass Band is the university’s premier brass ensemble. Directed by professor of music Kevin Stees, it is one of only a few collegiate brass bands in the United States. More

The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse,—three female songbirds who thrill audiences with their otherworldly harmonies, sophisticated arrangements, breathtaking songs, and witty stage banter. Their music is a perfect blend of Americana, alt-country, pop, rock, and traditional folk “guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings.” (HuffPost) More

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Under the direction of Dr. Chuck Dotas, the JMU Jazz Ensemble was founded in 1971 and is the premier jazz group in the School of Music at JMU. The ensemble has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Terrace Theater, Montreux International Jazz and Blues Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival and VMEA annual convention. More

The JMU Jazz Band was founded in 1971 and is under the direction of Greg Thomas.  More

The Madison Singers is the advanced, auditioned choral chamber ensemble at JMU. Ranging from 60-80 voices, the JMU Chorale is an auditioned and highly select choir. More

Experience the JMU Symphony Orchestra as they accompany the winners of the prestigious School of Music Concerto Competition. Two exceptional JMU School of Music students Anne Fenn, flute, and Etienne Zhou, piano, were selected as the featured soloists.   More

The JMU Percussion Ensemble, directed by Casey Cangelosi, consists of nearly 30 students and has performed throughout the East Coast, including concerts at the Virginia Music Educators Association Convention and Virginia Days of Percussion. More

The JMU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Stephen P. Bolstad, is the premier woodwind, brass and percussion ensemble at JMU. The Wind Symphony is committed to performing the great works of the wind band’s core repertoire while also exploring the best of contemporary composition. More

The JMU Symphonic Band is under the direction of Stephen P. Bolstad. The JMU Concert Band is the band program's largest non-auditioned concert ensemble under the direction of Amy Birdsong. More