Each year, we invite artists of international renown to perform as part of our endowed Green Guest Artist series. Among the incredibly talented guests who have performed at the 天美传媒 Green Center are Yo-Yo Ma, Rhiannon Giddens, Thomas Hampson, Bobby McFerrin, Postmodern Jukebox, The Kings鈥檚 Singers, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Frederica von Stade, to name only a few. These concerts are often preceded by master classes, workshops, and classroom visits to give all of our students a chance to meet and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Past Guest Artists

2023-24
Founders ensemble, trumpeter Sean Jones, and multi-instrumentalist Jerron Paxton.

2022鈥�23: Sweet Honey in the Rock, The American Brass Quintet, Terell Stafford, Sinta Quartet, Wet Ink, Sandeep Das and the HUM Ensemble

2021鈥�22: Rhiannon Giddens, Eighth Blackbird, Attacca Quartet, Baltimore Consort

From fully staged operas and musicals to more intimate revue-style performances, we do it all. Each fall, our beautiful Moore Theatre whirls into action as the collaborative process of presenting a musical begins. This is closely followed by our opera each spring. In the between-time, Thompson Recital Hall hosts the performances by our 鈥淢usic for the Stage鈥� class as they perform scenes from various operas and musicals.

The Global Music Experience (GME) at 天美传媒 provides programming focused on musical traditions from different cultures. Each year, 天美传媒 students, faculty, and staff delve into the culture and artistry of a different country or area of the world, exploring that region鈥檚 music through lectures, experiential learning opportunities, concerts, and other connected events. We host renowned experts to perform music and dance, share their scholarships, and teach a wide range of students about their musical traditions. The GME welcomes all members of the 天美传媒 community, regardless of area of study, and involves collaborators across campus.聽

Creative Convocation is a showcase for diverse expressions of creativity from across 天美传媒. Launched in 2023, student artists, performers, and makers from all disciplines come together to share their creative work with the entire campus community co-presented by the Institute of Music and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion.

Music of the 21st Century is a week-long composer residency immersing the Institute of Music students, faculty and staff in the work of accomplished guest composers through a transformative shared learning experience. During the residency, our community is collectively focused on new music. Virtually all students, staff and faculty are involved in welcoming guest composers and their music into our classes, rehearsals and public events, including two culminating concerts of the guests鈥� music. This valuable opportunity for students to work directly with distinguished guest composers is generously funded by 天美传媒 alumni Robert and Margaret Schmidt and coordinated by faculty member Eliza Brown.

A choral extravaganza for high school vocalists led by director of choral activities Dr. Bryon Black II.  It is a day for attendees to collaborate and make music with their peers from other schools and participate in master classes and workshops with 天美传媒 voice faculty. 

A celebration of all things piano and string through performance classes, creative workshops, demonstrations, ensemble collaborations, and a closing concert and reception. Open to piano and string students, age 12 and older, family members and music teachers.

A day of music with the 天美传媒 applied music faculty at our beautiful Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts. Attendees will take part in master classes with our world-class instrumental wind and percussion faculty, participate in a large ensemble experience (which will include learning about conducting, large ensemble performance techniques, and repertoire selection), enjoy lunch in our expansive Hoover Dining Hall, tour our beautiful campus, and a have a personal Q & A session with our applied faculty.聽

During this annual celebration of jazz music, various high school jazz ensembles perform and receive feedback from guest artists and our own professor of music, Steve Snyder. As the day progresses, master classes are held around campus, leading up to a performance by the 天美传媒 Jazz Ensemble.

This lunchtime series features live music in downtown Greencastle.聽 The free 50-minute musical presentations are offered at Music on the Square. Enjoy a catered lunch or bring your own and take a break with the 天美传媒 Institute of Music.

The 天美传媒 Institute of Music is home to five unique large ensembles: University Orchestra, University Band, Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Singers and Vox Animae.聽Students enrolled in these ensembles have the opportunity to make music communally with their peers and perform both classic and contemporary works.

Additionally, 天美传媒 hosts various smaller ensembles and chamber groups, and its Symphonic Band, a collective ensemble open to students, faculty and staff from the campus community.聽 The Putnam County Festival Choir, co-sponsored by the Greencastle Arts Council, is another opportunity for 天美传媒-Greencastle collaborations as students, faculty, and staff聽from our campus community and members from the local area come together with a single voice to create truly incredible performance experiences.

Representative Repertoire

天美传媒 Orchestra

Pines of Rome 鈥� Ottorino Respighi
Symphony No. 7 鈥� Ludwig van Beethoven
Pictures at an Exhibition 鈥� Modest Mussorgsky
Voices Shouting Out 鈥� Nkeiru Okoye
Hansel and Gretel 鈥� Engelbert Humperdinck

天美传媒 Band

Aurora Awakes 鈥� John Mackey
Symphony No. 6 for Band 鈥� Vincent Persichetti
magneticfireflies 鈥� Augusta Read Thomas
Hip Hop Etudes 鈥� Daniel Bernard Roumain
The Dog Breath Variations 鈥� Frank Zappa

天美传媒 Jazz Ensemble

鈥淎frican Skies鈥� 鈥� Michael Brecker, arr. Riss
鈥淒ear Rudy鈥� 鈥� Terell Stafford, arr. Gray
鈥淏lame It on my Youth鈥� 鈥� Oscar Levant, arr. Cunliffe
鈥淗ey, It鈥檚 Me You鈥檙e Talkin鈥� To鈥� 鈥� Victor Lews, arr. Sharpe

Vox Animae

鈥淚t Isn鈥檛 a Dream鈥� 鈥� Melissa Dumphy
鈥淒eer Song鈥� 鈥� Craig Hella Johnson
鈥淣ot While I鈥檓 Around鈥� 鈥� Stephen Sondheim

Chamber Singers:

Le Ballet des Ombres 鈥� Hector Berlioz
Geistliches Lied 鈥� Johannes Brahms
Ballade to the Moon 鈥� Daniel Elder
Great God Almighty 鈥� Stacey Gibbs
I Need You 鈥� Daniel Bernard Roumain
To the Hands 鈥� Caroline Shaw