Posts Tagged ‘Michael Gerdes’
San Diego State University Musicians Offer Virtuoso Contemporary Fare at Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan
Music Director Michael Gerdes took the San Diego State University Chamber Orchestra and a cache of other SDSU musicians down to Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan Sunday afternoon to perform an engaging concert of contemporary music. With its high ceiling and unfinished, bare brick walls, the chaste performance space embraces all styles of music.…
Read MoreSan Diego State University Musicians Center Stage at the Jacobs Music Center
“SDSU Live Downtown,” assembled several performing organizations from San Diego State University at the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall Sunday, April 8, 2018, for a festive grand concert.
Read MoreSan Diego State University Brings Its Musical Banquet Downtown
Downtown San Diego drivers on Friday evening (April 15) were no doubt surprised to encounter San Diego State University’s loud, brassy pep band (aka the Marching Aztecs) performing outside the west entrance to the Jacobs Music Center to announce “Downtown” a concert that featured the university’s Wind Symphony, the Symphony Orchestra, and its Combined Choirs . . .
Read MoreStephen Paulus Holocaust Oratorio Given San Diego Debut under Patrick Walders
Saturday (April 25) San Diego State University Director of Choral Studies Patrick Walders conducted Stephen Paulus’ profound Holocaust oratorio “To Be Certain of the Dawn” with a 140-voice massed choir and full orchestra at College Avenue Baptist Church . . .
Read MoreSDSU Symphony’s New Music of the Night
The San Diego State University Symphony premiered composer Joseph Martin Waters’ “Suite Noir” Sunday (March 22) with soloists from the virtuoso avant-garde performance ensemble Swarmius at SDSU’s Montezuma Hall . . .
Read More