February 2024
A season highlight, the Collage Concert is the signature showcase of the Bailey School of Music. This unique production features over 200 student and faculty performers in jazz, orchestra, choir, band, percussion, opera, chamber groups, and more. Proceeds and donations from this event help make the study of music more affordable to KSU students through scholarships.
Buy TicketsThis performance has been canceled. Ticket holders, please contact the Box Office for any ticket-related questions at 470-578-6650.
Virtual RSVP Moving Forward, Together: Black History Month Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy an evening of chamber music that celebrates Black art, artists, and culture, performed by Bailey School of Music faculty artist Julia Bullard and friends.
With guest artists Steve Koh, violin, Hannah Holman, cello, and Dimitri Vorobiev, piano and KSU Faculty artists Julia Bullard, viola, Helen Kim, violin, and Kenn Wagner, violin.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Black History Month Festival, Friday Night Spotlight Series, Orchestras Series. The KSU Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Bailey School of Music Director of Orchestral Studies Nathaniel F. Parker, presents an evening of music that celebrates Black art, artists, and culture. The program will feature BSOM faculty artist Judith Cole, performing the Florence Price Piano Concerto. It will also feature the premiere performance of student Nubia Causey's piece "Warriors of Hope."
Buy TicketsThis performance has been canceled. Ticket holders, please contact the Box Office for any ticket-related questions at 470-578-6650.
Virtual RSVP Moving Forward, Together: Black History Month Festival, Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of choral music that celebrates Black art, artists, and culture, performed by the KSU Treble Choir, Men's Ensemble, Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Gospel Choir.
Buy TicketsNEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
NEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
NEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
ArtsKSU Series, Moving Forward, Together: Black History Month Festival, Friday Night Spotlight Series.
ArtsKSU proudly presents the New York-based Harlem Quartet. Currently quartet-in-residence at the John J. Cali School of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, the ensemble has been praised for its "panache" by The New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for "bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent." Their stylistically diverse program will feature works by artists from populations historically underrepresented in concert music: Black, Latin American, and female composers.
Buy TicketsNEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
NEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
NEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
NEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
NEW! SUNDAY 8 p.m. show added! Hurry and get your tickets before this sells out, too.
Inspired by the original 1936 film of the same name, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. Reefer Madness is a highly political satire that will go straight to your head and leave you wanting more!
Virtual RSVP Jazz Series. Enjoy an evening of student jazz ensemble performances led by Bailey School of Music Director of Jazz Studies Sam Skelton and faculty artist Wes Funderburk.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Orchestra Series, Bands & Percussion Series. Enjoy performances by the KSU Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Bailey School of Music faculty Nancy Conley and the KSU University Band under the director of BSOM faculty Brandon Meeks.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Bands & Percussion Series. Enjoy a performance by the KSU Wind Symphony under the direction of Bailey School of Music Assistant Director of Bands Daniel Lee.
Buy TicketsEngage with an evening of thought-provoking performances curated by the Black Musicians Coalition, an award-winning KSU student organization.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy a performance by Bailey School of Music Coordinator of Piano Studies Robert Henry.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy an evening of jazz performed by the Bailey School of Music's Faculty Jazz Parliament.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP. Bands & Percussion Series. Enjoy a performance by the KSU Wind Ensemble under the direction of Bailey School of Music Director of Bands David T. Kehler. Virtual RSVP
Buy TicketsMarch 2024
Virtual RSVP As an academic and artistic arena, the Zuckerman Museum of Art is pleased to partner with the KSU Research Center for Sustainable Communities during the annual EQUINOX Symposium to facilitate engaging lectures and exhibitions as presented through the lens of artistic practice and visual culture. The 2024 panel will focus on the arts serving as a catalyst for health and well-being. Speakers will include Emmeline Edwards, Director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, and Susan Magsamen, Founder and Executive Director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, a pioneering neuroaesthetics initiative from the Pedersen Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the NeuroArts Blueprint in partnership with the Aspen Institute.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Friday Night Spotlight Series. Enjoy an evening of piano music performed by guest artists, Bailey School of Music faculty, and BSOM students. The Bailey School of Music is an All-Steinway School.
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Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Sandy Edwards will discuss her career and work in the museum field. Edwards recently concluded her role as senior director in January 2023, departing after a 15-year tenure with a significant focus on fundraising efforts and key initiatives that furthered the museum’s mission of providing access to all. Edwards’ career exemplifies her deep commitment during her 46-year career to improving quality of life through arts and education. Edwards joined Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2007, playing a vital role in the conception, planning, building, and opening of Crystal Bridges.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Orchestras Series. The KSU Symphony begins their 2023-2024 season with a program entitled “Tragedy & Triumph.” Brahms’s Tragic Overture opens the first half of the program followed by the Bassoon Concerto by Andrzej Panufnik, featuring guest artist Dr. Jeffrey Lyman, professor of bassoon at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. A powerful reflection on the tragedy of political violence, Panufnik’s concerto memorializes Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, an anti-communist Polish Catholic priest who was abducted and brutally murdered by Polish secret police in 1984. In contrast, the second half of the program celebrates the triumph of a master composer writing his first symphony. Completed when he was just 18 years old, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 1 is full of joy, youthful optimism, and craftsmanship indicative of his future stature as one of the great French composers of the late-Romantic Era. KSU director of orchestral studies Nathaniel F. Parker conducts the Brahms and Panufnik; guest conductor Dr. Jacob Harrison, director of orchestras at Texas State University, leads the Saint-Saëns.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Join the Summit Piano Trio--Bailey School of Music faculty artists Helen Kim, violin, Charae Krueger, cello, and Robert Henry, piano--for a performance that explores the impact of women in music.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Join the Bailey School of Music voice faculty artists for a performance that explores the impact of women in music.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Allison Glenn will speak about her work as a curator and writer deeply invested in working closely with artists to develop ideas, artworks, and exhibitions that respond to and transform our understanding of the world. Glenn’s curatorial work focuses on the intersection of art and publics, through public art, biennials, special projects, and major new commissions by a wide range of contemporary artists. Glenn received substantial critical and community praise for her curatorial work in the 2021 groundbreaking exhibition at the Speed Art Museum titled Promise, Witness, Remembrance an exhibition that reflected on the life of Breonna Taylor.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Jazz Series. Join Bailey School of Music student Jazz Ensemble I led by Bailey School of Music Director of Jazz Studies Sam Skelton for a program that explores the impact of women in music.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Choral & Opera Series. Join the Bailey School of Music student choirs for a program that explores the impact of women in music.
Buy TicketsCelebrate spring and the visual arts with us at the Spring Arts Festival! This annual Festival features demonstrations and hands-on workshops in many two- and three-dimensional media. A pin-up show invites local artists and students to compete in four categories: elementary, middle, high school, and community. Experience all that the visual arts has to offer at our free, family-friendly Festival.
More Info: https://www.kennesaw.edu/arts/academics/visual-arts/exhibitions-events/spring-arts-festival.php
Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by some of the most talented student vocalists in the Bailey School of Music.
Buy TicketsLiz Andrews joined the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art as Executive Director in the fall 2021. Prior to joining the Spelman Museum, Andrews was Executive Administrator in the Director’s Office of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her curatorial projects at LACMA included The Obama Portraits Tour and Black American Portraits, an exhibition covering 200 years of portraiture. Andrews holds a B.A. in American Studies from Wesleyan University, a M.A. in Arts and Politics from Tisch School of Arts at NYU, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University.
Buy TicketsUndergraduate student presentations from the School of Art & Design, Bailey School of Music, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, and Department of Dance.
Buy TicketsSeniors completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees participate in capstone exhibitions that showcase the artwork of various disciplines and materials representing individual styles and high levels of conceptual ability. Join the Zuckerman Museum of Art in the satellite Fine Art Gallery for the opening receptions of the Spring 2024 School of Art and Design Capstone exhibitions. Each exhibit will feature a different group of KSU SOAAD graduating artists. Please see the full schedule for the Capstone series receptions below and visit the link here to learn more about the Capstone exhibition series in the Fine Arts Gallery.
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
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Virtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of chamber music performed by Bailey School of Music student recipients of the John & Linda Cooke String Quartet Scholar Awards.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of works written by Bailey School of Music student composers--including multiple world premieres--performed by BSOM faculty and students. This concert is student-produced under the mentorship of BSOM composer-in-residence Laurence Sherr.
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
Buy TicketsMusic, Song, Dance, and Hospitality to celebrate the Year of Senegal! Join the Department of Dance and Bailey School of Music in their collaboration. The Department of Dance will present Khaware (Xaware), directed by Dasha Chapman and Teresa Howard. This celebration of African dance features sabar, a Sengalese dance form accompanied by drumming. The KSU Percussion Ensemble, directed by John Lawless, will accompany the dancers with traditional Senegalese rhythms, using authentic instruments for this performance. Immerse yourself in an evening of total theatre with Khaware (Xaware).
Buy TicketsThis bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! In regency England, love is a serious game, and the Bennet sisters are playing for keeps. This clever comedy offers a decidedly progressive take on the trials of Lizzy, Mr. Darcy, and the whole Bennet clan, with a few dance breaks thrown in for good measure. Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life, than it does in this effervescent adaptation.
Buy TicketsSeniors completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees participate in capstone exhibitions that showcase the artwork of various disciplines and materials representing individual styles and high levels of conceptual ability. Join the Zuckerman Museum of Art in the satellite Fine Art Gallery for the opening receptions of the Spring 2024 School of Art and Design Capstone exhibitions. Each exhibit will feature a different group of KSU SOAAD graduating artists. Please see the full schedule for the Capstone series receptions below and visit the link here to learn more about the Capstone exhibition series in the Fine Arts Gallery.
Buy TicketsPlease join us for the Spring Faculty Research Forum.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Friday Night Spotlight Series, Choral & Opera Series, Orchestras Series. The Bailey School of Music's Opera Theater and Symphony Orchestra join forces to present a semi-staged production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series, Orchestras Series. The Bailey School of Music's Opera Theater and Symphony Orchestra join forces to present a semi-staged production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of choral music performed by the KSU Treble Choir, Men's Ensemble, Chorale, and Chamber Singers.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student brass ensembles.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Bands & Percussion Series. "Modern, venturesome, and inexorable...The excitement, intensity, and freshness that characterizes Biedenbender's music hung in the [air] long after the last note was played" (Examiner.com). ArtsKSU proudly presents an evening of music by award-winning composer David Biedenbender performed by the KSU Wind Ensemble--under the direction of David T. Kehler--and the KSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Daniel Lee. Biedenbender has written music for the concert stage, as well as for dance and multimedia collaborations, and his work is often influenced by his diverse musical experiences in wind, brass, rock and jazz bands, and by his study of Indian Carnatic music.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Jazz Series. Enjoy an evening of student jazz ensemble performances led by Bailey School of Music Director of Jazz Studies Sam Skelton and faculty artist Wes Funderburk.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles.
Buy TicketsAto Ribeiro will discuss his artistic practice and his newly commissioned work on view at the ZMA. Ribeiro is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media including sculptural installation, drawing, and printmaking.
Buy TicketsSeniors completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees participate in capstone exhibitions that showcase the artwork of various disciplines and materials representing individual styles and high levels of conceptual ability. Join the Zuckerman Museum of Art in the satellite Fine Art Gallery for the opening receptions of the Spring 2024 School of Art and Design Capstone exhibitions. Each exhibit will feature a different group of KSU SOAAD graduating artists. Please see the full schedule for the Capstone series receptions below and visit the link here to learn more about the Capstone exhibition series in the Fine Arts Gallery.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Orchestra Series, Bands & Percussion Series. Enjoy performances by the KSU Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Bailey School of Music faculty Nancy Conley and the KSU University Band under the director of BSOM faculty Brandon Meeks.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Jazz Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by the Bailey School of Music Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and BSOM jazz guitar and jazz piano students.
Buy TicketsThe Student Dance Concert features a compilation of student works set on the KSU Dance Company. This juried event celebrates the diversity and creative talents of our students.
Buy TicketsChoral & Opera Series. Enjoy a performance by the KSU Gospel Choir under the direction of Bailey School of Music faculty artist Oral Moses. Virtual RSVP
Buy TicketsThe Student Dance Concert features a compilation of student works set on the KSU Dance Company. This juried event celebrates the diversity and creative talents of our students.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Bands & Percussion Series. Experience an evening of percussion music performed by Bailey School of Music percussion students under the direction of BSOM Director of Percussion Studies John Lawless.
Buy TicketsMay 2024
Virtual RSVP Enjoy a performance by the KSU Community & Alumni Choir.
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