Bailey School of Music
We invite you to experience the joy of learning with us! You will then understand that KSU Bailey School of Music is where talent is cultivated, creativity is nurtured, performers are inspired, and where passion is heard.
Whether you are interested in our Clinics and Workshops, Masterclass Series, or Summer Arts Intensives, the Bailey School of Music is a great resource for you and our community.
September 2023
Enjoy a short program of music performed by Bailey School of Music students and faculty in a relaxed and beautiful setting.
Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. The Summit Piano Trio. Bailey School of Music faculty artists Helen Kim, violin, Charae Krueger, cello, and Robert Henry, piano presents an evening of chamber music.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy an evening of works for brass and piano featuring Bailey School of Music faculty artists Jason Casanova, euphonium, and Judith Cole, piano.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy an evening of music featuring the viola performed by Bailey School of Music faculty artist Julia Bullard and friends.
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Virtual RSVP Friday Night Spotlight Series. The Trey Wright Trio performs a program of original, modern jazz compositions written by Bailey School of Music faculty artist Trey Wright and featured on his recent Blue Canoe Records releases Begin Again and Where I'm Calling From. Wright (guitar) is joined by BSOM faculty artists Marc Miller, bass, and Justin Chesarek, drums.
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Virtual 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.
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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. Virtual RSVP
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Join us for a FREE Masterclass with the Imani Winds! All masterclass sessions will take place in the locations listed below. There will be a combined reception following each of them in Scott Rehearsal Hall. See you then!
ArtsKSU Series, Friday Night Spotlight Series. ArtsKSU proudly presents Imani Winds. Celebrating over two decades of music making, the twice Grammy-nominated ensemble has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations, and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
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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.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty artist John Warren presents an evening of works for clarinet by British composers. Prof. Warren will be joined by other BSOM faculty artists, including Judith Cole, piano, Kenn Wagner, violin, Adelaide Federici, violin, Julia Bullard, viola, and Charae Krueger, cello.
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Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of choral music performed by the KSU Treble Choir, Men's Ensemble, Chorale, and Chamber Singers.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. KSU professor of music and internationally renowned cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi is joined by two extraordinary guest artists, Venezuelan flutist Orlando Cela and Peruvian-American pianist Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, for an evening of musical gems by Latin American composers in honor of Columbus / Indigenous Peoples Day and National Hispanic Heritage month. Music by Gabriela Frank (Peru-USA), Alberto Ginastera (Argentina), Camargo Guarnieri (Brazil) Edgar Valcárcel (Peru), Heitor Villa-Lobos (Brazil), and Samuel Zyman (Mexico).
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Virtual 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 direction of BSOM faculty Daniel Lee.
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Virtual RSVP Music, Nature & Sustainability Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Join Bailey School of Music faculty artists for an evening of chamber music inspired by the natural world and the desire to sustain it for future generations.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Music, Nature & Sustainability Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Join the Bailey School of Music's Faculty Jazz Parliament for an evening of jazz inspired by the natural world and the desire to sustain it for future generations.
Buy TicketsVirtual RSVP Music, Nature & Sustainability Festival, Faculty Recital Series. Join Bailey School of Music Coordinator of Piano Studies Robert Henry for an evening of music inspired by the natural world and the desire to sustain it for future generations.
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Virtual RSVP Music, Nature & Sustainability Festival, Orchestras Series. Join the KSU Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Bailey School of Music Director of Orchestral Studies Nathaniel F. Parker for an evening of orchestra music inspired by the natural world. The program will feature BSOM piano faculty artists Robert Henry and Julie Coucheron performing Camille Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals and conclude with Beethoven's masterpiece, Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral."
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy an evening of French art songs performed by Bailey School of Music voice faculty artists and Eric Jenkins, piano.
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Virtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by some of the most talented student performers in the Bailey School of Music, as they compete in the final round of the annual BSOM Concerto Competition.
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Virtual RSVP Friday Night Spotlight Series, Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy a performance by the KSU Opera Theater.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Join Bailey School of Music faculty artist Eric Jenkins for an evening of piano music by American composers from the late-20th and 21st centuries.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.
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Friday Night Spotlight Series, 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
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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.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles.
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Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series, Orchestras Series. Join the Bailey School of Music choirs and Symphony Orchestra for a performance of the Christmas portion of Handel's monumental oratorio, Messiah.
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Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy a performance by the KSU Gospel Choir under the direction of Bailey School of Music faculty artist Oral Moses.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual RSVP Bands & Percussion Series. Enjoy performances by the KSU Wind Symphony and the KSU University Band under the direction of Bailey School of Music Assistant Director of Bands Daniel Lee.
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Virtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student brass ensembles.
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Join the Bailey School of Music choirs, Symphony Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble for a performance featuring holiday favorites for the whole family. This year’s concert honors a College of the Arts distinguished benefactor, Robert S. (“Bob”) Geer.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy a performance by the KSU Community & Alumni Choir.
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Virtual RSVP Friday Night Spotlight Series. Enjoy an evening of clarinet chamber music performed by guest artist Lisa Raschiatore, clarinet, and Bailey School of Music faculty artists Justin Stanley, clarinet, and Eric Jenkins, piano. The program will include the world premiere of Paul Schoenfeld's new work for two clarinets and piano.
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ArtsKSU Series, Friday Night Spotlight Series. ArtsKSU proudly presents Band of Other Brothers. Led by renowned saxophonist Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones), this all-star jazz quintet also features drummer Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting), keyboardist Jeff Babko (James Taylor, Toto), Will Lee on bass and vocals (The Late Show with David Letterman, The Brecker Brothers), and guitarist Nir Felder (Keyon Harrold).
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy a performance by Bailey School of Music faculty artists Cynthia Skelley-Wohlschlager, mezzo-soprano, and Eric Jenkins, piano.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy a performance by Bailey School of Music faculty artists Charae Krueger, cello, and Robert Henry, piano.
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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.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy a performance by guest artist Nathan Munson, tenor, and Bailey School of Music faculty artist Judith Cole, piano.
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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.
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Virtual 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 Tyrone Jackson in a performance of Duke Ellington's rhapsody for piano and orchestra, New World A-Comin'.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy a performance Bailey School of Music faculty artists Christina Smith, flute, and Robert Henry, piano.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual RSVP Engage with an evening of thought-provoking performances curated by the Black Musicians Coalition, an award-winning KSU student organization.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy a performance by Bailey School of Music Coordinator of Piano Studies Robert Henry.
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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy an evening of jazz performed by the Bailey School of Music's Faculty Jazz Parliament.
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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
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Virtual 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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Virtual RSVP Faculty Recital Series. Enjoy a performance by Bailey School of Music faculty artists Helen Kim, violin, and Robert Henry, piano.
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.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual RSVP Women in Music Festival, Jazz Series. Join Bailey School of Music student jazz ensemblesÑled by Bailey School of Music Director of Jazz Studies Sam Skelton and faculty artist Wes Funderburk for a program that explores the impact of women in music.
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by some of the most talented student vocalists in the Bailey School of Music.
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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.
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Virtual 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.
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As part of KSU’s award-winning “Year of” program,the Bailey School of Music and Department of Dance collaborate for an evening of performances celebrating Senegalese culture.
Enjoy a short program of music performed by Bailey School of Music students and faculty in a relaxed and beautiful setting.
Virtual 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 Feldermaus by Johann Strauss II.
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Virtual 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 Feldermaus by Johann Strauss II.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student jazz combos.
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Virtual RSVP Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy an evening of choral music performed by the KSU Treble Choir, Men's Ensemble, Chorale, and Chamber Singers.
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Virtual RSVP Chamber Music Series. Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student brass ensembles.
Buy TicketsEnjoy a short program of music performed by Bailey School of Music students and faculty in a relaxed and beautiful setting.
Virtual 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.
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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.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy an evening of performances by Bailey School of Music student instrumental chamber ensembles.
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Virtual 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.
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Choral & Opera Series. Enjoy a performance by the KSU Gospel Choir under the direction of Bailey School of Music faculty artist Oral Moses. Virtual RSVP
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Virtual 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.
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Virtual RSVP Enjoy a performance by the KSU Community & Alumni Choir.
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