Manchester University Music Department

05/15/2024

Music brings people together ❤️🎶

05/13/2024

Appreciation post for our Handbell Ensemble! Thank you for sharing your music with us. Thank you for your willingness to volunteer, commit, and give your support!
These students are awesome! 🎶🔔

05/10/2024

Members of the Oak Leaf Brass rehearsing for Saturday's commencement ceremonies

05/09/2024

I know there's a lot going on this time of year, but you really don't want to miss this concert. This repertoire is fantastic!

05/08/2024

TONIGHT!

05/08/2024

What a wonderful Opera Today! Series of unveiling events!!! We started the day with a master class at Manchester University with clinician, Daniel Belcher and topped off the evening with a recital featuring Daniel with pianist Alexander Klepach and Q&A session (on the PFW campus) about this new professional opera company. Thanks everyone who attended! Stay tuned for more exciting events!

05/08/2024

The Manchester Symphony Orchestra concludes its 85th season with a concert honoring the wonder and beauty of nature. The Creatures Great and Small concert showcases MSO Concertmaster Elizabeth Smith in The Lark Ascending tone poem by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The concert also features Wood Notes by African-American composer William Grant Still, “And God Created Great Whales” by Alan Hovhaness and the Overture to “Die Fledermaus” by Johann Strauss. It is 3 p.m. Sunday, May 12 at the Honeywell Center in Wabash.

05/08/2024

⭐️ Tonight at 7:30pm in Cordier Auditorium! We look forward to seeing you there! ⭐️

05/06/2024

We are looking forward to our next recital!
Senior and Contralto, Renae Walker-Zamora will be having her senior Voice recital on Friday, May 10th @ 7:00pm in the Wine Recital Hall. She will be assisted by Alan Chambers on piano.

⭐️ Meet Renae WZ ⭐️
Renae Walker-Zamora hails from Austin, TX. This month she will be receiving her Bachelors of Science degree in General Music and Educational Studies: counseling concentration. At Manchester, she has participated in A Ca****la choir & Chamber Singers, opera workshop productions, NAFME, religious life, theatre society and more! Renae is also a singer/songwriter and enjoys playing guitar and ukulele for her family & friends!

After she graduates, she will be attending Purdue University-Fort Wayne to begin working on her MA degree and board certification in Music Therapy MA, MT-BC!

05/05/2024

Ready or not, here we come....
Man, this groups sounds amazing!

05/03/2024

Join us THIS SUNDAY for our last ACC concert of the year! This one’s gonna be a special one. It will be a lovely gathering of current ACC members, alumni and friends! As well as a final farewell and celebration to our amazing conductor, Dr. Debra Lynn.

It will be a concert to remember!

Details below:
Sunday, May 5th, 2024
3:00pm
Cordier Auditorium, Free admission

05/01/2024

⭐️ Tonight at 7:30pm in Cordier Auditorium!! Come listen to some Jazz music done by some awesome performers. We look forward to seeing you there! ⭐️

05/01/2024

Congratulations to Senior and Cellist Benjamin Bolduc on a wonderful Cello Recital! Benjamin has been one of our busiest seniors this year. He has made so many accomplishments here at MU and we are so excited to see what the future holds for him!

Mr. Bolduc will continue his education at Ball State University. He will be going a Master’s of Music in Composition. He will also be teaching music theory there with a full graduate assistantship!

Keeping making great music, Benjamin! ✨🎶

04/30/2024

Congratulations to Senior and Mezzo Soprano Mackenzie Sheridan on a wonderful Voice Recital. We are grateful for everyone that came out to support in person and virtually!

Ms. Sheridan will continue her education at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, where she will begin her Master’s degree in Vocal performance.

We are so proud of her accomplishments and can’t wait to see what the future holds! ✨✨

04/30/2024

We are very excited about our next performance coming up next week!

⭐️ Grammy- Winning Baritone Daniel Belcher and pianist Alexander Klepach will be performing Debra Lynn’s song cycle “Your John Keats”. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, May 7th @ 7:00pm, Rinehart Recital Hall, PFW campus Fort Wayne, IN. ⭐️

We will also be giving more information about Dr. Debra Lynn’s new company “Opera Today!”, with a Q&A session afterwards. 🎶🎶

See ya there!

04/29/2024

This picture is of 3 Manchester University music students, past and present, doing great things! Kevin Friermood ('17), senior Daniel Cornett, and sophomore Abigail Oliver were selected to perform with the 2024 College Band Directors National Association Intercollegiate Band held at The Ohio State University, April 4-6.

Friermood ('17) is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cornett is a senior music education major, and Oliver is majoring in saxophone performance, and English!

04/29/2024

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04/28/2024

What an entertaining evening! Congrats to Daniel Cornett on a wonderful clarinet recital! He has a bright future ahead! ⭐️🌟🎶