Tenor and Piano "Illuminations": Settings of Verlaine & Rimbaud by Fauré, Britten, and others

The second concert of the RSO season opens with Passacaglia for Orchestra by Anton Webern, followed by Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring soloist Ye Ji Kim, winner of the 2022 RSO Concerto Competition. Contrasting … Read More

"Rutgers Sings!": A chance to hear your favorite Rutgers songs once again

The Rutgers Jazz Lab Band, directed by Dr. Anthony Branker, will feature “Mosaic: The Music of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers” celebrating compositions of former Jazz Messengers Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Horace Silver, … Read More

Featuring Distinguished Alumnus Orrin Evans, Downbeat Poll Winner, and the newest member of the Mason Gross Jazz Faculty. The Rutgers University Jazz Ensemble, directed by Conrad Herwig, will honor the … Read More

The Brass Ensemble, under the direction of John Sheppard, will present moving works, arrangements, and transcriptions that highlight each brass instrument and showcase the rich harmonies of the brass family.

The RSO will perform Valerie Coleman’s Seven O’clock Shout, commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and premiered virtually in 2020 during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic under the direction of … Read More

Rutgers New Music Workshop World premieres of works by Rutgers graduate and undergraduate composers

Dark Mountains by Robert Paterson, a work commissioned by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and premiered in 2011, will be featured, musically depicting the beautiful mountain landscape in the Northeast of … Read More