![Four diverse musicians wearing casual contemporary clothing carry their string instruments in cases through the marbled lobby of a train station.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/Dover-Quartet-3_photo-credit-Roy-Cox.jpg)
March 08, 2024
Dover Quartet, pianist Haochen Zhang to perform March 21 in Recital Hall
![Headshot of Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/mitchell-spradlin.jpg)
February 08, 2024
Music faculty member named Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professor
![Butterfly and bee pollinating a flower](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/som_1223_pollinator2.jpg)
December 11, 2023
Music and theatre students team with Center for Pollinator Research on unique project
![Elizabeth Guerriero](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/som_1223_guerriero.jpg)
December 05, 2023
School of Music alumna featured on Aaron Dworkin's 'Arts Engines' web series
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October 24, 2023
Violins of Hope to visit University Park with a concert and film
![Composite of Alumni Award winners](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/alumni-award-news-2023.jpg)
September 29, 2023
College of Arts and Architecture to honor Alumni Award winners on Oct. 5
![Symphonic Wind Ensemble](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/SWE-Photo-scaled.jpg)
July 28, 2023
Symphonic Wind Ensemble selected to perform at CBDNA regional conference
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June 08, 2023
Faculty duo named voice pedagogy award recipients
![Members of the Penn's Woods Orchestra rehearse in the new music recital hall with soloist James Lyon.](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/pwmf_1912_rehearsal.jpg)
June 05, 2023
From Bach to Brass and Janáček to Jazz: Penn's Woods Music Festival June 11-24
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June 05, 2023
The beat goes on: Forty years of percussion education at Penn State
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May 04, 2023
College of Arts and Architecture announces spring 2023 student marshals
![Essence of Joy](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/Unknown.jpeg)
April 29, 2023
Music education scholar to take helm of School of Music
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April 24, 2023
Manzano named Arts and Architecture college marshal
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April 19, 2023
Penn State alum and bassist Ian Saunders talks Beyonce, Project STEP and what “Amazing Grace” means to him
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March 29, 2023
Bass clarinet and marimba duo Transient Canvas to perform free show April 5
![portrait of four members of Mivos Quartent with stringed instruments](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/som_0323_mivos-quartet.jpg)
March 20, 2023
Mivos Quartet to perform free show March 23
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March 20, 2023
Penn State New-Music Festival & Symposium set for March 24-25
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March 14, 2023
Alum connects with community as Conductor Diversity Fellow at Buffalo Philharmonic
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February 28, 2023
Penn State Opera Theatre to present ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’ in March
![William Oliver '22](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/Unknown.png)
February 27, 2023
Music Education alum named to Yamaha’s ’40 Under 40’
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February 21, 2023
Penn State Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Feb. 27
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February 10, 2023
2023 Ballora-Wang Young Composers Award announced
![Headshot of Penn State Associate Professor of Piano Christopher Guzman](https://arts.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_680x384_crop_center-center_80_none/christopher-guzman-1164px.jpg)
January 30, 2023