The School of Music announces a new major in Commercial Music and a minor in Music Entrepreneurship These new offerings begin in the Fall 2022 semester. The Commercial Music major will provide students an opportunity to expand upon their liberal arts studies in music to include popular music, music business, recording techniques, and business studies. 

Select concerts will be livestreamed through the College of Arts and Media YouTube Channel For more information and a complete list of our concerts, visit our event calendar.    

The Marshall University Choral Union and the Marshall University Symphony Orchestra will join together to present a program honoring victims of the Holocaust at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at B’nai Sholom Synagogue, 949 10th Ave., Huntington.

Marshall University’s Dr. Johan Botes, assistant professor of music, along with former James Madison University piano professor Vicki Cavendish, who now resides in Charleston and maintains a full private piano studio, will perform a two-piano recital beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, in Smith Recital Hall on the Huntington campus.

The Marshall University Chamber Choir will join the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus in celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centenary and Walt Whitman’s bicentenary anniversaries in two upcoming performances.

Marshall University’s School of Music will present a concert and a master class with performer Kaitlyn Davis. Davis is a New York-based soprano who played the part of Christine Daaé in the North American tour of “Phantom of the Opera,” winning the Emerging Talent Award from the Kurt Weill Foundation’s 2016 Lotte Lenya Competition.

Marshall University’s School of Music will present a guitar recital with guest artist Dr. Ryan Book at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at the Jomie Jazz Center on Marshall’s Huntington campus. The recital is free and open to all.