Advanced Vocal Workshop

“The American Experience” Advanced Vocal Workshop Mark Robson, piano Courtney Taylor and James Martin Schaefer, directors

8pm • Monday, March 9, 2026 • Recital Hall (CPAC-110)

C AL STAT E FULLER TON

C S U F S C H O O L O F M US IC

RONALD S. ROCHON President, California State University, Fullerton

DR. RANDALL GOLDBERG Director, School of Music

AMIR H. DABIRIAN Provost and VP for Academic Affairs

KIMO FURUMOTO Assistant Director, School of Music

ARNOLD HOLLAND, EDD Dean, College of the Arts

BONGSHIN KO Assistant Director, School of Music

SCHOOL OF M U S I C F U L L-TI M E FAC U LT Y A N D S TA F F Bongshin Ko cello Dr. Ernest Salem* violin

FACULT Y CONDUCTING Kimo Furumoto instrumental Dr. Robert Istad choral Dr. Christopher Peterson choral Dr. Dustin Barr instrumental JAZZ AND COMMERCIAL MUSIC Bill Cunliffe jazz piano; arranging; Fullerton Jazz Orchestra, Fullerton Big Band and combo director Rodolfo Zuñiga* jazz studies, jazz percussion, and music techology; Fullerton Chamber Jazz Ensemble director PIANO, ORGAN, PIANO PEDAGOGY Bill Cunliffe jazz piano Alison Edwards* piano, piano pedagogy, class piano Dr. Robert Watson piano MUSIC EDUCATION, TEACHER TRAINING, AND TEACHING CREDENTIAL Dr. Christopher Peterson choral Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore* instrumental MUSIC IN GENERAL EDUCATION Dr. John Koegel* Dr. Katherine Reed MUSIC HISTORY AND LITERATURE Dr. Vivianne Asturizaga musicology Dr. John Koegel* musicology Dr. Katherine Reed musicology STRINGS Kimo Furumoto Director of Orchestra Studies and University Symphony Orchestra conductor

THEORY AND COMPOSITION Dr. Hesam Abedini composition, theory Dr. Pamela Madsen composition, theory Dr. Ken Walicki* composition, theory VOCAL, CHORAL, AND OPERA Dr. Robert Istad* Director of Choral Studies and University Singers conductor Dr. Kerry Jennings* Director of Opera Dr. Christopher Peterson CSUF Concert Choir and Singing Titans conductor Dr. Joni Y. Prado* voice, academic voice courses Dr. Bri’Ann Wright general education WOODWINDS, BRASS, AND PERCUSSION Dr. Dustin Barr Director of Wind Band Studies, University Wind Symphony, University Band Jean Ferrandis* flute Sycil Mathai* trumpet Ken McGrath* percussion Dr. Gregory X. Whitmore University Symphonic Winds conductor Michael Yoshimi* clarinet S TA F F Michael August Production Manager Eric Dries Music Librarian Gretchen Estes-Parker Office Coordinator Will Lemley Audio Technician Jeff Lewis Audio Engineer Chris Searight Musical Instrument Services Paul Shirts Administrative Assistant Elizabeth Williams Business Manager

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Welcome to the spring 2026 events season at Cal State Fullerton’s College of the Arts.

We have been hard at work in every classroom, practice room, and studio across campus preparing to share new sounds and bold creativity with all of you. We are thrilled you are here.

Our students and their success form the core of our purpose in the College of the Arts but unlike their counterparts in other colleges, their paths are not solely formed through classroom learning; they are revealed in the moments when talent meets opportunity.

Like when a dancer attends an intensive, or when a musician travels abroad on tour, or an actor or artist is mentored – this is where promise is transformed into possibility.

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This spring semester is brimming with performances and exhibitions for all to enjoy – some that will make you laugh and others that will make you think. In the School of Music, Sibarg Ensemble, featuring our own Hessam Abedini, explores the musical intersections of Iranian music and jazz on February 20. In April, Benjamin Britten’s comic opera “Albert Herring” follows the shy, virtuous title character as he rebels against his prudish upbringing. Join us in the Little Theatre beginning March 5 for the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” – an uproarious sendup of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale, “The Princess and the Pea.” If you’re craving something completely different, Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” opens March 19 to hold a mirror to the absurdity of mob mentality and the struggle to maintain individuality in the face of mass hysteria. And in late spring, our dancers and choreographers return to demonstrate their inimitable power and grace in “Spring Dance Theatre.”

Across the walkway from where you’re seated are the College of the Arts Galleries.

You can still catch exhibitions from Soo Kim and Carol Caroompas until May, or stop by the galleries on Wednesdays for our bi-weekly Student Galleries opening receptions.

They are always full of energy, and you might even find student artwork to purchase and take home!

Whether you’re returning to our venues or here for the first time, we are so excited to present another season to you. Thank you for joining us.

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PROGRAM Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor (from Lady Liberty).....................................Irving Berlin

Katelyn Cruz, soprano

Is Anybody There (from 1776).......................................................... Sherman Edwards

Alexei Rehorn, tenor

Blow, Ye Winds (from Five Sea Chanties)........................................... Celius Dougherty

Dominc Preston-Mann, tenor

Bring My Brother Back to Me................................................................ Stephen Foster

Hart Chen, tenor

The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.................................................. Richard Pearson Thomas (based on the song by Will. S. Hays)

Em Nguyen, soprano

Look Down Fair Moon (from Five Poems of Walt Whitman)........................ Ned Rorem

Miles Rojo, baritone

Down Eas................................................................................................... Charles Ives

Joshua Evans, tenor

The Dodger (from Old American Songs)................................................Aaron Copland

Hart Chen, tenor

Shall We Gather by the River.................................................................Aaron Copland (based on the hymn by Robert Lowry)

Miles Rojo, baritone

The Indians................................................................................................. Charles Ives

Alexei Rehorn, tenor

He is There................................................................................................. Charles Ives

Topher Esguerra, tenor Anthony Alcain, flute

In Flanders Fields....................................................................................... Charles Ives

Benjee Benjelloun, soprano

***** I N T E R M I S S I O N *****

PROGRAM Songs for the People (from Miss Wheatley’s Garden).................... Rosephanye Powell

Joshua Evans, tenor

I Do Not Know What I Know (from Say Your Name).................................Reena Esmail

Em Nguyen, soprano

Brother Can You Spare a Dime? (from Americana)..................................... Jay Gorney

Dominic Preston-Mann, tenor

America (from West Side Story)........................................................ Leonard Bernstein

Benjee Benjelloun, Katelyn Cruz, Amber Napoli, Em Nguyen, Rachel Williams

Climb Every Mountain (from The Sound of Music)..............................Richard Rodgers

Rachel Williams, mezzo-soprano

Blowin’ in the Wind (from The Tambourine Man).................................. John Corigliano

Amber Napoli, soprano

Strange Fruit...................................................................... Lewis Allan (Abel Meeropol)

Benjee Benjelloun, soprano

Come Back (from Dogfight).......................................................Benj Pasek/Justin Paul

Topher Esguerra, tenor

Everything I Know (from In the Heights).........................................Lin-Manuel Miranda

Katelyn Cruz, soprano

The Lady of the Harbor................................................................................. Lee Hoiby

Amber Napoli, soprano

PROGRAM NOTES Give me your tired, your poor (from Miss Liberty) IRVING BERLIN (1888-1989)

“Give me your tired, your poor” appears in the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, whose comic plot involves trying to get to the bottom of who served as the model for the Statue of Liberty. Berlin caps off the story with a warm musical setting of the famous inscription used on the monument taken from Emma Lazarus’s 1883 poem “The New Colossus.” The song reflects the themes of refuge, hope, and the promise of America as a haven for immigrants.

Is Anybody There (1776)

Bring My Brother Back to Me STEPHEN FOSTER (1826-1864)

Foster, known for his popular minstrel songs and sentimental ballads, achieved an honored place in the music of the United States. He grew up near Pittsburgh and, though largely self-taught, absorbed musical influences from parlor songs, Black church music, minstrel shows, and work songs. He achieved early success with hits like “Oh! Susanna” and later wrote for minstrel performer Edwin P. Christy. “Bring My Brother Back” is a sentimental Civil War song that expresses a sibling’s longing for his brother’s safe return from war.

SHERMAN EDWARDS (1919-1981)

The Drummer Boy of Shiloh

Sherman Edwards was the composer and lyricist for 1776, which premiered on Broadway in 1969. Prior to his success with the musical, Edwards worked as a songwriter in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, with his most notable contribution being Flaming Star, the theme song for an Elvis Presley film. In the excerpt “Is Anybody There,” John Adams is feeling doubts about the passage of the Declaration of Independence because Southern delegates won’t sign it unless the clause abolishing slavery is removed.

He manages to rally nonetheless in his hopes for the achievement of freedom in an soon-to-be independent America.

Richard Pearson Thomas is a prolific writer of songs in the classical and cabaret genre and is currently on faculty at Columbia University Teachers College.

William Shakespeare Hays (1837-1907) was an American poet and lyricist from Kentucky. In his career, Hays published around 350 songs and sold as many as 20 million copies of works. His original melody “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” refers to a notorious Tennessee battle early in the Civil War in which the Union forces, though victorious, lost even more men than the Confederates.

Blow, Ye Winds (from Five Sea Shanties)

NED ROREM (1923-2022)

CELIUS DOUGHERTY (1902-1986)

Dougherty used only four of the traditionally sung ten verses of “Blow, Ye Winds,” which is more accurately classified as a ‘Fo’c’sle song’ (Forecastle song) as it was sung while sailors were off-duty on deck or in the forecastle. It would have been sung by sailors both on and off the ship and contains a specific perspective that describes the recruiting and work of sailors on a New England whaling ship.

RICHARD PEARSON THOMAS (B. 1957)

Look down, fair moon “Look down, fair moon” is a setting of a poem of the same name by Walt Whitman and is part of his collections Drum-Taps; it is part of Rorem’s collection Five Poems of Walt Whitman, pubished in 1970. The song, though only 12 measures long, depicts the appalling scene of the slain on the battlefield at night.

PROGRAM NOTES Down East

The Indians

Charles Ives stands as one of America’s most original musical voices. A New Englander to his core, Ives drew deeply from the sounds of small-town life: church hymns, band marches, parlor songs, and the overlapping musical textures of community gatherings. His music often feels like memory itself. “Down East” reflects Ives’s lifelong preoccupation with his New England identity, portraying a state of mind rooted in rural simplicity, independence, and quiet resilience. The song quotes and transforms the popular Protestant hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” along the way.

Charles Sprague (1791-1875), known as the “Banker-Poet of Boston,” authored this haunting poem written about the insidious takeover of Native American land instigated by white settlers throughout all of America’s early history. Sprague references the theft of their land and resources, and how they and their future generations are exiled from their home and sent away to die. (We note that ‘Indians’ was the common term for Native Americans at the time of this poem’s writing and is no longer in acceptable use.) Ives’ brooding music of this song existed initially as a small ensemble piece for what was known in his era as a theater orchestra; he only employs a single stanza out of the thirty that make up the poem’s length.

CHARLES IVES (1874-1954)

The Dodger

AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)

“The Dodger” is from Copland’s first set of Old American Songs, composed in 1950. It’s a witty and satirical setting whose tune was used during the 1884 campaign of Grover Cleveland against James Blaine. The text humorously criticizes various types—the politician, the preacher, the lover—as “dodgers,” and the composer underscores this through lively rhythms, sharp accents, and a banjo feel in the accompaniment.

At the River

AARON COPLAND

Copland’s arrangement is from his second set of Old American Songs, composed in 1952. The original title was “Shall We Gather at the River,” whose melody and words were written by Baptist minister Robert Lowry in 1864.

It has since almost gained the status of being a virtual African American spiritual due to its demeanor and popular appeal.

Charles Ives has also made a setting of the hymn.

CHARLES IVES

He is There!

CHARLES IVES

Composed during World War I and revised in the 1940s (to fit a new war), “He Is There!” is one of Charles Ives’s most overtly patriotic and political songs.

Written in response to America’s entry into the war, the piece is both a rallying cry and a painting of national identity.

Weaving in snippets of known war tunes, Ives brings to the fore a spirit that extols what it means to have patriotic pride in one’s country. He quotes “Tenting Tonight” and “Battle Cry of Freedom;” a jaunty flute obbligato adds atmosphere that references the festive music Ives experienced in his youth around this bandmaster father.

In Flanders Fields CHARLES IVES

“In Flanders Fields” is a poem written in 1915 by Canadian Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae who was inspired by the death of a friend during the First World War. Ives was commissioned by his insurance partner Julian Myrik to write a song based on McCrae’s poem in 1917.

PROGRAM NOTES It was published in Ives’ landmark volume “114 Songs” as part of Three Song of the War. There are allusions to drum beats in the accompaniment as well as quotes from the “Marseillaise” and “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.”

forced to deal with daily in that era. The speaker in the text has been promised the fulfillment of a dream that required only that he build, work and fight for his country—a promise left unrealized for many.

Songs for the People (from Miss Wheatley’s Garden)

America (from West Side Story)

ROSEPHANYE POWELL (B. 1962)

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990)

Rosephanye Powell is an acclaimed composer choral and solo vocal music and is the Charles W. Barkley Endowed Professor at Auburn University. Her cycle Miss Wheatley’s Garden is set to poems

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper that honor Phillis Wheatley, an 18th-century African American poet whose very existence challenged the racial assumptions of her time.

“America” is an ensemble piece from the musical West Side Story with music

by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from 1957. The story was inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and set in 1950s New York City. Rosalia and Anita debate the immigrant experience with their friends; while the first is nostalgic for her Puerto Rican homeland, the other idealizes the American Dream.

I Do Not Know What I Know (from Say your Name)

Climb Every Mountain (from The Sound of Music)

REENA ESMAIL (B.1983)

RICHARD RODGERS (1902-1979)

Reena Esmail is an Indian American composer who style is a blend of Hindustani and Western classical music.

She’s been commissioned by numerous ensembles such as the LA Master Chorale and the Seattle Symphony and resides in Los Angeles. Rebecca Gayle Howell (b. 1975) has collaborated with the composer on multiple works, including the Suffrage Rights cantata Say Your Name, which premiered in 2022. It centers around the story of a woman named Democracy, who is battered by gaslighting and confusion.

She finds the courage to remember who she is and learns that to guard our thoughts is to guard our nation.

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were a revered musical theater team in the mid-20th century.

Their award winning musical, The Sound of Music (1959), based on the life of the singing von Trapp family, produced a number of hits such as “Climb Every Mountain,” sung by the Mother Abbess at the end of Act I and in the finale to the show. While intended as encouragement for Maria to live her dream and follow her beloved Captain Georg von Trapp, it can also be seen in the context of American culture as a hymn to positive self-determination.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (from Americana) JAY GORNEY (1894-1990)

Often considered the anthem for the common man during the Great Depression, Gorney’s song to lyrics by Yip Harburg (1896-1981) reflects the fear, grief, and anger that Americans were

Blowin’ in the Wind

JOHN CORIGLIANO (B. 1838)

John Corigliano, composer of the opera The Ghosts of Versailles, is a Pulitzer Prize winner, the recipient of five Grammy Awards, the Grawemeyer Award, and an Academy Award. He wrote the cycle Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan for Sylvia McNair to fulfill a commission by The Carnegie

PROGRAM NOTES Hall Corporation. It was premiered at Carnegie Hall on March 15, 2000.

Inspired by several texts of poet Bob Dylan, Corigliano disregards the known melodies by the poet and resets the texts as original art songs. He states that “Blowin’ in the Wind” demonstrates the “beginnings of awareness of a wider world.”

Strange Fruit

LEWIS ALLAN (ABEL MEEROPOL) 1937

Strange Fruit is an anti-lynching protest song from 1937, written and composed

by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol under the pseudonym Lewis Allan.

The song was famously recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 and later by Nina Simone in 1965. With its metaphor of the ‘strange fruit’ of hanging corpses, it is considered one of the first and most significant songs of the Civil Rights movement and was called a “declaration of war” against racism.

Come Back (from Dogfight) BENJ PASEK (B. 1985) JUSTIN PAUL (B. 1985)

The musical Dogfight is based on the movie of the same name from 1991 and was premiered at the Second Stage Theater in 2012. It follows a group of Marines on the eve of their deployment to Vietnam. “Come Back” is sung

by Eddie Birdlace after he forms an unexpected connection with Rose Fenny during a cruel bet known as a “dogfight.”

In this quiet, vulnerable moment, Eddie confronts the fear of war and the weight of his own mistakes. The song becomes both a plea for survival and a longing for redemption.

Everything I Know (from In The Heights)

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA (B. 1980)

Everything I Know is a heartfelt ballad from In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda. It is sung by Nina following the death of Abuela Claudia who was

a beloved matriarchal figure in the Washington Heights community of Manhattan. Nina reflects on Abuela’s sacrifices and wisdom, recognizing how her strength and love have shaped the person she is growing to become. As Nina tells Abuela’s story, we learn of her sacrifice in leaving Cuba at such a young age to pursue opportunity with her family in America, gradually working toward the American Dream that immigrants from all over the world strive to achieve.

It ultimately honors the resilience, hope, and lasting contributions of immigrants– reminding us that their stories are deeply woven into the fabric of America and will always live on. It honors the resilence, hope, and lasting contributions of immigrants, reminding us that their stories are deeply woven into the American experience.

Lady of the Harbor LEE HOIBY (1926-2011)

This piece is the second song in Lee Hoiby’s song cycle Three Women (1985).

Hoiby, who studied piano and composition with Gian Carlo Menotti at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, is known for his operas The Scarf, Summer and Smoke and The Tempest. The lady in question is, of course, the Statue of Liberty, who represents asylum, safety, and hope. We bookend our concert with the words of Emma Lazarus immortalized on Liberty Island: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

ABOUT THE PIANIST

Mark Robson Mark Robson is equally comfortable in styles ranging from early music played on the harpsichord and organ to the great Romantic repertoire and beyond to contemporary piano works demanding theatrical participation from the performer. As a collaborative artist with singers and instrumentalists, he commands the respect of his peers in both the recital and chamber settings.

He presents an annual recital for the L.A. series Piano Spheres and has performed for Jacaranda on numerous occasions. As an organist, he has also appeared as a soloist in the Minimalist Jukebox at Disney Hall and has performed on the organ in Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl in their 2008 season.

After completing conservatory and university training, Mark amplified his musical studies with extensive study in Paris—where he was a pupil of Yvonne Loriod, widow of composer Olivier Messiaen—and through his work as an assistant conductor and assistant chorus master for the Los Angeles Opera. During this time, he worked with renowned international singers and conductors, gaining great insight into the lyric art. He has also been a musical assistant at the Salzburg and Spoleto (Italy) festivals.

As a composer, Mark has been programmed on concerts in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Barcelona and Paris. The BrentwoodWestwood Symphony Orchestra has premiered two of his orchestral works, Apollo Rising and Christmas Suite. Soprano Patricia Prunty has recorded his song cycle A Child of Air and the same piece was presented by Sari Gruber at the winter Ravinia Festival.

The recipient of several scholarships and awards (including the Certificate of Excellence from the Corvina Cultural Circle for artistic contributions to Hungary), Mark has received degrees from the University of Southern California and Oberlin College. He has worked as a vocal coach for the faculties of USC, Chapman University, the California Institute of the Arts, and Cal State Fullerton. Among his formidable musical projects has been the performance in eight concerts of the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven and numerous performances of Messiaen’s massive cycle, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, and his Diabelli Variations.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Courtney Taylor Soprano Courtney Taylor is a native of Santa Cruz, CA. Courtney performs regularly with Los Angeles Opera and the Los Angeles Master Chorale both as a preference/ roster chorister and soloist. She is thrilled to have begun working as an artist with LA Opera Connects in 2020.

Courtney made her Kennedy Center Debut in November 2019 singing a new work, The Three Paderesky’s as a soloist.

Courtney holds degrees from USC, Graduate Certificate in Vocal Performance 2014, a Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Manhattan School of Music, NY and a Bachelor of Music from Chapman University. Some of her professionally performed roles include Pat Nixon, Adams with LAMC, Pamina, Donna Anna, Suor Angelica, Adina, Violetta, Susannah, Musetta and Countess. Notable Oratorio performances include Handel's Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart C Minor Mass (soprano I and II) and the Beethoven 9th. At the Aspen Opera Theater Center Courtney had the honor of singing the role of Marie alongside Deborah Voigt in Rufus Wainwright's opera Prima Donna.

Courtney has won several prestigious vocal competitions and scholarships among them semi finalist for the Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition in 2012 and 2014. Courtney has performed extensively internationally, singing the title role of Suor Angelica in Viterbo Italy with the Tuscia Music Festival ILAR as well as various concert work in Salzburg and Vienna, Austria.

Courtney is a member of SAG-Aftra and has sung on many film and TV scores including Disney’s Mulan, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Alita Battle Angel, Transformers and, Venom.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

James Martin Schaefer Baritone James Martin Schaefer has an active performing career throughout the United States and beyond. He has received wide acclaim in many of the canonic operatic and oratorio baritone roles. He has performed in numerous productions with Los Angeles Opera and he was a member of Opera Pacific’s O.P.E.R.A. resident artist program.

Some recent engagements include appearances in Los Angeles Opera productions of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in which he sang the Bass Soloist role in a coproduction with Hamburg Ballet, the west coast premiere of Rhiannon Giddons and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize winning opera Omar, Verdi’s Otello. He was featured as principal performer in Verdi’s La Traviata. He also appeared as the bass soloist in a performance of Brahms’ complete Liebeslieder Waltzes with Grant Gershon and Jeremy Frank at the piano.

Schaefer has garnered praise for his “marvelously expressive” (Los Angeles Times) and “powerful” (Orange County Register & Long Beach Press Telegram) interpretations of the most beautiful music composed for the baritone voice.

Schaefer has appeared as a featured/solo artist with Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops Esplanade! Orchestra, the Pacific Chorale, the Long Beach Symphony, Les Grande Ballet Canadiens de Montreal, Distinguished Concerts International, New York, The Young Musician’s Fund Debut Orchestra, San Luis Obispo Opera, La Mirada Symphony, The California Quartet, Chorale Bel Canto, Opera Pacific, Intimate Opera of Pasadena, Center Stage Opera, the Bakersfield Symphony, Santa Maria Philharmonic, Pasadena Pro Musica, the Roswell Symphony Orchestra, Southern California Master Chorale, and the Long Beach Camerata.

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CSUF COLLEGE OF THE ARTS • SELECT EVENTS | SPRING 2026 Brightwork newmusic: Ring of Fire March 4, 2026 Meng Concert Hall

Albert Herring April 10–12, 2026 Recital Hall

Once Upon a Mattress March 5–14, 2026 Little Theatre

CSU Brass Exchange: CSUF/SDSU April 20, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

Advanced Vocal Workshop March 9, 2026, at 8 PM Recital Hall

Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble & Fullerton Latin Ensemble April 21, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

19th Annual Collage Concert & Benefit March 14, 2026, at 3 PM Meng Concert Hall Sarah Cahill, piano* March 18, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall Rhinoceros March 19–28, 2026 Young Theatre University Singers & Concert Choir March 21, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall Paul Galbraith, guitar March 22, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall Fullerton Jazz Chamber Ensemble feat. Ralph Alessi Quartet March 24, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall Talich Quartet March 27, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall Fullerton Jazz Orchestra feat. Joe La Barbera, drums March 28, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

Cello Choir April 22, 2026, at 6 PM Recital Hall Woodwind Chamber Recital April 24, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall University Symphonic Winds & University Wind Symphony April 26, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall Mariachi Titans April 28 at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall University Band April 29, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall Spring Dance Theatre April 30 – May 9, 2026 Little Theatre Fullerton Jazz Orchestra feat. Dave Binney, saxophone May 1, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall University Wind Symphony May 2, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

University Symphony Orchestra with Talich Quartet March 29, 2026, at 3 PM Meng Concert Hall

Blue Note (formerly Jazz Singers) May 4, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

Nicholas Isherwood, bass/baritone* April 7, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

Titan Voices & Singing Titans May 6, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

X-out April 9–18, 2026 Hallberg Theatre

University Wind Symphony & Symphonic Chorus May 9, 2026, at 3 PM Meng Concert Hall

High School Honor Band & CSUF Wind Chamber Ensembles April 11, 2026, at 8 PM Meng Concert Hall

*Part of the 25th Annual New Music Series

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