Senior Samuel Jarzab performs in the 2024 Opera Workshop. Courtesy | Emily Douglass Immerse yourself in the world of music with “Melody in Motion,” Hillsdale’s annual Opera Workshop, filled with well-known opera excerpts, on Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 p.m. This year, 28 Hillsdale vocalists will fill McNamara Rehearsal Hall with...
The Hillsdale College Department of Music will host two faculty recitals Sept. 7 and Sept. 9. The first recital will feature Professor of Music Melissa Knecht on the viola, Lecturer in Music Amy Ley on the harp, Lecturer in Music Jaimie Wagner on the flute, and Adjunct Professor of Music Katherine Rick on the piano....
Experience the works of the great composers and the talents of modern musicians at the annual Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra performance in Markel Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 10. Three winners from January’s concerto competition will perform solos with the orchestra: junior Thomas Ryskamp, senior Susena Finegan, and sophomore Keely Rendle. “Ever since...
Practice makes perfect, but Keely Rendle’s talent makes practice short and rewarding. By the time most winners of the annual concerto competition step on stage to solo with the orchestra, they will have prepared their pieces for a full year. A winner of this year’s competition, sophomore Keely Rendle didn’t leaf through the pages of...
At 7:40 p.m. on a Saturday, junior Thomas Ryskamp was sitting in his bedroom when he got a phone call from a singer in distress. It was the fall of 2017, the evening of Sigma Alpha Iota’s concert, and junior Shiloh Carozza had no one to play piano alongside her. Things hadn’t worked out with...