This year’s seven President’s Graduating Leader Awardees with (front, center) President Stoltzfus: (front, left to right) Julia Jun, Mariela Esparza, Sofia Sanchez; (back, left to right) Manny Villanueva, Eduardo Horiba Curvo, Nelson Kemboi, Dan Eash-Scott. Goshen College President Rebecca Stoltzfus recently honored seven graduating seniors with the…
The Goshen College Choirs will present their annual EARTHTONES concert of world choral music in Sauder Concert Hall. The choirs — Chamber Choir, Vox Profundi, and Voices of the Earth — will present a varied program featuring choral works from a wide variety of countries and sung in foreign languages. Graduating senior choir members will also be recognized in this concert. The choirs are directed by Scott Hochstetler and H. Roz Woll.
The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra will present their spring concert on Sunday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
Lavender Jazz, Goshen College’s big band jazz ensemble, will present its spring concert in the Umble Center at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 5.
In honor of Women’s History Month, join us as we shine a spotlight on GC’s BIPOC women’s singing group, The Queen Singers, and celebrate their talent, passion and unwavering dedication to making beautiful music together.
The Goshen College Voices of the Earth choir will spend their spring break touring and performing in churches and schools across the Midwest from Feb. 25 to March 3, with a home concert on Sunday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in the Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall.
Mary K. Oyer, professor emerita of music, died on January 11, 2024, in Goshen at the age of 100. Oyer taught at Goshen College from 1945 to 1987, during which time she developed a Fine Arts course that became legendary among students and was instrumental in bringing wide recognition and acceptance of the fine arts in a Mennonite liberal arts education.
Goshen singer/songwriter Sadie Gustafson-Zook '17 began performing music in Goshen as a fiddle player in the family band at the age of six.
Goshen College’s Performing Arts Series returns for its 26th year during the 2023-24 season with 10 performances featuring new artists and returning favorites to Goshen: Apollo’s Fire — Handel’s Israel in Egypt, The Wailin’ Jennys, A Chanticleer Christmas, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Flor de Toloache, The Lone Bellow, Kurt Elling, American Patchwork Quartet and Martha Redbone Roots Project, International Guitar Night and MALEVO.
PianoInspires.com did a Q&A with Marvin Blickenstaff, a retired professor of music who taught from 1978-1999 at Goshen College. PianoInspires.com is the digital home for the Frances Clark Center community. In 2023, the Frances Clark Center established the Marvin Blickenstaff Institute for Teaching Excellence in honor of his legacy as a pedagogue.
