Nicholas Music Center

String Day, coordinated by Dr. Elena Chernova-Davis, brings together the most advanced high school string orchestras from around the tri-county area for a day of playing, fun and learning in Nicholas Music Center.

Sinfonia presents their Fall concert, featuring "An Outdoor Overture" and "Suite from the Tender Land" by Aaron Copland. Concerto competition winner Ryan Colarusso will be featured as the soloist in "Concerto for Trumpet" by Alexander Arutiunian. The concert will conclude with Ivette Herryman-Rodríguez's "Un danzón a mi manera," a composition inspired by Cuban styles of dance. 

The Rutgers Brass Ensemble, directed by Professor John Sheppard, features masterworks and original arrangements of brass and orchestral works.

Saxophonist and concerto competition winner Tyler Sakow will take the stage to perform "Concerto for Alto Saxophone" by Paul Creston with the RSO. After the intermission, RSO will present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 without a conductor for the first time in its history.

Thought-provoking compositions written to explore deep emotion and inspire.

Rutgers Wind Ensemble "The Concerto Concept” will feature Kevin Day's Concerto for Wind Ensemble, Jodie Blackshaw's Symphony No. 1 subtitled Luenig's Prayer Book, and will also feature the Music Department 2023 Concerto Competition Winner, Carson De La Rosa, on Phillip Sparke's Euphonium Concerto No.1

The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra will open the season with Three Latin-American Dances by celebrated American composer Gabriela Lena Frank. The concerto competition winner, Yan Yuet Artemis Cheung, will be featured as the soloist to perform Louis Spohr's Clarinet Concerto No. 2. The concert will conclude with La mer by Claude Debussy.