The YSU Dana School of Music presents a Music at Noon concert featuring YSU Dana faculty member, cellist, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, on Wednesday, January 19th, at 12:15 pm, at the Butler Institute of American Art, on Wick Avenue, in Youngstown.
The YSU Dana School of Music presents a Music at Noon concert featuring YSU Dana faculty members, violinist, Wendy Case and pianist, Youn Jung Cha Guan, on Wednesday, January 12th, at 12:15 pm, at the Butler Institute of American Art, on Wick Avenue, in Youngstown.
The YSU Youth Orchestra, comprised of area high school and middle school students, will perform a concert on Monday, December 6 at 7 PM at Stambaugh Auditorium. The 70-plus members of the Youth Orchestra will perform Rossini’s 'William Tell Overture', Pilsner’s 'A Light in the Ocean', and Dvořák’s (duh-VORSZ-ahks) Symphony No. 9 'New World'. Tickets will be available at the door. More information is available at 330-727-75-14.
The YSU Dana School of Music presents the Dana Chamber Brass Ensembles, directed by Dr. Andrew Mitchell, on Tuesday, November 23, at 7 pm, at the First Presbyterian Church, on Wick Avenue, in Youngstown. The concert is free and open to the public.
The YSU Dana School of Music presents a performance by the Dana Opera Ensemble, on Friday, November 19, at 7:30 pm, in Bliss Hall's Spotlight Theater, on the YSU Campus. Seven Deadly Scenes, and Other Scenes features the students of Opera Ensemble performing specific scenes from various operas exploring the seven deadly sins. More information is available through the Office of Community Engagement and Events at 330-727-7514.
YSU Theater presents Winter Cabaret: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, on Friday, December 10th at 6:30 pm, at the B&O Station Banquet Hall, 530 Mahoning Avenue, in Youngstown. Musical Theater students will be featured performing holiday tunes. Tickets are available at ysu.edu/theatertickets.
Join the YSU Dana School of Music for its holiday music extravaganza Carols and Cocoa and the Dana Holiday Concert, and a cup of hot chocolate,on Wednesday, December 8th, at 7:00 pm, at Stambaugh Auditorium, in Youngstown. Carols & Cocoa and the Dana Holiday Concert features performances by many Dana School of Music ensembles. Tickets available at stambaughauditorium.com.
On Thursday, November 18, Youngstown State University students will be planting 1200 trees at Mill Creek MetroParks Collier Reserve. The yearly project is part of the YSU Legacy Forests’ effort to reduce greenhouse gases by planting micro-forests in the Mahoning Valley. The goal is to plant one tree for every incoming YSU freshman. Trees help slow climate warming by sequestering carbon dioxide in their wood, roots and forest soils. YSU is proud to partner with Mill Creek MetroParks in helping to mitigate climate change.
Youngstown State University’s Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts announces an exhibition of student sculpture organized by faculty Tony Armeni and Lauren Baker opening Monday, November 8 through Friday, November 19 in the Judith Rae Solomon Gallery on Bliss Hall’s second floor. The exhibition is free and open to the public weekdays 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The exhibition includes work from students enrolled in sculpture courses in 2020 and 2021.
YSU Cliffe College's Pipino Performing Arts Series will present classical guitarist René Izquierdo (ray-NAY eess-key-AIR-doe) on Sunday, November 14 at 3:00 p.m. in The Butler Institute of American Art's North Hall. COVID-19 protocols will be followed, with masks required. More information and tickets available at 'DeYor P A C dot org'.