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Guest Artist Series
2024-25 Guest Artist Series
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Friday, August 23, 5p.m.-9p.m.
Come join us for our outdoor kickoff concert for our 23rd concert season. The music festival features Woodshine Bluegrass Band, Funky Butt Brass Band and Panwe Marimba Band. The festival promises an exciting evening of great music and is free and open to the public.
Pop!Pop!Pop! Orchestra with Anita Jackson: The Music of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Stevie Nicks
Friday, September 6, 7:30p.m.
Pop!Pop!Pop! Orchestra celebrates the most dominant musical media of the past 50 years, popular music, through the power of live string performances. Come for a show celebrating three brilliant singer/songwriters featuring St. Louis icon, vocalist Anita Jackson!
Friday, September 20, 7:30p.m.
The members of the Arianna String Quartet serve on the faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as professors of violin, viola, and cello. The ASQ also presents an interdisciplinary performance and lecture series “First Mondays with the ASQ”, at KWMU, St. Louis Public Radio. Pianist Jennifer Judd will join ASQ performing Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major.
Friday October 18, 7:30p.m.
The Lovestruck Balladeers enchant audiences with their masterful performances and inspired repertoire of ragtime, jazz and beautiful songs from around the world. Together or on their own paths, this stellar band of traveling musicians has traversed the country and the globe, carrying traditional styles into modern times.
Bistro and Brewer: If Music Be the Food of Love
Friday, November 8, 6p.m. Bistro; 7p.m. Concert
Grammy award winning soprano Christine Brewer and the ECC Culinary Department present an unforgettable evening of food and beautiful music. Christine Brewer was named one of the top 20 sopranos of all time (BBC Music). The seating is limited, please reserve your tickets early.
Friday, January 24, 2025, 7:30p.m.
It is our great pleasure to once again welcome St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster David Halen and acclaimed SLSO cellist Bjorn Ranheim with pianist Jennifer Judd for an evening of spectacular music. Halen, Ranheim and Judd will perform trios by Rachmaninoff and Brahms.
Friday, April 4, 2025, 7:30p.m.
Led by Baroque violin soloist, Daniel Lee, Early Music Missouri brings Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to the ECC stage. Probably the best-known program music in the classical repertoire, these concerti depict roiling streams, wintery blasts, dancing peasants, baying dogs and more. Performed by a chamber ensemble playing period instruments, this concert offers listeners an exciting introduction to the sounds of Vivaldi’s musical world.
Friday, April 25, 2025, 7:30p.m.
Twinspeak: Alan and Mark Ferber Group. Identical twin brothers, Alan & Mark Ferber are multiple Grammy nominated artists. They can be heard on over 200 recordings. Grammy winning Alan Ferber has been called "One of the Jazz World's premier composers and arrangers". This concert will be celebrating the release of their newest recording. It will undoubtedly be a special evening of music and improvisation.
Matinee Series
Fridays 4p.m. HH105
2024-25 Matinee Series Fridays
Friday, Sept 27, 4p.m. HH105
Miguel Espinoza is hailed as one of the best flamenco guitarists in the world. Described by Guitar Player Magazine as “mesmerizing. Miguel Espinoza Fusion is world class global chamber music making that explodes the parameters of style, yet ever remains close to the heart.”- David Balakrishnan.
Friday, November 1, 5 p.m., HH105
The Croatian pianist Javor Bracic was praised by New York Concert Review for “deep, genuine musicianship and an outstanding technique” at his Carnegie Hall debut recital. He has given recitals in five continents. Dr. Bracic is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut and Queens College.
Friday, Feb 7, 2025, 4p.m., HH105
Early Music Missouri presents a concert of intimate and moving French vocal music for the Lenten season. Tenebrae Lessons, sung in the final week of Lent, were heard in churches and chapels across EuropeThis concert feature some of the finest Baroque Tenebrae Lessons by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault sung by a trio of sopranos accompanied by period instruments.
Friday, March 7, 4p.m. Theater
Members of the ECC Music Department faculty present a dynamic concert that includes works by a diverse array of composers and styles. Please join us to hear the very talented ECC Music Department faculty in this popular recital.
Friday, April 11, 4p.m. Theater Lobby
Join pianist Melanie Lina and her husband Hank of Just Hank's Coffee for a springtime 'kaffee und kuchen' concert--the perfect Friday afternoon treat starting with coffee and cake served in style by Hank, followed by a delightful set of solo piano works, as well as piano 4-hand selections, in which Melanie will be joined by her friend, beloved pianist Jennifer Judd.
Ensemble Series
Ensemble Series
October 8th – 7 p.m. ECC Band concert
October 17th – College Choirs Concert
Dec. 3rd – 7 p.m. ECC Bands
December 6th – Christmas Celebration – College Choirs – location TBA
March 4th – 7 p.m. ECC Bands
March 11th – College Choirs Concert
May 9th – POPS concert
May 13th – College Choir Concert
FESTIVALS
Piano Sonatina and Violin Festival February 1 and 2 (Auditions on Saturday and Winners Recital on Sunday)
MSHSAA Solo/Ensemble March 7th and 8th (Friday and Saturday)
Midwest Sheet Music Choral Festival- March 11
PALEN Band Day March 13th and 14th (Thursday/Friday)
MSHSAA Large Ensemble March 27th and 28th (Thursday/Friday)
Jazz Clinic April 24th and 25th (Thursday/Friday)