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Open Door Concert Series

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Quartet for the End of Time

Aeolus Quartet

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Aeolus Quartet Performs Ramapo Students’ Works Thursday, April 20th 2017 at 2:00pm, York Room, Birch Mansion, free admission and open to the public Inspired by classical and contemporary composers, students of Prof. Gilad Cohen’s course Musicianship III: Composition have been challenged to compose string quartets of their own.  The New-York-based award-winning Aeolus Quartet will be […]

Ramapo Chorale: West Side Concert Series

West Side Presbyterian Church 6 S Monroe St, Ridgewood, NJ, United States

The West Side Concert Series maintains a "no admission fee" policy Care provided for pre-school children and free parking

Recurring

Roopa Panesar

Sharp Theater 505 Ramapo Valley Road: Berrie Center, Mahwah, United States

Sitarist Roopa Panesar and her accompanists will present two workshops about Hindustani classical music as well as a concert in the Sharp Theater (please see the Berrie Center event listing here for more details). The workshops will have students sing along with Panesar; she will also explain the instruments and her understanding of musical practice […]

Workshop with Composer/Violinist Jonathan Keren

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Switzerland-based composer/violinist Jonathan Keren will run a workshop alongside Prof. Gilad Cohen. Praised by the New York Times for shifting between "tastes of sublime mysticism and catastrophic wildness," Mr. Keren has built his career working in a wide range of musical genres including classical music, Baroque, Irish music, Arabic music, and Klezimer. At the workshop, […]

MUSI 240 & MUSI 255- Field Trip

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

This event is for students enrolled in MUSI 240: Music in Asia and MUSI 255: Music, History, and Culture ONLY. Students enrolled in Professor Marc Gidal's "Music in Asia" and "Music, History, and Culture" courses will take a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn to understand a selection of music traditions […]

Music from China

Susan Cheng, Wang Guowei, and a third member of their ensemble Music from China will present traditional and contemporary compositions of Chinese "silk and bamboo" music. Similar to the group's workshop at Ramapo in Spring 2015, the workshop will focus on  he instruments, ensemble interaction, approaches to program music (instrumental music that portrays non-musical topics), […]

MUSI 316: Music, Technology, and Media Field Trip

This trip is available to students enrolled in MUSI 316- Music, Technology, and Media only. Students of MUSI 316: Music, Technology, and Media will visit the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey and participate in a workshop on wax cylinders and early disc recordings. They will also tour the Morris Museum […]