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Shoji Kameda throat sings, Masato Baba hits the taiko and Eien Hunter plays the drums in On Ensemble. The group entertained Chico residents at the 21st annual Chico World Music Festival. Photo credit: John Domogma

Chico World Music Festival delivers stellar performances

Jake Hutchison
September 14, 2014
Chico Performances' 21st annual Chico World Music Festival featured incredible international acts, children's crafts and giant sawmill puppets.
Photo Courtesy of School of the Arts and Joe Paul DiMaggio. Tobin Roye, faculty member and guitarist, is the leader of Chico State’s Guitar Ensemble.

Guitar Ensemble delivers refreshing take on classical guitar

Sarah Scharf
May 3, 2014
The Chico State Guitar Ensemble showcased their musical talents in "Camaieu" Friday night in the Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall.
Natalya Shkoda, coordinator of keyboard studies. Photo Courtesy of School of The Arts and Joe Paul DiMaggio.

Benefit features musically talented faculty, students

David Kahn
April 23, 2014
Chico State music students and faculty perform April 26 to support the music and theatre department’s keyboard program.
Jason Kim competed at the 2014Earl R. and Marilyn Ann Kruschke Prize in Piano Performance Competition April 5 at the Performing Arts Center. Photo credit: Shayla Ramos

Quick on his keys: Competition-winning pianist Q&A

April 6, 2014
The Orion sat down with the first-place winner of the Earl R. and Marilyn Ann Kruschke Prize in Piano Performance Competition to discuss piano, bananas and what the $2,000 prize means to him.
Jason Nice, history professor at Chico State, lectured on the Tudor family traditions and their representation in history. Photo credit: Shannon Miller

Professor lectures on 16th century royalty

Michael Quiring
March 27, 2014
A history professor presented Tudor Memories: 500 Years of Commemoration at the Hampton Court Palace Wednesday evening.
Professor David Dvorin, artistic director of the New Music Symposium, composed and performed a live score for the film "The Golem" to close the symposium Saturday night. Photo courtesy of Chico State.

Symposium closes with silent film score

Veronica Hodur
March 2, 2014
A professor composed an exciting new score for a silent film from the 1920s to end the New Music Symposium.
"Armed Domestic Security" is one of the visuals from Mitchel Davidovitz's project, "Window of Normalization," which debuted during the The New Music Symposium Thursday night. Photo Courtesy of Mitchel Davidovitz.

Composers present new works at student symposium

Michael Quiring
February 28, 2014
Chico State students performed original compositions during the first of three nights of the New Music Symposium.