BYU’s Choral, Percussion, Jazz and Orchestral Ensembles Offer a Variety of Spring Concerts This March
Classical Percussion
- Date & Time: Mar. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: $10–16
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
Experience BYU’s Percussion Ensemble and Tangents Percussion Quartet in an exciting concert featuring diverse percussive music, including arrangements of contemporary popular genres and experimental music on unique instruments.
BYU Wind Symphony: BYU Concert Band Festival Featured Concert
- Date & Time: Mar. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: $10–16
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
1,200 high school and junior high students flock to campus to perform and celebrate the joy of band music with the BYU Concert Band Festival. BYU Wind Symphony will present the featured concert for the festival.
Salt Lake Tabernacle Organists Recital
- Date & Time: Mar. 11 at 7:30 pm
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: $10–16
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
- Livestream: View live stream of this concert
This concert features all current and emeritus Salt Lake Tabernacle organists trying their hands and feet at the new Létourneau concert organ. Performers include Richard Elliott, Andrew Unsworth, Brian Mathias, Linda Margetts, Joseph Peeples, John Longhurst, Clay Christiansen and Bonnie Goodliffe. All of the organists have a strong connection to BYU, either as alumni or former School of Music faculty. Read more about the BYU Concert Hall Organ Inaugural Series here.
BYU Singers: Musica Eclectica
- Date & Time: Mar. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: $10–16
- Tickets: Available online at BYU Onstage
Audiences will have the chance to experience BYU Singers in their final concert of the semester in preparation for the 2025 World Choir Festival competition in Greece. BYU’s award-winning chamber orchestra will present an “artistically curated menagerie of stunning musical gems both ancient and modern.”
Jazz Ensemble: Jammin’ on the Bandstand
- Date & Time: Mar. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: $6–12
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
It will be difficult to determine who will have more fun at this concert, the audience or the Jazz Ensemble student! “Jammin’ on the Bandstand” will feature past and present jazzy tunes that will make you want to get up and groove.
"The band will revisit many great big band tunes from decades past as well as some new and current songs,” said director Mark Ammons. “If you love big band music, you definitely don't want to miss this concert!"
BYU Mountain Strings: Traditional Music of Ireland
- Date & Time: Mar. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Recital Hall
- Price: $6–12
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
Looking for a way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on campus? Three BYU folk music ensembles are performing a concert featuring global music ranging from the U.S to Ireland to Russia. Although not all of the music is Irish, most of it comes from Celtic or Irish influence.
“I want to give the audience a taste of Ireland prior to St. Patrick’s Day,” said director Mark Geslison.
The audience will have the chance to hear bluegrass music from the American ensemble. Bluegrass originated in Kentucky in the 1930s and 1940s. It was born from traditional Appalachian dance music from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The ensemble will include the banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, bass and voice.
The Celtic ensemble will perform music primarily from the British Isles: Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. The instruments include harp, piano, fiddle, flute, guitar, accordion, bass and bodhrán—an Irish drum. The students will sing in English, Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
Mountain Strings ensemble will play music from Ireland, the Isle of Man, Scotland, Denmark, French Canada, Macedonia, Russia and the U.S. Their instrumentation includes accordion, fiddle, bass, guitar, percussion, piano and voice. They will sing in Macedonian, Russian and English.
Geslison teaches his students traditional music—some so old that the authors are unknown—as well as contemporary folk music from composers known and alive. “Some music reaches back 300–400 years, while other pieces are less than 10 years old,” he said. “We will also feature two songs composed by current members of Mountain Strings. Come get a taste of Ireland—and the world—in our concert!”
BYU Chamber Orchestra & Philharmonic: Americans Down Under
- Date & Time: Mar. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: Starting at $10
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
BYU Chamber Orchestra, BYU Philharmonic and Lyceum Philharmonic will bring the sounds of the outback to campus before heading “down under” on their tour to Australia in May. The concert will include music from “The Man from Snowy River” and a unique piece called “Earth Cry” featuring the didgeridoo. The didgeridoo is an aboriginal Australian instrument made from hollow wood and is thought to have originated some 40,000 years ago. The concert will feature Stephen Kent, an internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and one of the foremost didgeridoo players.
“We’ve created a program that looks to blend the beautiful landscapes and unique culture of the West and the Outback that I think will be loved by audiences on both sides of the globe,” said director Nathan Haines. “If you have any ties or interests to Australia you are not going to want to miss this!”
BYU Symphony Orchestra
- Date & Time: Mar. 26 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: $6–12
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
BYU’s Symphony Orchestra performs standards from the traditional orchestral repertoire, as well as new favorites.
Concert Choir and Men’s Chorus
- Date & Time: Mar. 28 at 7:30 p.m.
- Location: Music Building Concert Hall
- Price: $10–16
- Tickets: Available online at BYU OnStage
Join the BYU Concert Choir and Men’s Chorus in an evening of worship and hymnal music from multiple faith traditions culminating in a mix of worship and folk songs, hymns and lighter fare.