The Bob Cole Conservatory will continue to hold public performances as we are able. For information about current policies regarding attending a performance during the time of COVID, please read the Performance Attendance FAQ (opens in a new window).
The unique challenges presented this semester may force alterations to or cancellations of events in this calendar, so please check back here frequently—even up to the day of the concert—for the most current information.
Ticket revenue for BCCM events fully supports student learning and scholarships.
The Bob Cole Honors Festival provides a unique opportunity for High School students from grades 10-12 to interact and collaborate with guest solo artists, composers, and conductors. Festival participants will receive section coaching and masterclasses from the invited artists and other festival faculty.
Join us for our wonderful Coffee House Cabaret, where our students shine in all types of music. From Musical Theatre to Jazz, from Opera to Rock ‘n’ Roll, you never know what you’ll get at the Beach Café.
Friday, February 10, 2023 Saturday, February 11, 2023
with Lora Bashmakian, soprano Johannes Müller Stosch, conductor
Join the BCCM Symphony and Lora Bashmakian, winner of this year’s Voice Concerto Competition, in an eclectic program of Mozart’s Magic Flute Overture, William Grant Still’s Darker America, Nikos Skalkottas’ Greek Dances, and Reingold Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra. This one-hour long program will be performed without intermission.
Vienna-based fortepiano specialist brings his instrument and expertise to CSULB in a residency that offers an in-depth exploration of this historical primary instrument for Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. This culmination concert is preceded by three other public events in the Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall, including an introductory lecture-demonstration on the fortepiano.
with Joseph Chang, timpani Johannes Müller Stosch, conductor
The BCCM Orchestra welcomes you back to the stage of the Carpenter Center in an exciting program of Maria von Weber’s Freischütz Overture, Beethoven’s good-humored Symphony No. 8, and Florence Price’s Concert Overture No. 2, featuring three African-American spirituals woven into the orchestral texture. We finish the evening with the brand-new and exciting work by John Psathas: Planet Damnation, featuring our Instrumental Concerto Competition winner Joseph Chang. The one-hour long program will be performed without intermission.
Join us for an afternoon of musical celebration featuring the entire Bob Cole Conservatory piano faculty, joined by award-winning alumni and students performing memorable classics to benefit the Keyboard Studies program. Original works and arrangements for one to five pianos (100 fingers!). Reception to follow.
Join the Conservatory’s finest brass musicians as they present music from the 1500s to today. Enjoy beautiful Italian Madrigals and cutting-edge 21st Century brass music.
A collaborative concert presented by select students from the Piano Accompanying, Piano Ensemble, and the Piano Chamber Music classes. This varied concert features classic repertoire from classical to modern eras.
A chamber concert featuring mostly duos from the classical repertoire performed by Bob Cole Conservatory piano students in collaboration with instrumentalists and vocalists.
Please join our talented and mostly non music-major student musicians from all over campus in their spring program, featuring some well-known classics and new discoveries.
The Piano Showcase features outstanding Bob Cole Conservatory pianists in solo performances of mostly classics by the great composers from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Rob Frear, director; Antonio Lopez and Josh Olson, graduate assistants
Enjoy a plethora of beautiful and intriguing brass chamber music in this semester-ending extravaganza featuring most of the members of the Bob Cole Brass Studio.
with Shun-Lin Chou, piano and the BCCM Chamber Choir Jonathan Talberg and Johannes Müller Stosch, conductors
Our Celebrating Music program features a new work by Jake Runestad: Earth Symphony. Please join the BCCM Chamber Choir and Symphony Orchestra led by Jonathan Talberg for a campus premiere of this moving work. The first half features the orchestra in Lehar’s Merry Widow Overture and welcomes faculty pianist, Shun-Lin Chou, in Dohnányi’s good-natured “piano concerto” in the form of a theme and variation on a nursery song.