Patrick Stauffer

The Campus Band and Campus Orchestra, two all-student ensembles, are led by doctoral and graduate student conductors.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Guest Saxophonist Phil Doyle joins the ensembles for a concert in memory of Ralston C. "Morgy" Craig. Doyle is currently Director of Jazz Studies at Eastern Washington University and has an international touring career. In addition, he has performed on shows such as NBC's Today Show and the Ellen Degeneres Show, as well as on PBS. 

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Led by Douglas Droste, the newly appointed Director of Orchestras, the School of Music’s all-student orchestra performs music from all genres and periods. Faculty soloists are featured on all three fall semester concerts.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Ball State's top two band ensembles present a series of concerts each year under the direction of Thomas Caneva, Director of Bands, and Shawn Vondran, Assistant Director of Bands.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Ball State’s choral ensembles present two concerts in celebration of the winter holidays featuring well-known seasonal favorites and holiday music from a wide variety of traditions.  Ensembles include the Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Singers, Statesmen, Women’s Chorus and University Choral Union.

Ball State’s choral ensembles present two concerts in celebration of the winter holidays featuring well-known seasonal favorites and holiday music from a wide variety of traditions.  Ensembles include the Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, University Singers, Statesmen, Women’s Chorus and University Choral Union.

The winners of the Graduate Solo/Concerto Competition perform with the orchestra.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The University Singers, also known as Indiana’s Official Goodwill Ambassadors, celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year under the direction of Alan Alder. The ensemble warms up the month of January with its annual Spring Cabaret.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

In memory of School of Music alum Uttamlal “Tom” Shah, who was killed in a U.S. Embassy bombing in Kenya in 1998, the Scholarship Award Concert features Ball State’s top three Jazz Ensembles under the direction of Mark Buselli, Director of Jazz Studies.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Ball State's top two band ensembles present a series of concerts each year under the direction of Thomas Caneva, Director of Bands, and Shawn Vondran, Assistant Director of Band. Mallory Thompson guest conducts.

Mallory Thompson, Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Northwestern University, guest conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band. Thompson has appeared as a guest conductor at the College Band Directors National Association conventions, the Midwest Clinic, the Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Aspen Music Festival, among others, and recently released a CD titled Rising. She is a former faculty member of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, University of South Florida, and Oberlin Conservatory.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The winners of the Undergraduate Solo/Concerto Competition perform with the orchestra.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

This all-student ensemble is led by graduate and doctoral student conductors.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The Jazz Ensembles perform with the winners of the Dimensions in Jazz High School Bands competition and with guest trumpeter and vocalist Byron Stripling. Mr. Stripling, current Director of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, has been a featured soloist with orchestras and at jazz festivals throughout the country and the world, and has been noted by the New York Times as "...a powerful trumpeter, at ease with the most complicated and detailed bebop lines and an open-armed Armstrong swagger." Mark Buselli directs the ensembles.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Ball State's top two band ensembles present a series of concerts each year under the direction of Thomas Caneva, Director of Bands, and Shawn Vondran, Assistant Director of Band.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The choral ensembles perform several concerts each semester, offering repertoire from around the world and across the centuries. Each concert features two or more student ensembles and a broad palette of vibrant music.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and composed by Jules Massenet,Werther is the tragic story of a man hopelessly in love with another man's wife. This four act opera features the 2013 Metropolitan Opera Audition winner and Ball State Alumnus, Michael Brandenburg in the title role. Sung in French, with projected English supertitles, this is the first of two performances. The second performance will take place on Sunday, April 6 at 2 p.m. in Sursa Hall.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

Based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and composed by Jules Massenet,Werther is the tragic story of a man hopelessly in love with another man's wife. This four act opera features the 2013 Metropolitan Opera Audition winner and Ball State Alumnus, Michael Brandenburg in the title role. The opera will be sung in French, with projected English supertitles. This is the second and final performance.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The choral ensembles perform several concerts each semester, offering repertoire from around the world and across the centuries. Each concert features two or more student ensembles and a broad palette of vibrant music.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

The Art of Jazz Series presents The Kennedy Dream by Oliver Nelson. Recorded in 1967 and never performed since, this will be a must see for 2014. Fifty years after the death of John F. Kennedy, this hour long set of songs and speeches still maintains relevant today. The work features a full jazz ensemble and scaled down orchestra. 

Douglas Droste, conductor
Oliver Nelson Jr., narrator
Mark Buselli, soloist

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000.  Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.

This all-student ensemble is led by graduate and doctoral student conductors.

For ticket information contact: Emens Auditorium at 765-285-1539 or 1-877-99-EMENS; Ticketmaster at 1-800-745-3000. Tickets go on sale August 12, 2013.