Keene State College Music Department

Keene State College Music Department Degrees Offered:
BM Music Education, Music Performance, Music Composition, Music Technology, BA Music & Music Minor.

Degrees Offered:
BM - Music Education, Music Performance, Music Composition, Music Technology
BA - Music

At KSC Music, we are proud to be a leader in music, performance, and education in northern New England. We are fully ac...
09/22/2026

At KSC Music, we are proud to be a leader in music, performance, and education in northern New England. We are fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music – the only four-year liberal arts college in our region to hold that distinction. In the area of string performance and pedagogy, our faculty is first rate:

Professor Jesse MacDonald (violin, viola) is a member of the Apple Hill String Quartet, an internationally renowned quartet based in New Hampshire. He is a highly skilled chamber musician and experienced teacher of upper strings, and holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and Manhattan School of Music.

Professor Amanda Paul (cello) is a leading music educator and cellist who founded the highly successful Keene Strings program twenty years ago, which has brought about a renaissance of string playing in our public schools. She holds degrees from Ball State University and Boston University.

Professor Steve Cady (double bass) is music director of Vermont Academy, the Keene Jazz Orchestra, the KSC Jazz Ensemble, and numerous successful musical theatre productions in the Monadnock Region. He holds degrees from Keene State College and Rowan University.

We have scholarships available to deserving string students! Please encourage your students to find out more by visiting our website – just scan the QR code on the poster!

We are excited to host professional choir CONCORA to Keene State College on Sunday, 10/4 for the NH premiere of A Passi...
09/20/2026

We are excited to host professional choir CONCORA to Keene State College on Sunday, 10/4 for the NH premiere of A Passion for the Planet.

Last Wednesday in Music Workshop, we had a special guest! Our senior voice faculty member, Dr. Evangelia Leontis present...
09/20/2026

Last Wednesday in Music Workshop, we had a special guest! Our senior voice faculty member, Dr. Evangelia Leontis presented “Vocal Health for Life”. The students had a chance to learn more about the voice and how to take care of their instrument, which is their body! We are thrilled when our adjunct faculty members enrich the curriculum with topics from their research and specialization areas.

Follow us to have more information about music workshop and events! Thanks to student Su Tran for the content.

Thanks to the Monadnock Shopper for this front page feature of our KSC Music Faculty & Guest Artist Recital Series! We a...
09/18/2026

Thanks to the Monadnock Shopper for this front page feature of our KSC Music Faculty & Guest Artist Recital Series! We are grateful to Douglas Cuddle Toys for sponsoring this year's series at Keene State College.

Join us for the Keene State College Music Department Faculty & Guest Recital Series featuring CONCORA, Connecticut’s acc...
09/15/2026

Join us for the Keene State College Music Department Faculty & Guest Recital Series featuring CONCORA, Connecticut’s acclaimed professional 24-voice choir and 12-piece chamber orchestra under the direction of Chris Shepard, joined by the Keene State’s Concert Choir, directed by Sandra Howard with community choir singers from the Monadnock region.

The performance will feature the New Hampshire premiere of Geoffrey Hudson’s “A Passion for the Planet”. At a time when the daily news can feel overwhelming, Hudson’s sweeping oratorio offers something different: a vision of collective possibility. Blending scientific prose, poetry, and sacred texts, A Passion for the Planet gives voice to those who are already doing the difficult work of protecting watersheds, restoring ecosystems, preserving habitats, educating communities, advocating for change, and building a vibrant future.

We are grateful to Douglas Cuddle Toys, Choral Arts New England, and CONCORA for sponsoring this performance!

TICKETS: https://www.keene.edu/arts/redfern/events/1771516183166/

Our KSC chapters of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and American Choral Directors Association (ACDA...
09/13/2026

Our KSC chapters of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) kicked off our Music Workshop Student Recital Series with a performance etiquette presentation followed by Dr. John Hart’s presentation, “Metacognitive Practice Habits”.

A special thanks to Su Tran for creating this social media recap. You’ll be seeing more from her throughout the semester!
Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College
Keene State College Music Department
New Hampshire ACDA
New Hampshire Music Educators' Association

We are in the semester groove!
09/12/2026

We are in the semester groove!

We are thrilled to be presenting the NH premiere of Geoffrey Hudson's "A Passion for the Planet" with CONCORA and profes...
09/01/2026

We are thrilled to be presenting the NH premiere of Geoffrey Hudson's "A Passion for the Planet" with CONCORA and professional chamber orchestra. Save the date for Sun. 10/4 at 3pm in the Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College.

TICKET INFO: https://www.keene.edu/arts/redfern/events/1771516183166/
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Hudson's Passion tours New England
A Passion for the Planet: Hundreds of Voices, One Shared Future
SAVE THE DATE- pick your state!
9/26, 9/27, 10/3 and 10/4- plus March 2027 in Providence, RI

Dear Friends,
We are delighted to announce that CONCORA, Connecticut Choral Artists, tours four New England states this fall under the baton of Chris Shepard, performing Geoffrey Hudson’s oratorio A Passion for the Planet with community partners, including adult and children’s choirs.

Traveling from Springfield, MA, Waterbury, CT, Brattleboro, VT to Keene, NH, A Passion for the Planet performances bring together professional musicians, community choirs, children's choruses, environmental organizations, faith communities, colleges, and local audiences in a shared expression of active hope for our planet: Together, we can create a "gyre of positive change that can redeem the Earth."

At a time when the daily news can feel overwhelming, Hudson's sweeping oratorio offers something different: A vision of collective possibility.

Save the date!
Saturday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2026 at 7 PM – SPRINGFIELD
HOPE Center for the Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
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Sunday, SEPTEMBER 27, 2026 at 4 PM – WATERBURY
St. John’s on the Green, Waterbury, Connecticut
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Saturday, OCTOBER 3, 2026, 7 PM- BRATTLEBORO
The Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro, Vermont
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Sunday, OCTOBER 4, 2026, 3 PM- KEENE
The Redfern Arts Center, Keene, New Hampshire
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And you won’t want to miss the Providence Singers, conducted by Christine Noel:

Saturday, MARCH 13, 2027, PROVIDENCE
WaterFire Arts Center in Providence, Rhode Island

Blending scientific prose, poetry, and sacred texts, A Passion for the Planet gives voice to those who are already doing the difficult work of protecting watersheds, restoring ecosystems, preserving habitats, educating communities, advocating for change, and building a vibrant future.

With fifteen community partners and growing, this four-state tour shines a light on the many people already working to heal the world—not through headlines or slogans, but through steady acts of care, stewardship, and imagination. The performances themselves become living examples of that collaboration, uniting hundreds of singers and instrumentalists across generations and communities.

And audiences won't simply listen. At the conclusion of each performance, everyone is invited to join in song, transforming the concert hall into a community chorus.

Come hear the music.
Meet the helpers.
Raise your voice.
Together, we can sing the future into being.

We are thrilled at this momentum: Hudson's Passion will soon have been heard throughout all of New England. We would love to see you at one of these performances! Please help us get the word out about this performance and our chance to be part of the Great Human Choir - our time is now.

Onward,

Alisa Pearson
Artistic Director, Hybrid Vigor Music

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Keene, NH
03435

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