Music at Mason Gross-Rutgers

Music at Mason Gross-Rutgers The Music Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Their recordings and publications are landmarks in the field.

The Music Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University is a thriving home to 500 students, with a distinguished faculty and a strong history of training performers, educators, composers, and scholars hailing from around the world. Our faculty is comprised of artists and teachers of national and international reputation. They are principles and members of the New York Philharm

onic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Students work closely with faculty in weekly lessons and classes, and also have the opportunity to learn from guest artists who visit regularly to present master classes and lectures. Recent visiting artists include Leif Ove Andsnes, Pascal Rogé, Cho-Liang Lin, Roberto Díaz, Robert McDuffie, Fred Hersch, Eddie Palmieri, Jason Moran, Warren Jones, Time for Three, and the Shanghai, Orion, and Harlem string quartets.

The MGSA Music events for this upcoming weekend!Stay tuned to be updated every week or check out the link in our bio for...
04/24/2026

The MGSA Music events for this upcoming weekend!

Stay tuned to be updated every week or check out the link in our bio for the date and details about each event.

The MGSA Music events for the upcoming weekdays! Stay tuned to be updated every week or check out the link in our bio fo...
04/20/2026

The MGSA Music events for the upcoming weekdays!

Stay tuned to be updated every week or check out the link in our bio for the date and details about each event.

Don’t miss tomorrow evening’s Celebration of MGSA Composers! Faculty and students will perform works by students and alu...
04/17/2026

Don’t miss tomorrow evening’s Celebration of MGSA Composers!
Faculty and students will perform works by students and alumni.

Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 7:30 PM | Shindell Choral Hall

Featuring the music of: Robert Aldridge, Courtney Bryan, Robert Moevs, Alon Nechushtan, Nkeiru Okoye, Scott Ordway, Lily Tang, and Charles Wuorinen
Faculty Performances: Jonathan Spitz, Robert Grohman, Maureen Hurd
and more!

This is a free and unticketed event!

On Monday night, Rutgers faculty will be performing Schubert’s Trio in E flat major for violin, cello, & piano, along wi...
04/17/2026

On Monday night, Rutgers faculty will be performing Schubert’s Trio in E flat major for violin, cello, & piano, along with pieces by Ordway and Clarke.
A sneak peek of the program is attached. This event is free and unticketed! Don’t miss it!

04/13/2026

NEW ELEVATOR ALERT😆🔥
The moment we’ve all been waiting for is here — the Marryott elevator is complete!

A huge THANK YOU to the incredible workers who made this happen. To all of you — thank you for your patience and flexibility throughout this process.

The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra will close its 2025-26 season with a dynamic program with the world premiere of Adrift, a...
04/10/2026

The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra will close its 2025-26 season with a dynamic program with the world premiere of Adrift, a new composition by Andrés F. Maldonado, followed by a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’ vibrant Piano Concerto No. 2 featuring the talent of 2025 Concerto Competition winner, Hyunkyung Ahn. The concert will conclude with the stirring and passionate Nordic drama of Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1.

The MGSA Music events for this week! Stay tuned to be updated every week or check out the link in our bio for the date a...
04/06/2026

The MGSA Music events for this week!

Stay tuned to be updated every week or check out the link in our bio for the date and details about each event.

On Tuesday, April 14, the New Brunswick Jazz Project (NBJP) will celebrate its 17th anniversary with a landmark performa...
04/06/2026

On Tuesday, April 14, the New Brunswick Jazz Project (NBJP) will celebrate its 17th anniversary with a landmark performance in its Emerging Artists Series. The event, titled “The Jazz Composers,” is curated by the internationally acclaimed educator and conductor Dr. Anthony Branker and will feature a sextet of rising stars performing original student compositions.

The performance will take place at Tavern on George, beginning with a featured set at 7:00 PM, followed by the NBJP’s signature open jam session at 8:30 PM.

Curated by Dr. Anthony Branker—a Mason Gross faculty member and the Founding Director of Jazz Studies at Princeton University—the evening will spotlight the compositional prowess of his students. The sextet features:
* Michael Price (Alto Sax)
* Matt Estabrook (Tenor Sax)
* Tahj Walsh (Trumpet)
* James Pakhamou (Piano)
* Jeff Andolaro (Bass)
* Jonah Kantro (Drums)
The program will debut original works by Michael Price, Matt Estabrook, Tahj Walsh, Seraphina Taylor, Maya Anand, Ed Crisonino, Kristin Field, and James Pakhamou.

The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra and Rutgers Choirs will present a special concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Mas...
03/11/2026

The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra and Rutgers Choirs will present a special concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Mason Gross School of the Arts. The program features Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (“Choral”) with soloists Teresa Perrotta (soprano), Gretchen Krupp (mezzo-soprano), Bille Bruley (tenor), and Jarrett Ott (baritone). The evening begins with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music featuring soloists Eunil Cho (soprano), Amina Goldenberg, (soprano), Sonia Sinha (soprano), Jordan Calderon (countertenor), Kai Cleary (mezzo-soprano), Ryan Kalin (tenor) Matthew Zabiegala (tenor), Kieran Calderaro (baritone), Joe Chappel (bass-baritone), Sean Masino (baritone), and Erick Mosteller (baritone).

A special pre-concert talk will take place in Nicholas Music Center 6:40–7:10 p.m. on the date of the concert. As we perform Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to mark the 50th Anniversary of Mason Gross School of the Arts, Nicholas Chong (assistant professor of musicology) surveys how one of the world’s most famous musical works has been used for a variety of public commemorations and celebrations in the two centuries since it was written. What makes this piece of music so appropriate for such special occasions? And could this aspect of its performance history make it harder for us to perceive its complexities and ambiguities?

3/13/26
7:30
Nicholas Music Center
Tickets can be found on ‘masongross.rutgers.edu/events

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