Lander University’s Department of Music invites the Greenwood and Lander communities to attend the final concerts of the 2024-25 academic year. The Chamber Orchestra and Wind Ensemble will be performing their respective concerts in the Abney Cultural Center at Lander University.
The Chamber Orchestra concert will be held Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. This performance will feature several pieces based on the theme of “journeying” and will showcase music majors Rebekah Logan (viola) and Silas Schiera (cello) as soloists, who are both graduating this May. The final piece on the concert, Randall Thompson’s "The Road Not Taken," will also feature senior music majors and vocalists Mattison Shaw and Julia Werner along with the Barbercats.
Later that week, the University’s Wind Ensemble will give its final performance of the year on Thursday, April 24 at 7 p.m. The Lander Wind Ensemble is the premier instrumental concert ensemble at Lander University. The group is under the direction of Dr. Reed Gallo, chair of the Music Department. He is also the director of bands and professor of trumpet. Gallo studied with Ron Romm, a founding member of the Canadian Brass, and many top orchestra performers. He has performed on solo tours in Europe, including the Kmoch Festival in Prague and Southeast Asia.
Lander’s Chamber Orchestra is an orchestral ensemble open to the entire Lander student body, regardless of major, as well as members of the community. Amy Blackwood, director of the Chamber Orchestra, holds a Master of Music degree in Accompanying and Chamber Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In the fall of 2011, Blackwood became a full-time accompanist at Lander University, where she works with singers, instrumentalists and choral ensembles.
Please visit www.lander.edu/events for updates and to confirm event times and venues. For questions, please contact Perrin Rickenbaker at 864-388-8323, or email music@lander.edu. To make a gift to the College of Arts and Humanities, please visit giving.lander.edu/give/CoAH.