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MICHIGAN TECH MUSIC PRESENTS

KSO COMMUNITY MUSIC RECITAL

PERFORMED BY MUSICIANS FROM THE KEWEENAW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND THE COMMUNITY

PROGRAM

Run Time TBD | Public Welcome | General Admission

The KSO brings back its popular Community Music Recital at Portage Lake United Church. Musicians from the community of all stripes--vocalists and instrumentalists, solos and ensembles, amateurs and professionals--are invited to participate. Donations are accepted at the door.

Content Considerations // none

TICKETS

No need to reserve your seat! Donations for this event are accepted at the door. 

No student rush for this performance.

ABOUT

Michigan Tech Music, part of the Michigan Tech Visual and Performing Arts Department, offers ten music performance groups: bands, orchestra, jazz, and choral ensembles that expose students, faculty, and the community to the artistic and communicative values of music and the power it has to change lives.

Founded in 1971, the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra is the Upper Peninsula’s oldest orchestra and one of five symphony orchestras in the Lake Superior region. The KSO is a college-community ensemble composed of Michigan Tech students, faculty and staff, and community musicians. The orchestra presents four to five concerts per year—including orchestral masterworks, choral-orchestral, music theatre, ballet, opera, and pops—in the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts.

Joel Neves enjoys a dynamic and versatile career as an opera, ballet, and orchestra conductor and educator. A prizewinner in the American Prize in Conducting, Joel is Director of Orchestral Activities at Michigan Tech, where he conducts the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra. Joel served as national President of the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA). During his term of service, he made a special focus on repertoire for college orchestras, especially contemporary music and music by women composers. Joel received a Doctor of Musical Arts in orchestral, choral, and opera conducting from Arizona State University and bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University.