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The Marshall University Jazz Studies Program will offer a FREE Virtual Jazz Camp that will be open to all music students ages 13-adult, and will also be open to their music teachers and band directors. Virtual sessions will be offered Monday, June 8 through Friday, June 12 beginning at 1pm (EST) and will be live

The Marshall University Choral Union and the Marshall University Symphony Orchestra will join together to present a program honoring victims of the Holocaust at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at B’nai Sholom Synagogue, 949 10th Ave., Huntington.

Marshall University’s Dr. Johan Botes, assistant professor of music, along with former James Madison University piano professor Vicki Cavendish, who now resides in Charleston and maintains a full private piano studio, will perform a two-piano recital beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, in Smith Recital Hall on the Huntington campus.

The Marshall University Chamber Choir will join the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus in celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centenary and Walt Whitman’s bicentenary anniversaries in two upcoming performances.

Marshall University’s School of Music will present a concert and a master class with performer Kaitlyn Davis. Davis is a New York-based soprano who played the part of Christine Daaé in the North American tour of “Phantom of the Opera,” winning the Emerging Talent Award from the Kurt Weill Foundation’s 2016 Lotte Lenya Competition.

Marshall University’s School of Music will present a guitar recital with guest artist Dr. Ryan Book at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at the Jomie Jazz Center on Marshall’s Huntington campus. The recital is free and open to all.

The Marshall University School of Music will host its 10th Annual Festival of New Music on Thursday, Feb. 28, and Friday, March 1, featuring the music of Dr. Michael James Olson, Edwards Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Arts, festival guest composers, and Marshall University composition students. Three festival concerts feature solos, chamber music, electro-acoustic music and

The Marshall University School of Music will present a classical guitar recital featuring guest artist Dr. Ken Luk of Rochester, New York, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Jomie Jazz Center.