Furman University Music News

Registration is open for Furman Voice Day! Join us on October 5th.

https://www.furman.edu/academics/music/camps-conferences/voice-day/

Join us for FURMAN VOICE DAY.

Register: https://www.furman.edu/academics/music/camps-conferences/voice-day/

Marching Band Extravaganza! - Friday, September 27 at 7:30 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. The concert is FREE and open to the public.

Join the Paladin Regiment—Furman's Musical marching ambassadors—for an indoor concert featuring music from the band's pregame and halftime performance shows. You'll hear fan favorites, as well as a few new tunes. This is a chance to see and hear the band in a close-up experience featuring the musicians and auxiliaries of the Furman Bands.

The 2024-2025 academic year officially opened today with the fall convocation. Special thanks to our faculty and guests who provided the prelude, processional, and postlude music for the ceremony.

Registration for the Furman University Band Day is now open through August 31st! Scan the QR or go to https://www.furman.edu/academics/music/camps-conferences/band-day/

Calling all high school band students!!

The proceeds of the Furman Music Department's piano sale will go towards the regular maintenance of our inventory of new instruments. Please help support Pianos for Paladins and buy one of our gently used pianos for your home, school, or church. Stop by the Daniel Music Building to check out the pianos that are for sale today! Call the music office at 864.294.2086 for pricing. Thank you!

Tomorrow, June 13, don't miss the Poinsett Winds at 7:30 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium! That's right, this concert will not be held at the amphitheater, but if you still want to picnic, there's a lot of green space around the fountain!

Starting this Thursday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. and continuing each Thursday night this summer through August 1, join us for a fantastic evening full of great music, friends, and family! Music By The Lake 2024! More info: https://www.furman.edu/academics/music/camps-conferences/music-by-the-lake/

Starting this Thursday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. and continuing each Thursday night this summer through August 1, join us for a fantastic evening full of great music, friends, and family! Music By The Lake 2024! More info: https://www.furman.edu/academics/music/camps-conferences/music-by-the-lake/

Bravo to Alex Threlkeld, cellist, for this great achievement!

Alex Threlkeld ’24 bound for Germany with a Fulbright teaching grant Threlkeld is the 53rd student in Furman's history to receive a Fulbright grant. He'll serve as an English teaching assistant in the Rhineland-Palatinate region near the French border.

This year's "Senior Spotlight" features Furman Music major, Xavier Johnson. Way to go Xavier!!

Senior Spotlight 2024 Congratulations to the Class of 2024! Meet six Furman seniors who represent diverse talent and immeasurable promise.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Stephan Fillare as an Instructor of Music, conductor of the Furman Symphony Orchestra, and Director of Orchestral Activities.

Stephan is absolutely thrilled to join the Furman University community as well as the community of Greenville. He looks forward to aligning with the visions of students, faculty, and staff, towards a new era of growth, introspection, and possibilities within the Department of Music and throughout the area.

Today we celebrated another generation of Furman music majors and dedicated participants in the Music Department at the annual senior luncheon. We are so proud of these soon-to-be alumni for making it to the end.

Please join us in congratulating the class of 2024!

Today is the big day! It's the 10th annual DiNS DAY! Don't miss the excitement in the Dins Day Top Fund Donor Challenge: The fund with the most individual donors by 11:59 p.m. on April 23 will secure an additional $10,000.

Thanks to several generous Furman Alumni and Parents, we are pleased to announce that the following places will also receive additional dollars:
• Second Fund: $6,000
• Third Fund: $3,500
• Fourth Fund: $2,000
• Fifth Fund: $1,000

Dins Day 2024 Join me and make a gift during our 10th annual Dins Day... Together for Furman Students!

Congratulations to the members of the Furman Music Department from the class of 2024 who were honored at the Academic Awards Ceremony on April 14th!

(Not in attendance, but received an award: Noah Mofield, a winner of the Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award from Music Department; not pictured: Will Livingston, winner of Scholarly Achievement Award in Religion)

Congratulations to the members of the Furman Music Department who were honored at the 2024 Furman University Student Leadership Awards Ceremony on April 7th!

(Not pictured: Marie Cecil '24, winner of the Leverette Sustainability Award)

Happy Dins Day! Be sure to go to givecampus.com/schools/FurmanUniversity and support your favorite Furman student group, scholarship, or project. Give early, and visit today!

Dins Day 2024 Join me and make a gift during our 10th annual Dins Day... Together for Furman Students!

Don't miss the final recital of the Hartness Organ Series, featuring Nathan Laube, organist, on Sunday, April 21st at 3 p.m. in the Daniel Memorial Chapel on Furman's campus. The recital is FREE and open to the public.

Congratulations Dr. Hutton on this tremendous award!

Hutton receives 2024 SCICU Excellence In Teaching Award Twenty-one SCICU member colleges and universities name their honorees each year. They were recognized April 9 at an awards dinner in Columbia.

Don't miss the Spring Honors Recital tomorrow evening, April 16th at 7:30 p.m. in the Daniel Recital Hall on Furman's campus!

Congrats, Kendra, and all of the performers chosen for this year's Spring Honors Recital! (Tuesday, April 16th @ 7:30 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on Furman's campus)

The Spring Honors Recital is one of the significant annual events in the life of the musical community at Furman where our most outstanding Junior or Senior musicians are selected by a faculty vote. Join us next Tuesday, April 16th at 7:30 p.m. in the Daniel Recital Hall as we celebrate these talented music students.

Don't miss the Sarah Reese Lyric Theatre production of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld this weekend, April 13 (7:30 p.m.) and April 14 (2 p.m.) in McAlister Auditorium. Admission is FREE!

You won't want to miss the talented performers on this year's Spring Honors Recital, Tuesday, April 16th at 7:30 p.m. in the Daniel Recital Hall at Furman University.

Don't miss the Furman Jazz Ensemble's spring concert, featuring University of Northern Colorado drummer Jim White, this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Daniel Recital Hall. $5 suggested donation at the door.

THIS Friday! University of Northern Colorado drummer Jim White with the Furman Jazz Ensemble! April 12 - 7:30 PM - Recital Hall - $5 suggested donation! See you there!

Congratulations, Anna Berkes '25, selected to perform on this year's Spring Honors Recital on Tuesday, April 16th at 7:30 p.m. in the Daniel Recital Hall on Furman's campus.