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Moore Musical Arts Center

Classrooms, practice rooms, rehearsal and performance spaces comprise the Moore Musical Arts Center. The administrative and advising offices for the College of Musical Arts also are located in the building. Kobacker Hall and Bryan Recital Hall are the two main performance spaces where the majority of musical and cultural events are presented.

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Moore Musical Arts Center, Bowling Green, OH 43403

https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts.html

Classrooms, practice rooms, rehearsal and performance spaces comprise the Moore Musical Arts Center. The administrative and advising offices for the College of Musical Arts also are located in the building.  Kobacker Hall and Bryan Recital Hall are the two main performance spaces where the majority of musical and cultural events are presented.

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Upcoming Events (6)

15th Annual Dubois Piano Competition: Semifinals

Sat, Jan 18, 2025 9:40am

Moore Musical Arts Center, Kobacker Hall

The semifinals of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano competition will be held in Kobacker Hall beginning at 9:40 AM. The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.

15th Annual Dubois Piano Competition: Guest Artist, Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

Sat, Jan 18, 2025 8pm

Moore Musical Arts Center, Bryan Recital Hall

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano, will give a guest artist recital as part of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition. This event will not be livestreamed. PROGRAM (not digital) from Préludes...................................................................................................Claude Debussy      La Puerta del vino      Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest      Minstrels Kreisleriana, Op.16........................................................................................Robert Schumann      Äußerst bewegt      Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch      Sehr aufgeregt      Sehr langsam      Sehr lebhaft      Sehr langsam      Sehr rasch      Schnell und spielend ~intermission~ Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.35...................................................................Frédéric Chopin      Grave – Doppio movimento      Scherzo      Marche funèbre: Lento      Finale: Presto Mother Moon Songs (2023)...................................................................................Paola Prestini La Valse.................................................................................................................Maurice Ravel   This performance is a Kobacker Concert, funded by the Marvin S. Kobacker Concert Fund.  

15th Annual Dubois Piano Competition: Finals

Sun, Jan 19, 2025 9am

Moore Musical Arts Center, Kobacker Hall

The piano competition finals of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition will be held in Kobacker Hall beginning at 9:00 AM. LIVESTREAM LINK The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.

Art, Trauma, and Healing: A Community-Engagement Series: “Blue Notes: A Sound for Our Time”, Dr. Omi Osun Joni Jones

Wed, Jan 22, 2025 4pm to 5:30pm

Moore Musical Arts Center, Bryan Recital Hall

“Blue Notes” is a community-engaged experience in discovering how we can promote healing and our movement toward aliveness through art-making. In this conversation-workshop, Dr. Jones draws on practices from her training in Embodied Social Justice, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Theatrical Jazz to guide those gathered through a series of sonic, writing and movement experiences to uncover our “Blue Notes”—truths in our lives that are seldom expressed but can support us in our wholeness. This engaged workshop is an opportunity to think about the connections between intellectual projects and liberation, with particular attention to the ways that Africana spirituality emerges as a healing framework. All of Dr. Jones’ work rests on the premise that deep inner liberation is a necessary building block for lasting social transformation. She has provided workshops for domestic violence first responders through Safe Space (now The Safe Alliance) in Austin, Texas; for The Austin Project which she founded to use artmaking as a productive examination of inner wounds among women of color and our allies; and for The Diaspora Project which gathered Black women throughout the African diaspora to examine how anti-Blackness has created divisions among potential allies. Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from New York University, and is a Professor Emerita from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, a mother, a Queer wife, and a curious sojourner. For more information about her work see: https://ournextnow.com/called-by-water

Faculty Artist Series: Katherine Pracht Phares, mezzo-soprano

Wed, Jan 22, 2025 8pm

Moore Musical Arts Center, Bryan Recital Hall

Professor Katherine Pracht Phares, mezzo-soprano, will present a recital as part of the Faculty Artist Series. This event is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed. LIVESTREAM LINK  PROGRAM LINK
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15th Annual Dubois Piano Competition: Master Class, Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

Fri, Jan 17, 2025 2:30pm

Moore Musical Arts Center, Bryan Recital Hall

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano, will present a masterclass as part of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition. Lee is on the piano faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and is the winner of the Naumberg and Concert Artist Guild Competition. Free and open to the public. The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.
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Faculty Artist Series: Sarah Luebke, soprano and Kevin Bylsma, piano

Wed, Jan 15, 2025 8pm

Moore Musical Arts Center, Bryan Recital Hall

Soprano faculty member Sarah Luebke and Kevin Bylsma, piano will present a recital in our weekly faculty artist series. This event is free and open to the public. LIVESTREAM LINK PROGRAM LINK
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Stephen Eckert, piano "Pluton"

Tue, Jan 14, 2025 8pm

Moore Musical Arts Center, Kobacker Hall

Stephen Eckert, piano, will be performing Philippe Manoury's "Pluton" in a recital. This event is free and open to the public. LIVESTREAM LINK: https://youtube.com/live/Z2fQgTBh-PA?feature=share
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Creative Arts Recital

Sat, Dec 21, 2024 3pm

Moore Musical Arts Center, Bryan Recital Hall

Participants in the Creative Arts Program will present an end-of-semester recital. This event is free and open to the public. For more information and registration for the Creative Arts Program, please visit our website.  

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The choice of music was eclectic and wonderful. Baroque is a favorite period, and I have added some new composers to the playlist.
Also enjoyed the the instrument combination. The bassoon was delightful and the trombone made us smile. The harpsichord , well , masterfully done. Lovely ensembles.
Ms. Misses is to be commended for her choice of music, her gathering of musicians and her musicality, she created a very happy and beautiful evening to be treasured.

Wish it was not so difficult for mere human beings to get information about this series. NOBODY knows about it, and I have labored mightily to figure out the system. Somebody needs to juice up the outreach.

Great job!

This was such a wonderful recital. I'm glad it was so well-attended. It was an especial treat to hear the Brahms trio - you don't get to hear chamber music like that all the time. It was beautiful, and you could tell the musicians really enjoyed sharing it with us.

This was wonderful and I deeply appreciate the BGSU brought a Caribbean artist to campus.

The pieces that were presented were wonderful and the performers were great! The background on the series and spoken pieces were also very insightful.

So good

Wonderful. You don't often see performers taking risks like these.

The concert was a delightful educational experience. I'm now a fan of Apollo's Fire!

Delightful! Couldn’t have been happier! Watching professional musicians do their thing to make the beautiful even better is just plain fun! Thank you for the opportunity.

Enjoyed Puppet performance but Sha Sha. As a friend said afterwards, “what did we just see?” Not sure, but it was beautiful, moving and engaging.

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