Welcome!

Brenau University welcomes all music lovers to experience the wide array of events located on campus.
Life at Brenau is full of the arts–keep your passion for music alive!

Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public.
Please call 770.538.4764 for more information!

An Evening of Four-Hand Piano Music

Thursday, August 30

7:30 p.m.

Pearce Auditorium

You are invited to join Keith and Priscilla Jefcoat for an evening of great music for piano duet. Works by Mozart and Dvorak.

Admission is free.

Gabrielle Wagner, Senior Recital

Friday, August 31

7:30 p.m.

John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts Atrium

Gabrielle Wagner, mezzo-soprano, will perform selections featuring music by Ravel and 20th-century American opera composers Menotti, Bernstein and Ben Moore.

Free and open to the public.

Bobby Reidling, Senior Recital

Friday, September 14

7:30 p.m.

Theatre on the Square, Brenau Downtown Center

Bobby Reidling, baritone – joined by Jennifer Skidmore, soprano, Nicholas Whitmire, tenor, and Julie Brady, piano – will perform musical selections by Mozart, Bizet, Handel and Schubert.

Free and open to the public.

Haven Clippenger, Senior Recital

Friday, October 12

7:30 p.m.

Pearce Auditorium

Haven Clippinger, soprano, will perform musical selections by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven and Fauré, eaturing music featuring texts of Shakespeare.

Free and open to the public.

Waltzes and Lullabies 

Tuesday, October 23

7:30 p.m.

John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts Atrium

The Brenau Vocal Chamber Ensemble along with the Chestatee High School Advanced Women’s Ensemble will present a delightful program of choral music to “sing you to sleep.” Bobby Ivey and Lisa Bassett, directors.

Free and open to the public.

International Week Dance and Music Event:
Ceol, Damhsa Agus Craic!

Thursday, November 1

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Pearce Auditorium

Brenau University’s Department of Dance and Department of Music are collaborating to celebrate the Celtic sounds of Ireland with an exciting concert filled with traditional music, singing, and dancing. This concert is a part of International Week celebrated across Brenau’s campus with lectures, workshops, food tasting, and so much more.

Free and open to the public.

Highest Praise 

Sunday, November 4

6:00 p.m.

Pearce Auditorium

Brenau University Gospel Choir, under the direction of Portia Burns, hosts its second Mass Choir Workshop and Concert. The workshop is open to community singers, faculty and staff who wish to learn more about the techniques of gospel singing. The concert will present that work in Highest Praise. Admission: $5.

Brenau Gospel Experience Audition Finals

Sunday, November 4

6:00 p.m.

Pearce Auditorium

Participants will be selected from the final round of auditions to perform in the Brenau Gospel Experience event in March 2019.

Spectrum Winds Plus HONORS Recital

Tuesday, November 13

7:30 p.m.

Pearce Auditorium

Spectrum Winds ensemble, Director Dr. Tamika Sterrs-Howard, and juried soloists from the Department of Music celebrate the culture of Ireland in a variety of genres and styles.

Free and open to the public.

Brenau Holiday Concert

Monday, November 26

7:30 p.m.

Hosch Theatre, John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts

This collaboration will feature a presentation of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols performed by Brenau’s Vocal Chamber Ensemble, directed by Bobby Ivey, and students from the Department of Dance, choreographed by Madia Cooper-Ashirifi. Other Christmas favorites will be performed by Spectrum Singers and the Cresswind Community Chorus, directed by Chuck Bridwell.

Free and open to the public.