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Music Department Concerts and Events

  • WP New Music Series Fall Kick Off!
    Oct 06, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    The WP New Music Series kicks off the season with a world-premiere performance of Gabriel Schmid-Doyle's interdisciplinary composition, Sketches from the Cocoon, centered on the theme of metamorphosis between formal composition and improvisation. 


     

  • WP Wind Ensemble Song in Bloom
    Oct 09, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea Center for Performing Arts

    Song in Bloom explores the beauty of nature and human connection through wind ensemble works by Gala Flagello, and Percy Grainger, Aaron Perrine and Caroline Shaw. From wildflowers and roses to folk tunes and love songs, this program invites listeners into a soundscape of reflection, joy, and peace.

    Tickets:
    $20 suggested donation for adults
    $15 suggested donation for seniors, children, and non-WP students.


     

  • WP Voice Career discussion with WP alumna Ashley Pettet
    Oct 13, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    Career discussion with WP alumna Ashley Pettet


     

  • WP Voice | Vocal Masterclass, featuring WP voice students and faculty
    Oct 14, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    Vocal Masterclass, featuring WP voice students and faculty


     

  • Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra
    Oct 25, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    Tickets:
    $28 Public
    $18 Seniors & WP Community
    $8 Non-WP student Free for WP students


     

  • WP Music Department presents Collage!
    Nov 02, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea Recital 101

    WP Music 2025 Collage bursts upon the stage with engaging and thrilling performances by a variety of our top student ensembles, including jazz, classical, and popular music!

    Tickets:
    $25 for adults
    $15 for seniors, children, and non-WP students.

     


     

  • WP Voice Song Evening: Keep Dancing
    Nov 11, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

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  • WP Percussion Ensemble presents John Luther Adams's seminal Strange and Sacred Noise
    Nov 20, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    This 70-minute work is a celebration of noise as a metaphor for turbulent phenomena in the world around us, and a gateway to ecstatic experience. Grounded in the elemental violence of nature and the self-similar forms of linear fractals, this music is a convergence of sonic geography and sonic geometry. Each piece in the cycle is conceived as its own distinct and separate sound world, evoking the immediacy and presence of a place.


     

  • WP Voice Musical Theatre and Opera Scenes
    Nov 21, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

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  • WP Voice Musical Theatre and Opera Scenes
    Nov 22, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

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  • WP New Music Ensemble End of Semester Bash
    Nov 24, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    End of Semester Bash presents music from the 20th and 21st Century performed by WP Faculty, Students, Alumni and Friends.


     

  • WP New Music Ensemble | End of Semester Bash
    Nov 24, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    End of Semester Bash presents music from the 20th and 21st Century performed by WP Faculty, Students, Alumni and Friends.


     

  • WP Piano Night Presents Ravel @ 150! Part II
    Dec 01, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    WP piano students, faculty, alumni and special guests continue to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, with Part II of the French Composer's complete piano music! Featuring works for piano duo, including Ma mère l'Oye, La Valse, and the rarely heard Frontispice. Solo works include Valse nobles et sentimentales, Gaspard de la nuit, and more!


     

  • WP Voice WP Choirs Concert
    Dec 03, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: St. Joseph Church, 399 Market Street, Paterson, NJ

    Tickets:
    $20 suggested donation for adults
    $15 suggested donation for seniors, children, and non-WP students.


     

  • WP Wind Ensemble featuring Composer-in-Residence, Omar Thomas with the Bergenfield High School Honors Wind Ensemble
    Dec 04, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
    Location: Shea 101 Recital Hall

    WP’s 2025-2026 Composer-in-Residence, Omar Thomas, is an award-winning American composer and educator known for his vibrant, socially conscious works that blend classical, jazz, and Black musical traditions.  In this concert, Dr. Thomas’s music is featured by the WP Wind Ensemble, with guests from the Bergenfield High School Honors Wind Ensemble and in collaboration with musicians from the Paterson Music Project and the WP Music Mentors program.

    Tickets:
    $20 suggested donation for adults
    $15 suggested donation for seniors, children, and non-WP students.