Music Festival Set for Oct. 27-28

The Department of Music and Sigma Alpha Iota will host the 2017 North Star Music Festival Oct. 27-28.

The first concert of the festival begins at 8 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall and features Eli Lara, cello, and Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano, performing modern works for cello and voice.  

BetaMax, a collective of composers from Kansas City, will perform a concert of composed and improvised music at 8:30 p.m. Oct. 27 in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall.

The final concert Oct. 27 will take place in the Del & Norma Planetarium at 10 p.m. and will feature improvised compositions by Truman jazz musicians lead by Tim AuBuchon and accompanied by Chicago laptop artist and Truman alumnus Theodore Moore.

The festival will resume at 2:45 p.m. Oct. 28 in Ophelia Parrish 2340 with a concert of electronic soundscapes created and performed by Moore.

At 4 p.m. in Ophelia Parrish 2350, Uncommon Practice, led by Victor Marquez, will perform a variety of contemporary works for acoustic instruments.

Guest artist Vinicio Meza’s compositions will be performed at the sixth concert of the North Star Music Festival and will feature modern works for acoustic instruments. The sixth concert will begin at 6:45 p.m. in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall.

The final concert of the festival, including the premiere of “Fantasía Sobre Tres Canciones Costarricenses,” newly composed by Meza for the Truman State University Symphony Orchestra, will begin at 8 p.m. in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall.

The festival is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, visit nsmf.truman.edu.