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Three days, one song: BYU music students team up with Grammy winner Mark Lettieri to create new track

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
March 14, 2025
Imagine being tasked with writing a song in just three days, and then getting the chance to work alongside world-renowned guitarist Mark Lettieri. That was the incredible opportunity five BYU commercial music students.
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Intellect

BYU’s world-class pipe organ is the ‘crown jewel’ of the new Concert Hall

Sharman Gill
By Sharman Gill
March 06, 2025
If you haven’t experienced the pipe organ in the BYU Music Building yet, you’re in for a treat. With 4,613 pipes and 81 ranks (sets of pipes), it’s the third largest organ in Utah and the only one with two consoles. Organists can play from a console located in the center of the pipework facade or from a movable stage console.
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Character

Pathway to Provo: How musician Ariana Abadia found peace and purpose at BYU

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
September 06, 2023
At BYU, Abadia says she has strengthened her complete character and she’s eager to use her talents to extend love and hope. She envisions returning to Ecuador to help shape the country’s music curriculum and make an education in the arts more accessible to students; maybe even starting a school to teach voice to young students.
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Meet the BYU music grad who taught Cosmo to play the bell tower

By Christie Allen
April 14, 2022
Over the past four years, associate university carillonneur Amber Dahlberg has enjoyed what she calls “the best view” of BYU. From the carillon inside the top of the bell tower, the BYU student has performed hundreds of the university’s traditional 30-minute noon recitals, providing an inspiring campus soundtrack for students, staff and visitors going about their business.
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Events

BYU Performing Arts to offer week-long, free virtual performances

Tyler Stahle
By Tyler Stahle
April 26, 2021
The daily live streams will feature the talented BYU Ballroom Dance Company, Living Legends, Vocal Point, Young Ambassadors, and the International Folk Dance Ensemble.
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Intellect

BYU Chamber Orchestra, Lea Salonga beat out stiff competition for BroadwayWorld award

By Christie Allen
September 09, 2020
A collaborative album between the BYU Chamber Orchestra and Broadway superstar Lea Salonga, “The Story of My Life: Lea Salonga Live from Manila,” recently received the 2020 BroadwayWorld Album Award for Best New EP/Solo Release.
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Character

BYU senior claims top spot at opera competition in NYC

March 03, 2020
BYU student Jonah Hoskins sang his way into $20,000 and a winner of the 2020 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions this weekend, one of the most prestigious opera competitions for young adults.
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Announcements

Vocal Point: new music video, new record deal

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
December 09, 2018
BYU’s favorite nine-man a cappella group is gearing up to bring its music to a much bigger stage. With the release of their latest music video, “What Child is This?,” Vocal Point has announced that they’ve signed a recording deal with Decca Gold, Universal Classics, US, part of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company.
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'Power player' flutist wins top national competition

By Alexa Reimschussel
October 24, 2018
Hands shaky and sweaty, BYU senior Catherine Boyack cleared her dry mouth. She lifted her flute and played. She had been working for months to polish her piece, but she knew it wasn’t her best performance. She left the stage of the convention hall defeated, believing she wouldn’t make it to the final round of the biggest competition of her career.
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Intellect

BYU students win E3 game competition

Andrea Christensen
By Andrea Christensen
June 14, 2018
With their genre-bending "Beat Boxers," BYU animation students take the top prize at E3's College Game Competition.  

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Events

BYU Symphonic Band and BYU Philharmonic premiere student compositions alongside classic pieces

January 24, 2018
New works by BYU students Austin Lopez and Caleb Cuzner will be performed in concert on Feb. 9 and 10.

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Events

BYU Jazz Voices explore facets of jazz

November 05, 2017
The innovative vocal group will perform a concert filled with a variety of new arrangements and familiar tunes on Nov. 15.

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Events

BYU Baroque Ensemble performs music composed by expatriates

November 05, 2017
“All of these composers spent significant amounts of time working, living and being influenced by a country other than their native origin. The results are truly amazing.”

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Events

BYU Philharmonic performs dramatic masterpieces

November 05, 2017
“Scheherazade” by Rimski-Korsakoff is one of the most famous and popular classical works of all time, based on the classic folk tales, “One Thousand and One Nights,” also known as the “Arabian Nights.”

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Events

Symphonic band plays a world tour of song and dance

October 29, 2017
Kirt Saville gives a sneak peek for the upcoming Symphonic Band concert, "A Song or Dance," which will be performed on Nov. 7. 

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Events

Free Family Concert Series introduces young audiences to opera and jazz

October 22, 2017
The first two Family Concert Series events will feature selections from “A Grand Night of Opera” and the BYU Jazz Ensemble.

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Events

Wind Symphony presents melodies from down under

October 17, 2017
The BYU Wind Symphony will present their concert titled Music from the Land Down Under on November 3.

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Events

“A Grand Night of Opera” explores dichotomy of human emotions

Natalie Ipson
By Natalie Ipson
October 09, 2017
Giacomo Puccini's contrasting operas, "Suor Angelica" (a tragedy) and "Gianni Schicchi," (a comedy) will be presented together by BYU's School of Music.

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