Students Perform at Intercollegiate Band Festival
Four University of Scranton Performance Music students were selected to participate and perform in the 75th Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival at Mansfield University. Scranton is one of only four Pennsylvania colleges and universities to have students participate in every PA Intercollegiate Band Festival since 1982. From left: Sally Hopkins ’26, tuba; Anthony Torres ’25, French horn; Colin Gilmartin ’24, euphonium, and Tanya Siberon ’23, trumpet.Four University of Scranton students who participate in Performance Music were selected to participate and perform in the 75th Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival, hosted this year by Mansfield University on March 10-12. They joined 130 other students from colleges and universities throughout the state under the baton of guest conductor Gary Green from the University of Miami for three days of intense rehearsal, culminating in a festival concert on the afternoon of March 12.
The students qualifying for participation were: Colin Gilmartin ’24, euphonium, a political science major from Moscow; Sally Hopkins ’26, tuba, an advertising and public relations major from East Stroudsburg; Tanya Siberon ’23, trumpet, a psychology and counseling and human services double major in the accelerated counseling master’s program from North Baldwin, New York; and Anthony Torres ’25, French horn, a biochemistry major in the pre-med program and member of the University Honors Program from New Milford. Torres is also the recipient of a full-tuition Presidential Scholarship at Scranton.
The University is one of only four Pennsylvania colleges and universities to have students participate in every PA Intercollegiate Band Festival since 1982.
The primary focus of Performance Music at the University is its student choral and instrumental performing ensembles. There is no music major at the University, and all enrolled Scranton students (undergraduate and graduate) from every major are eligible for membership in the University bands, choirs and string ensembles, with neither an audition nor enrollment fee required for membership. Hundreds of students participate in the ensembles each year. Other programs within the department, including guest artist concerts, World Premiere Composition Series, Nelhybel Collection, and Scranton Brass Orchestra, closely coordinate programming with the student ensembles and offer unique opportunities for student musicians in the ensembles to hear, observe, interact and perform with numerous world-class musicians and artist-teachers.
For more information on Performance Music at The University of Scranton, visit scranton.edu/music.
The full spring season of Performance Music Concerts can be seen here.
