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Jason Baker Releases Solo Marimba Album featuring Mississippi Composers

Professor Jason Baker’s “All Saints” is available for streaming and download on such popular sites as Bandcamp, Spotify and Apple Music.

Shona Gordon, piano student, wins Piano Solo Competition

Shona Gordon, a piano student major in Biological Engineering, won first place at the Mississippi Music Teachers Association competition under the Freshman/Sophomore Piano Solo Division.

Music Education major Eli Denson’s music premièred by MSU’s Men of State

Percussion Students to Attend Graduate Programs

MSU’s 15th annual Templeton Ragtime and Jazz Festival Features MSU Faculty and Student

The 15th annual Charles H. Templeton Ragtime and Jazz Festival will be presented in a virtual format March 26 and 27.

Eli Denson MSU Libraries honors newest Docher Award recipient

Eli Denson, MSU junior music education major from Decatur-AL, is the university’s newest recipient of the Keyone Docher Ragtime Festival award.

Dr. Sobaskie published on French music

A peer-reviewed publication of MSU music theory professor James Sobaskie entitled “Critical Responses to Nineteenth-Century French Music” has been released by Nineteenth Century Music Review.

Jason Baker Publishes Ragtime Arrangements

MSU Professor of Music Jason Baker published three new works with Ox and Lamb Publications of Lexington, KY.

Dr. Sobaskie lectured on Schubert

MSU music theory professor James Sobaskie provided a lecture on Franz Schubert’s songs heard before a concert of the Brooklyn Art Song Society on February 13, 2021.

Dr. Sobaskie publishes a book chapter on Franz Schubert’s song cycles

MSU music theory professor James Sobaskie contributed a peer-reviewed chapter entitled “Identification in Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise” within The Cambridge Companion to Winterreise.

Starkville – Golden Triangle Music Forum Students Win State Piano Competition

Starkville piano students won the Mississippi Music Teachers Association Piano Competition held on November 2, 2020.