GCSO
September 8, 2023
GC welcomes new GCSO director
This year at Sauder Concert Hall, audience members can expect to see a new face take the stage with the symphonic orchestra: Director Richard Brunson. Brunson is a teacher, conductor, hornist and Tolkien enthusiast who was hired earlier this year at Goshen College to fill the roles of symphony orchestra director and associate professor of music. Brunson has a doctoral degree in instrumental conducting from the University of Nevada (Las Vegas), and has taught and conducted for many different ensembles — most recently at the University of Wisconsin (Marshfield), where he has served as conductor for the band, orchestra and...
December 1, 2022
Goshen choirs perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with guest musicians
Goshen College’s Vox Profundi and Voices of the Earth choirs joined the Elkhart County Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Singers to perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on Sunday, Nov. 20th in Sauder Concert Hall. The symphony was directed by Dr. Soo Han. 800 people were present to watch the performance, and over 100 people viewed the livestream. Han, the Director of Orchestral Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, serves as music director for the Elkhart County Symphony Orchestra. Under his direction, each ensemble worked toward perfection. The orchestra is celebrating its “75th Diamond Jubilee,” with this season of...
November 3, 2022
GCSO to present fall concert as Mast prepares to step down
The Goshen College Symphony Orchestra (GCSO) will present their fall concert in Sauder Concert Hall on Friday, and it will be one of their last concerts directed by Brian Mast. The concert will feature three distinctive pieces: the Overture from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture and Bedřich Smetana’s The Moldau. “I wanted to pick some programmatic music that depicts something,” said Brian Mast, director of the GCSO and executive director of the Music Center. Both the “West Side Story” piece and the Tchaikovsky overture explore the story of Romeo and Juliet, albeit in very different...