Pensacola State College
Department of Performing Arts
1000 College Boulevard, Bldg. 8
Pensacola, Florida 32504
Pensacola State College
Department of Performing Arts
1000 College Boulevard, Bldg. 8
Pensacola, Florida 32504
Published: 10-07-2019 By Troy Moon, Pensacola State College Last year, Pensacola State alumnus Eric “Elvis” Jones went to one of his first Lyceum events in years ─ the September 2018 performance by neo-country outlaw Lydia Loveless. He’s tempted to go see Drive-By Truckers frontman – one of the band’s two singer/songwriters – Mike Cooley when…
Dr. Michael Coleman was awarded First Diploma in the 2019 Golden Key International Piano Composition Competition in January and has been invited to perform two of his piano compositions in Vienna, Austria at Ehrbar Hall and at Bӧsendorfer Hall at Mozarthaus on the Golden Key Music Festival at Vienna in August 2019. The competition was…
Don Snowden, “I was honored to be among these distinguished conductors with the Florida All Community Band. The band really played Julie Giroux composition One Life Beautiful with an emotional depth that was inspiring.” I also played and learned a tremendous amount from these conductors and musicians — with Jim Parker, Ivan Wansley and Alfred…
Imagine strolling into a stadium filled with more than 70,000 people, performing for a worldwide television audience of over 100 million people and sharing the stage with one of the hottest bands of the new millennium. For one member of the Pensacola State College family, that dream became a reality on Sunday, Feb. 3. “It…
Brenan Woody, a Pensacola State College classical guitar student, received the First Prize in the 2019 Florida College System Activity Association Winter Music Symposium’s Student Artist Competition. Woody, a music major, was awarded a $1,000 per year scholarship to help pay his tuition at any Florida university for two years. Woody has been studying with…
Michael Coleman is just a guy who writes love notes for his wife, Kadisha Onalbayeva. In fact, he fills the page with them. A Pensacola State College adjunct music instructor and award-winning composer, Coleman said he finds inspiration in ordinary occurrences. He shared a recent composition he created for Onalbayeva entitled “ahsidaK” (her first name,…
Pensacola’s own Joshua Kaye was nominated for the 2019 GRAMMY Music Educator Award by the PTA at Hellen Caro Elementary School and is now as a quarterfinalist. Kaye was selected from 2,800 initial nominees for the GRAMMY Music Educator Award. He is among 188 music teachers from 177 cities who have moved on to the…
A few years ago, you might have happened upon DeWayne Crocker Jr., singing in a local Walmart Supercenter or heard him belt out the National Anthem at a high school basketball game. These days the Pensacola State College music major has a much larger fan base that includes some of the most well-known celebrities. One…
