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
The annual Student Excellence Awards recognizes and honors some of Pensacola State College’s many outstanding students. Over 200 students are recognized this year for their achievements and reflect the theme of a Tradition of Excellence. This year’s theme of “A Tradition of Excellence” is exemplified by the achievements of these students including academic excellence, leadership,…
Michael Coleman was recently named a semi-finalist for the 2020 American Prize in the Instrumental Chamber Music category for his “String Quartet No. 1”. The American Prize is an annual national competition which features several composition and performance categories. Administered by Hat City Music Theater, Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Danbury, Connecticut, The American Prize was…
Members of the PSC Senior Citizens Club recently presented the PSC Foundation with $2,000 targeted for the College’s performing arts programs. “We’ve been to the Lyceum performances so many times and have just been blown away,” says club president Theresa Gels, seen at left in the photo, with James Manara, club founder and former president;…
The 3rd Annual Pensacola Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition took place on Saturday, February 15, 2020, at the Pensacola State College Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium. The competition began at 10:00 am on Saturday morning, with 13 competitors from 9 to 18 years of age, performing on nylon and steel string guitars. Participants came from as…
Please join us this weekend as Dr. Rodney Whatley, Director of Theatre, will be inducted into the FCSAA Hall of Fame! A small ceremony will be held before Saturday’s production of PSC’s fall musical, The Producers. This will be held in the Ashmore Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
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…
