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 Pensacola State College 2025 Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition brought together talented young musicians for an unforgettable day of competition, instruction and inspiration on Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium.
From the beginning of time, people have been fascinated with the stars, lying on the ground or looking through telescopes to gaze at the universe above. Pensacola State College allows astronomy fans of all levels to glimpse the Pensacola night…
The 11th Annual Foo Foo Festival is scheduled for Oct. 31 through Nov. 11, 2024, and this year, the Pensacola State College Visual Arts Department and Performing Arts Department will be participating in Foo Foo Festival with a collaborative project “Eclectic Fidelities.”…
Pensacola State College’s Planetarium and Space Theater will show “Apollo and Beyond: Conquering Gravity” on Friday, July 12. The showing is set for 6-7 p.m. in the planetarium located in the Baroco Center for Advanced Technology, Building 21, on the…
Pensacola State College Performing Arts Department will present a Mark Landon Smith double feature this week. The department will stage “Plan 9 From Outer Space” and “Night of the Living Dead” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 23-25, and…
The Pensacola State College Wind and Jazz Ensembles, under the direction of Doug Holsworth, will present their annual Spring Concert this month. The free event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building…
Lovro Peretić, the 2022 Guitar Foundation of America’s International Concert Artist Competition Rose Augustine Grand Prize winner, will perform at Pensacola State College next month. Presented by the College’s Guitar Association, Peretić’s performance is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb.…
Longtime Pensacola State College music professor Joe Stallings has been inducted into the Florida College System Activities Association Hall of Fame (FCSAA) for the 2023-2024 academic year. A guitar lover, Stallings established the classical guitar program at Pensacola State in 1982…
Enjoy the original music of mostly local composers at Pensacola ComposerFest XVIII set for 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 24, at Pensacola State College’s Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The free event is open to the…
Nine Pensacola State College performing arts students have been named to the Florida College System Activities Association (FCSAA) 2022-2023 All-Academic Team. Ezra Baker, Tabari Daniels-Butcher, Haileigh Furlong, Sienna Hudak, Daelan Moreland, Owen Raley, Tristen Rodriguez, Hudson Laws Savage and Francisco…
Pensacola State College announced proposed lab fees for students enrolled in the Performing Arts Department programs. The College’s District Board of Trustees will vote on the fees at the Tuesday, June 20 meeting at 5:30 p.m. on the Pensacola campus.…
Pensacola State College’s theater production of Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” received a Superior rating from the Florida College System Activities Association – Theatre Division. Raines Carr, theater director at Chipola College, was the adjudicator. Carr…
The last three musical performances of the Spring 2023 Pensacola State College Lyceum series are this month. New Orleans-based indie rock band Motel Radio will perform on Wednesday, April 19, while Kahlo Quartet, a Philadelphia-based chamber music group that mixes…
You practice to get better. And if results mean anything, and they do, moving from second place to first is a sure sign of improvement and achievement. Pierre Baldwin practices his saxophone a lot. The PSC Marine Biology student won…
Benjamin Rollings was a talented and accomplished piano student, earning scholarships and graduation distinctions throughout his musical studies, which began at age 6. As a teacher, Rollings is just as accomplished. Rollings is a Pensacola State College adjunct music instructor…
Pensacola State College will present the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Joe Stallings, in its 40th Anniversary Spring Recital on Saturday, April 1. The recital is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium. Admission is…
Three talented musicians captured the top prizes at the Pensacola State College 2023 Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition held Feb. 18 in Pensacola State College’s Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium. The first-prize winner was Donald Hinchman. The 17-year-old received a $600…
Pensacola State College Performing Arts Department is bringing the beloved classic “Little Women” to the Ashmore Auditorium this week, with performances running Thursday through Sunday. It’s playwright Kate Hamill’s retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War era landmark novel, “Little…
The 2021 Guitar Foundation of America’s International Concert Artist Competition Grand Prize winner, Bokyung Byun, will bring her refined musicianship to Pensacola State College next month. Presented by the College’s Guitar Association, Byun’s performance is set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday,…
The 2023 Pensacola State College Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition is set for 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Feb. 18, in Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium. The competition is open to all acoustic guitarists who are 18 years old or younger on the…
If you’ve heard the song “Wagon Wheel” – and we know you have – you can credit iconic songwriter Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of the Grammy-winning band, Old Crow Medicine Show. Who knows? Maybe Secor will even play the…
Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny. The Second City is celebrating nearly sixty years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy’s best and brightest. This event sponsored by ACE (Art, Culture, and…
Michael Coleman was recently awarded First Degree Diploma in the Golden Key International Composition Competition for 2021. Other composers receiving diplomas and honorable mentions in his division hailed from China, Italy, and Poland. Dr. Coleman is invited to perform his…
Michael Coleman will have an original piano cadenza and piano arrangements from Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite” featured in a video to be released by Steinway & Sons globally on December 18. The video was shot at the Steinway factory in New…
PSC music majors David Christenson and Danielle Sims performed for PSC’s inaugural Change Makers Dinner that was held on December 9th. The event raised $164,000 that will go towards helping our students through the Universal Scholarship Fund and 4 new…
Mr. Don Snowden has had a long and industrious career at Pensacola State College, having begun as a Music Instructor in 1987. Before working at PSC, Snowden received his bachelor’s degree from Livingston University in 1976 and his master’s from the…
The concert is titled “Peeks into the Infinite I” and is part of KMA’s concert season. This is the first of two concert programs celebrating the 250th birth year of Beethoven by exploring the genre of the Bagatelle, from Beethoven…
PSC alumnus is new Performing Arts Director When Pensacola State guitar instructor Joe Stallings formed the College’s first guitar ensemble in 1983, Kenny Phillips was a member. Now, 37 years later, Kenneth Phillips is back at the College and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Acclaimed pianist Xun Pan will perform at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at Pensacola State College’s Ashmore Auditorium. Pan’s performance is part of the Sid and Jeannie Kamerman Piano Series and will celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th’s birthday. Ashmore Auditorium,…
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…
‘The Portfolio Musician’ free entrepreneurial clinic What: “The Portfolio Musician” with Jeff Conner When: 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 Where: Pensacola State College’s Ashmore Auditorium Details: www.pensacolacivicband.org or call the PSC Music Department at (850) 484-1800.
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…
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…
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…
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, July 19-21 and July 26-28, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
The Pensacola State College Guitar Association will present Tengyue Zhang, grand prize winner of the 2017 Guitar Foundation of America’s International Concert Artist Competition, in concert on Friday, April 12. The concert is set for 7:30 p.m. in Ashmore Auditorium,…
Pensacola State College will present the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 30, in Ashmore Auditorium. The orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Joe Stallings, will present its 36th Annual Spring Recital. Admission is free. Ashmore Auditorium is in…
Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Bob Merrill Auditions: Monday and Tuesday, September 17 and 18 7:00 p.m. PSC Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium 850-484-1800 Production: November 9-11 and 16-18 Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
The Second City Touring Company will bring its world-famous social and political satire to Pensacola State College on Wednesday, Feb. 13. “It’s Not You, It’s Me,” the Chicago-based troupe’s most recent laughter-inducing undertaking will be performed at 7:30 p.m. in…
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…
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…
Aged to Perfection, a female quartet of a cappella singers specializing in the barbershop harmony style and affiliated with Harmony Inc. was recently named international quartet champions. The group beat more than 100 quartets from across the United States and…
he second annual Pensacola Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Competition is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Pensacola State College. The competition will be held in Ashmore Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus at 1000 College Blvd. The first-place…
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…
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.…
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…
