Past Events

Georgia Musicale Group

“Georgia Musicale Group Fourth Annual Concert”
Let’s enjoy music together!
Performers will play Piano (solo, 4-hands, and 2 pianos), Harp, Cello, and Clarinet.

Spivey Hall Children's Choir Audition REGISTRATION 23-24

Find your voice! Find your family!  Audition registration is open for the 2023-2024 Spivey Hall Children’s Choir season.

Auditions are scheduled as they are received. Schedule your audition today!

Singers accepted and placed prior to August 31st will begin in the Fall of 2023.  Singers accepted and placed after September 1st will begin in January 2024.

A Elegant Evening of Jazz

Life with Shenita, LLC in collaboration with 2Queens Productions Presents

“An Elegant Evening of Jazz”

Spivey Hall Summer Music Camp 2023

June 5-9, 2023
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

The Spivey Hall Summer Music Camp is a fun, week long, in-person, day camp for boys and girls entering grades 4 through 7.

$25.00 late fee added after May 26

Final day for registration is June 2

Franklin Pond Competition Awards Concert

The Franklin Pond Chamber Music Competition and Awards Concert is both free, family-friendly, and open to the public. RSVP required

Spivey Hall Children's Choir Spring Concerts '23

Featuring the Spivey Hall Children’s Choir & Spivey Hall Tour Choir

Behzod Abduraimov, piano

“Wow. Just wow” (The New Criterion)

CSU Music Preparatory School Recital

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Clayton State University Chorale
Masterworks Chorus at Spivey Hall
Clayton State University Orchestra
Southern Crescent Symphony Orchestra

Requiem by Gabriel Faure

Sean Vogt and Richard Bell, conductors

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

“The Glenn Miller Orchestra is worth hearing anywhere… Excellent” (TripAdvisor.com)

CSU Music Drama Production: Patience by Gilbert & Sullivan

Patience by Gilbert & Sullivan

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Camilla Tilling, soprano
Jonathan Ware, piano

“Tilling is on ravishing form” (BBC Music)

Ying Quartet
Xavier Foley, double bass

The Ying Quartet combines brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world.

Spivey Hall Children's Choir: St. Matthew Passion with ASO

Spivey Hall Children’s Choir is performing St. Matthew Passion with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Clayton State University
Faculty Recital
Kurt-Alexander Zeller, tenor
Michiko Otaki, piano

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano

“Astonishing” (Forum Opera)

Clayton State University Orchestra
Southern Crescent Symphony Orchestra

Treasures from Europe

Works by Bizet, Brahms, Dvorak and Glinka

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Boris Giltburg, piano

“Fantastically sensitive and beautiful” (Aachener Zeitung)

Spivey Hall
Elementary Honor Choir

Conducted by Dr. Craig Hurley
Concert is free and open to the public.

Catalyst and CSU Orchestra Open Rehearsal

Catalyst String Quartet joins our own Clayton State University Orchestra for an Open Rehearsal.
The concert is free and open to the public.

Catalyst Quartet

“Quartet playing at its very best” (Peninsula Reviews)

Annual Educator Appreciation Concert (Educators are free)

Lucille Chung, piano

“Chung’s blazing gutsy performance was exciting and rewarding” (The Washington Post)

Young People's Virtual Concert: Reggie Harris' Music & the
Underground Railroad

with special guest speaker
Christopher Miller from the
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Young People's Concert: Moksha Dance

Experience Indian culture past and present through this exciting dance performance.

Young People's Concert: Atlanta Opera presents Hansel & Gretel

Once upon a time … two children named Hansel & Gretel learn valuable lessons about being polite and making friends!

Alan Morrison, organ

“Morrison’s performance was riveting” (The Diapason)

Dover Quartet

“Sublime playing” (The New York Times)

Spivey Hall Children's Choir Joins Christmas with the ASO

The Spivey Hall Children’s Choir, under the artistic direction of Dr. Martha Shaw, has been invited to perform with the Grammy award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Spivey Hall Children's Choir Holiday Concerts

Featuring the Spivey Hall Children’s Choir and the Spivey Hall Tour Choir

CSU Music
Preparatory School Recital

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Clayton State Community Band & Chamber Ensembles

Dr. Stephen Anderson, conductor

Jayme Alilaw: La Femme Noir

An artistic celebration of African-American women and the contributions they have made to Western classical music as composers, poets, and performers.

Clayton Community Big Band

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

The Georgia Tech Glee Club

Featuring a “healthily irreverent” blend of music, drama, and vocal/visual performance antics, the Georgia Tech Glee Club sings entirely original arrangements of usually unaccompanied music, utilizing vocal percussion, movement, and technology.

Atlanta Celli

Join Atlanta Celli for a musical journey into some of our favorite books about our favorite topic- being different! We are all different and perfect in our own ways, and what better way to celebrate being different together than through crazy cello mashups!

Atlanta's Finest Organists in Recital

Join us for a recital given by Atlanta’s Finest Organists, followed by a reception and conversation with the performers and Spivey Hall’s organist-in-residence Alan Morrison.

Spivey Hall Honor Chamber Orchestra Concert

David Eccles, conductor

Wycliffe Gordon
and the International All Stars

“Just his presence is a creative experience” (Wynton Marsalis)

Clayton State University Orchestra
Southern Crescent Symphony Orchestra

An Evening of Fantasy and Adventure

Hannah Porter Occeña, flute
Grant Jones, piano

Flutist Hannah Porter Occeña, the winner of Mu Phi Epsilon’s 2021 International Competition, presents a program of music by female composers.

Curtis on Tour:
The Nina von Maltzahn Global Touring Initiative of the Curtis Institute of Music

Featuring Eric Owens, bass-baritone

“Owens, an American marvel” (Chicago Sun-Times)

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Peach State Opera presents “Operatizers: Dreams and Desires”

Join Peach State Opera, Georgia’s premier touring opera company, as it presents a delicious sampling of “Operatizers.”

Georgia Musicale Group Concert

GMG will provide a variety of music from Baroque to Contemporary; by piano, vocal and chamber groups in an elegant yet casual atmosphere.

Clayton State University
Faculty Recital

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Atlanta Musicians' Orchestra

Free event. Tickets required.

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Erik Stabnau, music director

“The Glenn Miller Orchestra is worth hearing anywhere… Excellent” (TripAdvisor.com)

Spivey Hall Children's Choir Spring Concerts

Featuring the Spivey Hall Children’s Choir & Spivey Hall Tour Choir.

Spivey Hall Children's Choir Spring Concert

Featuring the Spivey Hall Young Artists, Spivey Hall Children’s Choir & Spivey Hall Tour Choir

Gautier Capuçon, cello
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

“That Capuçon is among the greatest of cellists was announced by the passionate projection of his amazing sound from the start” (The Arts Desk)

“Mr. Thibaudet played with sophistication and suavity…His textural variety, from twinkle to velvet, was gorgeous”  (The New York Times)

Clayton Community Big Band

Stacey Houghton, director

Free, Tickets Required.

General Admission, Capacity Limited to 200

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Louis Lortie, piano

“A wonderfully gifted artist” (Gramophone)

Takács Quartet
with special guest David Requiro, cello

“One of the world’s greatest quartets” (The New York Times)

Clayton State University Orchestra

Dr. Richard Bell, conductor

Hope for the Planet

Free, Tickets Required.

General Admission

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

“The sophisticated sound they make – both percussive and melodic – is at once hilarious and heartfelt” (Financial Times)

Paul Lewis, piano

“Intelligence and intensity” (The Guardian)

CSU Music Drama Production

Clayton State University’s Music Drama Workshop presents

Franz Joseph Haydn’s 1777 comic sci-fi opera, The World of the Moon (Il mondo della luna)

Sean Jones Quartet - jazz

“When Jones solos, soaring with a gentle strength as his band swells behind him, it’s not just a pretty melody… It’s praise” (Jazz Times)

CSU Faculty Recital
Francisca Maxwell, soprano
Elena Dorozhkina, piano

Free, Tickets Required.

General Admission, Capacity Limited to 200

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

“Grosvenor belongs among the great pianist poets of our time” (Helsingin Sanomat)

Shana Tucker presents
Chambersoul & Cello
Young People's Concert

Cellist. Singer-Songwriter. Arts Advocate. Teaching Artist. Collaborator. Cultural Conduit.

Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor
Michał Biel, piano

“A voice of quite astonishing, almost unearthly, beauty” (The Guardian)

CSU Faculty Recital
Kurt-Alexander Zeller, tenor
Michiko Otaki, piano

Free, Tickets Required.

General Admission, Capacity Limited to 200

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Castalian String Quartet

“A feisty group, with a real personality and strong interpretative ideas” (The Guardian)

Platypus Theatre presents
How the Gimquat Found Her Song,
Virtual Young People's Concert

A down-hearted bird finds inspiration in musical masterpieces from the last 1000 years.

In one of Platypus Theatre’s most beloved family concerts, audiences embark on a musical expedition across continents and through centuries to help a discouraged bird discover her unique voice.

Young audiences laugh, chant and sing along with the Gimquat and her wizard guide as they explore musical styles from Gregorian chant to rap.

Giwayen Mata,
African Drum & Dance
Virtual Event

“Soul Stirring Sistahs that’ll Move Ya! This award winning “All Sistah” dance, percussion and vocal ensemble is electrifying!

The Atlanta Opera presents The Pirates of Penzance, Virtual Young People's Concert

This season’s Atlanta Opera STUDIO TOUR brings to life Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular operettas, THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, in a special abridged version for students! Join us as romance blossoms, loyalty is put to the test, and mistakes are forgiven.

CSU Music School
Preparatory School Recital

6:30PM

Free, Tickets Required.

General Admission, Capacity Limited to 200

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Alexander Romanovsky, piano

“A dramatist and poet of lyrical charm” (Classic FM)

Clayton Community Christmas

Free, Tickets Required.

General Admission, Capacity Limited to 200

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Georgia Tech Glee Club, Young People's Concert

Division of Music Curated Recital

Free, Tickets Required.

General Admission, Capacity Limited to 200

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Jonathan Ryan, organ

“Ryan will take your breath away” (The Diapason)

Modigliani Quartet

“The Modigliani Quartet clearly belongs to the world’s greatest” (Le Monde)

CSU Chorale,
Masterworks Chorus at Spivey Hall,
Griffin Choral Arts

The Sun Also Rises

Presented by Clayton State University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts

Alan Morrison, organ

“Morrison’s playing is consummate and dazzling” (Fanfare)

Organ Discovery Day

Organ Discovery Day celebrates the 30th anniversary of the magnificent Albert Schweitzer Memorial Organ, made by Fratelli Ruffatti in Padua, Italy – the shining centerpiece of Spivey Hall.

Spivey Hall
Summer Music Camp

The Spivey Hall Summer Music Camp is a fun, weeklong, in-person day camp for boys and girls entering grades 4 through 7.

Pavel Haas Quartet
Boris Giltburg, piano

“Full-blooded passion and finely nuanced playing” (The New York Times )

Atlanta Celli presents
Phoenix Rising Reprise
Young People's Concert

From anger to hope, from Beethoven to Ozzy Osbourne, this is a musical ride the audience won’t want to miss. 

April Virtual Series Subscription

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Roger Day's
Zookeeper's in the House
Young People's Concert

Rock the Zoo with Roger Day –
STEAM-Based Learning with a Great Beat!

GA Tech Glee Club:
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Glee
Young People's Concert

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Atlanta’s favorite White and Gold Glee Club!

Franklin Pond
Chamber Music
Young People's Concert

Franklin Pond Chamber Music educates young musicians to perform, communicate, and lead through the art of chamber music. 

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

“A probing musical analyst as well as an interpreter of enormous technical panache and poetic nuance” (San Francisco Chronicle), Leif Ove Andsnes is “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight” (The New York Times).

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David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano

“When a pair of genuine artists explodes on the stage, exuding not only glamour and theatrical flair but also superb musical insight, the audience’s thrill is twofold” (The Washington Post ).

Roger Day's Marsh Mud Madness
Young People's Concert

Grab your boots! Get your hat! And join Roger Day on a multi-media musical journey through the coastal ecosystem of a barrier island.

Opera Xpress
Bear Hug
Young People's Concert

This bilingual operatic tale for elementary-age students is all about discovering that even though we are each different on the outside, our hearts are all the same!

Atlanta Celli
Young People's Concert

Atlanta Celli presents Phoenix Rising.

From anger to hope, from Beethoven to Ozzy Osbourne, this is a musical ride the audience won’t want to miss. 

Calidore String Quartet

“Astonishing” (Los Angeles Times).

“This is an ensemble as capable of whipping up storms as enchanting us with breathless moments of utter magic” (The Scotsman).

A Chanticleer Christmas

A Chanticleer Christmas is a gift for untold thousands of listeners this year, made possible by a special recorded performance created for streaming.

“The singing of Chanticleer is breathtaking in its accuracy of intonation, purity of blend, variety of color and swagger of style” (The Boston Globe).

Strings Attached: On the Road with the Dover Quartet

A documentary film by Bruce Broder

“STRINGS ATTACHED” #1 VIEWED FILM IN
MV FILM SOCIETY’S FILMUSIC FESTIVAL!

Strings Attached: On the Road with the Dover Quartet

A documentary film by Bruce Broder

“STRINGS ATTACHED” #1 VIEWED FILM IN
MV FILM SOCIETY’S FILMUSIC FESTIVAL!

Strings Attached: On the Road with the Dover Quartet

A documentary film by Bruce Broder

“STRINGS ATTACHED” #1 VIEWED FILM IN
MV FILM SOCIETY’S FILMUSIC FESTIVAL!

Strings Attached: On the Road with the Dover Quartet

A documentary film by Bruce Broder

“STRINGS ATTACHED” #1 VIEWED FILM IN
MV FILM SOCIETY’S FILMUSIC FESTIVAL!