A college student plays guitar in a concert venue.
A person playing a violin on stage, with another person partially visible, playing a piano. The background features a large, colorful graphic of stylized fish.

This multimedia concert experience by composer-violinist Chad Cannon combines music, animation and sound design to create an immersive “nature documentary for the concert hall.”

Maroon graphic with the Texas A&M logo and the words "Texas A&M University Music Performance"

Students and faculty in the Music program will showcase their talents in a weeklong celebration of their disciplines.

Maroon graphic with the Texas A&M logo and the words "Texas A&M University Music Performance"

Students and faculty in the Music program will showcase their talents in a weeklong celebration of their disciplines.

Maroon graphic with the Texas A&M logo and the words "Texas A&M University Music Performance"

Students and faculty in the Music program will showcase their talents in a weeklong celebration of their disciplines.

Maroon graphic with the Texas A&M logo and the words "Texas A&M University Music Performance"

Students and faculty in the Music program will showcase their talents in a weeklong celebration of their disciplines.

Maroon graphic with the Texas A&M logo and the words "Texas A&M University Music Performance"

Students and faculty in the Music program will showcase their talents in a weeklong celebration of their disciplines, including piano, woodwinds, percussion, music technology, brass, vocal and Maroon Steel.

The Small Ensembles and Trombone Choir, coached by David Wilborn and James Van Zandt, present their annual fall semester concert. The performance will open with the Saxophone Quartet, followed by the Horn Octet and the 33-member Trombone Choir.

Two music professors facing each other perform marimba music.

The event featured performances by Francisco Perez, D.M.A., instructional associate professor, and Lynn Vartan, D.M.A., associate professor in Music Performance.

Three wearing robes perform with shakuhachi bamboo instruments on a stage.

The 2025 World Shakuhachi Festival was a success. For four days in April, hundreds of shakuhachi artists and aficionados traveled from around the world to Aggieland to celebrate the shakuhachi — a traditional end-blown bamboo flute — and its hundreds of years of impact on music and culture in Japan and beyond.