Date: December 15, 2009 8:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall

A joyous collaboration of faculty and student performances to benefit a diverse Creative State in the School of Music and Dance.

Date: February 7, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The Afiara String Quartet, an energetic and burgeoning ensemble, returns to the campus where it was 2007-08 Morrison Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence and mentored by the Alexander String Quartet. Described as “quicksilver and delicate…electric and filled with sentiment” by the San Jose Mercury News, the quartet is now graduate resident string quartet at The Julliard School.

Date: March 14, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The only ensemble of its kind ever to win first prize of the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the New Century Saxophone Quartet brings its pioneering and versatile sound to the Morrison Artists Series at SF State. The quartet is winning new-found enthusiasm for its repertory, ranging from Bach’s complete The Art of the Fugue to innovative contemporary works.

Date: April 11, 2010 3:00pm
Location: Creative Arts Building, McKenna Theatre

The Brasil Guitar Duo and soprano Sarah Wolfson close the Morrison Artists Series season with an engaging performance. Wolfson and the duo has each won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and performed at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.