EWU Music

04/03/2026

🎶 Giving Joy Day is here! 🎶

Today, we celebrate the power of music—and the incredible community that makes it all possible. Your support directly impacts our EWU music students by providing scholarships, funding performance opportunities, supporting travel, and ensuring access to the tools they need to grow as artists and educators.

To everyone who has already given: THANK YOU. Your generosity is shaping the future of our students and uplifting the arts in ways that truly matter. ❤️

If you haven’t had a chance to give yet, there’s still time to make a difference. Every donation, big or small, helps our students continue to create, perform, and inspire.

To donate, please visit: https://givingjoyday.ewu.edu/giving-day/111600/donate?des=745967&dept=116991

Let’s keep the music going. 🎼

03/11/2026

Cue the spotlight! Our ticket pre-sale is now LIVE! ✨🎟️

Prices 💰
General Admission - $10
Seniors and Non-EWU Students - $5

Scan the QR below or hit the link in our bio, or in this caption, to secure your seat. Our online ticket portal closes at 6:59pm on each concert date. Tickets are available at the door, card and tap only.

https://secure.touchnet.net/C20347_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=7&FROMQRCODE=true

We cannot wait to share our music with you !! 🎶❤️

02/05/2026

We had a great time having James Lowe out to EWU to work with the EWU Orchestra in preparation of our EWU/SSO Side by Side concert on March 12! Thank you Maestro Lowe!!!

11/16/2025

A wonderful concert by EWU music faculty! Bravo to all! This also included a fabulous group of students from Shaw Middle School who came to enjoy and check out our programs!

Shaw students joined the Eastern community for some inspirational performances.

11/11/2025

Exciting experience for our EWU Composers!

EWU Composers Forum received funding from the Youngs Endowment for National Parks Studies to explore Pastoralism. The trip, and the compositions the students will compose, are a part of the "Pastoral Project," which takes experiential learning to a whole new level. Eight student composers went to Grand Teton National Park with their teacher and a volunteer for a 5 day trip in mid September. Dr. Middleton writes: "Pastoralism can go to the heart of finding a sense of self in the absence of being in society with its social expectations and pressures. My hope with the Pastoral Project was to bring EWU students into the wilderness in a relatively safe environment and allow them the freedom to explore, converse, and think freely with minimal guidance from me (their professor) and our day-to-day urban dwellings. The process of simply "exploring," i.e., discovering new things, and getting outside our comfort zones, has huge benefits for oneself; and this has parallels with an important objective for all artists: to express what matters most in our lives; and this makes the topic of pastoralism so relevant to artistic growth."

This year students are focused on composing orchestral works based on their trip to be performed by the Spokane Symphony in a "Side by Side" concert on March 12, 2026 at Showalter Auditorium at EWU's Cheney campus.

10/20/2025

We are thrilled to welcome a new member to our EWU Music Faculty, Mr. Mike Cleary, Visiting Director of Wind Ensemble and Code Red, and instructor in Jazz Bass, Music Theory and Conducting. Mr. Cleary is currently in the ABD phase of his Doctor of Arts degree in Wind Band Conducting at the University of Northern Colorado. A native of Portland OR, Mr. Cleary holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Portland and a Masters in Music from Central Washington University. During his residency at UNC Mr. Cleary served as graduate conductor of the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Concert Band, Graduate teaching assistant with the Pride of the Rockies Marching Band, and led the Bear Pride Athletic Pep Band with 50 members. Join us in welcoming this wonderfully talented conductor to the EWU music family!

08/19/2025

Welcome students to the 2025-26 year at EWU! The music program is thriving, and full of opportunities for you! If you are a woodwind, brass or percussion player, check out the EWU Marching Band. You can register for that now, and plan for the band camp prior to classes starting on September 17 - and the first game is Sept. 20!
If you need help with advising/registration/auditions please reach out via email and we will help you. This will be a great year for music, so whether you are a major, minor or non-major there are many opportunities for you to participate in music during your EWU residency. Check us out! Email [email protected] for more details or check out our website:

Collaborate and excel with exceptional musicians and teachers in an inclusive academic environment. Our programs are accredited with the National Association of Schools of Music and guided by faculty from the region's dynamic professional arts community.

11/10/2024

Check out the upcoming concerts by the incredibly talented EWU music students!

Composers' Forum November 12, 2024 - 7:30pm
Music Recital Hall Free Admission

$EWU Wind Ensemble Concert November 19, 2024 - 7:30pm Music Recital Hall $10 General/$5 Seniors

$EWU Orchestra & Choral Concert November 25, 2024 - 7:30pm Music Recital Hall $10 General/$5 Seniors

$EWU Jazz Concert December 3, 2024 - 7:30pm
Music Recital Hall $10 General/$5 Seniors

$EWU Choral Concert December 6, 2024 - 7:30pm Congregational Church, Cheney, WA $10 General/ $5 Seniors

06/28/2024

You can hear two groups for the price of one this Saturday at the Coughlin Concert Hall in the Myrtle Woldson theater on the Gonzaga campus. The Sapphire trio, and Tango Volcado will be performing at 7pm! Tickets available at the door ($15) and the concert will end at 8:15. Fun music, from Step Dancing to tangos!
Music from Ireland, to the U.S. to Argentina will be included - come and enjoy!

06/16/2024

Congratulations to EWU Music's 2024 Graduates! We're so proud of you!!!! Feel free to add your pictures in the comments (especially if we didn't get to see you walk today :-)).

05/21/2024

We are so excited about our fabulous EWU students, faculty and alums who will be featured in concert at the Fox Theater this week on May 23 at 7:30pm! If you want to be inspired and uplifted this will do all that and more! 'The Sound of Hope' highlights music of Bernstein, Broadway tunes, and nostalgic songs along with a wide variety of musical groups and soloists. Enjoy the beautiful venue of the Historic Fox Theater and leave feeling better about life! Tickets available at foxtheater.org or at the door. $20 general admission, $10 students/seniors.