The W

2025 Music by Women Festival
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-08 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The Mississippi University for Women’s ninth annual Music by Women Festival will be held in the historic Poindexter Hall on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women. The festival will include papers, presentations, lecture recitals, and performances all relating to the subject of music composed, taught and performed by women. The festival will feature concerts of new and historic music written by women composers historically as well as in the present day. Visit the website to view the schedule: https://www.muw.edu/musicbywomen/.
Concerts are free and open to the public.

International Music by Women Festival
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-08 | The W Campus, 1100 College Street, Columbus, 39701, United States
The ninth annual international Music by Women Festival will be held March 6-8, 2025 on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women. The festival will feature concerts of new and historic music written by women composers historically as well as in the present day.
For more details please visit https://www.muw.edu/musicbywomen/

For (Colored) Girls Who Considered Maverick Feminism/When Respectability Is Not Enuf
2025-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Nissan Auditorium, Parkinson Hall
(photo by Jonah Holland)
Research presentation by Dr. Kemeshia Swanson, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at MSU. Dr. Swanson will discuss respectability politics and how its limitations are challenged in the work of resilient authors like Mississippi native Jesmyn Ward. Hosted by the Martha Swain Speaker Series and the Ina E. Gordy Honors College.

Faculty Trombone Recital - Douglas Mark, trombone
2025-03-18 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Join the W Department of Music for a musical evening performed by Faculty trombonist, Dr. Douglas Mark. This event is free and open to the public.

Meet the Author - Melanie R. Anderson
2025-03-25 16:00 - 17:15 | Gail P. Gunter Multi-Purpose Room
Melanie R. Anderson, co-author of Monster She Wrote, will be joining us for a discussion of Women in Horror.

Movie Night: On the Basis of Sex
2025-03-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Cochran Ballroom
Presented by the Residence Hall Association and Housing, this two-hours-long documentary and drama will focus on the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Spring Recital
2025-03-25 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music is proud to showcase our students’ hard work – please join us for a wonderful evening of music featuring an array of different genres. Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. This event is free and open to the public.

SMA Conference 2025
2025-03-27 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Gail P. Gunter Multi-Purpose Room

MUSIC IN THE LIBRARY
2025-03-28 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Northwest Lobby, Columbus

Music in the Library
2025-03-28 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Fant Memorial Library, 1100 College St, Columbus, MS, United States
Join the W Department of Music for a musical afternoon as our talented music faculty and majors perform in Fant Memorial Library. You can take a study break, grab a book and a coffee at the library’s cafe, and enjoy some wonderful tunes with us!

Senior Voice Recital - Ricky Dubuisson II, baritone
2025-03-28 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Join the W Department of Music as we celebrate senior music major, Ricky Dubuisson II and his academic journey! This event is free and open to the public.

NACUSA Concert
2025-03-29 14:00 - 15:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music and the Mid-South Chapter of NACUSA (National Association of Composers/USA) hosts a concert featuring new compositions. Please join us for a fun afternoon of music! This event is free and open to the public.

Faculty Trombone Recital - Douglas Mark, trombone
2025-04-01 19:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Join the W Department of Music for a musical evening performed by Faculty trombonist, Dr. Douglas Mark. Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. This event is free and open to the public.

Piano Students’ Recital
2025-04-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music is proud to showcase our students’ hard work – please join us for a wonderful evening of piano music. This event is free and open to the public.

MUW Chamber Singers Spring Concert
2025-04-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
You are invited to join the W Chamber Singers, conducted by Dr. William Reber, Prof. Zane Lynn, and music student conductors for their spring performance! Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. This event is free and open to the public.

MUW Chamber Singers Spring Concert
2025-04-11 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
You are invited to join the W Chamber Singers, conducted by Dr. William Reber for their fall performance! This event is free and open to the public.

Piano Students’ Recital
2025-04-11 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music is proud to showcase our students’ hard work – please join us for a wonderful evening of piano music.
Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page.
This event is free and open to the public.

Eudora Welty's Birthday
2025-04-13 00:00 - 23:30 | The W Campus, 1100 College Street, Columbus, 39701, United States
The W celebrates the birthday of our most famous alumna, Eudora Welty, born this day in 1909.

W Music Student Showcase
2025-04-15 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
Join the W Department of Music as we host a musical evening featuring an array of musical genres from our talented music majors! Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. This event is free and open to the public.

Instruction Librarian Candidate Presentation
2025-04-21 09:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-22 09:00 - 11:30 | Digital Classroom

Opera Scenes
2025-04-25 - 2025-04-26 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
The W Department of Music invites you to a fantastical performance, full of drama and engaging scenes from classic musicals and operas. Scenes are presented fully staged and costumed with piano accompaniment. Performances take place in Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall at the W campus on April 25 and 26 at 7:30. Livestream for this concert can be found here on our Virtual Concert Series page. Performances are free and open to the public.

The W Wind Ensemble Spring Concert
2025-04-28 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-28 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
You are invited to join the W Department of Music for our spring semester’s Wind Ensemble Concert! This event is free and open to the public.

The W Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert
2025-04-29 19:30 - 20:30 | Kossen Auditorium (Inside Poindexter Hall)
You are invited to join the W Department of Music for our spring semester’s Jazz Ensemble Concert! This event is free and open to the public.

Virtual Book Talk: Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts
2025-04-30 16:00 - 17:00 | MS
This is a virtual discussion on Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks, by Crystal Wilkinson.

MFA Short Residency Performance
2025-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Cochran Ballroom
Featuring: L. Lamar Wilson’s Short Writing Residency in performance
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