Elizabethtown College’s School of Arts and Humanities recently announced the fall 2025 performance lineup for its popular Monday Series Concerts.
All concerts are free and open to the public. The five-performance series, which takes place in Etown’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, will run from Sept. 15 through Nov. 24. Performers include talented musicians from both the Etown campus community, along with special performances by local artists.
Ulterior Motives, Hidden Landscapes | Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Join us as Minneapolis-based saxophonists Chris Dickhaus and Emily Brewer, along with Etown Professor of Music, Justin Badgerow on piano, perform contemporary music by Cote, Markowski, Beach, Hass, Washington, Murata, and Nagao.
Visions in the Moonlight: Faculty Showcase | Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Adjunct Instructor of Violin and Viola Jie Kim performs Vitali’s Chaconne in G Minor, Brahms’ Violin Sonata no. 1, and an arrangement of the timeless classic Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy. Featuring Justin Badgerow on piano.
Join us for a special performance, which includes two, 90-minute sets with a 15-minute intermission and opens with “If We Are Not Mirages,” an improvisatory set of poetry and chamber jazz loosely based on poems written by Denver Butson and featuring Mat Maneri, viola; Lucian Ban, piano; and Denver Butson, voice.
The second set, “Transylvanian Dance,” includes selections from Ban (piano) and Maneri’s (Viola) duo record, “Transylvanian Dance (ECM, 2025),” which is their reimagining of several of the hundreds of folk songs Bela Bartok collected and recorded on wax cylinders at the beginning of the 20th century.
Faculty Sampler | Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Several Etown Music faculty will be showcased, performing in a variety of settings.
An Evening with Trio Caprice | Nov. 24 at 7:30 p.m. | Leffler Chapel and Performance Center
Join us for an evening with Dana Allaband, violin; Sara Male, cello; and Debra Ronning, piano, as the trio performs masterworks by Haydn, Rachmaninoff, and Brahms.