Marybelle and Sebastian P Musco Center for the Arts Musco Center for the Arts Orchestra Shell

Architect'due south rendering, Musco Center for the Arts

On March 19, 2016, Marybelle and Sebastian P.
Musco Eye for the Arts
at Chapman University will gloat its Grand Opening, ushering in a new era for the school'southward performing arts and unveiling a new cultural buoy for the region. The Grand Opening commemoration volition include performances by opera legends
Plácido Domingo
,
Deborah Voigt
and
Milena Kitic
, an orchestra and chorus of more than 150 voices, and an array of distinguished artists and Chapman alumni, directed by
John DeMain
.

Musco Center for the Arts is named for Orange Canton philanthropists
Paul and Marybelle Musco
, whose generous donation anchored and launched a multi-year drive to open the $78-1000000 facility debt gratis.

With 88,000 scenic square feet, Musco Center provides a state-of-the-art venue for students to strop their talents, discover their voices and visions, and prepare for rich and rewarding lives in the arts. Designed by honour-winning architects
Pfeiffer Partners
, with acoustics past world‑renowned Yasuhisa Toyota of
Nagata Acoustics
, the new Middle boasts an intimate seating chamber with 1,044 seats on iii levels and a total-scale stagehouse capable of grand spectacle or lush symphonic sound with its unique orchestral shell in place. When consummate, Musco Center will serve as a dynamic focal point for campus life and the broader community, giving notice that world-class arts education and artistic achievement have found a new abode in Southern California.

Opera legend Placido Domingo volition headline Musco Middle'due south Grand Opening celebration on March xix, forth with fellow opera superstars Deborah Voigt and Milena Kitic.

"At Musco Middle, students and kinesthesia will refine their art forms through hands-on experience in advanced facilities, and the surrounding community volition experience spectacular performances and productions from the world's finest practitioners on a grand scale," said William D. Hall, D.M., founding dean and artistic manager of Musco Center and legacy music professor at Chapman University. "Here, the arts will find a suitably stunning venue for achieving their highest grade."

According to Hall, a primal factor in setting the stage for the opening of Musco Eye was naming Giulio Ongaro, Ph.D. as the new dean of the
College of Performing Arts (CoPA)
last August. "Musco Center offers an ideal environment for CoPA's distinguished kinesthesia to set up our students to realize their professional dreams and aspirations through real‑world production experience," said Ongaro.

Chapman Chancellor Daniele Struppa also announced the date of Richard T. Bryant, a noted performing arts strategist, launch specialist and marketer, as interim executive director of Musco Center. "Chapman has already benefited from Richard Bryant'southward wide feel opening, managing, and marketing major performing arts centers around the U.s.a.," Chancellor Struppa said. "He joined Chapman last March to help u.s. develop the Musco Center's launch and strategic operating plans. We are pleased he has agreed to expand and extend his leadership role."  Bryant begins his role immediately.

Following its Grand Opening on March 19, Musco Center will kick off its Opening & Preview Season with dazzling international virtuosos and ensembles that ascertain excellence, besides as the best Chapman student performances. Opening & Preview Flavor performers represent a diverse range of world talents and experiences, including the post-obit:

• Musco Center Distinguished Pianoforte Series, presenting the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medal‑winning concert pianist Vadym Kholodenko
• Slap-up Voices Serial with renowned American opera baritone Rod Gilfry
• Arts & Lecture Speaker Series with Jeff Corwin, American animal and nature conservationist and Animal Planet host
• Chapman World CAFÉ (Cultural Arts Festivals & Events)

A recent snapshot of Musco Center construction progress (taken in October. 2015).

"The middle and soul of Musco Heart will be performances by talented Chapman students, including a new production of Shakespeare's
The Merchant of Venice
, staged to coincide with the Bard's 400th birthday, besides as music and dance by The Chapman Orchestra, Opera Chapman and other outstanding student ensembles," added Hall.

Tickets for the Preview Flavor that begins in April 2016 volition get on sale December one via Musco Center'southward new website at
www.muscocenter.org
.

Tickets for the Grand Opening celebration on March 19 are still available. Contact Michele Wanner by telephone at 714.744.7623 or via email at
bautista@chapman.edu
to nourish this very special issue.

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Source: https://news.chapman.edu/2015/11/05/catching-up-with-musco-center-for-the-arts-momentum-growing-as-center-approaches-grand-opening-in-march/

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