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2025-2026 CSB+SJU Event Season

All events are free admission unless noted otherwise.
All performances are AR unless notated with a **

Fall 2025

A smiling man in a gray suit plays an acoustic guitar on stage, seated under a tent, with microphones positioned in front of him.

Guest Artist Recital: Paulus Schaefer with The Ryan Picone Quartet

September 15, 7pm • Colman Theater

A man in a vest plays a large pipe organ with multiple keyboards and numerous control stops, concentrating as he uses both hands and adjusts the settings.

Guest Artist Recital: Greg Zelek

September 28, 3pm • Abbey Church

A conductor leads an orchestra during a performance, gesturing with a baton. Musicians with sheet music are visible in the foreground, and the stage is dimly lit.

Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band

October 8, 7:30pm • Escher Auditorium

A full orchestra of musicians with various string and brass instruments sits and stands on a stage in front of an empty audience, with a conductor standing to the left.

Orchestra

October 9, 7:30pm • Escher Auditorium

A young musician in a black shirt plays an electric guitar during a performance, with another person playing a bass guitar in the background.

Jazz Ensemble

October 16, 7:30pm • Colman Theater

A young woman with long wavy hair stands in front of a microphone, singing. She is wearing a long, dark dress. In the background, a choir of women in similar attire is also singing, holding black folders with sheet music. The setting appears to be a concert hall.

Vocal Performance Workshop

October 22, 7:30pm • Colman Theater

A young woman with long wavy hair stands in front of a microphone, singing. She is wearing a long, dark dress. In the background, a choir of women in similar attire is also singing, holding black folders with sheet music. The setting appears to be a concert hall.

Vocal Performance Workshop

October 23, 7:30pm • Colman Theater

A large orchestra and choir perform on stage in a concert hall, with a conductor leading them. The audience is seated in the background, and the musicians and singers hold sheet music.

Family Weekend Choral Showcase

October 24, 7:30pm • Escher Auditorium

A young woman with long wavy hair stands in front of a microphone, singing. She is wearing a long, dark dress. In the background, a choir of women in similar attire is also singing, holding black folders with sheet music. The setting appears to be a concert hall.

Vocal Performance Workshop

October 25, 7:30pm • Colman Theater

A young woman with long wavy hair stands in front of a microphone, singing. She is wearing a long, dark dress. In the background, a choir of women in similar attire is also singing, holding black folders with sheet music. The setting appears to be a concert hall.

Vocal Performance Workshop

October 26, 7:30pm • Colman Theater

A man in a plaid shirt and blue blazer holds a brass trombone outdoors, standing in front of a tree with green foliage in the background.

Guest Artist Recital: Dr. Carson King-Fournier, trombone

October 28, 7:30pm • Stephen B. Humphrey Theater

A cartoon dog sits atop a hill of pumpkins, silhouetted against a large, bright full moon in a starry night sky.

The Great Pumpkin Concert

October 30, 8pm • Saint John’s Abbey Free Will Offering

A collage with two people at the top—a smiling woman with wavy blonde hair on the left and a man with dark hair and a beard on the right—and an Asian woman with long black hair at the bottom, all against a green gradient background.

All Poulenc Recital:  15 Improvisations for Solo Piano, Art Songs, Oboe Sonata

November 10, 7:30pm • Stephen B. Humphrey Theater

An ornate church apse features a large golden mosaic of Jesus with outstretched arms above a row of saintly figures, flanked by arched walls with religious text and circular icons, and a wooden floor below.

Student Chamber Recital

November 17, 7:30pm • The Great Hall

Four musicians, two men and a woman with curly hair, stand in an urban alleyway holding instrument cases, looking back toward the camera. The group wears casual, stylish clothing and hats.

Guest Artist Recital: Ryan Picone Quartet

November 22, 7pm • Colman Theater

A large choir performs in front of a decorated Christmas tree inside a church adorned with festive garlands, with a congregation seated and standing, and a mural of Jesus above the altar.

Christmas with Saint Ben’s and Saint John’s

December 5, 7:30pm • The Great Hall Tickets will go on sale later this fall

A large choir performs in front of a decorated Christmas tree inside a church adorned with festive garlands, with a congregation seated and standing, and a mural of Jesus above the altar.

Christmas with Saint Ben’s and Saint John’s

December 6, 2pm • The Great Hall Tickets will go on sale later this fall

A large choir performs in front of a decorated Christmas tree inside a church adorned with festive garlands, with a congregation seated and standing, and a mural of Jesus above the altar.

Christmas with Saint Ben’s and Saint John’s

December 6, 8pm • Basillica of Saint Mary (MPLS) Tickets will go on sale later this fall

A large group of women in black dresses stands in rows, singing in a choir performance inside a grand hall with stone walls and columns.

All College Choir

December 7, 4pm • The Great Hall

A group of musicians in black attire sit on stage with wind instruments, preparing to perform. Some are adjusting their music stands, and one person wears a black face mask. The stage is dimly lit.

Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band

December 8, 7:30pm • Escher Auditorium

A young musician in a black shirt plays an electric guitar during a performance, with another person playing a bass guitar in the background.

Jazz Ensemble

December 9, 7:30pm • Br. Willie’s Pub

Spring 2026

A group of people, viewed from above, huddles around the strings of a grand piano, hands positioned inside, possibly playing or tuning it. A large projection of the scene is displayed on the wall behind them. The date "02/03/2017" is shown in the lower right corner.

Pastiche: Full Faculty Recital

February 6, 7:30pm • Stephen B. Humphrey Theater

A wooden church organ console with multiple rows of keys, several labeled stops on both sides, and a metal cross above the console, all set against a paneled wooden backdrop.

Damin Spritzer Organ Concert

March 3, 3pm • Saint John’s Abbey Free Will Offering

A large musical ensemble, comprised of various instrumentalists dressed in black, is performing on stage. The conductor, positioned at the front, directs the musicians who are seated and playing a variety of wind and brass instruments. The stage is dimly lit.

Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band

March 6, 7:30pm • Escher Auditorium

A musician with blond hair plays an electric keyboard, reading sheet music from a stand. In the background, other musicians with various instruments are partially visible, including a drummer and a saxophonist. The setting appears to be a concert or rehearsal.

Jazz Ensemble

March 10, 7:30pm • Colman Theater

A full orchestra of musicians with various string and brass instruments sits and stands on a stage in front of an empty audience, with a conductor standing to the left.

Orchestra

March 12, 7:30pm • Escher Auditorium

A full orchestra of musicians with various string and brass instruments sits and stands on a stage in front of an empty audience, with a conductor standing to the left.

Orchestra

May 3, 2pm • Escher Auditorium

A group of musicians in black attire sit on stage with wind instruments, preparing to perform. Some are adjusting their music stands, and one person wears a black face mask. The stage is dimly lit.

Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band

May 6, 7:30pm • Escher Auditorium

A red hexagon with the white letters "CSB SJU" arranged in two lines at the center.

A red hexagon with the white letters "CSB SJU" arranged in two lines at the center.