New Music Ensemble

Paul Sherman, Interim Director

Under the direction of Paul Sherman, the New Music Ensemble presents works by current composition majors as well as those by many of the major composers of the last fifty years.  Instrumental and vocal faculty members, along with distinguished guest artists, often participate in the ensemble, offering students a chance to perform with their teachers and mentors as well as their peers.

About Paul Sherman:
Conductor, oboist and pedagogue, Dr. Paul Sherman, D.M.A, enjoys a musical career with a wide range of styles and forms.  He is now entering his third year as Director of the Chapman Wind Symphony.  The Wind Symphony performs both classic repertoire and the best of new wave of contemporary music.  He also directs winds chamber music and is Instructor of Oboe.  For the last decade he has been music director for the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Philharmonic, Orchestra and Prelude Strings an organization of three orchestras and 200 students based at College of the Canyons.  This season his orchestra is a Los Angeles Philharmonic Partner Orchestra and will perform in Walt Disney Concert Hall in May as part of the International Youth Orchestra Festival.  He is also deeply involved in contemporary music and is Executive Director of ensembleGREEN along with commissioning works for his large ensembles and solo oboe.  Learn more...

For additional information, please contact the Ticketing Office at (714) 997-6812 or the College of Performing Arts at copa@chapman.edu.

Admission is free however a ticket is required for admittance to the performance venue.

Online ticket sales end a minimum of three (3) hours prior to a performance's scheduled start time.

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