Music Calendar
Sunday, February 1st
- Location: Fine Arts Center Room 189 - Recital Hall
- Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Department of Music faculty members Dr. Jeremy Kelly, baritone, & Dr. Zachary Lopes, piano, to perform joint recital
Admission is free!
Sunday, February 15th
- Location: Fine Arts Center Room 189 - Recital Hall
- Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Recital performed by the members of Sigma Alpha Iota
This is a FREE event!
Monday, February 16th
- Location: Fine Arts Center Room 189 - Recital Hall
- Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
About Dr. Schouten
Sarah Schouten serves as Assistant Professor of Music (Horn) at The Pennsylvania State University. Sarah is a member of the Pennsylvania Quintet and serves as the director of the Honors Music Institute at Penn State. In addition to her university duties, she is an active free-lance artist, clinician, and teacher throughout Pennsylvania. Sarah maintains a private studio and performs with the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, the Penns Woods Music Festival, the Altoona Symphony, Fuse Productions, and is a sub for the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra and the Erie Philharmonic. Her orchestral experience also includes the Ocala Symphony, the Arcadia Festival Orchestra, the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, the Nittany Valley Symphony, the Rome Festival Orchestra, the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra.
As an active lecturer and performer, Sarah has presented at numerous conferences, workshops, and festivals including: the Southeast Horn Workshop, the Northeast Horn Workshop, the International Horn Symposium, the Academic Festival (Edinboro University), the Stander Symposium (University of Dayton), the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival, the International Festival of Composers, Conductors, and Collaborators (IFC3), and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In January of 2015, she co-hosted the Northeast Horn Workshop (at The Pennsylvania State University) with Lisa Bontrager. The article they co-authored, “Favorite Solo Pieces, op. 2,” was published in the February 2015 issue of The Horn Call, the Journal of the International Horn Society.
As an active lecturer and performer, Sarah has presented at numerous conferences, workshops, and festivals including: the Southeast Horn Workshop, the Northeast Horn Workshop, the International Horn Symposium, the Academic Festival (Edinboro University), the Stander Symposium (University of Dayton), the Music at Penn’s Woods Festival, the International Festival of Composers, Conductors, and Collaborators (IFC3), and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In January of 2015, she co-hosted the Northeast Horn Workshop (at The Pennsylvania State University) with Lisa Bontrager. The article they co-authored, “Favorite Solo Pieces, op. 2,” was published in the February 2015 issue of The Horn Call, the Journal of the International Horn Society.
Friday, February 27th
- Location: Van Meter Hall
- Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
This concert will feature the WKU Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble! Please contact Dr. Gary Schallert with questions. Repertoire and tickets are TBA.

Western Kentucky University is a fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1948.
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