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The Piedmont University Theatre Department has begun its 2025-26 Mainstage Season with Godspell, performing through Nov. 9. This inspiring musical retells the parables of Jesus Christ and his disciples as told in the Gospel of Matthew.

The Piedmont University Chamber Ensembles Spring concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on April 17 in the university chapel. Styles represented include classical and slow blues, swing, mambo, and bossa nova. The performance will feature music for both piano ensemble and jazz ensemble by Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Duke Ellington, Neal Hefti, Louis Prima, Moises Simons, and Chris Sharp.

More than two dozen Piedmont University students are working together to bring 9 to 5: The Musical to the stage for performances Feb. 13-16. With music written by Dolly Parton, the musical is based on the 1980s movie and takes a comedic look at the 1970s workplace.

Dozens of Piedmont University students will help bring the Annual Service of Lessons and Carols to the community Dec. 6-7 as the holiday event enters its 36th year.

The Piedmont University Singers, under the direction of Music Professor Bobby Ivey, will present a Fall Concert on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 P.M. in the Piedmont University Chapel. More than 30 Piedmont students will perform.

The Piedmont University Theatre Department launched its 2024-25 Mainstage season with The Laramie Project Oct. 3-6. The play aims to promote dialogue about equality, acceptance, and tolerance.

At just 18 years old, Reagen Pattishall's track cycling prowess has taken her to destinations across the U.S. and even beyond its borders. Now, it brings her to Piedmont University with dreams of the Olympics.

Piedmont University students headline A Piece of My Heart, a play based on the true story of six courageous women sent to Vietnam and their struggle to make sense of a war that irrevocably changed them.

The Piedmont University Theatre Department concludes the 2023-24 Mainstage season with Neil Simon's murderous farce "Rumors," with performances set for April 11-14.

The Piedmont University Theatre Department opened the 2023-24 MainStage season with the award-winning musical RENT Sept. 28-Oct.1. This ground-breaking production written by Jonathan Larson is about living as well as you can for as long as you can.

Piedmont University Theatre brought the Steve Martin and Edie Brickell musical Bright Star to the stage from March 30-April 2.

Piedmont University Theatre's 2022-23 mainstage season kicked off with Peter and the Starcatcher Oct. 20-23. Based on the 2004 novel by Dave Berry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatcher features everyone's favorite forever boy, Peter Pan, and explores themes such as greed, despair, friendship, duty, and even love.

Piedmont University presented The Three Musketeers beginning Feb. 17. Ken Ludwig's The Three Musketeers has been lauded by critics as "the best adaptation of the novel ever written" and came to life on stage under the direction of John F. Spiegel, with assistance from Jonathan Furlow, assistant director, and Sof Delgado, stage manager.

Julia DeMello, a soprano from Dahlonega, Georgia, will present her senior voice recital at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Piedmont University Chapel. The public is invited, and admission is free.

The Piedmont University Chorale performed a variety of works for chorus in an April 25 concert at the Chapel on the Demorest Campus.

Piedmont University's Instrumental Chamber Ensembles and Wind Ensemble performed free concerts in April. The Instrumental Chamber Ensembles performed the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Bridge, Stein, and other compositions handpicked to showcase their talents during a concert on April 10. The Wind Ensemble performed on April 12.

The Piedmont University Singers, orchestra, and soloists presented the world premiere of a semi-staged oratorio based on the life of Lillian E. Smith composed by Mary Carol Warwick for the university's 125th anniversary. The oratorio is based on the life and pioneering work of civil rights activist Lillian E. Smith. Smith was a writer who penned the best-selling novel "Strange Fruit," about an interracial relationship that takes place in Georgia in the 1920s. She was also active in the Civil Rights Movement and a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. Smith studied at Piedmont University, which is home to the Lillian E. Smith Center, an educational facility and artists' retreat in Clayton, Georgia.

Piedmont University Cantabile, a seven-voice a cappella ensemble, performed on March 29 at the Conservatory of Music in Demorest.

Piedmont University hosted its Great Composers Concert Series on Feb. 24 in the Chapel on the Demorest campus. Piedmont's choirs, orchestra, and soloists presented the latest installment of the Great Composers Concert Series, Austrian Masters, during which they performed Josef Haydn's Symphony No. 2, Mozart's Symphony No. 29, and Franz Schubert's Mass in G. Dr. C. Wallace Hinson, director of Piedmont's Conservatory of Music and associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, conducted the performance. "The audience heard works that are at the core of the classical music repertoire. All three works on the program were written when the composers were relatively young," Hinson said. "The audience could 'see' into the mind of the youthful composers and perhaps make a connection to their more mature - and possibly better known - works."

Piedmont University again presented its beloved holiday event, Lessons and Carols, to live audiences during two performances in November. Lessons and Carols celebrated its 33rd year in 2021. The 2020 performance was presented as a video recording because of the COVID pandemic. As the performance returned to a live format, face coverings and social distancing were required.

The Piedmont Singers performed at the Demorest campus on Jan. 25 and for the Georgia Music Educators Association on Jan. 29. The Piedmont University Singers performed pieces covering a half-century of choral music history during a free concert on Jan. 25 at the Chapel on Piedmont University's Demorest campus. The Singers then gave the same performance on Jan. 29 in Athens for the Georgia Music Educators Association.

Piedmont University's Wind Ensemble performed a free concert on Nov. 20, 2021, at the Chapel on the Demorest campus. Wind Ensemble Director Anand Sukumaran said the evening will take attendees on a "journey" through different places, times, and experiences.

Heather Strachan led the 30-member Piedmont Conservatory Strings orchestra in performing works by six living composers, including Eric Whitacre and Karl Jenkins, in a concert on Nov. 2, 2021. Three students took part. Strachan is the director of the Piedmont Conservatory Strings, Artist-in-Residence at the Piedmont University Conservatory of Music, and a founding member of the Piedmont Camerata.

Piedmont University's Instrumental Chamber Ensembles performed the works of Haydn, Brahms, and other compositions handpicked to showcase their talents during a concert n Nov. 18 at the Chapel located on the Demorest campus.

The Piedmont University Singers gave their first public performance in nearly two years on Nov. 11 at the Chapel on the Demorest campus.

Piedmont University's elite student singing ensemble, Cantabile, performed a repertoire ranging from Estonian folk songs to pop hits during its Oct. 28, 2021, concert at the Demorest campus.

The Piedmont University Singers gave their first public performance in nearly two years on Nov. 11 at the Chapel on the Demorest campus.

A program of music showcased the collaboration between Dianasue Walton's woodwind studio and Dr. Jeri-Mae Astolfi's piano studio and featured SEVEN? Piedmont University students. The Piedmont Chamber Ensembles Concert was held on Nov. 18 in the Chapel at the university.

Piedmont University's Theatre Department presented Walk Two Moons, a story of abandonment, grief, and identity, in November. Several students were among the cast and crew.

Peace, love, and happiness will take the stage this October as the Piedmont University Theatre Department presents Hair, the rock musical that debuted more than 50 years ago. Hair explores themes related to the peace movement of the 1960s that emerged in opposition to the Vietnam War.