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Sports News News Archives	'Amahl and the Night Visitors' Students in the Piedmont College Opera Workshop and the Habersham Central High School Singers will bring back one of the favorite American operas, "Amahl and the Night Visitors," by Gian Carlo Menotti with two performances Jan. 11-12 in Demorest. The 7:30 p.m. production with orchestra accompaniment will be held in the new Swanson Center for Performing Arts and Communications on the Piedmont campus. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students. Piedmont faculty, staff and students are admitted free. (More)
	Area singers celebrate Christmas with Piedmont's 'Concert of Lessons and Carols' The Piedmont College Chorale and Habersham Central High School Singers will present their annual "Concert of Lessons and Carols" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30, and again on Saturday, Dec. 1, at the college's Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. The concert is free and everyone is invited.(More)
	3 x 3: One-Act Plays The Piedmont College Theatre Department will present its premiere production in the new Black Box Theatre at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 27-29. The evening of theatre entitled "3 x 3: One-Act Plays" is constructed around three one-act plays directed and designed by Piedmont College Theatre students. Admission is free. (More)
	PC Wind Ensemble sets Nov. 15 concert The Piedmont College Wind Ensemble will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 15, in the Center for Worship and Music at the campus in Demorest. Directed by Patricia Jameson, the Wind Ensemble will present works by Richard Saucedo, W. Francis McBeth, John Higgins, Arthur Frackenpohl, John Williams, and selections from the first movement of Mozart’s “Symphony No. 40 in G minor.”
Photo Galleries	Athens-based guitar quartet performs at Piedmont Saturday The Georgia Guitar Quartet, nationally recognized for its high-energy blend of classical and modern guitar music, will perform at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Piedmont College Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More)
	Piedmont College in Athens sets Open House Oct. 16 Piedmont College will hold an open house at 6 p.m., Oct. 16, for area high school students to learn more about undergraduate programs offered at the college’s Athens campus. (More)
	Piedmont College Theatre Presents ‘God’s Favorite’ by Neil Simon (Sept. 27, 2007) The Piedmont College Theatre Department will open its 2007-2008 season with the Neil Simon Comedy “God’s Favorite” on Oct. 19-21. The show will be the premiere production in the new Swanson Center for the Performing Arts and Mass Communication on the Demorest campus. (More)
	Hayner brings Liszt-Brahms feud to Piedmont concert (Sept. 25, 2007) Long before Kanye West and 50 Cent started their musical feud, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms launched a war of composing styles that has reverberated through the world of classical music for 150 years. (More)
	Atlanta Singers return to Piedmont College Sept. 22 One of the South’s leading professional chamber choirs, The Atlanta Singers, will perform at Piedmont College on Saturday, Sept. 22. The free concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Worship and Music on Historic Highway 441 in Demorest. (More)
2006 Graduation Baccalaureate Undergraduate Commencement Graduate Commencement July Commencement	German ‘Lieder’ focus of Piedmont concert Piedmont College voice professor Dr. Barbara Steinhaus, accompanied by internationally recognized accompanist John Wustman, will present a program of German Lieder in concert at the college Sept. 15. The 7:30 p.m. concert is free and will be held in the Center for Worship and Music at the Piedmont campus in Demorest. The program will include works by Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johannes Brahms. (More)
Alumni Day 2006	Piedmont commencement focuses on 'choices' Graduation at Piedmont College is always a bittersweet affair as students say "goodbye" to their friends and professors and "hello" to their new lives of building families and careers. Saturday, May 5, was no exception as some 382 students from the Class of 2007 collected diplomas to the cheers of family members filling the college's Mize Athletic Center in Demorest. (More) (Photos)
African American Music Celebration 2006	Piedmont Chamber Singers set 'Magnificat' The Piedmont College Chamber Singers and Orchestra will perform J.S. Bach's "Magnificat" at 7:30 p.m., April 26, in the Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. The concert also will include works by Palestrina, Clausen, Britten, and Paert. Dr. Wallace Hinson, director of ensembles at Piedmont, said the concert includes "an eclectic program of music from the Renaissance to the present that was written in honor of the Virgin Mary." (More)
Chamber Singers Fall Concert 2005	The PC Theatre to present children's play April 18-22 Piedmont College Theater Department is wrapping up its 2006-2007 season with a children’s theater production of "East of the Sun & West of the Moon." This production is very special to the department as it is directed by senior theater major Danielle Bailey Miller and is produced by Alpha Psi Omega, Beta Chapter, of the National Theatre Honor Society. "East of the Sun & West of the Moon" will be performed at Jenkins Theater in Daniel Hall on the Piedmont College Demorest campus. Show dates are April 18-21, with evening performances at 7:30 p.m. and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m., April 22. For reservations please contact the Piedmont College Theater Department at 706-778-8500 ext. 1355. (More)
Wind Ensemble Fall Concert 2005	Piedmont Chorale to present King David The Piedmont College Chorale and Orchestra, under the direction of Wallace Hinson, will perform King David by the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger on April 13 and 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the college's Center for Worship and Music. (More)
Commencement 2005 May Undergraduate May Graduate July Graduation	Graffe Quartet and Michiko Otaki to perform at Piedmont March 25 The Graffe String Quartet and acclaimed concert pianist Michiko Otaki will perform at Piedmont College March 25 as part of their U.S. tour. The free concert will be held at 3 p.m. in the Center for Worship and Music at the college campus in Demorest. (More)
Great Composers Beethoven's 9th	Piedmont's Cave Memorial Golf Tournament is April 13 Area golfers will tee off on Friday, April 13, for Piedmont College's annual Coach Cave Memorial Golf Tournament at the Sandy Creek Golf Club near Commerce. (More)
Chamber Singers Fall 2004	The Piedmont College Theatre presents 'Working, The Musical' adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Fasa. Based on the book by Studs Terkel and directed by Bill Gabelhausen. Show times are 7:30 p.m., Feb. 14-17 and 2 p.m. Feb. 18, in Jenkins Theater. For reservations, call the box office at 706-778-8500, extension 1355. (More) (Photos)
Carmina Burana April 19, 2004	Music Celebration unites area choirs (Jan. 16, 2007) The Alliance for African American Music in Habersham County will host its 16th annual Music Celebration at 3 p.m., Feb. 25, at the Piedmont College Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More) (Photos)
African-American Music Celebration 2004	Joy Hayner to present organ recital at Piedmont College (Jan. 16, 2007) Organist Joy Andre Hayner will present works by Bach, Brahms, Messiaen, and Peeters at Piedmont College. The free concert will be held at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 10, in the Center for Worship and Music at the campus in Demorest. (More)
	Steinhaus-Jordan to present concert Jan. 20 Dr. Barbara Steinhaus-Jordan of the Piedmont College Department of Music will present a recital titled "Immortality of the Poet" at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 20, in the college's Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More)
	Garen Simmons address first December Commencement (Dec. 10, 2006) The Johnny Mize Athletic Center in Demorest was full for the third time this year as Piedmont College held its first December commencement ceremony for 287 new graduates. Together with the 865 students who graduated in May and July, the Piedmont Class of 2006 swelled to 1,152 students, eclipsing the previous record of 1,021 students in the 2004-05 school year. (More)
	Area singers celebrate Christmas with Piedmont's 'Concert of Lessons and Carols' The Piedmont College Chorale and Habersham Central High School Singers will present their annual "Concert of Lessons and Carols" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 1, and again on Saturday, Dec. 2, at the college's Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More)
	Piedmont Chamber Singer to perform Nov. 9 The Piedmont College Chamber Singers will present a concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 9, in the Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. The free concert, titled “Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs,” will feature works from the 16th century to the present. (More)
	Piedmont to present three comic operas Nov. 4 If you missed last year's "Amahl and the Night Visitors," you won't want to miss the upcoming Piedmont College Opera Workshop presentation of three comic operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastion Bach. The performances will include two works by Mozart, "Bastien and Bastienne" and "The Impressario," along with Bach's "The Coffee Cantata." The "opera buffa" is free and open to the public and will be held in Brooks Hall in the Center for Worship and Music at Piedmont's campus in Demorest at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 4. (More)
	Center for Performing Arts and Mass Communication under construction Workers from Choate Construction expect to begin raising steel for the new Center for Performing Arts and Mass Communication on the Demorest campus around the end of October. (More)
	Cantabile sets Oct. 26 concert The Piedmont College Early Bird Concert Series continues Thursday, Oct. 26, with a performance by the college's Cantabile singers. The free concert will be held at 5 p.m. in Brooks Recital Hall in the Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More)
	Pianist Andreas Klein to perform at Piedmont Oct. 13 German-born pianist Andreas Klein will perform at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 13, at the Piedmont College Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. Admission at the door is $10 and $5 for seniors and students. Piedmont students, faculty and staff are admitted free. For the Piedmont concert, Klein will perform works by Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven. (More)
	Pipe organ prodigy Paul Jacobs to perform at Piedmont Oct. 6 Jacobs will perform a concert of pipe organ music at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 6, at Piedmont College in the Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. Admission at the door is $10 and $5 for students and seniors. Piedmont students, faculty and staff are admitted free. (More)
	Piedmont to showcase new Steinway in concert Sept. 16 Christmas came early for the Piedmont College music department recently when the college unwrapped a brand new Steinway concert grand piano for the Center for Worship and Music at the Demorest campus. (More)
	Piedmont begins 109th year Cathy Henson, founder of the Georgia School Council Institute, was the Convocation speaker to mark the start of the 109th academic year at Piedmont College on Wednesday, Aug. 23. (More)
	Piedmont faculty art on display Piedmont College begins a new season of fine arts events on Friday, Aug. 25, with an art show featuring the works of the art department faculty.
	Community School sets registration for music lessons, youth chorus The Piedmont College Community School of music will hold registration Aug. 17 for music lessons and a new Youth Chorus. Sign ups will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Brooks Hall in the Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More)
	Lance urges Piedmont graduates to 'change other's lives' One sign of the growth of Piedmont College in recent years is that the summer graduation held July 22 was larger than the traditional spring commencement of just six years ago. (More) (Photos)
	Piedmont to hold summer graduation Saturday Piedmont College will hold its summer commencement ceremonies beginning at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 22, at the Johnny Mize Athletic Center in Demorest. Some 328 students will earn degrees at the end of the summer semester. (More)
	Summer music camps set for June 26-30 Weeklong music day camps at Piedmont College will be held June 26-30 for students in grades 2-5 and grades 6-11. Called "SLAM: Summer Learning About Music," the camps will include instruction in piano, music theory, rhythm and movement, sight reading and tonal memory, and choir singing. (More)
	Piedmont Community School of Music sets summer classes Music lessons for children and adults will continue this summer at the Piedmont College Community School of Music. Registration will be held at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, May 25, in Brooks Hall at the college's Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. The Community School offers private lessons in piano, guitar, voice, woodwinds and brass. (More)
	Piedmont holds commencement week activities Piedmont College held its commencement week activities for 537 new graduates at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 30, with a baccalaureate service in the Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. On Saturday, May 6, the college held graduation ceremonies for 244 undergraduates at 10 a.m., followed by a separate ceremony at 2 p.m. for 293 students receiving master's and specialist degrees. (More) (Baccalaureate Photos) (Undergraduate Commencement Photos) (Graduate Commencement Photos)
	Chamber Singers to present concert featuring Sewell Organ The Piedmont College Chamber Singers, a select 38-voice choir under the direction Dr. Wallace Hinson, will present a concert on Thursday, April 27, 2006, at 7:30pm, in the Piedmont College Center for Worship and Music. The concert, titled “Light Eternal,” will feature the choir and the Sewell Pipe Organ, played by Mrs. Joy Hayner, Assistant Professor of Music and organist for Covenant Congregational Church, on “Lux Aeterna” by Canadian composer Morten Lauridsen. (More)
	Piedmont theatre presents 'The Daisy Princess' Piedmont College Theatre and Alpha Psi Omega will present an original play for all ages, "The Daisy Princess" by Piedmont student Meredith Kisgen beginning April 19 at Jenkins Theater on the campus in Demorest. (More)
	Piedmont Alumni Association names award winners The Piedmont College Alumni Association honored five graduates of the college during the group's annual awards luncheon held during Alumni Weekend April 7-9 in Demorest. (More) (Photos)
	Childs, Peel named to PC Sports Hall of Fame The Piedmont College Letter Club inducted two new members into the Sports Hall of Fame during Alumni Weekend April 8. Jamie Childs, a basketball standout and now coach of the women's team; and Rick Peel, a four-year All-Conference baseball player, were tapped for this year's honors. (More) ( Photos)
	Poet Thomas Lux to present reading at Piedmont Thomas Lux, the Bourne Professor of Poetry at Georgia Tech, will present a reading of his work at 5 p.m., April 6, at Piedmont College in Brooks Hall. The event is free and the public is invited. (More)
	Piedmont Chorale to present works of Mozart and Rheinberger April 7-8 The Piedmont College "Great Composers Series" will mark its 16th year with two performances of Mozart's "Requiem" and Josef Rheinberger's "Organ Concerto No. 2." (More)
	Piedmont faculty sets organ concert (3-20-06) While the Sewell Organ at Piedmont has received much attention in recent years, the college celebrates the installation of a second organ at 7:30 p.m., March 24, in the Center for Worship and Music's Brooks Hall. (More)
	Piedmont to hold Foxfire workshops for teachers (2-28-06) Piedmont College will hold two summer workshops for teachers who want to implement the Foxfire approach to classroom instruction. The first workshop, for teachers K-12, is scheduled for two weeks, June 12-23, at the Foxfire Center near Clayton, Ga. The second workshop, for college instructors, is scheduled for one week, July 9-14, also at the Foxfire Center. The workshop will cover the 11 Foxfire Core Practices designed to engage students in their subject and will include an examination of Foxfire’s pedagogical foundations. (More)
	Ibis Camerata of Miami to perform here Feb. 28 (2-20-06) The Ibis Camerata, a chamber ensemble from the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 28, at Piedmont College in the Center For Worship and Music in Demorest. (More)
	Music celebration brings together singers from variety of northeast Georgia churches The Alliance for African American Music in Habersham County will host its 15th annual "Celebration of Music" at 3 p.m., Feb. 26, at the Piedmont College Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More) (Event Photos)
	Hayners to premier work by Leslie Bassett in concert here Feb. 25 A piano and organ concert by Piedmont College music faculty members Phillip and Joy Hayner will feature the world premier of a composition by Pulitzer prize-winning composer Leslie Bassett. In addition to works by Schubert, Szymanowski, and Milhaud, the Hayners will perform Bassett's new composition for piano and organ, "Hammered Strings and Whistling Pipes," featuring the 3,675-pipe Sewell Organ. (More)
	'Quink' ensemble to perform at Piedmont (1-20-06) How do you spell vocal excellence? In the Netherlands, it is spelled "Quink," the name of a five-person vocal ensemble that has delighted audiences worldwide. Derived from the Dutch words "kwetteren" (to chirp), "kwinkslag" (to joke), Quink will bring their brand of not-so-serious a capella singing to Piedmont College. (More)
	Mostly Mozart concert set for Piedmont Jan. 21 (1-13-06) Piedmont College will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart with a concert Jan. 21 by soprano Dr. Barbara Steinhaus-Jordan, associate professor of music. The 7:30 p.m. concert, which features four works by Mozart, will be held in the Center for Worship and Music at Piedmonts main campus in Demorest. The concert is free and the public is invited. (More)
	Wissinger and Lugo plan Piedmont concert The flute and guitar duo of Donna Wissinger and Eddy Lugo will perform a free concert at Piedmont College in Demorest on Thursday, Jan. 19. Part of the college's Early Bird Concert series, the performance will be held at 5 p.m. in Brooks Hall in the Center for Worship and Music. (More)
	Family of late coach Charles Cooper establishes memorial scholarship The family of the late Piedmont College women's basketball coach Charles Cooper has created an endowed scholarship fund in his honor. The fund, established by Cooper's widow, Jean Cooper, will "honor the life and achievements of coach Cooper and help carry on his work of aiding women who desire to attend college." (More)
	Music lessons for children and adults begin again in January (12-13-05) The Community School of Music will hold registration for the spring semester at 4:30 p.m., Jan. 5, in the Center for Worship and Music at Piedmont College in Demorest. (More)
	17th 'Concert of Lessons and Carols' to ring in the holidays (11-22-05) The Piedmont College Chorale and Habersham Central High School Singers will present their annual "Concert of Lessons and Carols" at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 2, and again on Saturday, Dec. 3, at the college's Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. (More)
	Piedmont Community School of Music organizing children's chorus (11-18-05) Boys and girls ages 8-12 are invited to join a new Youth Chorus being started by the Piedmont College Community School of Music. (More)
	Piedmont and HCHS to present Christmas opera 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' (11-17-05) Students in the Piedmont College Opera Workshop and the Habersham Central High School Singers will perform one of the favorite American operas, "Amahl and the Night Visitors," by Gian Carlo Menotti Dec. 5 in Demorest. (More)
	Piedmont Theatre presents 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern' (11-7-05) The Piedmont College Theatre will present Tom Stoppard's groundbreaking play, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" beginning Wednesday Nov. 16 at Jenkins Theater on the main campus in Demorest. (More)
	Piedmont Chamber Singers set Fall Concert Nov. 10 (11-4-05) The Piedmont College Chamber Singers will present their annual Fall Concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 10, in the Center for Worship at Piedmont's main campus in Demorest. Admission is free. (More)
	Piedmont waives expenses for evacuee students (9-7-05) College students who have had to flee hurricane Katrina in the Gulf states may soon be picking up their studies at Piedmont College in northeast Georgia. Piedmont President Ray Cleere said the college currently has room for 30-40 additional students and will waive tuition, room and board during the fall semester for students displaced by the storm. (More)