The Arts Articles

By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 6/25/2022 - 6 minute read

Christopher Aceves’s ’22 innovative original costumes for a recent Concordia theatre presentation earned him the nation’s highest collegiate costuming award—a first for any Concordia student.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 11/1/2018 - 4 minute read

Matthew Busch ’12 has spent the past year as a professor of trumpet at Nanhai Conservatory of Music on the island province of Hainan, off China’s south coast. He and three other American professors were hired to educate students about the value of western music, and to improve artistic standards for orchestral wind instrument music there, which Busch has done both on and off campus.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 7/2/2018 - 1 minute read

Alex Guebert '11 is becoming a national name in handbell composition and conducting — a field he studied intensively at Concordia Irvine.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2018 - 3 minute read

There was a time I thought I would never make a living in music. Today, as a professional singer, my voice has been on a number of film soundtracks—Jumanji, the most recent Transformers, Pixels and various television shows. But last summer I was called to a recording session that was shrouded in greater secrecy than all the others. One item on the non-disclosure agreement seemed to give it away: “Lucasfilm.”

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 11/1/2017 - 5 minute read

Herb Geisler, who spent 29 years at Concordia and built the best university handbell program in the country, retired on an outstanding note. His Concert Handbells group was selected to perform a one-hour evening concert at the National Seminar of the Handbell Musicians of America in July. CUI was the only school or university ensemble to be chosen.

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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 10/1/2017 - 3 minute read

Hanging in a classroom at Concordia University Irvine is a wall-sized mural by renowned Lutheran painter Gerald Brommer, commissioned for the original Lutheran high school in Southern California in the early 1960s. The mural, installed last year in the Library Arts building, has seen much history at two previous Lutheran campuses before arriving at Concordia University Irvine.

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By Michael Busch
Posted on 7/1/2017 - 2 minute read

It didn’t seem like a day for an incredible concert. The weather in Germany had been cold and rainy. That morning, the 100 CUI students and 50 companions in our group had taken a city tour and now everyone was tired. One girl lost her dress. Another student misplaced a folder of music. Another left his trumpet in a hotel. Things felt a bit chaotic.

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