Music

"I was nervous when I had to audition as a vocal major. I was worried about not being accepted. But I found just the opposite here … professors and students who were so accommodating, who were there cheering me on and wanting to lift me up.”

Simon Furze ’24 is one of four Keene State students who wrote and submitted short excerpts – 60 to 90 seconds long – for full orchestra and had them workshopped and recorded by SNH last October. Simon’s work, Mountain, is one of four overall selected movements that comprise the finished concerto.