Malmgren Concert: Black History Month Concert

Black History Month Concert

Feb. 15, 2026 at 4pm
Hendricks Chapel

The Setnor School of Music celebrates the legacy and music of Black composers in this beloved annual concert. Student soloists present music for solo piano and clarinet by Margaret Bonds (pictured above), Ahmed Alabac, and Regina Harris Baiocchi, and chamber music by Florence Price and Ivan Malcolm, G ’26. The Xaden Nishimitsu jazz combo, Black Celestial Choral Ensemble, Hendricks Chapel Choir, and Concert Choir will offer jazz standards, gospel tunes, and African-American spirituals, while Crouse Chorale performs Dorothy Rudd Moore’s “Voices from the Light,” with real-time graphic art by Sean Zhai. The program concludes with the audience and performers joining together in the civil rights anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson.

The Malmgren Concert Series of Hendricks Chapel has been made possible by a generous gift from Syracuse University alumna Ester Malmgren to Hendricks Chapel in 1991. The concert series offers the Syracuse community the highest quality of arts at no cost. See below for parking and accessibility information.

Many of our concerts are live-streamed and/or recorded. To view a live or recorded show, visit our YouTube page!