FeNAM: Closing Concert

The 49th Annual Festival of New American Music closes with compositions by Shawn Okpebholo, featuring the Sac State Symphony Orchestra, Sac State University Chorale, Pan Pacific Ensemble, and more.

Named the 2024 Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music by the Chicago Tribune and one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of 2023, Grammy-nominated composer Shawn Okpebholo's music has been praised as “devastatingly beautiful” ( The Washington Post ), “lyrical, complex, singular” ( The Guardian ), “dreamy, sensual” ( The Boston Globe ), and “affecting” ( The New York Times ). Okpebholo holds master’s and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and currently serves as the Jonathan Blanchard Distinguished Professor of Composition at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music.