NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The conducting talents of Oliver Yan, graduate student in the School of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University, will be spotlighted when the Symphony Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 24, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
 
Yan, who is from Hong Kong, is earning a master’s degree in conducting from SFA. The program will include three major works:  “Der Freischütz” Overture by Carl Maria von Weber; “Les Preludes” by Franz Liszt; and L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas –– The Sylvans, Stephen F. Austin State University’s forestry club and timbersports team, claimed top honors at the 64th annual Southern Forestry Conclave, marking the fifth consecutive conclave SFA has been crowned. The event was hosted by Louisiana Tech University March 9-11 at the Lincoln Parish Park in Ruston, Louisiana. 

The accomplishment marks the eighth win of the past nine conclaves and 17 wins total. 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The A Cappella Choir at Stephen F. Austin State University will present the concert program “The Spark Within Us” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 21 in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
 
The program features music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Moses Hogan, Wolfram Buchenberg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Dan Forrest and more.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The School of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University will present “Celleuphoria” at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 19, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
 
“Celleuphoria” is a concert featuring the cello in “an intense emotional state viewed from different angles of time through the eyes of highly regarded composers,” according to Dr. Evgeni Raychev, cello instructor at SFA. The concert will feature compositions from the Baroque, Romantic and post-Romantic periods, as well as the 20th and 21st centuries.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Jamaican-American hip-hop artist Sean Kingston will be the featured performer at Stephen F. Austin State University’s SpringFest planned for 8 p.m. April 14 in Johnson Coliseum. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
 
The concert will be hosted by SFA’s Student Activities Association and will serve, in part, to make up for the last-minute cancellation of the fall Homecoming concert.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Dr. Andrea Denis, assistant professor of horn at Stephen F. Austin State University, will present “New Beginnings,” a recital of works by Paul Basler, Verne Reynolds, Elizabeth Raum, Stephen Lias and John Dickson, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — If you put your golf clubs away for the winter, it’s time to bring them back out.

The annual Bob Sitton Classic is scheduled for March 24 at Woodland Hills Golf Club at 359 CR 5021 in Nacogdoches. A fundraiser for SFA golf and the SFA Alumni Association, the event honors Sitton, who helped endow hundreds of scholarships during his time as association director from 1972 to 1998.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Chicago-based ~Nois Saxophone Quartet will bring their signature concert experience combining contemporary chamber music and improvisation to Cole Concert Hall on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus when the ensemble performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 17.
 
~Nois has become one of the premier ensembles in the U.S. The group has been awarded top prizes at prestigious chamber music competitions including the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the M-Prize International Arts Competition.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Dr. James Vilseck, adjunct faculty and percussion instructor in the School of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University, will conclude a concert tour of multiple universities with a performance at 6 p.m. Friday, March 17, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — A proclamation event was held Wednesday at Stephen F. Austin State University’s School of Social Work to kick off Social Work Month, as well as a number of events the school will host to honor the social work profession. 

Nacogdoches County Commissioner Robin Dawley delivered the proclamation to the School of Social Work’s faculty members, field instructors, students and others in attendance.