Community Performance Series - CPS

05/18/2026

Sharing our deepest condolences to Emily’s family and friends - a truly devastating loss. 💔

05/17/2026

Congratulations SUNY Potsdam Class of 2026! Especially interns Michael Wong & Elena Kaplan as well as past intern Ethan Hurst. 🎓🐻♥️🎉
The CPS team is SO PROUD of all you have accomplished - best wishes on the journey ahead.

04/20/2026

Last chance to register - free & open to all ages!

04/19/2026

Future generations of musicians begin their love of music in their school music, band & orchestra programs. 🎶

Today check out Music Matters, a community fundraiser sponsored by Potsdam Central School Music Friends, supporting the music program and our students here in Potsdam.

Sunday, April 19, 2026
12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Maxfields, Potsdam, NY

Band Performances:
12:20–1:20 PM — Animal Crackers
2:10–3:25 PM — Firefly
4:15–5:45 PM — SFM

Student performances will take place between sets throughout the day.

Funds raised support:

Student scholarships
Instrument purchases and maintenance
Program support for music education at Potsdam Central Schools

Suggested donation: $5–$20 (give what you can)
50/50 raffle and refreshments available

They will also be sharing an important announcement about the future of the Potsdam Central School music program and its impact on students.

Thank you to the Maresca Family and Hazen Enterprises for their support and to the Potsdam Central School music faculty, including Matt Gayle, Amber Spinner, and Jill Rubio, and to Barker Productions for sound support.

All are welcome.

Learn more: https://www.bluewebnodes.com/pcs-music-friends/

04/18/2026

We’ll see you tomorrow as this very special residency culminates with the concert 🎶

04/17/2026

Tomorrow’s guest artist, Raquel Acevedo Klein ‘16 sat down with Mitch Teich at North Country Public Radio for an interview in the newest episode of the “North Words” podcast. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about “Polyphonic Interlace,” her background and more.

Tickets (from $5) are still available online at cpspotsdam.org or walk up at the Performing Arts Center Box Office at 6:30 pm.

6:45 pm - Polyphonic Interlace, PAC lobby
7:30 pm - Concert, PAC Proscenium Theater
8:30 pm - Post-concert reception, PAC lobby

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/53306/20260417/north-words-you-might-have-noticed-this-crane-school-of-music-grad-singing-backup-for-florence-and-the-machine-that-s-not-all-she-does

Multi-instrumentalist Raquel Acevedo Klein's music is a hard one to pin down, blending blending classical, jazz, and three ethnic traditions.

04/14/2026

FLASH SALE
Raquel Acevedo Klein Classical x Electronic Music Experience
Tickets from $5
Limited time ticket pricing now available.
Tix @ cpspotsdam.org

SUNY Potsdam Performing Arts Center, Proscenium Theater
April 18, 2026, at 7:30pm
6:45pm - Polyphonic Interlace, and immersive, audience-driven sound experience
7:30pm - Performance
8:30pm - Post-concert reception

04/10/2026

Be a part of the Raquel Acevedo Klein Classical x Electronic Music Experience

SUNY Potsdam Performing Arts Center, Proscenium Theater
April 18, 2026, at 7:30pm
6:45pm - Polyphonic Interlace, and immersive, audience-driven sound experience
7:30pm - Performance
8:30pm - Post-concert reception
Tickets at cpspotsdam.org

The Washington Post calls composer, conductor, vocalist, and visual artist Raquel Acevedo Klein a “force to be reckoned with.” She recently made her Los Angeles Philharmonic conducting debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall and has worked with Rosalía, Florence + The Machine (including The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Everybody Scream), and Alicia Keys. She conducted premieres at Carnegie Hall and The Met, and performed with New York City Ballet, Sara Mearns, and the New York Philharmonic.

This season, she made her Broadway debut as Music Director for the Tony Award-winning Illinoise (Sufjan Stevens). Her debut album Adrianne and the Castle (with Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry) is out on Sony Music, and she performs with the Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth.

Her work spans Lincoln Center, MoMA, the Guggenheim, BAM, and Radio City Music Hall, with features in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times. Recent projects include a NASA- and European Space Agency–backed immersive work using James Webb Space Telescope data, her MoMA exhibition Meta/Physical Therapy, and NYC FREE, a four-week festival for NY PopsUp.

Her audience-interactive vocal symphony Polyphonic Interlace layers 40 recorded voices activated by the audience in real time. She has also performed and recorded with Bon Iver, The National, Grizzly Bear, and Sufjan Stevens, and is currently commissioned by Opera Philadelphia to write her first opera.