Music at Noon: The Logan Series

Music at Noon: The Logan Series at Penn State Behrend continues Tuesday, April 22, with a performance by Allison Au, a JUNO award-winning saxophonist, composer and arranger. The concert, in Penn State Behrend’s McGarvey Commons, is free and open to the public.

Au’s debut album, “The Sky was Pale Blue, then Grey,” earned a JUNO nomination in 2013. Her 2019 follow-up, “Forest Grove,” won the JUNO for Best Jazz Album by a group.

Au was the 2017 winner of TD Grand Prix de Jazz at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. She also won the 2017 Sting Ray Rising Star Award. In 2022, she joined the faculty at the University of Toronto as a private instructor.

Music at Noon: The Logan Series was founded by Kay Logan in 1989 and is supported by a $1 million endowment by the Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation. The series was designed to strip away the mystique that often is attached to professional chamber music. The lunchtime concerts, which are presented in McGarvey Commons, in the college’s Reed Union Building, are informal, and a portion of the seating is reserved for students from Erie’s Diehl Elementary School.

To learn more about the series, visit the Music at Noon website.