JACK JONES
STAFF WRITER
2/9/2026
Alma College’s 2026 Winter Arts program is soon kicking off, with a varied slate of performances and productions with which to look forward to.
The season will open with the Chamber Orchestra concert on Feb.14 at 3 p.m. which is sure to be a wonderful beginning to the season as the Alma College Performing Arts welcomes audiences to see their learned skills.
This year’s Orchestra concert will focus on performances of movie songs, including films like Schindler’s List and Psycho focusing mostly on a slower tempo. The concert will be the culmination of the Orchestra’s rehearsal work since the beginning of the semester.
After the Chamber Orchestra concert, the rest of the performing arts slate is set to begin, continuing to share the performance of Alma College students in Dance, Music and Theatre.
On Mar. 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Mar. 14 at both 7:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., Dance takes the stage to perform the Student Choreography Concert, a performance choreographed, performed and directed by students.
This year’s directors are Olympia Moore (’26) and Emily Zatelli (’26).
This concert is followed by the final performance of Alma College’s Academic Theatre program with a full stage performance of “Little Women” on Mar. 20, 21 and 22.
The Theatre will perform the play based on the famous novel by Louisa May Alcott, adapted for modern audiences by playwright Kate Hamil also known for her stage adaptations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. These performances will also act as a final swan song to the Alma Theatre Program as it comes to an end at the end of the year.
On Mar. 20, The Highland Arts concert will be held at 6 p.m, which will include performances by Alma’s Highland Dance Company by the Kiltie dancers and Bagpipes by the Alma College Pipe Band. The concert celebrates Alma College’s Scottish heritage with performances tied back to those roots and commemorates the continued practice of Highland arts by Alma students.
At the end of the month Alma’s percussion and wind ensembles have their concerts, percussion on Mar. 29 at 3 p.m and wind Mar.31 at 7 p.m.The Percussion concert will also be the last for longtime band director David Zerbe who is retiring after the year. Following the concert, there will be a retirement dinner for him. The Percussion concert will also include a section for alumni and friends who will join in for a portion of the performance.
The wind ensemble’s concert will follow the percussion concert and act as a capstone to Alma College’s arts programming in March, showing off the skills of the Kiltie Wind Ensemble which will be followed by the Jazz Ensemble with their own concert on Apr. 7 at 8 p.m playing a variety of jazz music and completing their third concert of the year.
The ensemble performances give the band students a chance to show their audiences the skills they have honed through their programs at Alma College.
This year’s winter slate will be once again capped off with the annual Masterworks concert on Apr 12 at 3 p.m., a collaboration between the Alma College Orchestra and Choir programs to perform large musical pieces and bringing together multiple of the college’s musical programs in concert.
To attend these events you can find Tickets at Alma College’s new ticketing website alma.edu/performingarts.
The Almanian: News 
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