Pictured (from left to right): Bruno Ribeiro, Leslie Laney and John Tadlock

NACOGDOCHES ¬- The Stephen F. Austin State University 2012-2013 Concerto/Aria Competition winners will be guest soloists when the Orchestra of the Pines presents "Taking Center Stage" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Area residents are invited to participate in a Garden Guide training class at Stephen F. Austin State University.

"Super Scientific Circus" will be performed at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Monday, March 4, in W.M. Turner Auditorium as part of the SFA Children's Performing Arts Series.

NACOGDOCHES - Area students will learn that science can be fun and exciting when the Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and the Children's Performing Arts Series present "Super Scientific Circus" in two performances Monday, March 4, in W.M.

NACOGDOCHES - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present the SFA A Cappella Choir in concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, in Cole Concert Hall in the Wright Music Building on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES - The great chamber works for strings and piano by Dmitry Shostakovich will be celebrated in a two-day festival in March at Stephen F. Austin State University designed to benefit the Saslav Strings Scholarship.

Two members of the renowned St. Petersberg String Quartet will join SFA music faculty for the Shostakovich Festival with concerts to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3, in Cole Concert Hall. The festival is a joint presentation of the SFA School of Music and the Friends of Music.

Dr. Brian P. Oswald

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The upcoming Stephen F. Austin State University Regents Lecture by Dr. Brian P. Oswald, the Joe E. Denman Distinguished Professor of Forestry in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, will focus on the growing wildfire problem in The Netherlands.

NACOGDOCHES - The inside story of "a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics" is the topic of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art's presentation of the film "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" at 7 p.m. Friday, March 1, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - More than 11,800 students are enrolled in classes at Stephen F. Austin State University this spring, a decrease of less than 1 percent from one year ago.

Visiting professor Dr. Maria Grenfell from Tasmania instructs music composition student Stephen Bonilla while teaching this semester at SFA.

NACOGDOCHES - The exchange program between Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music and the University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music is proving to be a win-win collaboration for everyone lucky enough to find themselves involved.

NACOGDOCHES - The Piney Woods Camerata, a conductor-less string ensemble composed of Stephen F. Austin State University music faculty members Jennifer Dalmas (violin) and Evgeni Raychev (cello) and select SFA string students, will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

The Piney Woods Camerata is concluding a six-year dedicated project of promoting the music from the Baroque and Classical periods with special emphasis on the concerti grossi written by Italian Baroque composer Arcangello Corelli, according to Raychev.