Collegium Musicum
CBU’s Collegium Musicum presents vibrant and provocative performances of historically informed repertoire from the medieval through the baroque eras by researching the past, revitalizing the present and engaging the future. We, here at the Collinsworth School of Performing Arts would like audiences that hear our music-making to be revitalized and invigorated. Audiences at Collegium concerts hear the presentation of early music with a new and fresh sound in the forms of vibrant and wonderfully stylistic performance. Collegium Musicum will be limited to 6-10 instrumentalists and occasionally 4-8 vocalists, depending on literature choices. This provides the Collegium a sense of communalism; a connection and knowing each other, researching, sharing and performing.
To schedule an audition, please visit our Next Steps page, contact the CBU School of Performing Arts office by phone at 951-343-4251, or email us at performingarts@calbaptist.edu.
Jeremy Ward
Director, Collegium Musicum
Jeremy Ward is a full-time music educator and professional violinist in the Inland Empire. He teaches elementary music in Riverside Unified School District and manages his private studio. He is an adjunct professor at California Baptist University, where he directs Collegium Musicum, the University’s early music ensemble. He is an active performer throughout Southern California, frequently collaborating with ensembles like Sea Coast Symphony, Corona Symphony, Temecula Valley Symphony, The Four Seasons Orchestra, Performance Riverside, Inland Master Chorale, and Riverside City College. Before his studies at CBU, he was a founding member of The Contiguo Quartet, with which he won the 2020 Buttram Competition. He also served as a section leader in the Oklahoma Youth Orchestra and won the 2018 Next Generation Performing Arts Concerto Competition. In 2023, he spent his summer as a young artist at The Trentino Music Festival in Italy under Maestro J. David Jackson from the Metropolitan Opera. Jeremy received his B.M. In Music Education from California Baptist University. In addition to this, he was recently named a Presser Scholar in recognition of his outstanding work as an undergraduate student. Beyond his professional activities, Jeremy actively contributes to his church, Antioch.