Featuring Caleb Esmond & Mark Shockey
Experience an evening of masterful musicianship as pianist Caleb Esmond performs his third and final doctoral recital, Brahms’s monumental Concerto No. 1, joined by pianist Mark Shockey.
Join us Saturday, November 22, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. in the North Campus Ballroom for this powerful and expressive performance. Admission is free and open to the public, so invite friends and family to enjoy a night of world-class artistry right in your own backyard.
About Caleb Esmond:
Caleb Esmond is Lecturer of Music at the Conservatory of Music at New Saint Andrews College, where he teaches and conducts the NSA Chorale. He is an active performer, experienced collaborator, skilled improviser, jazz pianist, and prize-winning composer. He is a current Doctoral Candidate (DMA) in Piano Performance at the University of North Texas has a field related to choral conducting.
Mr. Esmond received his MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at Utah State University in 2023 and his BM in Piano Performance from Mercer University in 2021. He is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM).
He lives in Moscow with his wife, Madeleine, and their daughter.
About Mark Shockey:
A husband and father of eight, Mark Shockey began playing and studying the piano at the age of six. He studied for years with his mother, Eleanor Shockey, and began studies with the late Dr. Samuel Hsu at the age of fifteen, with whom he continued during his undergraduate work at Cairn University in Langhorne, PA. He has bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and Bible from Cairn University, and has since taught piano to students of all ages and abilities. He has also given full-length recitals every two or three years, and has collaborated with and accompanied all sorts of soloists and ensembles. Mark also has studied voice and choral conducting. For six years, he was Music Director and organist at St. Paul’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Oreland, PA, after which he held the same position at Hope Lutheran Church in Levittown, PA for eleven years. Mark has been New Saint Andrews College’s primary accompanist for the last four years.