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Paul Bauer
Paul Bauer, director of NIU’s School of Music, has been elected by his peers as chair of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) Region 4. He will serve on the NASM Board of Directors for three years. Region 4 includes Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. “My 18 years of experience as a director...
Steve Kalber (center) with members of the marching band at Homecoming.
We all know it takes talent, sweat, and discipline to be an athlete, but have you ever stopped to think that it takes the same mettle to march in the band? Skeptics need only watch junior Zach Haas perform “Let’s Groove Tonight” on his 45-pound sousaphone during a Huskie halftime show to become believers. The...
Avalon Quartet
NIU’s Avalon String Quartet will continue its complete Beethoven cycle at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The Avalon will perform quartets Op. 18, No. 2 in G Major, No. 5 in A Major and No. 1 in F major. The concert is free and open to the public, and...
Photo of "Silent Night" sheet music illuminated by candlelight
Traditional holiday carols and a guest organist, pannist and soloists combine for the NIU School of Music’s 14th annual Holiday Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4. The concert will be held in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building. Sold-out audiences in past years suggest that this event has become a holiday...
Lucia Matos
Under the direction of Lucia Matos, the NIU Philharmonic will perform its final concert of the semester at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21. On the program is Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony (New World Symphony), as well as Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with NIU piano professor William Goldenberg as soloist, and a new composition by faculty assistant...
His Excellency Dr. Neil Parsan, ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United States, will attend this weekend’s concert of the NIU Steel Band. Parsan, who is a veterinarian, contacted countryman Liam Teague a few months ago to learn more about the NIU School of Music and its international reputation for pushing...
Logo of the DeKalb Festival Chorus
The DeKalb Festival Chorus will present Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in D Minor, Opus 48, during its Sunday, Nov. 20, concert. Guest artists William Crosbie, and soloists Orna Arania (soprano) and Julian Rojas (baritone) will join in the performance. In addition to the Requiem, the chorus will sing pieces by Mendelssohn, Haydn and Rutter; Crosbie and...
Due East: Erin Lesser and Greg Beyer
NIU School of Music percussion professor Greg Beyer and his wife, flautist Erin Lesser, who collaborate musically as Due East, are about to release their second CD. New Amsterdam Records, whose name has become synonymous with the sweeping array of quality music across classical’s burgeoning independent scene, will issue the deeply expressive “drawn only once”...
Terell Stafford
Under the direction of Ron Carter, the nationally renowned NIU Jazz Ensemble will perform its fall concert with international jazz trumpet player Terell Stafford and School of Music faculty saxophonist Rich Moore. The music begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The concert is free...
Photo of a flute placed on sheet music
Clean out those piano benches, attics and basements and donate to a great cause: The NIU Community School of the Arts needs used sheet music, music books, old musical instruments, stands and other items that might be of interest to musicians. The used music items will be sold at the music swap March 10, 2012,...
Yarn/Wire
The NIU School of Music’s New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Gregory Beyer, will be joined in November by New York City-based ensemble Yarn/Wire. The groups will present two programs of music by major composers of the 20th century. This multi-day event scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 1, and Wednesday, Nov. 2, will be the...
Tom Bough
The NIU Wind Ensemble will present the local premiere of J.B.G. Neruda’s “Concerto in Eb,” arranged for band by Huskie Marching Band Director Thomas Bough. The concert, featuring faculty trumpet soloist Mark Ponzo, begins at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The concert is free...
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