Category: Music
Every fall , the Latino Resource Center and the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies organize academic, social, cultural and professional events for the NIU student body and community to celebrate Latino Heritage Month. Latino Heritage Month recognizes the richness and diversity of Latino culture and history in the United States and Latin America....
Chicagoland’s Don’t Panic, it’s a Distro plans a Sunday, Sept. 30, release of “DeKalb Brawl City,” a compilation CD featuring punk and metal bands from DeKalb. The 17-track CD features independently released music from both current and defunct bands from DeKalb. Ranging from punk and metal to folk and ska, “DeKalb Brawl City” dives down deep...
This summer has seen several changes to the piano inventory at the NIU School of Music. Piano faculty have added Grotrian and Hamburg Steinway semi-concert grand pianos to the Recital Hall. They also retired a well-worn Yamaha upright and replaced it with a new Schimmel upright. The Schimmel and Grotrian both hail from Braunsweig, Germany....
Liam Teague, NIU’s “Paganini of the Steelpan,” was named today as a winner of a silver Hummingbird Medal from his native Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. An associate professor of steelpan in the School of Music and co-director of the NIU Steelband, Teague is in good company as his homeland confers its highest accolades on...
Registration is open at the NIU Community School of the Arts. Programming in fall includes classes and ensembles, as well as traditional and Suzuki music lessons. NIU staff and students receive free tuition for a popular art class that meets for six Saturdays, beginning Sept. 22. Another art class is Creating Comics, taught on Thursdays beginning...
New and returning students and community members all are invited this weekend to DeKalb’s annual Corn Fest event, located at the Taylor Municipal Airport. NIU is providing convenient transportation to and from the festival throughout the weekend. Weekend activities include an Air Fest with biplane and helicopter rides in addition to a B-25 Bomber, an...
Geof Bradfield, a composer and professor of saxophone in the NIU School of Music, will perform his new suite for jazz septet at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6., in the Music Building Recital Hall. “Melba!” is a tribute to the great jazz arranger and trombonist, Melba Liston (1926-1999), and was supported by a commission from...
As a part of the NIU Art Museum’s upcoming Southeast Asian Exhibition Suite, “Music for the Divine” showcases Burmese traditions and musical instruments ranging from those used in Buddhist rituals, traditional royal court ceremonies and contemporary multi-ethnic expressions. This exhibition will run in the South Galleries, and will feature the Burma Art Collection at NIU...
Greg Beyer, professor of percussion in the NIU School of Music, is a core member of noted Chicago-based new music ensemble Dal Niente. Dal Niente was awarded the coveted Kranichsteiner Prize at this year’s International MusikFereinkurse Darmstadt (IMD). Among the two week-long activities were a rehearsal with renowned composer Brian Ferneyhough and a very successful...
Mac Miller’s “Macadelic Tour” is stopping Saturday, Sept. 15, at the NIU Convocation Center. The show will start at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. Opening acts are Travis Porter and YG. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 3. Tickets are general admission and $28. Ticket prices rise to $30 on...
Ron Carter, professor of music and director of Jazz Studies in the NIU School of Music, has a long relationship with legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Carter is now featured in a video, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. An NIU institution since 1994, he serves as lead artist for the...
Students in the NIU School of Music’s frame drumming class will perform at noon Wednesday, July 25, to showcase what they have learned in a short, six-week period this summer. Omar Al-Musfi will direct the concert, which takes place in the Music Building’s Recital Hall. In addition to the drums played by the participants of...
