Category: Music
The NIU School of Music will welcome the Quasari Quartet to perform string quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich and contemporary American composer Zack Browning, who will be present for the performance. The concert will take place at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, in the Music Building Recital Hall. The concert is free and...
The community is invited to enjoy the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s fall concert, “Dancing the Night Away,” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of NIU’s Music Building. The orchestra will play “Danse Bacchanale” by Camille Saint-Saëns; “Concerto for Trombone” by Samuel Jones, featuring Kirk Lundbeck on trombone; “Rounds” by David...
Switchfoot and Anberlin have canceled their Sunday, Oct. 2, concert at the NIU Convocation Center. The cancellation is “due to circumstances out of our control,” according to a statement from the concert’s promoter. Tickets will be refunded starting at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23. Tickets must be returned to the place of purchase in order to receive...
Country music star Darius Rucker will perform Saturday, Nov. 5, at the NIU Convocation Center, 1525 W. Lincoln Hwy. Special guests Thompson Square, nominated for two CMA Awards for New Artist of the Year and Vocal Duo of the Year, and Justin Moore also will take the Convo stage at the 7:30 p.m. concert. Doors open...
UPDATED! JOSH IS THE WINNER! CONGRATULATIONS JOSH! NIU alum Josh Scholl, who earned a bachelor’s degree in theater in 2006, is one of four finalists on the ABC reality show “Karaoke Battle USA.” Scholl, who grew up in Lake in the Hills, could win a recording contract with Hollywood Records and a trip to compete...
Guitar players, young and old, expert or novice, are invited to NIU’s first 12-hour All Styles Guitar Day. The strumming and picking starts at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, in the Music Building. The day, or celebration as NIU guitar professor Fareed Haque calls it, will start with instruction, introduction and sharing of techniques and...
Anthony Devroye, NIU School of Music viola professor and violist of the Avalon String Quartet, will present a recital at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building. Guest pianist George Lepauw will join Devroye to feature the music of Beethoven, Schubert and Shostakovich. Admission is free. “This program is...
Move over, Chicago. There’s a new home for jazz in Illinois. For more than 25 years, the NIU Jazz Lab Band, or Laboratory Band, has impressed audiences both locally and internationally with award-winning performances. Now, with some help from NIU resources, the band is celebrating the release of its first album, “Quintessence.” The Lab Band,...
Rock legends Kansas will join the NIU Philharmonic for one spectacular Homecoming 2011 concert. This unforgettable Homecoming concert begins at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, at the NIU Convocation Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Tickets range from $37.50 to $22.50 and can be purchased at the NIU Convocation Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets,...
Lupe Fiasco is set to storm the NIU Convocation Center at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4. Special guest Tinie Tempah will open the show. Tickets for Lupe Fiasco and Tinie Tempah go on sale to NIU students at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 2; tickets become available to the general public at noon. NIU student tickets are...
CSJazz Band has room for a few more musicians. Feel the beat and find your groove in this top notch high school regional jazz band, sponsored by the NIU Community School of the Arts. The openings are for trumpet, trombone and bass. Interested players need to be between the ages of 14 and 20 and...
The NIU Community School of the Arts, sponsored by the College of Visual and Performing Arts, will offer several classes this fall in art and music. Teachers are faculty and students in the NIU schools of Music and Art. Need scholarships are available for those 18 and younger; the application deadline is Monday, Aug. 29....
