Tag: music
The DeKalb Festival Chorus, directed by Amy Gatschenberger, will present a selection of opera choruses at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 6, in the NIU Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Guest soloists Jessica Vadney (soprano) and Christopher Joyner (tenor) will join the performance, which also will feature guest artists William Koehler on piano, the NIU...
The Illinois Council of Orchestras has announced that the Kishwaukee Symphony Associates is the 2012 recipient of the Guild of Year award. The KSA is an organization of community members whose mission is to support the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra, which is now in its 35th concert season. Orchestra Guild of the Year is one of...
Michael Mulcahy, Peter Ellefson, Timothy Higgins and Randall Hawes, a trombone faculty from Northwestern University, will present a recital at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, in the NIU Music Building. The quartet will perform works by Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein, Giovanni Gabrieli, Beethoven, Bach, Tomasi and Walter Ross. Mulcahy, the internationally recognized Chicago Symphony...
The NIU Community School of the Arts will welcome a guest residency with Emily Ellsworth, choir director of the world-famous children’s choir Anima in Glen Ellyn. Two free events featuring Ellsworth are open to the public and are scheduled in Room 171 of the NIU Music Building. Wednesday, April 18. Ellsworth is the guest conductor...
NIU’s Avalon String Quartet will continue its complete Beethoven cycle at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The Avalon will perform Quartets Op. 130 and Op. 131. The concert is free and open to the public, and the auditorium is accessible to all. For those unable to attend, this concert...
NIU’s Chamber Choir will present its final concert of the year at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The choir will present the world premiere of “Alarum Bells.” Composed by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjarvi, this work was commissioned by the NIU choral department and the...
The NIU Steel Band, under the direction of Liam Teague and Cliff Alexis, will present its spring 2012 concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the Music Building. Promising an eclectic blend of music from across the globe, the concert will be streamed live. Joining NIU’s musicians are...
NIU trombone studio teacher Jeremy Moeller will present an evening of trombone music at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, in the Music Building’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. Moeller will perform pieces by Sulek, Rabe, Pryor, Wagenseil, Jongen and Bernstein. He will be accompanied by Yoko Yamada on piano. Moeller was appointed principal trombone of the...
The world-famous NIU Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Ron Carter, will perform with guest drummer Victor Lewis at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The concert is free, but ticketed, and the Holmes Student Center is accessible to all. Advance tickets can be reserved by...
The NIU School of Music will host guest pianists Amy Williams and Jacob Greenberg in concert at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall located of the Music Building. All are welcome to attend the free performance. The auditorium is accessible to all. The program will feature music from the “Dancing...
The NIU Percussion Ensemble, directed by Robert Chappell and Greg Beyer, with graduate conductors Amanda Duncan and Angela Kepley, will present its spring concert at 8 p.m. Monday, April 2, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The concert is free and open to the public, the the auditorium is accessible to all. The concert will...
The Women’s Resource Center’s Victim Advocacy Services is jump-starting April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month with NIU Rocks Against Rape. This free event will be held Wednesday, March 28, in the Holmes Student Center. From 6 to 7 p.m., visitors to the Glidden Room can enjoy refreshments and a showcase of speakers from campus and...
