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The NIU School of Music will host a concert of music by NIU student and faculty composers at 8 p.m. Monday, April 25, in the Music Building Recital Hall. The public is invited and admission is free. The program will feature music by student composers Johnny Gifford, Kyle Krause, Kyle Stephens and Brian Wach. Music by...
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“We’ll probably remove what little varnish remains on the walls of the hall after the last gig we presented there back in 2007,” James Phelps said in reference to the sand-blasting, searing sound that will likely emanate from the Annex Group‘s presentation of RaWElectrics. “The word ‘raw’  isn’t in the title of this event for nothing.”...
William Koelher
Friday night's Avalon Quartet Concert has been canceled and will be rescheduled.
Seventeen-year-old violinist Laura Park, winner of the 2010 Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition, performed recently with the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Linc Smelser.
Members of the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra presents their spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 30, with a performance of the “Titan” and “Jupiter” symphonies. The concert takes place in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The pair of symphonies are the first and last of two legendary composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav...
William Koelher
NIU piano professor William Koehler will join the Avalon String Quartet as they complete their 2010-11 season at 8 p.m. Friday, April 22, in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall. The quartet will perform Harold Meltzer’s String Quartet and Steve Reich’s Different Trains, and then be joined by Koehler for Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet. The concert is free and...
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The NIU Steelband will present its 2011 spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 17, under the direction of Liam Teague and Cliff Alexis. The concert, which takes place at School of Music’s Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, also will feature the Miami University (Ohio) Steel Band. Under the leadership of founder and director Chris Tanner,...
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The NIU Philharmonic will help celebrate Homecoming 2011 by performing Saturday, Oct. 15, with multi-platinum, award-winning rockers Kansas at the NIU Convocation Center. “A Night with Kansas and the NIU Orchestra” will take place shortly after the conclusion of the NIU vs. Western Michigan Homecoming football game. Kansas, who began performing with university orchestras in...
NIU Jazz Lab Band
Director Rodrigo Villanueva and the Northern Illinois University Jazz Lab Band will perform their last concert of the spring 2011 semester at 8 p.m. Monday, April 11, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the Music Building The band will perform an eclectic and dazzling program featuring the strong incisive sounds of baritone-saxophonist Gary Smulyan, five-time winner of the...
NIU Jazz Ensemble
Director Ron Carter and the internationally renowned NIU Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 14, with Grammy Award-winner Randy Brecker on trumpet. The concert in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center is free and open to the public. Brecker’s trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of...
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After its successful launch in April 2010, the NIU World Music Festival is back again in 2011. In this one-week long event, six full-length concerts featuring various world music traditions will take place in the NIU Music Building. The Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, a new student group added to the NIU World Music curriculum last...
Members of the NIU Steelband perform in August at the Huskies SEE DeKalb event.
If you’ve had enough of winter and want to get into a tropical mood without he expense of a plane ticket, join the Dixon Sister Cities Association for a benefit performance by the award-winning NIU Steelband. The concert is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at the historic Dixon Theatre. The NIU Steelband is...
Long time piano teacher Sara Vogeler combines a love for children’s books and the joy of teaching music to a music class for pre-school age children. Offered by the NIU Community School of the Arts, Musical Tales begins a new session Tuesday, March 1. The class is for children ages 3 to 5 and their parents....
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