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Khasma Duo
NIU’s School of Music will host the Khasma Duo in a recital of new and recent music for piano duet (one piano, four hands). The recital will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the Recital Hall of the NIU Music Building. Ashlee Mack and Katherine Palumbo formed the Khasma Duo in 2012....
Avalon Quartet
NIU’s Avalon String Quartet will begin its fall season at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the NIU Music Building. The quartet will perform the Schumann String Quartet Op. 41 No 3 in A Major and the Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A Minor. The concert is free...
Gregory Barrett
NIU clarinet professor Greg Barrett once again has invited his colleagues to join him at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, for an evening of music from Spain. The concert will take place in the Recital Hall of the Music Building. NIU faculty members JeongSoo Kim and William Koehler on piano will join Barrett and special...
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The Northern Illinois University School of Music welcomes guest performers Ensemble P/4 for a concert of contemporary music at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16. Ensemble P/4 consists of two pianists and two percussionists, all members of music faculties at universities in Florida. They are Thad Anderson (percussion professor at University of Central Florida), Marja Kerney...
Anthony Devroye
Tony Devroye, associate professor of viola at the NIU School of Music and violist of the famed Avalon String Quartet, has been named the new artistic director of Rush Hour Concerts. Rush Hour Concerts, a 15-year-old organization, brings high-quality classical music to the public for free in its weekly summer concert series at St. James...
Cor Cantiamo CD cover: “Canticum: The Choral Music of Jaakko Mäntyjärvi”
NIU School of Music ensemble-in-residence Cor Cantiamo and founding Artistic Director Eric A. Johnson will celebrate their first commercial CD with Centaur Records with an official release this month in the United States and Canada. The album will be available internationally Tuesday, Aug. 12, on all major download and stream sites as well as on...
The NIU School of Music is happy to welcome Harold and Cecelia Kafer back to for an afternoon of musical duets and solo pieces on Sunday, August 10, at 3 p.m. The Kafers will perform works by Bach, Joaquin Rodrigo, Schumann, Rossini, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Mascagni and Offenbach. The concert, located in the Music Building Recital...
Dean Rich Holly receives the grant check from Latricia Dawkins, board member of the DeKalb County Community Foundation.
Rich Holly, dean of the NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts, has received a $2,500 grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation for the second consecutive year. The funds from the grant will help in the partnership created with Arts Midwest to bring the Arts Midwest World Fest to DeKalb County during the upcoming school year....
Gordon Bird
Gordon Bird, professor of music and director of bands at NIU from 1960 until his retirement in 1983, died June 16 at Oak Crest DeKalb Area Retirement Center. He was 99. Bird held a bachelor’s degree from Drake University, a master of music degree from Northwestern University and a doctorate of education from Columbia University...
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If you have a passion for making and learning music, the NIU Music Building is the place for you this summer. Enroll in private music lessons, join the NIUkulele or the NIU Guitar Ensemble, bring your small child to a group music or piano class, or enroll in an adult group piano or guitar class....
Thomas Bough
Summit Records has released the first-ever compact disc by Northern Illinois University’s band director, titled “Concertos for Brass: The Music of Thomas Bough.” The CD includes three original concerti for solo brass and wind bands in addition to two arrangements by Bough. The concertos are performed by Bough and the NIU Wind Symphony in addition...
Liam Teague
Liam Teague, head of steelpan studies and an associate professor in the NIU School of Music, was named the 2014 Laureate in Arts and Letters by the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards For Excellence. Here is the speech Teague gave May 10 at the Trinidad & Tobago’s National Academy of the Performing Arts. It has...
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