Visual Arts

Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland is an exhibition running January 25 to July 13, 2025.  For related exhibition events, click here. Zhegagoynak, the place now known as Chicagoland, is a vit...

With guest scholar Richard Sparks  Andrew Megill, A. J. Keller, and Tim Lambert, conductors; Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, University Chorale, University Singers, and Northwestern Camerata...

Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel explores the passionate Sonata Pathétique, the hilarious Rage Over a Lost Penny, the deeply moving Largo e mesto from t...

“…a mesmerising player…”  —Jazzwise  An active presence in the jazz world since the 1970s, bass player and Northwestern alumnus Rufus Reid has recorded over 500 albums, including recordings with Dexte...

Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series Described as "the clearest case of genius ever to touch his instrument" by the Toronto Globe and Mail, lutenist Paul O’Dette has helped define the technical...

Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series "One of the most thoughtful and reliably interesting artists of our time." —Cleveland Plain Dealer  Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaime...

Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel performs and discusses selections from Chopin’s exhilarating Polonaises, dreamy Nocturnes, charming Waltzes, poignant M...

Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Judith van Driel and Marleen Wester, violin; Marie-Louise de Jong, viola; David Faber, cello   Acclaimed for its “sublime, incandescent” playing (Chicago Clas...

Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “Hear him when and where you can.” —Classical Guitar Since winning the Guitar Foundation of America’s annual competition in 1999, Lorenzo Micheli has been a...

Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival An evening of chamber music with Bienen faculty and special guests from Chicago’s classical music scene.  Winter Chamber Music Festival subscription renewals ...

Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Øyvor Volle and Annabelle Meare, violin; Berit Cardas, viola; Bjørg Lewis, cello   “The whole concert was treasurable, the musicianship impeccable, and over a...

Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Jinjoo Cho, violin; Brannon Cho, cello; Kyu Yeon Kim, piano  Trio Seoul was founded in 2021 by Bienen School associate professor of violin Jinjoo Cho, pianist...

Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violin; Devin Moore, viola; Joshua McClendon, cello  The Boston Musical Intelligencer praises the Isidore String Quartet’s “...

Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “In piano terms, he’s an Olympian...physical and mental prowess at its summit.” —The Spectator  One of the most distinctive artists and polymaths of his generat...

Part of the Winter Chamber Music Festival Joel Link and Bryan Lee, violin; Julianne Lee, viola; Camden Shaw, cello  Praised by Third Coast Review for their “astonishing and virtuosic” playing and “mag...

Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel shares gorgeous music inspired by words and visions, including selections by Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Grieg, and R...

Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “...supple, ­almost telepathic, guitar duo ­performances.” —San ­Francisco Classical Voice  Guitarists and brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad have brought thei...

Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series  2025 recipient of Northwestern University's Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance “...one of the most gifted musicians of his generation.” —The Wall Stre...

Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series “Impeccable clarity and architecture” —International Piano Since triumphing as the first and only American winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competi...

Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series "...one of the most delicate and most cultivated performers of our time."   —Diapason  A renowned guitarist and pedagogue, Raphaella Smits plays worldwide o...

“His genre exchange has the ease of a walk across the street to a friend’s place.”  —Downbeat  Trumpeter and composer Marquis Hill has made it his mission to break down the barriers between contempora...

Part of the Skyline Piano Artist Series The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is a quadrennial competition held in Fort Worth, TX since 1962. Elevating some of the most exceptional young pia...

Part of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel Jeffrey Siegel, piano  Siegel closes the 2025-26 season of Keyboard Conversations with uplifting, buoyant works of Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schuman...

Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series “with sparkle, clarity, and flair.” —New York Sun  Xuefei Yang is acclaimed as one of the world’s finest classical guitarists. Hailed as a musical pioneer, ...