ARTS CIRCLE

Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer, a two-channel video installation by the artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga, born 1984, Ferndale, WA), offers an immersive and elusive reckoning with histories of co...

How do artists, artworks, and museums shape and challenge our understanding of the past? In 2020-2021 Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art celebrates its 40th anniversary. Leading up to this ...

And, we're back!  The Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts is hosting a “A Weekend for the Arts,” to celebrate the return to in person, live performance. From scenes of upcoming shows to captivating d...

Joachim Schamberger, director Madame Flora’s surprise encounter with the unknown during a phony séance drives her to paranoia and sends her household into tumult.  Audience advisory: This production c...

This performance is SOLD OUT. Victor Goines and Joe Clark, conductors  As a pianist and composer, Herbie Hancock and his music represent the pinnacle of excellence in jazz. This evening of music celeb...

As part of the Block Museum’s Student Acquisition initiative, Northwestern students in the 2020-2021 Block Museum Student Associates program selected artist Leonard Suryajaya’s Quarantine Blues (2020)...

Alan Pierson and Ben Bolter, conductors  The Contemporary Music Ensemble presents a reprisal of Marcos Balter's meltDown UpShot, Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Silbury Air, and the premiere of Leo Discenza...

Mallory Thompson, conductor Carolyn Bremer, Early Light Aaron Copland, The Promise of Living Adolphus Hailstork, American Guernica Ulysses Kay, Solemn Prelude Paul Hindemith, Symphony in B-flat Major

Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Jake Taniguchi, graduate assistant conductor Ludwig van Beethoven, Overture from Fidelio, Op. 72c Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 Johannes Bra...

Shawn Vondran, conductor Kevin Day, Shimmering Sunshine  Adam Schoenberg, Rise  William Schuman, George Washington Bridge  Leonard Bernstein (arr. Sweeney), Suite from MASS  Leonard Bernstein (trans....

Stephen Alltop, conductor; Alice Millar Chapel Choir and Chapel Choir Alumnae; Eric Budzynski, organ The 18th annual Hymnfest offers an uplifting program of congregational hymns and choral anthems wit...

Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Alexander Chen, graduate assistant conductor Zoltán Kodály, Dances of Galánta (Galántai táncok) Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21  

THE BATTLEFIELDS OF CLARA BARTON, a workshop production In partnership with the American Music Theatre Project By Suzan Zeder & Jenn Hartmann Luck Directed by Rives Collins October 29–31, 2021 Josephi...

THE BATTLEFIELDS OF CLARA BARTON, a workshop production In partnership with the American Music Theatre Project By Suzan Zeder & Jenn Hartmann Luck Directed by Rives Collins October 29–31, 2021 Josephi...

THE BATTLEFIELDS OF CLARA BARTON, a workshop production In partnership with the American Music Theatre Project By Suzan Zeder & Jenn Hartmann Luck Directed by Rives Collins October 29–31, 2021 Josephi...

Donald Nally, conductor; Eric Budzynski, organ BCE's annual exploration of liturgy through contemporary and early music returns, with works marking the events of the last two years in music of lament ...

Victor Goines and Darius Hampton, conductors The Count Basie Orchestra is acclaimed as one of the most swingin' ensembles in the history of jazz, and the music associated with this ensemble represents...

She-e Wu, director An afternoon of eclectic rhythms.

Stephen Alltop, conductor A program of dazzling works by Bach and Handel for a variety of instrumental and vocal soloists. Enjoy splendid concertos and arias in perfect acoustics—sure to uplift your m...

Gail Williams, director Music for varying combinations of brass instruments.

The multidimensional work of artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) employs video, photography, music, and poetry as different pathways approaching Indigenous experience...

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

Mallory Thompson, conductor; James Giles, piano Olivier Messiaen, Oiseaux exotiques Yo Goto, A Wild Rose Above Xi Wang, Winter Blossom

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Moyue Zhou, graduate assistant conductor Claude Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun) Olivier Messiaen, L'Ascension (Four Symphon...

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

Daniel J. Farris, conductor Talented students from across the Northwestern campus present a concert of band standards.

Anne Waller, director Music for guitar ensembles small and large.

Featuring the Darius Hampton and Kevin Fort Ensembles After studying the work of jazz's most respected composers and performers, the students of the jazz studies program embrace the opportunity to add...

With William Buchman, bassoon and Jeannie Yu, piano Active as both a soloist and chamber performer throughout the US and around the world, Steven Cohen is the former principal clarinet and frequent so...

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

The Contemporary Music Ensemble presents Harmoniemusik by Bienen Institute for New Music Director Hans Thomalla, as well as the premiere of a student composition. 

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

A.J. Keller, conductor  The University Singers’ fall program explores the interconnectedness of all things through a selection of choral works from a variety of genres and style periods, culminating i...

Imagine U: LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET  (Winner of the 2016 Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Caldecott Honor) By Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Christian Robinson Adapted and Direc...

Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Yuxin Dai, graduate assistant conductor  Jean Sibelius, Finlandia, Op. 26  Georges Bizet, L’Arlésienne: Suite No. 2  Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67...

Jack Reeder, conductor; Charles Foster, piano  Northwestern’s treble choir returns with a program of folk songs and hymns, centered on Refuge, a work by Bienen School voice and opera program lecturer ...

Christopher P. Davis, conductor  A colorful and varied program of music written and arranged for trombones. 

Robert G. Hasty and A.J. Keller, conductors  Howard Hanson, Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitsky, Op. 44  Ralph Vaughan Williams, Toward the Unknown Region  Arvo Pärt, Cecilia, vergine romana  Johann...

Shawn Vondran, conductor  An evening of music for winds and percussion.

Jake Taniguchi, Moyue Zhou, Andrew Ritchie, Yuxin Dai, Alexander Chen, and Jennifer Huang, graduate assistant conductors; Helaine Liebman, soprano  Engelbert Humperdinck, Selections from Hänsel und Gr...

Stephen Alltop, conductor; Alice Millar Chapel Choir; Philharmonia; Millar Brass Ensemble; Eric Budzynski, organ  A beloved holiday tradition combining readings and musical gems to portray the Christm...