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November 23, 2009
Brian J. Nelson, a KU doctoral student studying music composition, has just released a CD of responsorial psalms and is set to release another CD of his compositions in March of next year.
November 23, 2009
A master class will be presented by international opera star (and Colby, KS native) Samuel Ramey on December 2, 2009 . Please see the poster below for more information.
November 16, 2009
Following heralded performances of Liszt's music in major music centers around the world, Steinway artist Steven Spooner has been selected as one of 68 pianists and the only American-born representative in a unique series of the complete solo piano works of Liszt to be held in the prestigious Academia Santa Cecilia in Rome of March 2011.
November 11, 2009
The KU School of Music is pleased to present to the public a new event, entitled "Opera Gala," which will feature the KU Symphony Orchestra, joined by 18 of KU's most talented singers and 90 choristers, all performing in beautiful gowns and tuxedos on the Lied Center stage. The concert will take place on November 22, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
November 11, 2009
On Tuesday, November 24, Professor Forrest Pierce will present an evening of recent sacred art song in Swarthout Recital Hall. Sarah Tannehill, coloratura, and Michael Kirkendoll, piano, will perform Pierce's 2005 cycle "The Wild Iris," on texts of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck, followed by the world premiere of sections from his 2009 cycle "Need-Fire," on text of Becky Gould Gibson.
November 10, 2009
Mark Ferrell, musical director of KU Opera, will conduct Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City November 6, 8, 11, 14-15. Several KU voice students as well as KU Lyric Opera apprentices are in the production.
November 06, 2009
The KU School of Music is pleased to present the 85th annual Holiday Vespers concert at the Lied Center of Kansas on Sunday, December 6, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets for this concert can be purchased through the Lied Center Box Office, 785-864-2787, and are $12.50/general admission and $10/students and senior citizens.
November 05, 2009
KU student Jeremy Wohletz will perform on clarinet at the Heritage Concert, an event featuring alumni from Baker University, at the First United Methodist Church in Baldwin City, KS. The concert will take place on Thursday November 12th at 7:30 PM.
November 05, 2009
KU's own Kip Haaheim, associate professor of music composition, wrote the score for the movie "The Only Good Indian," directed by Kevin Wilmott and written by Thomas Carmody. This movie is currently playing at Liberty Hall, downtown Lawrence.
November 04, 2009
As part of the KU School of Music Visiting Artist Series, Thomas Rosenkranz, pianist, will visit KU and perform Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus by Olivier Messiaen in a recital on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
November 04, 2009
Scott Murphy, KU associate professor of music theory, recently won the 2009 Emerging Scholar Award.
November 04, 2009
The KU Saxophone Quartets will perform a fall recital on Thursday, November 12, 2009, at 7:30pm in Swarthout Recital Hall.
November 04, 2009
In the spirit of outreach across the state of Kansas, the KU School of Music has partnered with a fine arts patron to create student outreach ensembles to perform across the state.
November 02, 2009
LAWRENCE-The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble will perform on Monday, November 9, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center of Kansas. There will also be a 7:00 p.m. "Informance" before the performance, in which the conductors will discuss the concert program with the audience.
November 02, 2009
Tami Lee Hughes, KU assistant professor of violin, will present her fall recital on Friday, November 6, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., in Swarthout Recital Hall. "Notes for Sherley" is a dedicated to Hughes' late grandmother, Sherley Jacobs. Hughes will be joined by Ellen Bottorff on piano.
November 02, 2009
KU professor of music, Robert Foster, was recently awarded a prestigious ASCAPLUS Award in the Concert Music Division.
October 29, 2009
LAWRENCE — Joseph Eidson, a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, recently was chosen as a semifinalist in the 2010 Vista Competition for contemporary chamber opera.
October 26, 2009
Paul Laird, professor of musicology, has a review of "Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800: The Villancico and Related Genres," edited by Tess Knighton and Alvaro Torrente (Ashgate, 2007), in the May 2009 issue of "Music & Letters," Vol. 90, No. 2. Additionally, a Broadway dictionary Laird wrote with a friend entitled "The Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical," was just released in paperback under a new title: William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird, "The A to Z of the Broadway Musical." Lanham, Toronto, and Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, 2009.
October 26, 2009
Roger Oyster, trombone and euphonium performer, and Philip Clark, trumpet player, will perform at KU in a Visiting Artist Series recital on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at 4:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
October 19, 2009
In the spirit of outreach across the state of Kansas, the KU School of Music has partnered with a fine arts patron to create student outreach ensembles. These groups will travel across the state providing master classes and performances.
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