Mixing classical pieces with a variety of performances, such as show tunes and tap-dancing, the Summer Philharmonic Orchestra delivered a one-of-a-kind performance Saturday at the Musical Arts Center.
The Summer Philharmonic Orchestra will play Saturday, June 28 at the Musical Arts Center.
Alain Barker was appointed as the new director of entrepreneurship and career development at the Jacobs School of Music.
The Brahms Concerto will feature the internationally recognized pianist Eunjin Bang as soloist as well as the Jacobs School Philharmonic Orchestra.
Composer Libby Larsen will take up a residency Wednesday and Thursday at the Jacobs School of Music as part of the music school’s “Five Friends Master Class Series.”
Janette Fishell, chair of the organ department at the Jacobs School of Music, will play the last concert in her organ concert series at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9 in Alumni Hall, the school announced Tuesday.
“De la contradanza al son: The Predecessors of Latin Dance Music,” a concert celebrating Cuba’s musical history, will be held at 7 p.m. tonight at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Performing Arts Center.
Monday evening, IU’s Lilly Library came alive with the sounds of Gregorian chants and the words of Jan Herlinger. The library was host to Herlinger, a visiting lecturer who teaches music at Louisiana State University, as the inaugural installation of the lecture series “Musica est ars sive scientia.”
Music publication Musical America has named IU alumnus Jeremy Denk its 2014 instrumentalist of the year.
Audience members were able to attend a reception following the ceremony and receive tours of the 85,000-square-foot building located on the northeast corner of Third Street and Jordan Avenue.
The Jacobs School of Music will present the “Beethoven Fifth Project: Behind the Score,” an in-depth look at the composer’s fifth symphony.
Soprano Deborah Voigt will instruct a master class Oct. 20 as part of the Five Friends Master Class Series.
The Jacobs School of Music’s Singing Hoosiers will perform their Fall Preview Concert at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Auer Hall.
Composer Larry Groupé will give a lecture Oct. 14, presented by the Jacobs School of Music and the Center for Electronic and Computer Music.
The Jacobs School of Music’s NOTUS: Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, under the direction of Dominick DiOrio and guest composer Caroline Shaw, performed its first show of the year Tuesday at Auer Hall.
Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Professor Violette Verdy was honored by IU President Michael McRobbie Saturday with the President’s Medal of Excellence.
The life and work of professor Violette Verdy will be celebrated this weekend as IU Opera and Ballet Theater presents its fall ballet, Classical Europe — Celebrating Violette.
Jocelyn Neal, a professor of music and adjunct professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presented “Who Owns That Song? Copyright Law and the Emergence of the Popular Music Recording Industry" at the Jacobs School of Music.
Martina Arroyo, an IU Jacobs School of Music distinguished professor emerita of voice, has been selected as a recipient of a 2013 Kennedy Center Honors award, according to an IU press release last Friday.
