06 Apr 2018
Jazz Combos take Westbrook stage on back to back nights
LINCOLN, Neb.— There will be back to back Jazz Combo performances at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music on Sunday, April 15 and Monday, April 16 in Westbrook Recital Hall.
On Sunday, the Undergraduate Jazz Combos take center stage at 3 p.m. There will be four combos performing on the night lead by coaches Kyle Granville, Michael Kraft and Chris Leach. Music includes selections from Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons and John Coltrane.
05 Apr 2018
Yoon teams with Frank for final concert at UNL
LINCOLN, Neb.— In a farewell concert celebrating her thirteen years of teaching and performing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music, violinist Hyeyung Yoon will be joined by composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank in a concert featuring Frank’s compositions on Friday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
03 Apr 2018
Saxophone quartet concert coming on April 11
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Saxophone Studio, under the direction of Dr. Paul Haar, is pleased to announce the Spring 2018 saxophone quartet concert.
This featured chamber recital will take place on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in the Westbrook Recital Hall of the Glenn Korff School of Music.
The quartets will feature works by Albeniz, Bach, Bozza, Damase, Florenzo, Iturralde, Torke and Raymond-Kolker. This concert is free and open to the public.
29 Mar 2018
Moran Woodwind Quintet performance includes World Premiere
LINCOLN, Neb.— The Moran Woodwind Quintet’s upcoming recital will be on Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Westbrook Recital Hall, and will feature the premiere of a new woodwind quintet by California bassoonist and composer, John Steinmetz, titled “All the Difference”. The work was commissioned by the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Cast in four movements, the piece explores and exploits the variety of sounds available to a woodwind quintet.
27 Mar 2018
Obituary | Ariel Bybee
Lincoln, Neb.--Former Glenn Korff School of Music Artist-in-Residence and Associate Professor of Voice Ariel Bybee, 75, died March 20 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Bybee was a renowned opera singer, according to Opera News, “a prominent mezzo at the Metropolitan Opera for 18 seasons.” She was also distinguished as a soloist, voice teacher, university professor and opera director.
Bybee taught in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Glenn Korff School of Music from 1998-2008 and saw the opera program grow and improve during that time.
26 Mar 2018
An Evening of Cello highlights students at Glenn Korff School of Music
LINCOLN, Neb.— Come hear from the cello students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music as they present An Evening of Cello on Friday, April 6 at 5:30 p.m. in Westbrook Recital Hall.
26 Mar 2018
Doctoral student to premiere her first opera
Elysia Arntzen, a third-year Doctor of Musical Arts student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music, will have her first-ever opera premiere – The Cask of Amontillado, on Saturday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
The Cask of Amontillado is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It’s about a man who gets revenge on another man, who has insulted him. The original story is only about five pages long, and it is unclear exactly what the two men were fighting about or who they are.
22 Mar 2018
Prague Spring 50 concerts scheduled for April 4
LINCOLN, Neb.— A trio of University of Nebraska–Lincoln performance groups will play music by Czech composers in a 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4 concert in Kimball Recital Hall. The concert, “Prague Spring 50: From Dvorak to Husa, and Beyond,” will feature the UNL Wind Ensemble, directed by Carolyn Barber; the University of Nebraska Faculty Brass Quintet; and the Chiara String Quartet with pianist Mark Clinton.
22 Mar 2018
Follow the Baton: The Story of the Wagner Siegfried Idyll Baton
Many music-lovers know the famous story of Richard Wagner's birthday present to his beloved wife, Cosima – the performance of a new composition in the stairwell outside her bedroom on Christmas morning, 1870. Those scholars who have read Cosima's diary might also know that the baton Wagner used to conduct the ensemble was engraved by a local artisan to memorialize the event: the date of the performance inscribed along one face and the title of the work, Tribschener Idyll, along the opposite side.
20 Mar 2018
UNL Faculty Jazz Ensemble to world premiere two pieces in April
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Jazz Ensemble will present its spring concert in Westbrook Recital Hall on Tuesday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public.