16 Feb 2020 By Brian G Reetz
GKSOM Alum Sullivan returns to play van Gogh
When University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music’s Alisa Belflower reached out to GKSOM alum Nathaniel Sullivan about playing the role of Vincent van Gogh in the UNL Opera production of The Highest Yellow, he didn’t hesitate.
“Alisa called me back in November to see if I could do the role, and there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that I wanted to do it,” Sullivan said. “I was so excited at the prospect of coming back to Lincoln for a couple weeks, getting to work with Alisa again, and working on such a beautiful show.”
22 Jan 2020 By Kathe C. Andersen
UNL Opera presents ‘The Highest Yellow’
Lincoln, Neb.--The Glenn Korff School of Music’s Opera program presents the new opera-cum-musical “The Highest Yellow: Healing Vincent Van Gogh,” which tells the story of the six months following the night artist Vincent Van Gogh severed his ear. This full production will be the first, since the commissioned debut at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre.
An opera cum musical means that this musical work for the stage is composed using some of the conventions typical of both opera and music theatre.
21 Jan 2020
Bailey, Marks combine for ‘An Embarrassment of Riches’
Flutist John Bailey and pianist Chris Marks give a recital with a rich variety of styles on Tuesday, February 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The program, “An Embarrassment of Riches,” explores gems of the flute repertoire, some relatively standard (works by Donizetti and Fukushima), and others less so (a work by British composer, Hamilton Harty, and a transcription of a work by Debussy). The program finishes with the sonata for piccolo and piano by Pulitzer-prize winning American composer, John La Montaine.
17 Jan 2020
TCB Saxophone Quartet performance canceled
The TCB Saxophone Quartet performance, which was scheduled to take place in the Westbrook Recital Hall on February 16, has been canceled.
For a full listing of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music events, visit music.unl.edu.
16 Jan 2020
Busy weekend set on Jan. 24-26 with Audition Days, Winter Festival
On the weekend of January 24, 25 and 26, the Glenn Korff School of Music will be hosting its first audition days of the season as well as the annual Winter Festival.
The Glenn Korff School of Music welcomes all aspiring music and dance majors/minors to audition for admission to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music. All students who audition as a music or dance major are considered for generous scholarship support.
The 2020 Undergraduate audition dates are:
16 Jan 2020
Join Reimer and friends for ‘Vacation with Friends’
Join University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Soprano Jamie Reimer and friends for a cure to your midwinter blues on Thursday, January 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall for “Vacation with Friends.”
16 Jan 2020
Nebraska Alumna Houser makes Met Opera debut in ‘The Magic Flute’
Lincoln, Neb.--Soprano Jeni Houser (M.M. 2011) made her Metropolitan Opera debut on Jan. 2, performing as The Queen of the Night in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
“It was kind of surreal,” Houser said of her experience performing on the famed Metropolitan Opera stage in New York City.
15 Jan 2020
Mattingly named Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Lincoln, Neb.--Jacqueline Mattingly is the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts’ new Associate Dean for Student Affairs.
"I'm looking forward to having Jackie join the college administrative team," said Chuck O'Connor, endowed dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts. "She will be instrumental, at least initially on an interim basis, in first defining this brand-new position and then figuring out how we can better serve students in the long term."
14 Jan 2020
Wristen presents ‘The Poetic Piano: From Despair to Exultation’
Dr. Brenda Wristen, Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy in the Glenn Korff School of Music, will present a piano recital Tuesday January 28, 2020 at 7:30 pm in Kimball Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln downtown campus. The program, “The Poetic Piano: From Despair to Exultation,” will feature deeply evocative works that demonstrate the wide expressive range of the piano. Mozart’s passionate Sonata in C Minor K.
08 Jan 2020
Goltz performance scheduled for February 27 canceled
The Visiting Guest Artist performance by Jennifer Goltz, scheduled for February 27 in Kimball Recital Hall, has been canceled.
For a full listing of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music events, visit music.unl.edu.