08 Mar 2016
Upcoming Performance Cancelled
LINCOLN, Neb.— The Monday, April 4 Singing Small Festival Performance scheduled for Kimball Recital Hall has been cancelled. There will be no Singing Small Festival this year at the Glenn Korff School of Music.
For a full listing of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music events, visit music.unl.edu.
02 Mar 2016
University of Nebraska Brass Quintet to perform March 14
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska Brass Quintet will present a program by brass players composed for brass players in the Glenn Korff School of Music’s Kimball Recital Hall on Monday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m.
02 Mar 2016
Chiara String Quartet presents final performance of 2015-16 season
LINCOLN, Neb.— On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., the Chiara String Quartet will be performing the final concert of the 2015-2016 Hixson-Lied Concert Series at Kimball Recital Hall (11th and R Streets). The program will feature a program of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Canciones Populares and Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, plus Schubert’s Cello Quintet in C Major, Op. 163 with cellist Korynne Bolt, the winner of the “Play with the Chiaras” competition. Gabriela Lena Frank has written five pieces for the Chiara Quartet or its members.
02 Mar 2016
UNL’s Evenings of Choirs concert to feature variety of choral music
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Evening of Choirs concert on Sunday, March 13 in Kimball Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. will feature three of the Glenn Korff School of Music’s larger and popular choral ensembles, the Varsity Men’s Chorus, Collegiate Choir, and the University Women’s Chorale.
01 Mar 2016
Amicitia Duo to present morning recital in Westbrook
LINCOLN, Neb.— Formed out of friendship, the Amicitia Duo brings music for clarinet to a wide variety of audiences featuring clarinetists Diane Barger (UNL’s Hixson-Lied Professor of Clarinet) and Denise Gainey (University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Associate Professor of Clarinet). The Duo will be presenting a recital at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 12 in the Westbrook Recital Hall in the Glenn Korff School of Music.
01 Mar 2016
UNL Symphony Orchestra presents ‘Student Soloist Night’
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Symphony Orchestra presents “Student Soloist Night” on Saturday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
Featured on the program are the winners of the 2015-16 Graduate and Undergraduate Solo Competitions, Patty Kramer, mezzo-soprano, and Addie Hotchkiss, cello. The program will also feature Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 (“Reformation”) and Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture.
26 Feb 2016
Glenn Korff School of Music alum is Lotte Lenya competition semi-finalist
Lincoln, Neb.--University of Nebraska alumna Kayla Wilkens (M.M. 2014), is one of 31 singers selected nationwide as a semifinalist for the 19th annual Lotte Lenya Competition, sponsored by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.More than 200 singers/actors, ages 19-32, from 11 countries, submitted audition videos of their performances of diverse repertoire from the operatic, golden age and contemporary musical theatre stage, as well as the music of Weill.
26 Feb 2016
‘Music from UNL’ coming up from UNL Jazz Orchestra and UNL Big Band
LINCOLN, Neb.— The UNL Jazz Orchestra (Dr. Paul Haar, Director) and the UNL Big Band (Patrick Brown, director) will present MUSIC FROM UNL, a concert of original works and arrangements for big band, by UNL students, faculty and alumni. This concert will take place Thursday, March 10, 2016 in Kimball Recital Hall starting at 7:30 p.m.
25 Feb 2016
Bolt chosen as winner of Play with the Chiaras
LINCOLN, Neb.— This year’s winner of the Play with the Chiaras Audition is cellist Korynne Bolt. This year’s alternate is saxophonist Nicholas May. Bolt will perform Schubert’s Cello Quintet in C Major D. 956 with the Chiara String Quartet in their Hixson-Lied Concert Series performance in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music’s Kimball Recital Hall on Monday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m.
24 Feb 2016
UNL Symphonic Band presents “A Song of the Body”
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Symphonic Band, conducted by Tony Falcone, presents its program A Song of the Body on Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.