Review: "Dead Man" is wrenching music drama in first full area staging
February 25, 2015
A taut, polished staging by NU Bienen School of Music director of opera Michael M. Ehrman brought Heggie's emotionally charged music drama to pulsating life at the performance Sunday afternoon.
A New Era for the Bienen School
February 19, 2015
The scheduled opening of the Bienen School’s new state-of-the-art lakefront building this year will do much more than replace MAB’s long-outdated facilities.
NU stages acclaimed modern opera, ‘Dead Man Walking’
February 17, 2015
One of the most produced operas of recent years, Jake Heggie’s “Dead Man Walking,” is coming to Northwestern.
Prize-Winning Pianist to Visit Bienen School of Music
February 17, 2015
Northwestern University will welcome world-renowned pianist and 2014 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance winner Garrick Ohlsson to campus for two master classes and a Q&A session.
A First for Chicago Audiences
February 12, 2015
The Bienen School of Music will produce the Chicago area’s first fully staged production of composer Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking.
At COT and NU, it's a perfect storm of recent American operas
February 10, 2015
Two operas by American composers will take place later this month when Tobias Picker's "Therese Raquin" (2001) and Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking" (2000) are to receive their belated local premieres, courtesy of Chicago Opera Theater and the Northwestern University Opera Theater, respectively.
Everyone Can Sing
February 10, 2015
Many universities have performance choirs, but the one at Morley College, an adult- education school in London, has an unusual caveat: It’s a chorus for people who can’t sing.
Bienen School Institute for New Music Hosts ICE
February 6, 2015
A concert combining the talents of the Contemporary Music Ensemble with the International Contemporary Ensemble and another program with flutist Claire Chase are among the diverse lineup of new music events at Northwestern University in winter 2015.
Northwestern University Celebrates Black History Month
February 6, 2015
The final performances of “Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine,” Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s social satire, and a jazz concert that celebrates the music of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, are just two of the Evanston campus events at Northwestern University celebrating
ICE Education Workshop Brings District Teachers to Bienen School
February 6, 2015
The week-long residency of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at the Bienen School of Music’s Institute for New Music included a unique educational workshop for public school teachers on February 4, 2015.
Can't Sing? Keep At It
February 5, 2015
New research out of Northwestern University suggests that singing accurately is not so much a talent as a learned skill that can decline over time if not used.
Bienen Student Receives Top Award in National Composition Contest
February 4, 2015
Alex Temple, a doctoral student in composition at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, received an award of $2,500 in the 2015 American Composers Forum National Composition Contest.