Bienen School of Music to Present New Music Conference April 26-27
April 15, 2014
Professional musicians and music students are encouraged to attend a free two-day Northwestern University conference and festival, April 26 and April 27, for composers, performers, theorists and musicologists specializing in new music.
Northwestern Honors Alumni and Friends
April 15, 2014
An audience of close to 400 alumni, faculty, administrators, family and friends gathered to celebrate Northwestern University’s 81st annual Alumni Awards April 12.
The sound(proofing) of music
April 15, 2014
Soundproofing, Chris Erickson of Power Construction observes, has come “light years” in the less than four decades since Regenstein was built.
A Truly Global Building
April 15, 2014
A dramatic architectural statement and unprecedented acoustical performance meant looking all over the world for materials, but LEED certification meant looking close to home.
Top Artists to Lead Master Classes for Stars of Tomorrow
March 25, 2014
Members of the Arianna, Pacifica and Shanghai string quartets, Grammy Award-winning soprano Christine Brewer and Chicago Symphony Orchestra piccolo player Jennifer Gunn will share their expertise with Northwestern University students this spring.
Garrick Ohlsson Wins 2014 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance
March 20, 2014
Garrick Ohlsson is the 2014 recipient of the $50,000 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance.
Amanda Majeski Returns Home to Mozart
March 18, 2014
Chicago Tribune reviews Amanda Majeski's operatic career "coming full circle" in her choice of roles.
Legendary Oboe Professor Ray Still Remembered
March 12, 2014
Ray Still was famous for being the best of the best, one of the finest and longest-tenured orchestral oboe players of all time.
Esa-Pekka Salonen Wins $100,000 2014 Nemmers Composition prize
March 10, 2014
Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen named winner of Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition.
'Revelation: From China to Spanish Harlem'
March 4, 2014
Broadway star Nellie McKay, two Grammy-winning groups -- the Turtle Island Quartet and Spanish Harlem Orchestra -- Ireland’s trail-blazing Dublin Guitar Quartet and Chinese pipa prodigy Wu Man are among the world-renowned artists who will perform this spring on Northwestern University’s Evanston
Pianist Murray Perahia To Perform In Recital
February 11, 2014
Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music will welcome world-renowned American concert pianist Murray Perahia, the 2012 winner of the school’s biennial Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, to the Evanston campus.
Drew Edward Davies Publishes Scholarly Catalog of 18th-Century Mexican Church Music
January 28, 2014
Drew Edward Davies, associate professor of musicology at the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, has published Catálogo de la Colección de Música del Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Durango, a complete catalog of the sheet music collection of Mexico’s Durango Cathedral, alon