Davee Media Library

Jennifer Higdon, winner of the 2018 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, reflects on her first Bienen School residency. The Bienen School of Music welcomed Higdon Oct.

Mallory Thompson conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble in a performance of Adam Schoenberg’s Symphony No. 2: Migration.

Faculty saxophonist Taimur Sullivan joins the Symphonic Wind Ensemble in a performance of Joel Love’s Solace: A Lyric Concerto, conducted by Mallory Thompson.

Donald Nally uses his role as conductor of both the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble (BCE) and the Grammy-winning professional choir, The Crossing, to commission and perform new choral music with an eye towards social advocacy.

Grammy-winning choral ensemble The Crossing joins the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble for performances of Gabriel Jackson’s Rigwreck and David Shapiro’s Sumptuous Planet. Donald Nally conducts. 

Composer Jake Heggie coaches Bienen School students Eric McConnell, Kaileigh Riess, Maxwell Seifert, Kevin Krasinski, Sam Grosby, and Gabrielle Barkidjija in the Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall as part of the Robert M. and Maya L.

Bienen School visiting artist Claire Chase performs an excerpt from a work in progress, Pan, by Northwestern alumnus Marcos Balter '08 DMA. The piece is scored for acting-singing flutist and mass community participation.

Shawn Vondran leads the Northwestern University Symphonic Band in a performance of Aaron Perrine’s Only Light.