JACK Quartet wins Avery Fisher Career Grant
March 15, 2019
JACK Quartet – an ensemble featuring Bienen School of Music alumnus violinist Austin Wulliman (G08) – has won $25,000 Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Alumni Leader: Q&A with Bozhong Xue ’12
March 12, 2019
Bozhong Xue, winner of the inaugural Northwestern Alumni Association President’s Award, talks about his reasons for supporting international student scholarships at the Bienen School of Music.
Howard Reich to address Bienen School class of 2019
March 1, 2019
Alumnus Howard Reich, a longtime music and arts columnist for the Chicago Tribune, will be the featured speaker for the Bienen School’s convocation on Saturday, June 22, 2019
Saxophone student wins Yamaha Young Artist Competition
February 18, 2019
Eric Zheng, a Bienen School saxophone student of Taimur Sullivan, was named a winner in the 2019 Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition.
PhD candidate Miriam Piilonen wins major dissertation award
February 15, 2019
Miriam Piilonen, a doctoral candidate in music theory and cognition in the Bienen School of Music, has won a Society for Music Theory SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship award.
Three Alumni selected for NATS internship
February 13, 2019
Three alumni of the Bienen School of Music have been selected to participate in the 2019 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Intern Program.
2019 Grammy Award winners include Bienen School faculty, alumna
February 11, 2019
Bienen School of Music faculty member Donald Nally and alumna Katrina Lenk are among the winners of the 61st annual Grammy Awards.
Q&A: Donald Nally talks third consecutive Grammy nomination
February 6, 2019
Donald Nally discusses the creation of Grammy-nominated "Zealot Canticles" with the Daily Northwestern.
Bienen School presents Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’
February 5, 2019
Equal parts tragedy and farce, Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress” follows the moral decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, who exchanges a simple life with sweetheart Anne Truelove for the worldly pleasures of London in the company of the devious Nick Shadow.
World-famous pianist Olga Kern to perform sold-out concert at Bienen
February 1, 2019
Olga Kern will be making her Northwestern debut on Saturday at the Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall. Her sold-out concert is a part of the fourth annual Skyline Piano Artist Series.
Norman Schweikert (1937-2018)
January 31, 2019
Norman Schweikert, former associate professor of horn and longtime member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, died December 31, 2018, at age 81.
Nally premieres ‘Fire in my mouth,’ with NY Philharmonic
January 23, 2019
A chorus of 146 women and girls, including six current and former members of the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, will premiere Julia Wolfe’s “Fire in my mouth” with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Donald Nally.