Jennifer Blackwell joins music education faculty
Jennifer Blackwell has been appointed assistant professor of music education at the Bienen School of Music, effective September 1, 2022.
Bienen ensembles perform works by Nemmers Prize winner William Bolcom
This April, the Bienen School of Music will feature three performances of works by William Bolcom, the 2021 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition winner.
Bienen saxophone quartet advances to Fischoff Competition
Conflux Quartet—an ensemble of Bienen School of Music master’s students—has been invited to the 49th Annual Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Steven Banks awarded Avery Fisher Career Grant
Bienen School of Music alumnus Steven Banks ’17 MMus has been awarded a $25,000 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is the first saxophonist in history to receive this honor.
Dunbar Early Music Festival Explores Bach
The 2022 Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival followed the compositional road to Johann Sebastian Bach.
Clarinetists Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy to join Bienen faculty
Stephen Williamson, principal clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Todd Levy, principal clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, will join the Bienen School of Music faculty as lecturers beginning September 2022.
Two Bienen students awarded 2022 Luminarts Fellowships
Doctoral students Joseph Connor ’19 MMus (saxophone) and Qi Kong (piano) have been named 2022 Fellows in Classical Music by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation.
Bienen cellists to compete in 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition
Four cellists from the Bienen School have been invited to participate in the second edition of the Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition this May in Brussels, Belgium.
David Bilger appointed Bienen School Professor of Trumpet
David Bilger has been appointed professor of trumpet at the Bienen School of Music, effective September 1, 2022.
Galvin Cello Quartet advances in Victor Elmaleh Competition
The Bienen School’s Galvin Cello Quartet has advanced to the semi-finals of the Concert Artists Guild’s 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition.
Bienen School presents Midwest premiere of Jake Heggie opera Feb. 24-27
American composer Jake Heggie’s Faustian opera “If I Were You” will make its Midwest debut in Northwestern University Opera Theater’s Feb. 24-27 production at Cahn Auditorium.
Daniel Shanahan appointed to Bienen School faculty
Daniel Shanahan has been appointed tenured associate professor of music theory and cognition in the Bienen School of Music, effective September 1, 2022.