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Victor Yampolsky, the Carol F. and Arthur L. Rice Jr. Professor in Music Performance, will retire at the end of the 2021-22 academic year, marking the conclusion of a 38-year teaching and conducting career at Northwestern.
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.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/04/bienen-ensembles-perform-works-by…Students and faculty reflect on a year of hybrid teaching and learning in different time zones.
The Solti Foundation U.S. has selected doctoral candidate Taichi Fukumura ’17 MMus as a recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Career Assistance Award.
Berlin-based American conductor Roderick Cox ’11 MMus was the winner of the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Learn more in this Alumni Spotlight feature.
Bienen students are known for creating innovative avenues through music, and doctoral candidate Taichi Fukumura ’17 MMus is no different.
Kyle Dickson, a master's conducting student of Victor Yampolsky, is featured by the Grant Part Music Festival. “I think being a mentor to black and brown kids is what made me a social justice warrior—because I have to protect my students."
https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/discover/news-stories/project-inclusion-…Elizabeth Bennett ‘04, director of orchestras at Buffalo Grove High School, was one of 10 finalists for the 2020 Music Educator Grammy Award. Learn more in this Alumni Spotlight feature.
The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra presents two large-scale works by Russian composers Jan. 31: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor (“Pathétique”) and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/01/northwestern-university-symphony-…This performance will also be presented as a live stream at 7:30 p.m. Central. Visit https://music.northwestern.edu/live any time after 7:20 p.m. Central on December 8 to view the performance.
Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Sihao He, cello
Johann Strauss Jr., Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz)
Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks)
Antonín Dvořák, Cello Concerto in B Minor
Victor Yampolsky, conductor; members of University Chorale and Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble
Antonín Dvořák, Othello Overture, Op. 93
Claude Debussy, Nocturnes
Franz Schmidt, Symphony No. 4 in C Major
Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Seoyoen Min, cello
W. A. Mozart, Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major
Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 101 in D Major (“The Clock”)
The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra (NUSO) enjoyed a successful three-city tour of Asia from March 23 to April 1, 2018.
Northwestern University’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music announces two performances of “Twilight of an Empire,” a concert program that includes Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “The Bells” and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, presented by the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, University Chorale and Apollo Chorus.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/april/bienen-school-of-music-present…When the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra departs March 25 for its first trip abroad, the three-concert tour will enrich the musicianship of the 87 student participants and likely broaden their world view.
https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2018/03/23/student-orchestras-tour-china-luri…On February 3, 2018, the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra presented a preview concert featuring repertoire from the orchestra’s upcoming tour of China.
Maestro Yampolsky and two students share their experiences leading up to the Asia tour in this special feature.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/january/feature-bienen-asia/New professor of viola makes Northwestern debut as Chamber Orchestra soloist
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/11/british-chamber-music-rounds-out-…Duke Ellington’s jazz arrangement of the Tchaikovsky classic, “Nutcracker Suite,” and historically authentic performances of Handel’s “Messiah” as well as choral and orchestral seasonal favorites are all part of the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music holiday celebration.
A performance by classical guitarist Marcin Dylla and a vocal master class led by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard will open two year-long concert series as part of a busy November events calendar from the Bienen School of Music.
The majestic sounds of classical and modern works for strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion will be performed by several student ensembles, including the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/04/bienen-school-hosts-spring-orches…More than three decades after accepting his job as Northwestern’s director of orchestras, Bienen Prof. Victor Yampolsky will lead his musicians in a performance this weekend that is a tribute to his teenage years.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/04/20/ae/director-of-orchestras-conducts-wit…The world premiere of a commissioned work by David Lang, a performance of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park, and a three-day Horn Festival will be performed in honor of the Bienen School’s new Ryan Center for the Musical Arts.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/04/bienen-school-spring-celebrationPerformances by Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia are among the winter line-up of orchestral concerts performed on the Evanston campus.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/02/winter-orchestra-concertsHyejin Joo, a Bienen doctoral student, was selected to perform with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra after winning the Northwestern Concerto/Aria Competition.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/01/27/ae/bienen-pianist-brings-chopin-to-the…French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, who died January 5 at age 90, visited Northwestern several times as a guest artist of the music school, beginning in the mid-1980s. For those who witnessed these visits, the memories remain vivid.
Three one-act operas -- each with a different view of love and marriage in America -- and master classes led by renowned vocalists, are among Northwestern University’s 2015-16 opera season highlights.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/10/opera-season-lineupTwo distinguished Bienen School professors will serve as concurrent chairs
Four students and one alumnus of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music will perform in a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, as part of the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project.
The Midwest premiere of “Lost Objects” by three Bang on a Can new music composers -- and the world premiere of “Canticle” by composer Imant Raminsh during a concert commemorating the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War -- are among the choral and collaborative performances taking place at Northwestern University this spring.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/04/northwestern-spring-choral-season…The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra will dedicate an upcoming concert to the memory of Caroline Yoshimoto, an alumna of the Bienen School of Music who passed away on February 26, 2015.