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Best in Show and Jurors’ Choice award recipients announced for NIU Art Museum’s “Stories From My Childhood”
Best in Show and four Jurors’ Choice Awards were announced during the Dec. 1 opening reception of “Stories From My...
Graduate profile: Austin Cruz, School of Music
Congratulations to all of the new alumni of the College of Visual and Performing Arts who graduated last weekend. One...
NIU alum Jim Roberts tells percussion students the best instrument is ‘right between your ears’
More than 30 years after he graduated with a Master of Performance from the NIU School of Music, Jim Roberts was back on campus for a visit, interacting with NIU students and faculty and reflecting on how his time here guided his career. Roberts is an accomplished...
NIU welcomes Yale Whiffenpoofs, Oct. 9
For anyone anxiously awaiting the release of "Pitch Perfect 3" in December, the Yale Whiffenpoofs, the oldest and best-known collegiate a cappella group will perform at NIU, Monday, October 9 at 8 p.m. in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building. Admission...
Cor Cantiamo receives support from Wurlitzer Foundation and DeKalb County Community Foundation
Cor Cantiamo, ensemble in residence at the NIU School of Music, has recently received significant grants from three local organizations. Cor Cantiamo received $7,500 from the Wurlitzer Foundation, and $2,000 from the DeKalb County Community Foundation. These funds...
Avalon String Quartet opens season Oct. 3
NIU’s world-class Avalon String Quartet will perform works of Joseph Haydn, Dmitri Shostakovich and Franz Schubert, Thursday, October 3 at 8 p.m. Admission is free of charge. The concert is the first of four this year for NIU’s quartet-in-residence, and will be held...
Assistant Professor Michael Rea’s work featured at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
NIU Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Michael Rea's platform sculptures are a featured part of a current installation at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA). Choreographer Maria Gillespie presents "Tangible Space," a performance and movement installation,...
Geof Bradfield’s “Yes…and music for nine improvisers,” Thursday, Sept. 21
Composer, saxophonist, and Associate Professor of Jazz Studies for NIU's School of Music, Geof Bradfield will premiere a new commissioned work for nonet: “Yes, and...music for nine improvisers," Thursday, September 21 at 8 p.m. at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the...
In the news: NIU Steelband featured in the Trinidad Guardian newspaper
The NIU Steelband is literally world famous, and continued proof of that is a feature that ran in the Thursday, September 14 edition of The Guardian, a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago. The article features Liam Teague, Professor of Music and Head of Steelpan Studies...
NIU Steelband headlines 30th Anniversary Chicago Sinfonietta
The NIU Steelband will kick off the 30th Anniversary season of Chicago Sinfonietta with concerts Saturday, September 16 and Monday, September 18. Take a trip to the Caribbean with NIU’s Steelband. Fall in love with the stunning athleticism of Chicago’s own Cerqua...
School of Art and Design hosts art crawl and Student Art Gallery naming, Sept. 14
The School of Art and Design offers a unique opportunity to see art exhibitions in four university gallery spaces in one evening, and attend the naming of the Student Art Gallery. The progressive art crawl begins at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, September 14 on the main...