The Royal Thai Consulate-General has made a donation of $15,000 to help fund NIU's Thai Music Ensemble and related...
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Students can win $500 from Adobe by creating a video about why they love NIU
Tell us why you love NIU! Adobe is sponsoring our Homecoming Video Competition and is asking students to submit a...
Avalon String Quartet performance features new score to a French silent film classic
Avalon String Quartet concert goers will enjoy a screening of the French silent film classic Ménilmontant and the...
Music hosts “All of US” an anti-Asian hate chamber opera, Sept. 25
The NIU School of Music presents All of US a chamber opera in one act, Friday, September 25 at 5 p.m. in the Music Building Recital Hall. The performance is free of charge. An artist discussion will follow the performance. All of US is an anti-Asian hate chamber...
Music’s Bobby Broom’s new album “Notes of Thanks” featured in Downbeat Magazine
The latest album from Bobby Broom, associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies in the NIU School of Music, Notes of Thanks, a tribute to saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was featured in the July edition of Downbeat Magazine. Broom first performed with Rollins at...
Music’s Gregory Beyer earns Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects Grant
Gregory Beyer, professor of music and director of percussion studies in the NIU School of Music received a $12,000 Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects Grant to support the commission of two works for marimba by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner and...
Huskie Spotlight: Kyla Reisenbichler, Music Education, ’28
Kyla Reisenbichler is a music education major in the NIU School of Music who plans to graduate in 2028. The oldest of seven siblings from Freeport, Illinois, Kyla originally planned to become a nurse and earned her CNA while still in high school. A trip to the...
Daniel Chukwunyem wins advanced classical voice category at NATS
Daniel Chukwunyem, a master of music student in the NIU School of Music won the Advanced Classical TBB Voice Category at the 59th Annual National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) convention in San Antonio, Texas. Chukwunyem is a native of Lagos, Nigeria who...
John Paul named interim director of NIU School of Music
John F. Paul, DM, an educator, musician and composer with more than 30 years of teaching experience and nearly 25 years as a department chair will serve as the interim director of the NIU School of Music. Andrew Glendening, who has been Director of the School of Music...
Second cohort of Simpson Schatzle Fellows announced
NIU’s College of Visual and Performing Arts has announced the six 2026 recipients of a fellowship that provides financial support and recognition for some of the university’s most promising graduating students in the arts. The Simpson Schatzle Fellowships were first...
Ethan Cowburn, ’25 honored by online Thai music competition
Ethan Cowburn, who earned his master of music in 2025 from the NIU School of Music was awarded the Special Prize and International Award for the sixth anniversary of the ทำนองหลักเพลงไทย. The ทำนองหลักเพลงไทย is an online Thai music competition creted by Pokpong...
Huskie Spotlight: Kacee Dugas, M.M. World Music and Cello Performance
Kacee Dugas is pursuing her master of music in world music performance and cello performance. She is also teaching MUHL 222: World Music and Cultures. "I'm learning a lot as a dual student/teacher, and I love getting to share what I'm studying." Read Kacee's entire...