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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...

Andrew Glendening named Interim Dean of NIU College of Visual and Performing Arts

Andrew Glendening, D.M., has been selected as the interim dean for the Northern Illinois University College of Visual and Performing Arts. Glendening came to NIU in 2019 to serve as the director of the NIU School of Music, and has previous administrative experience as...

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...

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Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour to visit NIU, Oct. 29

Oct 27, 2025 | Art and Design, xArt and Design News, xCVPA, xFeatured

The traveling tour of the 63rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival makes its next stop at NIU, Wednesday, October 29. The traveling tour provides filmmakers the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of audiences, for whom in many instances, the tour is...

Poetic monologues highlight the next production in the School of Theatre and Dance

Oct 21, 2025 | Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Dance News, xCVPA, xFeatured

The groundbreaking poetic monologues accompanied by dance and music, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf is the next production in the NIU School of Theatre Dance, opening Friday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. The show is co-directed by...

NIU hosts 16th International Burma Studies Conference, Oct. 9-12

Oct 6, 2025 | Art and Design, xArt and Design News, xCVPA, xFeatured

The NIU Center for Burma Studies is presenting the 16th International Burma Studies Conference, "Dealing With Legacies in Burma", Thursday, October 9 through Sunday, October 12. Conference sessions will be held in the Holmes Student Center with some pre-conference...

“Julius Caesar” to open the performance season in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance

Oct 3, 2025 | Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Dance News, xCVPA, xFeatured

Shakespeare's classic Julius Caesar opens the 2025-2026 performance season in the NIU School of Theatre and Dance. Directed by Kay Martinovich, associate professor and head of BFA acting in the school, Julius Caesar begins its run Friday, October 10 at 7:30 p.m. in...

NIU Mariachi members to perform at Chicago Bears and Chicago White Sox games

Sep 18, 2025 | Music, Music News, xCVPA, xFeatured

Three members of the School of Music's NIU Mariachi Band will be joining the group Mariachi Monumental De México to perform at the Chicago White Sox Hispanic Heritage Night, Friday, September 19 at 6:40 p.m. versus the San Diego Padres, and again at Sunday's Chicago...

NIU Wind Ensemble to give collegiate world premiere of a piece commissioned for the US Marine Corps

Sep 15, 2025 | Music, Music News, xCVPA, xFeatured

The NIU Wind Ensemble will present the collegiate world premiere of a piece commissioned by the US Marine Band to commemorate a significant anniversary. "Last spring, the US Marine Band commissioned a lengthy piece for the 250th birthday of the United States Marine...

NIU enrollment surges for Fall semester

Sep 11, 2025 | CVPA, xCVPA, xFeatured

Enrollment at Northern Illinois University grew this fall, with surges in the numbers of new freshmen and transfers, along with strong reenrollment for continuing students, powering an overall increase of 663 Huskies. The university welcomed 2,435 new freshmen, a 22%...

Avalon String Quartet to perform Narongrit Dhamabutra’s “Quintet For the Spirits of ASEAN”

Sep 9, 2025 | Music, Music News, xCVPA, xFeatured

Narongrit Dhamabutra, a renowned composer and academic will be on campus, Friday, September 12 for a lecture and a special performance of his composition, "Quintet For the Spirits of ASEAN." At noon, Professor Dhamabutra will deliver the lecture, "Integrating...

Burma collection and NIU Printmaking retrospective open in Art Museum galleries August 27

Aug 21, 2025 | NIU Art Museum, xArtMuseumNews, xCVPA, xFeatured

A pair of exhibitions will run concurrently in the galleries of the NIU Art Museum for the coming academic year. Legacies on Display: The forbidden and venerated arts of Burma and Sixty years of printmaking at NIU: A Legacy of Excellence will both run from August 27,...