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13th New Music Festival kicks off Nov. 5
The New Music Festival at NIU, a staple of the fall performance season since 2008 will be held Wednesday, November 5 through Friday, November 7 in the NIU Music Building. Each fall, the multi-concert festival featuring prominent guest composers, performers, and...
Music’s Geof Bradfield awarded Chamber Music America grant for “Colossal Abundance”
Geof Bradfield, professor of jazz studies and jazz performance in the NIU School of Music was awarded a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grant for his latest recording, "Colossal Abundance." The CMA New Jazz Works grant is the fourth that Bradfield has receieved....
Yuko Asada’s Fulbright Fellowship has her back on familiar ground
Yuko Asada is having a bit of a full-circle moment. Nearly a quarter century after her interest in steelpan performance led her to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago for the annual Panorama Steelband Competition, she's back. This time, it's as the first staff...
Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour to visit NIU, Oct. 29
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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