Conservatory

Wednesday, April 2 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

Yumi Kurosawa was born and raised in a traditional Japanese music environment, taking up the Koto from a young age and rising fast to the upper echelons of her craft. Ever since she was a teenager, however, she constantly surrounded herself with contemporary music by Western music composers, integrating their melodies and phrasings into her solo Koto. As her career expanded, she carried these interests into ensembles featuring Western musical instruments, especially strings.

For this trio, Yumi is joined by violinist Naho Parrini and percussionist Yousif Sheronick. The program features exhilarating new compositions from Yumi alongside striking reinterpretations of favorites from her oeuvre, highlighting the shared affinity between these seemingly disparate instruments. The trio setting allows Yumi to expand her solo compositions into dynamic and multi-faceted performances that encompass a wide range of expression and dimension.

Tickets

• $15 – Adults
• $10 – Seniors
• $8 – non-LU students
• LU faculty, staff, & students – FREE with ID

Get your tickets at the Box Office (inside the Music-Drama Center) or online!

Box Office

• Monday-Saturday 1-6 p.m.
• One hour prior to events

Friday, April 4 | 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Roomful of Teeth, a double Grammy-winning ensemble, pioneers new vocal compositions for eight voices. Through collaboration and innovative technologies, they push the boundaries of vocal expression. Their latest album, Rough Magic (New Amsterdam Records, 2023), employs groundbreaking recording and spatial techniques. At the 66th Grammy Awards, they secured Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Rough Magic, while William Brittelle’s composition Psychedelics, featured on the album, earned a nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. This event, part of the New Music Series, celebrates their ongoing commitment to redefining vocal music’s possibilities and represents their continued excellence in the contemporary music landscape.

Estelí Gomez, assistant professor of music, is also a member of the group!

Tickets

• Adults – $30 / $25
• Seniors – $25 / $20
• LU faculty & staff – $10 / $9
• Students (LU & non-LU) – FREE (a valid ID must be presented for discounted tickets)

Get your tickets at the Box Office (inside the Music-Drama Center) or online!

Box Office

• Monday-Saturday 1-6 p.m.
• One hour prior to events

Sunday, April 6 | 2-3:30 p.m.
ACOCA Cafe & Roastery | 500 W. College Ave

The Music For All concert series features interactive chamber performances of a wide variety of music by Lawrence students and faculty. These concerts last about an hour and are open to everyone. The series is made possible by grants from Lawrence University and Riverview Gardens and by the support of the local community.

Please read more about our program on the Lawrence website.

Saturday, March 15 | Memorial Chapel

Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble Concert

4:30 p.m. | $10

String Orchestra and Philharmonia Concert

7 p.m. | $10

Jazz Combos #1

Monday, March 10 | 8 p.m.
Harper Hall

Jazz Combos #2

Wednesday, March 12 | 3:10 p.m.
Harper Hall

Jazz Combos #3

Thursday, March 13 | 4:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

Friday, March 14 | 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Featuring works:

• Wynton Marsalis – “Danzon y Mambo, Choro y Samba from Blues Symphony”
• Bartók – “Violin Concerto No. 2”, Sz. 112, mvt. 1, with Ben Frueh, violin (Concerto Competition Co-winner)
• Beethoven – “Symphony No. 8 in F Major”, op. 93

Conducted by Mark Dupere

Wednesday, March 5 | 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Celebrate Con 150 with the big bands—Lawrence University Jazz Band and Jazz Ensemble. This concert is free and open to the public!

Directors: Patty Darling & José Encarción

Can’t make it to Memorial Chapel? Catch the live webcast.

Saturday, March 8 | 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Directed by Matthew Arau

Featuring the Works of:

• Grainger – “Gum-Suckers March”
• LaBarr, arr. Wilson – “Grace Before Sleep
• Mayhew ’17, arr. Trentadue – “Symphony No. 1 – The Eternal Present”*
• Schumann – “Chester”
• Hokoyama – “Beyond”
  
  *World Premiere

Presents Second Nature by Eric Wubbels

Sunday, March 9 | 7:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

Written for and performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble

• Erin Lesser: Flutes
• Ian Antonio: Percussion
• Eric Wubbels: Keyboards

Second Nature is a new concert-length music and video work from composer/performer and Wet Ink Ensemble Co-Director Eric Wubbels, an artist who “brings meticulous poise to his experimentalism,” and whose music, “with references to many traditions, sounds like nothing by any other composer” (The New York Times).

Written for and developed in long-term collaboration with Wet Ink Ensemble members Erin Lesser and Ian Antonio, Second Nature is an extended meditation on cycles of growth, decay, and regeneration, drawing on ancient, contemporary, and futurist perspectives, instruments, and technologies.

Taking as its genre-ancestor Morton Feldman’s late trios for flute, piano, and percussion, the piece then pivots in a radically different direction, finding meaning and complexity in the particularly loaded contemporary intersection of nature, culture, and technology.

Over the course of more than 70 minutes, Second Nature brings together musical scenarios of the most extreme variety and diversity into a stunningly original synthesis. Movements for traditional instrumental combinations (flute, vibraphone, piano) segue directly into music for computer-controlled cymbals and 3-D printed ultrasonic flute, and passages for analog synthesizer and inside-piano technique are accompanied by homemade (and in one case, home-grown) wind and percussion instruments made from plant, rock, and animal bone materials. Video interludes of the trio performing outdoors at specifically chosen geographical and seasonal locations extend the conceptual and symbolic reach of the piece beyond the concert hall and back into the natural world itself.

Thursday, March 6 | Friday, March 7 | Saturday, March 8 | 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 9 | 3 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

Lawrence University Opera Theatre presents The Consul March 6-9, 2025.

The Consul

• Sung in English
• Composed and Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
• Winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize of Music and the NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, Menotti’s The Consul exposes the callous nature of blocking political refugees from entering a neighboring country. Threatened and watched by a fascist, militarized régime, Magda Sorel seeks to bring her baby and mother-in-law over the boarder to join her husband, a member of the resistance.
• Copeland Woodruff: Stage Director
• Kristin Roach: Conductor & Music Director

Tickets

• $15 for adults
• $10 for seniors
• $8 for non-LU students
• LU students, faculty, and staff receive 2 free tickets with LU ID presented at the Box Office (while supplies last).