Conservatory

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).

Monday, Feb. 24 | 8-9 p.m.
Harper Hall

IGLU presents “150-sec. Improvisations for the 150th.”

Free and open to the public!

Can’t make it to Harper Hall? Catch the live webcast here.

Friday, Feb. 28 | 7:30-9:30 pm.
Memorial Chapel

Lawrence University Viking Chorale, Concert Choir, and Cantala present their Winter Term concert, featuring faculty artists Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Brian Pertl, and Leila Ramagopal Pertl, as well as a world premiere by Alexander Johnson ’12.

Free and open to the public!

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

Saturday, March 1 | 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

The Lawrence University Wind Ensemble is proud to present our tribute to the Conservatory’s 150th Anniversary in concert! Our program is entitled “Homegrown: Celebrating the 150th” and features works by student and faculty alumni as well as Wisconsin composers and friends of the Conservatory. We hope to see you there as we celebrate and honor the legacy of the Conservatory with this special concert!

Featuring works by David Werfelmann ’06, Percy Grainger and Fred Sturm ’73, John Harmon ’57, Charles Rochester Young, and Theresa Martin. Featuring Nadje Noordhuis, trumpet.

Free and open to the public!

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

Thursday, Feb. 27 | 8-9 p.m.
Harper Hall

Kenji Bunch writes music that looks for commonalities between musical styles, for understandings that transcend cultural or generational barriers, and for empathic connections with his listeners. Drawing on vernacular musical traditions, an interest in highlighting historical injustices and inaccuracies, and techniques from his classical training, Bunch creates music with a unique personal vocabulary that appeals to performers, audiences, and critics alike.

With his work frequently performed worldwide and recorded numerous times, Bunch considers his current mission the search for and celebration of shared emotional truths about the human experience from the profound to the absurd, to help facilitate connection and healing through entertainment, vulnerability, humor, and joy. Bunch is widely recognized for performing his own groundbreaking works for viola. He currently serves as Artistic Director of the new music group Fear No Music and is deeply committed to music education in his hometown of Portland, Oregon.

Admission is free and open to all!

Sunday, March 2 | 7:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

The Lawrence University New Music Ensemble will perform Ralph’s Old Records, Summer Hours, and Alpha Dog by composer Kenji Bunch.

Saturday, Feb. 22 | 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Matt Wilson, a jazz luminary, boasts thirteen albums as a leader and over 400 collaborations with jazz icons like Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, and Pat Metheny. Named 2018 Musician of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association, his album Honey And Salt clinched the Album of the Year Award. With consecutive 5-star reviews from Downbeat for Honey And Salt and Beginning of a Memory, Wilson’s mastery shines. Beyond drumming, he’s a revered educator, dedicated to bridging music and people. Passionate about jazz’s outreach, he strives to inspire individuality and creativity in students, fostering a vibrant connection between audiences and music.

Get your tickets today!

• Adult: $25-30
• Senior: $20-25
• Lawrence faculty & staff: $9-10 (only available in-person at the Box Office)
• Lawrence and non-Lawrence students with valid ID – FREE (only available in-person at the Box Office)

Saturday, Feb. 22 | 3:30 p.m.
Harper Hall

Lawrence faculty will perform works by Mozart, Ruby Fulton, Betty Jackson King, Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, Honegger, Gregory Wanamaker, Schubert, Debussy, and Lori Laitman.

• Estelí Gomez (voice)
• Steven Paul Spears (voice)
• Jenny Snedeker (flute)
• Andy Hudson (clarinet)
• Brigit Fitzgerald (bassoon)
• Joseph Connor (saxophone)
• Jenny Snyder Kozoroz (viola)
• Catherine Kautsky (piano)
• Kristin Roach (piano)

Free and open to the public!

Can’t make it in person? Catch the live webcast.

Monday, Feb. 17 | 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Guest marimbist Nancy Zeltsman presents “Drinking Water,” featuring works by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Joep Straesser, Fred Hersch, Gunther Schuller, Paul Simon, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Manuel M. Ponce.

Free and open to the public!

Monday, Feb. 10 | 8 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Lawrence faculty Andy Hudson (clarinet), Jenny Snyder Kozoroz (viola), and Catherine Kautsky (piano) perform works by Brahms, John Harmon ’57, and Mozart.

Free and open to the public!

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

Friday, Feb. 7 | 7:30 p.m.
Lawrence Memorial Chapel

Adrian Steele & Phoenix Avalon (violin)
Devin Moore (viola)
Joshua McClendon (cello)

Formed in 2019, the Isidore String Quartet, winners of the 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, aims to refresh classical repertoire. Influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet, they approach music with a fresh perspective. Originating from the Juilliard School, they regrouped at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in 2021 under Joel Krosnick’s mentorship. The quartet received coaching from luminaries including Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, and Miriam Fried. Committed to revitalizing established works and embracing innovation, they bring a dynamic energy to their performances, embodying their ethos of treating tradition with innovation and the new with reverence.

General Admission

• Adult: $25-30
• Senior: $20-25
• Students with a valid ID: FREE (only available in-person at the Box Office)