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Dance Series: U.F.O. performance with Sandra Paola López Ramírez + Chris Reyman with LU Faculty and Maria Gillespie (UWM)

Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Esch Studio, Warch Campus Center
Free admission

Sandra Paola and Chris began exploring interdisciplinary improvisation as performance practice in 2011 creating in2improv, a research/performance duo that quickly grew into an organization that under its new name, the Institute for Improvisation and Social Action (ImprovISA), has generated a variety of public programs and performances centered at the U.S.-Mexico border in cities of El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. They have taught and performed as a duo and as part of the Koan ensemble in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, France, Denmark and Germany.

‘Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)’ rescheduled for Nov. 4-5

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) has been rescheduled for two performances only: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4 and 5.

The production by Lawrence University Theatre Arts, set for Stansbury Theatre in Lawrence’s Music-Drama Center, was previously scheduled for last weekend but had to be postponed.

Directed by Kathy Privatt, with music direction from Phillip Swan, the performance will present five musicals rolled into one satirical comedy. By Eric Bogart and Joanne Rockwell, it is billed as a “valentine to musical theatre,” telling one story in five styles: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, a Sondheim version, a Jerry Herman version, an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, and a Kander & Ebb version.

Find more information at the Lawrence Box Office.

‘Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)’ to open in Stansbury

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) will be presented Oct. 27 to 29 in Stansbury Theatre.

Directed by Kathy Privatt, with music direction from Phillip Swan, the Lawrence University Theatre Arts performance will present five musicals rolled into one satirical comedy.

The production, by Eric Bogart and Joanne Rockwell, is billed as a “valentine to musical theatre,” telling one story in five styles: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, a Sondheim version, a Jerry Herman version, an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, and a Kander & Ebb version.

Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27-28; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29. Find more information at the Lawrence Box Office.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $8 for non-Lawrence students. Lawrence students, faculty, and staff can get two free tickets with their campus ID.

Performing Arts Series: Akropolis Reed Quintet

Akropolis Reed Quintet

Friday, September 30, 2022

Lawrence Memorial Chapel

8 p.m.

Ticket Information

Purchase tickets at the Lawrence University Box Office, located in the Music Drama center, at 420 East College Ave, Appleton, WI 54911 or call the box office at 920-832-6749. Discounts available for LU students, faculty and staff with an LU ID.

The box office will be open Monday through Saturday from 1:00pm until 6:00pm and an hour prior to events.

About Akropolis Reed Quintet

Celebrating their 13th year making music with “faultless detail and refreshing artistry” (I Care if You Listen) as a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure” (The Wire), Akropolis has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare). As the first reed quintet to grace the Billboard Charts (May 2021), the untamed band of 5 reed players and entrepreneurs are united by a shared passion: to make music that sparks joy and wonder.

Winner of 7 national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, “the performance standards of Akropolis are award winning for a reason” (Fanfare). Remaining the same 5 members since their founding in 2009, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year and has premiered and commissioned over 130 works by living artists and composers. They are the first ensemble of their kind to grace the stage on noteworthy series like Oneppo (Yale University), Chamber Music San Antonio, Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), Summerwinds Münster (Germany), Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), and many more. The “rise of the reed quintet” (Chamber Music America) and Akropolis’ “infallible musicality and huge vitality” (Fanfare) make them one of the most sought-after chamber ensembles today.

Experimenters and creators at their core, “there’s nothing tentative in their approach, and that extends to their programming of multifariously challenging and imaginative new works” (The Wire). Akropolis has collaborated with poets, a metal fabricator, dancers, small business owners, string quartets, pop vocalists, and more. Currently, Akropolis is collaborating with GRAMMY-nominated pianist/composer Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman on an album and touring program drawing classical and jazz idioms together to reflect on American identity, entitled, Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?

Akropolis’ chief collaborators are youth and their Detroit community. Winner of the 2015 Fischoff Educator Award and a nonprofit organization which has received 5 consecutive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Akropolis runs a summer festival in Detroit called Together We Sound and holds an annual, school year long residency at Cass Tech, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Detroit School of Arts high schools. Akropolis believes anyone can compose great music and during their 20-21 season premiered and recorded more than 30 works by youth aged 12-22 alone.

An engine perpetually generating new sounds and ideas, Akropolis’ 22-23 season will include world premieres by Pulitzer Prize finalist Augusta Read Thomas and Omar Thomas; imaginative renditions of music by Ravel, Bernstein, Rameau, Shostakovich, and Gershwin; Storm Warning, a concerto grosso for reed quintet and wind band by Roshanne Etezady; and touring their recently released 4th album, Ghost Light, lauded for its “range, agility, and grace” (The Whole Note), by “exploring everything from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to racial violence in their native Detroit” (AnEarfull).

Stefan Egerstrom ’11 earns music grant

Congratulations to Stefan Egerstrom ’11, who has been named a recipient of a 2022 Richard Tucker Career Grant.

The auditions for the award were held on May 2 at Kaufmann Hall at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

The grant is worth $5,000. Recipients typically are in the transition from student to professional singer, and should have recently completed a graduate degree program or work in a young artist or apprentice program at a regional company.
 
About Stefan Egerstrom
Bass Stefan Egerstrom, 33, is currently in his third year as a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow. He made his Company debut last fall as the Jailer in Tosca, and he also performed the role of Second Prisoner in a new production of Fidelio. He was a participant of the 2019 Merola Opera Program, performing in the Schwabacher Summer Concert and the Merola Grand Finale. He portrayed Hunding in Wagner’s Die Walküre with Queen City Opera in 2019. In 2018 he made his role debut as King René in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta with Queen City Opera. Mr. Egerstrom was seen as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Siroco in L’Étoile, Carlino in Don Pasquale and soloist in Bach’s Johannes-Passion. As part of the Opera Fusion: New Works initiative between Cincinnati Opera and CCM, he performed in workshops of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star and Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers. Other operatic roles include Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dr. Grenvil in La traviata and Kecal in The Bartered Bride. He received his bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from Lawrence University and his master’s degree in voice from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Jazz concert to feature Mark Guiliana Quartet

Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Lawrence Memorial Chapel

8:00p.m.

About Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet

Grammy Nominated drummer Mark Guiliana has become recognized as one of the world’s leading drummers, admired and in demand across the spectrum from jazz to rock to electronic music for his rhythmic sophistication, creative impulse and individual sound. He has been in the vanguard of drummers creating a new vernacular on the instrument, blending virtuosity on acoustic drums with artfully deployed electronic beats and processing. Guiliana was chosen as Best Jazz Drummer in the Modern Drummer Readers Poll 2017, while DownBeat dubbed him a Rising Star in its Critics Poll. JazzTimes aptly proclaimed: “Guiliana, a technical master with a rare sense of musicality, has over the past decade become one of the most influential drummers of his generation.” Along with leading his own groups – the acoustic Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet and electronica-minded Beat Music – the drummer has appeared on a string of acclaimed recordings with others. The verve and precision of Guiliana’s drumming was a primer mover of Blackstar, David Bowie’s multiple Grammy Award-winning final album. Guiliana teamed with keyboardist Brad Mehldau as the duo Mehliana for the Nonesuch release Taming the Dragon, and he has also collaborated with such artists as saxophonist Donny McCaslin, guitar hero John Scofield, Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer-songwriter Matt Cameron, neo-soul singer-songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello, guitarist-vocalist Lionel Loueke, jazz bassist Avishai Cohen, reggae/hip-hop artist Matisyahu and jazz singer Gretchen Parlato.

Coming Friday: The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare

Lawrence Conservatory of Music Presents

The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare
Music by Julian Grant | Libretto by Mark Campbell

Friday, April 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM

Ticket Information

Purchase tickets to this livestream performance at www.lawrence.edu/music-arts/box-office/tickets or call the box office at 920-832-6749. Tickets can also be purchased at the Lawrence University Box Office, located in the Music Drama center, at 420 East College Ave, Appleton, The box office will be open Monday through Saturday from 1:00pm until 6:00pm and an hour prior to events.

Ticket price: $10 + processing fee
This livestream is available to view  April 22- April 26, 2022

About The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare

This production and film are dedicated to the memory of John Koopman who began the opera program at Lawrence University and whose loss is felt by the community. We, the opera studies ensemble, stand on his legacy.


The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare
Music by Julian Grant | Libretto by Mark Campbell

Directed by
Copeland Woodruff

Produced by
Iris Designs

Music Director/Piano/MIDI orchestration – Kristin Roach
MIDI orchestration – Darrin Newhart
Live Orchestra Conductor – Michael Clayville
Sound Engineer – Brent Hauer
Technical Director – Austin Rose

Dr. Robert Knox – Luke Honeck
Dr. Ferguson – David Womack
William Burke – Max Muter
William Hare – Baron Lam
Helen McDougal – Emily Austin
Margaret Hare – Colleen Bur
Donald – Zachary Adams
Abigail Simpson – Grace Drummond
Daft Jamie – Jack Murphy
Mary Paterson – Meghan Burroughs
Madge Docherty – Emma Milton

Flute – Carmen Magestro
Viola – Gabe Hartmark
Bassoon – Jessica Kleebauer
Cello – Ernesto Bañuelos
Trombone – Omar Tlatelpa-Nieto
Bass – Ali Remondini
Percussion – Spencer Bunch-Hotaling
Harp – Rachel Overby

 Assistant Director – Morgan Donahue
Stage Manager – Tommy Dubnicka
Assistant Stage Managers – Emmeline Sipe, Mae Capaldi, Sam Victor

Bang on A Can All-Stars

An Innovative New Music Event

Friday, April 15, at 8 p.m. in Lawrence Memorial Chapel.

For Tickets, please visit the Lawrence University Box office or call 920-832-6749.

Audience members will be required to be masked at all times during performances in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel and Harper Hall. Guests are strongly encouraged to have received the COVID-19 vaccine before attending an event on campus.

About Bang on a Can All-Stars

Formed in 1992, the Bang on a Can All-Stars are recognized worldwide for their ultra-dynamic live performances and recordings of today’s most innovative music. Freely crossing the boundaries between classical, jazz, rock, world and experimental music, this six-member amplified ensemble has consistently forged a distinct category-defying identity, taking music into uncharted territories. Performing each year throughout the U.S. and internationally, the All-Stars have shattered the definition of what concert music is today.

Together, the All-Stars have worked in unprecedented close collaboration with some of the most important and inspiring musicians of our time, including Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, Burmese circle drum master Kyaw Kyaw Naing, Tan Dun, DJ Spooky, and many more. The group’s celebrated projects include their landmark recordings of Brian Eno’s ambient classic Music for Airports and Terry Riley’s In C, as well as live performances with Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Don Byron, Iva Bittova, Thurston Moore, Owen Pallett and others. The All-Stars were awarded Musical America’s Ensemble of the Year and have been heralded as “the country’s most important vehicle for contemporary music” by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Current and recent project highlights include “In C”, a new dance collaboration with Sasha Waltz & Guests based on Terry Riley’s minimalist classic; Dance Party, a brand new multi-media concert pairing composers and choreographers; a new recording of legendary composer/performer Meredith Monk’s MEMORY GAME; Julia Wolfe’s Flower Power for Bang on a Can All-Stars and orchestra, a multi media concert exploring the sonic landscape of the late 1960s; Road Trip, an immersive and visually stunning concert collaboratively-composed by Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe to commemorate the 30+ year journey of Bang on a Can; the touring performances and recording of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize winning Anthracite Fields for the All-Stars and guest choir; Julia Wolfe’s acclaimed Steel Hammer,  plus a moving theatrically staged collaboration with SITI Company and director Anne Bogart; Field Recordings, a major multi-media project and CD/DVD now featuring 30 commissioned works by Tyondai Braxton, Mira Calix, Anna Clyne, Bryce Dessner, Florent Ghys, Michael Gordon, Jóhann Jóhannsson, David Lang, Christian Marclay, Steve Reich, Todd Reynolds, Julia Wolfe, and more; the Lincoln Center Festival 2017 world premiere of Cloud River Mountain, a collaboration featuring Chinese superstar singer Gong Linna; the world premiere performance and recording of Steve Reich’s 2×5 including a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall, and much more. With a massive repertoire of works written specifically for the group’s distinctive instrumentation and style of performance, the All-Stars have become a genre in their own right. The All-Stars record on Cantaloupe Music and have released past recordings on Sony, Universal and Nonesuch.

Chris Dingman, Vibraphonist and Composer

Monday, April 18, at 8 p.m. in Lawrence Memorial Chapel. Concert is free and open to the public.

Audience members are reqired to be masked at all times during performances in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel and Harper Hall. Guests are strongly encouraged to have received the COVID-19 vaccine before attending an event on campus.

Chris Dingman is a vibraphonist and composer known for his distinctive approach to the instrument: sonically rich and conceptually expansive, bringing listeners on a journey to a beautiful, transcendent place. He has been profiled by NPR, the New York Times, DRUM magazine and many other publications, and has received fellowships and grants from the Chamber Music America, the Doris Duke Foundation, New Music USA, and the Herbie Hancock Institute (formerly the Thelonious Monk Institute).

Dingman has done significant work with legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter as well as next generation visionaries such as Jen Shyu, Ambrose Akinmusire, Steve Lehman, and many others, performing around the world including India, Vietnam, and extensively in Europe and North America. Hailed by the New York Times as a “dazzling” soloist and a composer with a “fondness for airtight logic and burnished lyricism,” the fluidity of his musical approach has earned him praise as “an extremely gifted composer, bandleader, and recording artist.” (Jon Weber, NPR).