Global Arts Performance Initiatives

04/02/2024

Uncorked at Krannert Center this Thursday, April 4 at 5p.

03/28/2024

New release by Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones just reviewed! Hear them live at the Rose Bowl Monday, April 1st!

Read our Discover Blogly review of New Monuments, a musical tour de force with a revolutionary spirit from Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones.

03/21/2024

Smile Politely's Derrick Philips offers wonderful insight on the music and collaboration between Derek Gripper and Ballaké Sissoko. Hope to see many folks out tonight for the concert and tomorrow for the engagement programs. Links in the comments.

South African classical guitarist Derek Gripper stands out as an innovative artist. Gripper has uniquely brought together the complex melodies of the West African kora and the classical guitar, a process showcasing not only his ...

03/19/2024

Malian virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko has taken over the mantle of the greatest touring kora player. Derek Gripper is South Africa’s leading guitarist whose love of the kora set him transcribing and recording some of its greatest works. “In the complex web of theme and variations spun by Sissoko’s twenty-one strings and Gripper’s six, a new African string theory is elaborated.”

Hear them In concert this Thursday, March 21, 7:30p at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Admission Free.

02/19/2024

ANCHOR: The Music, Message, & Movement of Black American Artists

The College of Fine and Applied Arts and Dr. Ollie Watts Davis, Associate Dean for Academic Programs present "ANCHOR: The Music, Message & Movement of Black American Artists" on Wednesday, February 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Smith Memorial Hall.

February 28, 7:30 pm • Smith Recital Hall

Dr. Ollie Watts Davis • College of Fine and Applied Arts

02/03/2024

This upcoming collaboration is something else! Hear Different on Wednesday, February 21st.

02/02/2024

Thankful for all the upcoming opportunities to explore improvised sound and music with students, community, and colleagues in unique spaces this coming Saturday, Monday and Tuesday! And save the date… Illinois Modern Meets Improvisers Exchange !!! Wednesday February 21st! Links to all events in the comments.

09/19/2023

Upcoming Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture…. This Friday.

JOIN US!

The Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture in Ethnomusicology

"Musical Crossroads: Interpreting the Material Culture of African American Music"

Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece
Associate Director for the Humanities, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian

Friday, September 22
5 pm
Music Building Auditorium

Abstract and more info: https://publish.illinois.edu/nettllecture/

The University of Illinois School of Music

07/25/2023

Our friends at Musicology announced some Fall programming.

Save the dates!

Musicology Fall Events

Sept 14/15: Sound Methods for a New World: A Symposium on Collaborative and Co-Creative Methods for Music Research
Keynote: Dr. Samuel Araújo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) (UIUC PhD '92)
Organized by Dr. Luis-Manuel Garcia Mispireta (University of Birmingham) and Dr. Michael Silvers (UIUC)

Sept 22: Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture in Ethnomusicology: Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece (Curator of Music and Performing Arts, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution)

Oct 13: AMS/SEM Conference Paper Previews

More to come...

04/13/2023

This!

Please mark your calendars for a performance by Balkanalia, the University of Illinois Balkan Music Ensemble, on Tuesday, May 2, at 7:30pm in the Music Building Auditorium (1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana, IL).

This event is free and open to the public.

We hope to see you there!
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Bluejays Began to Sing: Songs and Dances beneath Balkan Skies

Spring Concert and Commemorative Benefit for Victims of the Turkish and Syrian Earthquakes

With the Balkan Beats Brass

Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Music Building Auditorium
School of Music
1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana IL
7:30 pm

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by the The University of Illinois School of Music, Center for South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center

06/23/2022

Glad to see Bolokada Conde is visiting this Saturday and offering a workshop after his performance at the Rose Bowl Tavern.