Join Peck School of the Arts music students as they take the virtual stage in solo and group recitals throughout the school year. Students showcase musical technique and skill, while audience members enjoy expert performances by Milwaukee's emerging musicians.
Students ages 4-18 at the UWM String Academy learn to use their minds, ears, and bodies to express themselves through music. Through this journey, each child learns valuable lessons in problem solving, concentration, consistency and discipline, developing self-confidence, perseverance through... Read More
Kill Joy's family is originally from and partly based in the archipelago known as the Philippines and partly in Texas.
Winterdances concert features an evening of premieres from our faculty and guest artist Kia Smith, artistic director of South Chicago Dance Theatre. The evening will feature original music composed by Andy Miller. Join dance faculty choreographers Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, Karlies Kelley, and guest artist Kia Smith for an evening of kineticism, imagination and hope.
Get to know the output and inner minds of the Film, Video, Animation and New Genres faculty and staff at this all-star screening.
Exhibition of selected pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design.
High School Workshop Day is the best way for high school groups and classes to learn from our internationally known faculty. This event is great for students curious and interested in becoming a dance major at Peck School of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin’s only School of the Arts.
Presented as part of the 2023 Vocal Arts Festival, UWM students perform a varied and fast-moving recital of songs from a variety of genres and styles.
Studio Workshop Day is the best way for high school students to learn from our internationally known faculty. This event is great for students curious and interested in becoming a dance major at Peck School of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin’s only School of the Arts.
This final event of the 2023 UWM Vocal Arts Festival features performances by Concert Chorale, UWM's flagship mixed choir, and the VAF Honor Choir, comprising 120 of the finest high school singers from around Wisconsin and Illinois.
Amy Halpern was the maker of nearly forty short films, almost all in 16mm, and of the feature film FALLING LESSONS (1991).
Julia Galloway is a utilitarian potter and professor. She teaches ceramics at the University of Montana, Missoula.
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin’s, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
Miscast is a style of musical theatre cabaret that leans into the comedy of playing outside of one’s preconceived “type.”
A selection of films that engage with archival images and the archive as an institution. How is history presented and refigured through artistic intervention?
Dana Fritz uses photography to investigate the ways we shape and represent the natural world in cultivated and constructed landscapes.
UWM Piano Faculty and guest pianist Melinda Lee Masur will present a piano duo recital featuring the Schubert Fantasy in F minor for four hands and Brahms Haydn Variations for two pianos.
In an evening of encounters with an almost impossibly wide variety of music, Present Music carves an audacious path for the future of folk.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share this program of wind band music. We strive to include music from a variety of style periods and performance practices, build on the rich tradition of the wind-band but also represent composers of a diverse background, and provide students with musical experiences that best suit each ensemble and facilitate their musical aspirations.
Location: Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Music Building, Theatre Building Contact: music-admission@uwm.edu Overview Remember what it was like when you first picked up your instrument or sang in front of an audience? That moment was the beginning of your life as a musician.... Read More
Join us as the first and second year students in the UWM voice program present a extremely varied showcase of solo performances from many different genres, styles, and time periods. See and support our talented up and coming students!
A selection of 16mm films selected from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive. Curated by MFA candidate Lucio Arellano.
Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher whose work probes what it means to be human in a nearly post-human era.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Concert featuring the competition winners
This exciting program featuring UWM students and staff alongside vibrant Milwaukee community ensembles will showcase music from Brazil, Guatemala, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Recorder and Guitar Concert.
The musicians of the UWM Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) will share this program with selected musicians from the UWM Middle School Honor Bands Festival held back in November.
Larry Gottheim in person! One of the fundamental figures of American avant-garde cinema, LARRY GOTTHEIM has composed a diverse body of work over the span of 50 years.
Barbara Miner is a writer, photographer and multimedia artist, currently in her third year of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR) forging new paths in 21st-century repertoire. The ensemble’s ambitious commissioning projects and “appealing programs” (New Yorker) celebrate the rich diversity of today’s classical music landscape.
UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend is joined by clarinetist Orlando Pimentel and cellist Peter Thomas for an evening of chamber music. The program includes Brahms' Clarinet trio in A minor.
Join the UWM Concert Chorale and two of the finest area high school choirs for an evening of choral music. This is the final event of the day-long UWM Choral Invitational featuring a special guest composer and closing with a joint piece performed by all three ensembles.
Join the UWM Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for a fun and eclectic evening of choral music.
*CANCELED* Music From Almost Yesterday Concert This concert will feature Stas Venglevski, virtuoso performer on bayan (accordion) in premieres and other works by Milwaukee composers David Bohn, Jerome Kitzke and Yehuda Yannay. The concert will also focus on the long... Read More
This musical weaves together popular swing, jazz, blues, and bebop of the 1930’s and 40’s in a review that moves from the Great Depression into the post-World War II boom. Filled with standards from The American Songbook, the Gershwins, Hoagy Carmichael, and Duke Ellington (amongst many others) are featured.
Tanekeya Word (b. 1983, Clarksdale, Mississippi) creates multimedia visual art: paintings, drawings, fine art prints and book art. She is an art educator, cultural arts organizer and scholar based in Milwaukee, WI.
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin’s, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
The Milwaukee Saxophone Ensemble will be traveling to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to present a concert of brand-new pieces. Join us in our send-off concert at home!
Edie Fake’s multi-media work — drawings, paintings, installations, comics, books and zines — has been written about and featured in Artforum, New York Times, The Paris Review, Art News, Art 21, Juxtapoz, Hyperallergic, The Comics Journal, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share this program of wind band music. We strive to include music from a variety of style periods and performance practices, build on the rich tradition of the wind-band but also represent composers of a diverse background, and provide students with musical experiences that best suit each ensemble and facilitate their musical aspirations.
The UWM Piano Studio will perform an evening of solo and collaborative piano repertoire.
Raoul Deal is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who often works collaboratively in community settings.
Join the UWM opera students and symphony orchestra for a mainstage opera production conducted by Dr. Jun Kim.
First-year music theatre students will be presenting a showcase of solo songs from the musical theatre canon.
Sarah FitzSimons is a visual artist who makes sculpture which interacts with and derives meaning from its surroundings.
The Composition and Technology program will present a concert of original works by UWM students. The program will include freshly composed pieces for acoustic and electronic mediums.
Join Present Music for two world premieres in one evening! Midden Find by Dan Trueman, featuring star Irish fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh playing the Norwegian Hardanger d’Amore; and new commission performed by multi-genre Brazilian composer, singer, and pianist Clarice Assad.
A “best of” exhibition highlighting award-winning jewelry and metalwork, sculpture and digital fabrication projects from rising student artists in the Peck School of the Arts. The Goundie Awards, Harold A. Milbrath Memorial Jewelry & Metalsmithing Prizes and multiple other awards will be announced during the opening reception.
Join the Department of Art and Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Spring 2023.
Saxophonist Jack Thorpe is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in saxophone performance and literature from the University of Illinois where he serves as the saxophone studio teaching assistant.
Lyndsay Rice received an MFA from the University of Oregon in 2012 and BFA from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2006.
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin’s, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
Classical Guitar Duo Concert. UWM Guitar Series
UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend is joined by Baritone John Daugherty for an evening of Art Songs!
Chamber Music Studio Recital
Lynn Nottage’s play enters the heart of working-class America, exploring the effects the loss of heavy industry and the changing ethnic composition of Reading, PA has on two friends. This deep examination of race, economics, and the human condition during the 2016 presidential election ramp up was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2017.
Anna Natter is a Hungarian designer currently living in Germany. After studying fine art and animation, she worked for the largest commercial television company in Hungary before transitioning to freelance work.
The University Community Orchestra, a full symphony orchestra comprised of students and community members, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoire.
Join the UWM University-Community Band for our season send-off, our Spring Concert!
Celebrate with our graduating MA/MFA artists, who exhibit their finest work and share their creative journeys.
Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay works in photography, video, installation, sculpture, and new media, investigating shifting meanings within post and neocolonialism while still reflecting on the very mediums of representation that he uses.
End of the Semester Studio Recital.
PEAK is part of New Music MKE, a new performing arts series run by the Music Composition and Technology program at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. This concert will feature student composition, performances, and installations.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share this program of wind band music. We strive to include music from a variety of style periods and performance practices, build on the rich tradition of the wind-band but also represent composers of a diverse background, and provide students with musical experiences that best suit each ensemble and facilitate their musical aspirations.
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Spring concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods.
The classic romantic comedy of manners about the lengths people will go to obtain true love closes out the 2022-23’ UWM Theatre season. Filled with comic characters, The Rivals features deep emotional resonances to augment its sharp wit.
Adam Hawk is a studio artist and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
The annual Design & Visual Communication BFA exhibition at UWM Peck School of the Arts manifests itself through individuality, equity-centered community projects, and students working collaboratively to find common ground.
UWM Symphony Orchestra Season Final Concert
Please join the Department of Art and Design and explore the “Kenilworth Square East” galleries and studios. The building is a 6-floor, 500,000-square-foot, industrial artist studio space and home to award-winning graduate students and faculty in Art and Design.
Join the UWM Concert Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, and Alta Voce choirs for their final concert of the year. Featuring a wide variety of repertoire and voicings, hear the UWM choirs at their best!
Join Suzuki and Pre-College guitar students on Sunday, May 7th for a Spring Concert.
The UWM Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) will present its final concert of season. We will celebrate our Graduates as well as hear a performance by the Winner(s) of the annual UWAY Concerto Competition!
The UWM Jazz Ensemble is a 20+ musician jazz big band comprised of undergraduate and graduate students and regularly features student vocalists performing jazz standards by legendary songwriters such as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwin's, Jerome Kern, and others. Original compositions and arrangements created by students for the Jazz Ensemble are showcased at a majority of concerts.
Springdances concert features an evening of premieres from our faculty and guest artist Alfonso Cervera, artistic director of Primera Generación Dance Collective. Join dance faculty choreographers Zakiya Cornish, Maria Gillespie, Dan Schuchart, and guest artist Alfonso Cervera for an evening of kineticism, imagination and hope.
This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
Singer/songwriter Gabriel Kahane performs a new version of his introspective solo work Magnificent Bird with Present Music, and the ensemble premieres a newly commissioned work from chamber music superstar and cellist, Paul Wiancko
The University Community Orchestra, a full symphony orchestra comprised of students and community members, led by conductor Margery Deutsch, performs works from classical and pops repertoire.