Music Department Student Recitals

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Students showcase musical technique and skill, while audience members enjoy expert performances by Milwaukee’s emerging musicians. Recitals are streaming, free and open to the public.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Jimena Buena Vida

Virtual Event Virtual Event

Jimena Buena Vida is a Colombian-born artist whose work is rooted in computational aesthetics intersecting with modern art. Her digital art practice is informed by painting and animation, where creative coding as an art medium transforms JavaScript into vibrant abstraction.

Union Art Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition

UWM Union Art Gallery 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Union Art Gallery presents the 52nd Annual Juried Exhibition, a showcase of artwork in a variety of mediums by college student artists from around the Greater Milwaukee area. Juried by a panel of three Milwaukee arts professionals, the top exhibiting artists will be announced and awarded cash prizes during the opening reception.

UWM Symphony Concerto Competition Winner’s Concert & Brahms Serenade No.1

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The UWM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Jun Kim, will feature clarinetist Mauricio Franco, winner of the 2024-25 Concerto Competition, performing Marcel Bitsch’s Concertino for Bassoon (transcribed for bass clarinet). This lively mid-20th century French work is filled with playful rhythms and bold contrasts. The program also includes Brahms’ Serenade No. 1 in D Major, a lyrical composition that displays the composer’s orchestral mastery. Originally written for an octet, expanded to a chamber nonet, and later revised for small orchestra, the final version is most often performed today with a full orchestra.

Experimental Tuesdays: James N. Kienitz Wilkins

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

“I have a personal interest or collision with everything I use. I’m interested in the world around me. The stuff of everyday life.” Raised in Maine and based in NYC, Wilkins creates moving image works combining conceptual rigor, uncanny observations, and bone-dry wit. From public hearings to mysterious videotapes, his work launches meditations on images, race, Hollywood, and life under late capitalism. 

Peck School of the Arts Involvement Fair

Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Learn about Peck School of the Arts resources, student organizations, programs and classes for majors, minors and non-majors. This opportunity is available to all UWM students. Free food will be provided.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Hollis Hammonds

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Hollis Hammonds is a multimedia artist whose work, built on memory and utilizing evidence from the public collective consciousness, investigates social issues ranging from economic disparity and state violence to environmental degradation and human-made disasters. Her dystopian drawings and found-object installations have been widely exhibited throughout the US.

World Percussion Night

Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM Percussion Area hosts World Percussion Night in the beautiful Jan Serr Studio, featuring special guest Samba da Vida MKE alongside the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and other student ensembles. Audiences will love the upbeat, exciting energy of Brazilian Samba and African and Puerto Rican drumming in addition to traditional and arranged music for Trinidadian steel pans performed by UWM students and faculty and vibrant community ensembles.

Special Features: Auden Lincoln-Vogel & Philip Rabalais

Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

An art & practice development workshop for PSOA students interested in the film industry, featuring Directors, Auden Lincoln-Vogel & Philip Rabalais.

UWAY Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The resident members of the UWM Youth Wind and Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) welcome aspiring members as part of the UWAY “All-Star” Band and share a special concert performance! The area’s finest middle school and high school age woodwind, brass, and percussion students make-up these ensembles and each student is invited to be a part of this exclusive event at UW-Milwaukee.

Experimental Tuesdays: Beatrice Gibson

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Resolutely feminist in form and content, Gibson’s films explore the personal and the political and draw on cult figures from experimental literature and poetry - from Kathy Acker to Gertrude Stein. Collapsing fiction and documentary, and liquefying both, they range from experimental autobiography to nocturnal thriller and cast friends and influences as their characters and co-creators. Collaboration and credit are at their heart. 

Dames at Sea

Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The show that launched Bernadette Peters as a Broadway star, this delightful, funny, tongue-in-cheek love letter to Hollywood musicals of the 1930s tells the story of sweet Ruby’s journey from her small hometown to New York City to become a Broadway star. There, she meets Dick, a sailor with ambitions as a songwriter. In grand Hollywood fashion, they tap dance their way from the chorus to stardom on the deck of a passing battleship. Dames at Sea is a non-stop ride of romance, laughs, dance and musical delights.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Sulo Bee

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Sulo Bee is a co-founder of Queer Metalsmiths where they seek to uplift queer voices in the field of metalsmithing and craft. They hold a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Texas State University in 2018 and an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2022. Bee currently teaches in Metals and Foundations the School of Art and Design at Texas State University.

Jazz Ensembles with Guest Artist Paul Silbergleit

Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI

In honor of jazz guitarist and innovator Wes Montgomery’s birthday, UWM’s Jazz Ensemble and Afro Caribbean Jazz Orchestra welcome Milwaukee-based guitarist and educator Paul Silbergleit for a special concert highlighting Montgomery’s influence on jazz history. The concert will also feature new music by New Orleans saxophonist and composer Edward Peterson.

Wind Band Conducting Symposium

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Wind Band Conducting Symposium will focus on enhancing conducting, score study, and wind band teaching. Conducting participants will conduct the UWM Wind Ensemble or Symphony Band while receiving feedback from the conducting faculty. Session topics also include conducting pedagogy, rehearsal techniques, and musicianship. Attendees may participate as either a Conducting Participant or an Observing Auditor. Conducting participants will also have the opportunity to conduct one of the large wind bands in concert at the end of the symposium.

Special Features: SOUNDBITES feat. Jimmy Gutierrez

Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

An art & practice development workshop for PSOA students and the greater Milwaukee community interested in the film industry, featuring audio storyteller and journalist, Jimmy Gutierrez.

Choral Invitational

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Join the flagship UWM Concert Chorale and 3 area high school choirs in concert.

Sing Into Spring Choral Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Join UWM’s Alta Voce, Bella Voce, Kameraden, and Kameraden Plus choirs for a concert featuring a wide variety of choral music.

Wind Band Conducting Symposium Concert

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM Wind Band Conducting Symposium Concert is a culmination of conducting, score study, and wind band teaching. Participants will conduct the Wind Ensemble and University Community Band in concert after two days of study under Dr. Thomas Gamboa, Director of Bands at UW-Milwaukee; Dr. Scott Corley, Associate Director of Bands at UW-Milwaukee; and guest clinician Michael Haithcock, Professor Emeritus from the University of Michigan.

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