One-Act Operas | Suor Angelica and Curlew River
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIJoin us for UWM's Spring Opera Production featuring a double bill of one-act operas!
Join us for UWM's Spring Opera Production featuring a double bill of one-act operas!
Steel pan ensembles and individual performers from around Wisconsin and Illinois will come together to form the 2024 MKE Mass Steel Band, hosted by the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band. Involving over fifty performers, the event will fill the stage with steel pans and feature a lively combination of traditional music and pop transcriptions.
Join the UWM piano studio for an evening of solo and chamber music.
Department of Dance Student Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) Lia Smith-Redmann, Libby Steckmesser, and Rae Zimmerli collaborate with faculty mentor Maria Gillespie to present an informal showing of their choreographic research. Moving Between Tongues developed from choreographic research exploring meaning making in the pre and post lingual forms of dance. The dancers share the products of their aesthetic practice as a nexus in which auto-ethnography, embodied storytelling, and interdisciplinary performance practice reveal how translation is an embodied and ongoing practice.
Join us for a collection of Jazz performances featuring Mitch Towne on Jazz Organ.
Chamber Music Milwaukee will present Across the Grain, a program of works that explore the sound possibilities for bassoon and percussion. All pieces on the program are contemporary and have been written within the last 15 years.
DatesLocationApril 16, 2024 (7–9 p.m.)UWM Union Cinema Join us for an evening of short films by Parastoo Anoushahpour and stay for a Q&A after the screening. Anoushahpour is an Iranian artist based in Toronto with a moving image practice working …
The prestigious Fine Arts Quartet, Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violins, Gil Sharon, viola, and Niklas Schmidt, cello will offer a FREE concert featuring concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. There will be no pre-talk for this event as works will be introduced during the concert.
Bold, funny, moving, provocative, original and fresh! View the world we’re living in today through the eyes of some of the newest emerging voices in the American Theatre. The premiere of what will be an ongoing feature of the Theatre Department season, this New Dramaworks series celebrates a collection of original, short dramatic work by UWM students and others that stimulates the imagination and prompts deep conversations.
Bringing together architects, landscape architects, theorists, activists/organizers, artists, and students across a series of panels, dinners, workshops, and screenings hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Viewsheds will be presented in conjunction with the Site Unseen exhibition and the “territorial” scale studio in SARUP’s new core studio sequence, framing the importance of new, speculative aesthetics within emerging pedagogies and practices, particularly as architecture schools around North America increasingly contend with the climate crisis within their curricula.
AYDO is a collaborative duo based in New York. They have both exhibited extensively throughout the world, including the Museum of Art and Design, Christie’s Inc, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Time Square Space, the Jewish Museum, and the Smithsonian.
Join UWM Faculty Nicki Roman and Elena Abend for an evening of chamber music for saxophone and piano.
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 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.
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 Symphony Band 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, Col. Jason K. Fettig, Director of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band and Chamber Orchestra and Director of Bands Designate at the University of Michigan.
Please join the UWM University Community Orchestra as they present their annual Spring concert. Our concert starts at 3pm and will feature the UCO Concert Chorale as well as the orchestra.
The UWM Concert Chorale travels to Sheboygan! Join us for an afternoon of choral music at First Congregational Church in Sheboygan.
Once Upon a Mattress, a comic masterpiece based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, propelled Carol Burnett to stardom as Winnifred the Woebegone, a simple swamp princess hoping to win the hand of the prince despite all odds. This hilariously wacky romp is filled with witty, charming, and wonderfully romantic songs and dance numbers composed by Mary Rodgers. It serves as a delightful bookend to a season that began with a neglected gem by her father, Richard Rodgers.
McConville is an artist, designer, and programmer who applies design thinking methodologies to build digital and physical experiences. Skadson is a Navy veteran and educator-turned-artist who uncovered his ancestral Punjabi roots during a backpacking adventure through Nepal and India.
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For two decades we have been programming filmmakers that defy convention in an attempt to amplify unheard voices. Our festival celebrates the potential of cinema to imbue a community with excitement, critical discussion, and open-mindedness through the presentation of new artistic forms.
The UWM Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band will share a concert that celebrates the end of the academic year and feature a performance of the winning entry from the UWM Bands annual Concerto Competition.
Join us for a delightful afternoon at the UWM Peck School of the Arts Recital Hall, where the String Academy of Wisconsin will present its Spring Concert. This event showcases the talents of young violinists and violists, ages 4 to 18, who have been working diligently all semester. Admission is free, and no tickets are required, offering a great opportunity for the community to enjoy the musical accomplishments of these dedicated young performers.
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual spring concert featuring a combination of historically significant works with recent, cutting-edge compositions. The program will include Juri Seo’s “VV” and Andy Akiho’s “Pillar 1” alongside John Cage’s “Living Room Music,” Alan Hovhaness’ “October Mountain,” and Lynn Glassock’s “No Exit.” This concert will also feature the return of the UWM Marimba Band, which has been on hiatus since the pandemic shutdown.
University Community String Orchestra (UCSO) is proud to preset it's inaugural concert! Tonight's program will consist of works from Corelli, Resphigi, Grainger and Mozart. Please join us and support our very first combined student and community member string ensemble.
The UWM University-Community Band wraps up its year with a Spring Concert featuring a number of musical styles and traditions.
This screening will serve as a prelude to Kevin Jerome Everson’s on-campus visit the following Friday and Saturday. The program will feature two medium-length films, Ten Five in the Grass and Company Line, as well as one short film, Undefeated.
Classical Guitar end of the semester Chamber Music concert.
As a resident designer and frame builder at Waterford Precision Cycles, Meier created internationally renowned and award-winning bicycle frames. A Wisconsin-based artist and educator, she has taught jewelry and metalsmithing at many universities and exhibits her work nationally and internationally.
The UW-Milwaukee Saxophone Studio presents an evening of chamber music featuring our saxophone quartets and saxophone ensemble.
Springdances 2024 presents an evening of premieres from guest artist Vershawn Sanders Ward, artistic director of Chicago-based Red Clay Dance Company and Dance faculty choreographers Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, and Rich Ashworth. Join us in an evening that dances with the elemental forces of nature, ancestry, hope, and tenderness.
This exciting night of music will feature music from Guatemala and Trinidad and Tobago performed by UWM students and Milwaukee community members. The UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and the new University Community World Music Ensemble will join forces on a program highlighting traditional and arranged music played on Guatemalan marimba doble and Trinidadian steel pans.
Any conversation about the most important artists and experimental filmmakers working over the past quarter century would be incomplete without the name Kevin Jerome Everson. His distinctive and singularly nuanced work blends documentary and fiction to articulate the profound within the ordinariness of everyday life. Kevin will be present to introduce and discuss a collection of his short works, ranging primarily from 2022-2024.
The UWM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Jun Kim, concludes its season with Beethoven's Triple Concerto, featuring violinist Bernard Zinck, cellist Adrien Zitoun, and pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer. The concert also features Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughn Williams, a beautiful, powerful, and hopeful work by one of England’s greatest composers.
Immerse yourself in creativity when Peck School of the Arts student and faculty artists open their studios to the public. From exhibitions and studio visits to live performances and family-friendly art activities, you’ll find something to excite you at Kenilworth Open Studios.
Join the 2024 Design & Visual Communication BFA Students in an interactive exhibition of their Capstone Thesis projects.
Join UWM's five choral ensembles for a thrilling evening of music in their final concert of the year.
Lago Gatún, Kevin Jerome Everson’s 2021 feature, is an entrancing journey north through the Panama Canal—a juncture of commerce between two vast oceans. Abstract and spare, the film’s meditative play with light and shadow opens up reflection on the colonial trade histories that lie below the surface. (MoMA)
Join Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Students for their Spring Concert.
The UWM Youth Wind & Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) will perform a concert to celebrate UWAY graduates, feature our annual UWAY Concert Competition Winner, and wrap-up the concert season!
This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
UWM piano faculty Elena Abend is joined by the KAIA String Quartet (DePaul University) performing music by women composers.