Experience an engaging, soothing and inspiring chamber music evening. Crafted around the epic Piano Quartet No. 1 by Johannes Brahms this program features works which offer meditative and vibrant moods.
The UWM Percussion Area hosts World Percussion Night in the beautiful Jan Serr Studio, featuring special guest Bembe Drum and Dance alongside the UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band and other student ensembles. Audiences will love the upbeat, exciting energy of Brazilian Samba, Puerto Rican Bomba, and West African drumming in addition to traditional and arranged music for Trinidadian steel pans performed by UWM students and faculty with vibrant community ensembles.
Join the flagship UWM Concert Chorale and several guest area high school choirs for an exciting evening of choral music!
Join UWM's Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for their first performance of spring semester!
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is a sparkling romantic comedy filled with mistaken identities, mischievous schemes, and heartfelt confessions where each twist of fate brings another burst of laughter. When Viola is separated from her twin Sebastian, she disguises herself as a young man to survive—only to find herself entangled in a whirlwind of unrequited love, playful deception, and unexpected joy! You will not want to miss this beloved tale.
Soumya Netrabile is a Chicago-based painter who has exhibited at Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles), Rachel Uffner (NYC), Trinta Gallery (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Indigo + Madder (London), and Karma (NYC). Her forthcoming solo exhibition will take place at Anat Ebgi in New York.
Join us for an evening of jazz featuring the UWM Jazz Ensemble, the UWM Afro-Caribbean Jazz Orchestra and the UWM Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY).
The Khemia Ensemble will perform a dynamic program featuring all new dynamic works including the Wisconsin premiere of Dr. Phillip Sink’s, Bite!
Witness the culmination of years of artistic development and intensive research as Master of Fine Arts graduate students unveil their captivating works.
The Department of Bands is hosting the UWM High School Concert Band Festival. This event will include performances of high school bands and to showcase their hard work as student musicians. Concert bands will have the opportunity to perform in UWM's Bader Hall, receive feedback from wind band experts, and work with a clinician after their performance. We hope you join us for this festival of concert bands!
Join the UWM Department of Bands for our concert as part of the High School Concert Band Festival Weekend!
UWM’s Pop Ensemble returns to the Recital Hall in the spring with a polished, high-energy concert. You’ll hear new repertoire, see how much the students have grown, and enjoy a full show with live band and great sound.
Enter a wild aviary asylum, which boldly juxtaposes avant-garde music theater, Baroque opera, and 1960s surf rock!
Cappy Counard creates jewelry and sculptural objects that explores the notions of work, care, storytelling and repair in the objects she makes. Counard is a Professor of Jewelry and Metals at Edinboro University and has taught workshops in universities across the country as well as at Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Peter’s Valley School of Craft and Touchstone Center for Crafts.
The UWM Piano Recital Series presents the Varshavski and Shapiro Piano duo. Program TBD closer to the date of performance.
This exhibition is an opportunity for first year students to showcase work created during a time of significant artistic and personal development.
UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend performs with Chicago based KAIA String Quartet presenting a program of chamber music. The program will feature Dvorak's "American" String Quartet and Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in G Minor.
Bridget Conn is an Indiana-based photographic artist who investigates photography as both a chemical and physical medium through camera-less and experimental processes. Addressing themes of societal struggle, awe, miscommunication, digital versus tactile experience, and the value of embracing mistakes, she expands the boundaries of the medium through prints, installations, and sculptural works.
UWM’s spring opera production brings a fully staged work to Bader Hall at the Zelazo Center, featuring our singers alongside the UWM Symphony Orchestra. With full sets, costumes, and live orchestral accompaniment, this production offers a complete operatic experience, combining music, drama, and collaboration on a larger stage. It’s a highlight of the season and a chance to see the full scope of what our students create together.
Delve into the captivating work by Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Sculpture, Photography, and Digital Fabrication & Design students and discover the intricate beauty and craftsmanship of this timeless art form.