UWM String Academy Halloween Concert

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Hybrid Event

Come see the incredible students of the UW-Milwaukee String Academy (ages 3-18) perform a festive Halloween program. There will be costumes, tricks, and treats. 🎃 Free admission, no tickets required.

UWAY Concert: Chamber Music & Friends

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

The UWM Youth Wind & Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) opens the 2023-24 season with a program of music for smaller groups and meaningful music experiences. The Moraine Symphonic Band from UWM-Washington County will also perform on this concert, and the ensembles will combine for a Sousa march finale!

The Moors

Kenilworth Square East, Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

On the desolate English moors, two sisters and a dog pass their days dreaming of love and power. However, when a hapless governess and a moor-hen appear, the trio's lives take a strange and dangerous turn. A new contemporary classic sweeping stages across the country, The Moors is a wild, romantic, vicious and frighteningly funny black comedy that pitches camp in the dark romantic world of 1840s England, then increasingly blows that world apart in a genre-busting mix of Gothic revenge, existential philosophy and quantum physics.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Rafael Francisco Salas

Virtual or Hybrid
Virtual Event Virtual Event

A Wisconsin-based artist and educator, Salas blends landscape, portraiture, architecture, and country music into artwork evoking a strange, rural poetry. He holds board positions with the Wisconsin Arts Board, Museum of Wisconsin Art, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

20th Annual Double Reed Day

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The 20th annual Double Reed Day will include a performance with double reed guest artists and UW-Milwaukee oboe and bassoon faculty, lectures and masterclasses, reed-making guidance, and opportunities to explore and shop the vendors from across the United States.

First Year Fall Musical Theatre Showcase

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Showcase of songs from the musical theatre canon performed by first year music theatre students.

Kevin Loh Classical Guitar Recital

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

UW-Milwaukee Classical Guitar Master's student Kevin Loh will give a solo recital featuring works by Bach, Tedesco, Brouwer, Berkeley, and Regondi among others. This recital is in preparation for the "66th Tokyo International Guitar Competition" happening in late November.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Allison Grant

Virtual or Hybrid
Virtual Event Virtual Event

An artist, writer, curator, and educator, Grant’s artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in collections across the country. She has won numerous awards and grants, including being named on the Silver Eye Center for Photography’s 2022 Silver List.

Masterworks Concert: “The More Things Change…”

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

Join the combined UWM choirs and symphony orchestra for performances of four major works exploring the changeable and unchangeable.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Fatima Laster

Virtual or Hybrid
Virtual Event Virtual Event

A self-taught interdisciplinary visual artist, curator and gallery owner-operator, Fatima Laster (2023 Mary L. Nohl Emerging Artist Fellow) broaches social-political subject matter from a Black American vantage point. Her goal is to produce resistance art imbued with humor or irony to disarmingly reveal rejected or overlooked perspectives and people.

Premieres of New Music

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The Composition & Technology program will present a concert of original works by UWM students. The program will include freshly composed pieces for acoustic and electronic mediums.

Middle School Honors Band Festival

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

The UWM Middle School Honors Band Festival is one of the longest standing events of its kind. Our festival provides the region’s most motivated and accomplished middle school instrumentalists an opportunity to work with each other and with regionally and nationally recognized wind band conductors. In addition, students interact with UWM performance staff and experience performances by UWM ensembles.

UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band

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

The UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band will perform a shared concert during the annual UWM Middle School Honors Band Festival weekend. The concert is open to all of our supporters, and is free for the participating festival students and one parent/guardian. The program will be a showcase of our outstanding UWM Bands!

Faculty Violin & Piano Recital

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Join UWM piano faculty Elena Abend and Kaia String Quartet (DePaul University) violinist Victoria Moreira, in an evening of music for violin and piano. The program will include the monumental Franck sonata.

UWM Piano Studio Recital

Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

The UWM Piano Studio will present a recital of solo and chamber music.

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Annika Pettersson

Virtual or Hybrid
Virtual Event Virtual Event

As a Swedish jeweler with intimate material knowledge, Pettersson identifies and isolates preciousness. This is done not with the tense precision of a goldsmith, but rather with the gut reaction of a laborer. Her contemporary explorations embody the sublime and transcendent nature of jewelry.

Wild Space Dance Company Presents: Look Again

Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI
Virtual Event Hybrid Event

Look Again takes the audience through a journey of shifting perspectives, bouncing from gameplay to memories moving the body and internal rhythms that bind us together.  Hindsight, desires, and past dances are source material for an evening of new works as we look again at what moves us.

Saxophone Studio Recital

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The UW-Milwaukee Saxophone Studio presents an evening of chamber music featuring our saxophone quartets and saxophone ensemble.

Musical Theatre Capstone Recital

Kenilworth Square East, Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

The Musical Theatre Capstone Recital is a variety showcase of upper-level musical theatre majors.

Chamber Wind Music & UWM Bands

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

Join us for a variety program of chamber wind music as well as traditional and contemporary works for full band ensembles.