The 18-member UWM Jazz Ensemble performs music written or arranged specifically for a large jazz orchestra. The repertoire includes music from Duke Ellington and Count Basie as well as contemporary composers such as Maria Schneider, Tom Matta and Bob Mintzer.
End of the semester Classical Guitar Solo Concert.
This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
The New Music Ensemble will perform works by contemporary and living composers. This eclectic musical group will also perform compositions for chamber ensembles and large ensembles mixing winds, brass, and percussion. Featured pieces are by student composers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Students enrolled in Interactive Electronic Music, representing UW-MESS (UWM Electroacoustic Sound Studios), will showcase their final projects in a concert featuring all-new works of interactive electronic music!
Join Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Students for their Winter Concert.
Join us for a recital featuring performances by UWM solo voice students performing in a variety of styles. The recital is presented as part of the Vocal Arts Festival but is free and open to the public.
The final concert of the 2025 Vocal Arts Festival. The performance will feature UWM's flagship Concert Chorale and the VAF Festival Choir comprising 100 skilled high school singers from around Wisconsin and Illinois.
Percussion guest artist Dr. Michael Vercelli will be presenting a lecture and performance on the Ghanaian gyil, a 14-note xylophone from West Africa.
Rhayne Vermette was born in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba. It was while studying architecture at the University of Manitoba, that she fell into the practices of image making and storytelling. Primarily self taught, Rhayne’s films are opulent collages of fiction, animation, documentary, reenactments and divine interruption. Ste. Anne is her first feature narrative. Inney Prakash is a film curator based in New York City. He is a Cinema Programmer at Maysles Documentary Center, Curatorial Lead for the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and Founder/Director of Prismatic Ground, a NY festival centered on experimental documentary and avant-garde film.
This concert features two World Premieres. 'Cellist and composer Paul Wiancko of the prestigious Kronos Quartet has written a brand new work for Present Music, and will perform some of his other compositions, including American Haiku, When the Night, and Closed Universe. Pamela Z performs her solo works for voice and an array of electronics, and contributes another World Premiere to the program, Raise, a stirring tribute to the people who raised us, written for 'cellist Nick Photinos (founding member of 8th Blackbird) and three additional cellists, plus voice samples and multi-media. Is the plural of cello "cellos" or "celli"? We say Cello Cello!
Get to know the creative work of the Film, Video, Animation & New Genres faculty and staff at this all-star screening. Expect drama, documentary, experimentation, comedy, appropriation, and the unexpected. Many of the artists, your teachers, will be in attendance.
Letting etymology lead, this program brings together works of animation as a kind of animating spirit: films that expand beyond the frame and films that sense and are sense. As an archival activation, we ask the films what they’ve been dreaming about in their hibernation and ask an audience to meet and mingle.
Resonance is a multi-sensory exploration of how we experience sound throughout the course of our lives within texture, color and embodiment. Choreographer Jasmine Uras in collaboration with Emma Becker, Ashley Ray Garcia, Allison Haase, Kalista Roling, Libby Steckmesser, and Katie Speltz display how every movement is a reverberation of emotion, rhythm, and connection. How do we get from hear to there?
Join us for an evening with Selina Trepp who will be in attendance at the screening.
The UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band will perform on respective halves of this concert.
Miscast is a style of musical theatre cabaret that leans into the comedy of playing outside of one’s preconceived “type.” Think of “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago performed by square-dancing country singers. Come join in the fun as the UWM Theatre students play against their “type”!
The talented first and second year voice majors present a recital of music from a wide variety of styles and genres.
We are thrilled to announce that the UW-Milwaukee Voice Program will be hosting our esteemed artist-in-residence, Melissa Foster, for two full days. As a renowned figure in the commercial music industry, Foster will be conducting a series of engaging events including lectures, clinics, and masterclasses. Her expertise spans across various genres such as Rock, R&B, Motown, Disco, and Rap, providing invaluable insights into these dynamic fields.
UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts is pleased to announce the 2023-24 Marculescu-Stern Scholarship Competition for voice students. The scholarship endowment was established through a gift to the UWM Foundation to honor the memory of Yolanda Marculescu-Stern, and the intentions of Sandu Stern, to support programming and scholarships, especially those in vocal arts.
