First Year Fall Musical Theatre Showcase
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Showcase of songs from the musical theatre canon performed by first year music theatre students.
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Events
Kevin Loh Classical Guitar Recital
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIUW-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
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, WIJoin the combined UWM choirs and symphony orchestra for performances of four major works exploring the changeable and unchangeable.
Lights, Camera, Action! A Day in the Life of Film & Animation Majors
Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIAre you a high school student with a passion for film or animation? Whether you’re already experimenting with movie making and animating or you’re simply a curious film or animation buff, we’re hosting an exciting event that provides a glimpse inside of our Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres! Join us for a series of hands-on workshops for a taste of what it feels like to get creative at the Peck School of the Arts.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Fatima Laster
Virtual
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
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, WIThe 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.
Contemporary Craft Exhibition and Sale
Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIThe 2023 Contemporary Craft Exhibition and Sale features handmade student work from across many disciplines within the Peck School of the Arts, including Jewelry & Metalsmithing, Ceramics, Photography, Digital Fabrication, and Design & Visual Communication.
UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
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
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
Hybrid Event
The UWM Piano Studio will present a recital of solo and chamber music.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Annika Pettersson
Virtual
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
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, WIThe 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, WIThe 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
Hybrid Event
Join us for a variety program of chamber wind music as well as traditional and contemporary works for full band ensembles.
Opera Scenes Performance
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join UWM's Opera Workshop for a performance of opera scenes featuring talented UWM singers in a variety of roles.
UWM Percussion Ensemble
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual fall concert featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from the past 25 years. The program will include recent works by Emma O’Halloran, Jason Treuting, Annika Socolofsky, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ellen Reid. Other works will include Takayoshi Yoshioka’s “Square Dance,” Nigel Westlake’s “Moving Air,” and Emmanuel Séjourné’s “Akadinda Trio.”
University Community Orchestra Fall Concert
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM University Community Orchestra presents their annual fall concert. Our group of a 130+ musicians will present an eclectic mix of full orchestra selections.
University-Community Band Winter Concert
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM University-Community Band performs a concert to cap-off the Fall semester!
Macbeth
Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe UWM Theatre Department's second stop on their journey across the mysterious moors of Britain takes us to Scotland with Shakespeare's dark masterpiece and gothic love story gone awry, Macbeth. Combining elements of a ghost story, a horror movie, and a revenge tragedy, this Western Art landmark invokes the supernatural and the deeply psychological as it navigates the collapse of a power couple's souls into darkness, ravaged by the malignant rot of the ultimate sin of murder. Highly theatrical, hard-hitting, and fast-paced, this production showcases some of Shakespeare's most stunning poetry and a love story for the ages – the dark ages.
BA/BFA Fall Exhibition
Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIJoin the Department of Art & Design in celebrating the incredibly talented BA and BFA graduating class of Fall 2023.
Popular Music Ensemble
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Popular Music Ensemble will perform music from the Pop/Rock/Folk genres. You will hear songs from the 1950's to the present day. Students work in small groups to create a unique take on each song, learning how to collaborate and bring something new to the audience.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Mary Tremonte
Virtual
Virtual Event
An artist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh, Tremonte is a member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative. She works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples such as queer scout badges.
UWM Steel PANthers Steel Band & University Community World Music Ensemble
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
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.
UWM Symphony Orchestra with Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe UWM Symphony Orchestra presents a concert featuring Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, a viola professor who will perform a recently discovered Viola Concerto by J.S. Bach with harpsichordist David Schrader. Under the baton of Jun Kim, the orchestra will perform Haydn's final Symphony No. 104, the crowning of all of Haydn's symphonic works, also known as "London", and the Eight miniature pieces by Stravinsky.
Sounds of the Season Choral Concert
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join UWM's Concert Chorale, Bella Voce, Kameraden, Alta Voce, and Kameraden Plus choirs for the final concert of the semester. Enjoy a fun and varied evening of choral music!
UWAY Concert- Holiday Traditions
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
The UWM Youth Wind & Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) presents a concert featuring music that we have traditionally performed during our December performance!
Cellists of the MSO
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WICellists Lynn Kabat, Peter Thomas, and Adrien Zitoun join Stefan Kartman and Jeannie Yu for an evening of beautiful cello music including works by Poulenc, Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, Klengel, and others.
Jazz Concert
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIThe 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.
Classical Guitar Solo concert
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
End of the semester Classical Guitar Solo Concert.
African, Salsa/Merengue, and Hip Hop
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThis end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
New Music Ensemble Concert
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIThe 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.
UW-MESS Interactive Electronic Music Showcase
Music Building, Electronic Music Studios B60 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIStudents 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!
Suzuki & Pre-College Guitar Student Concert
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join Suzuki and Pre-College Guitar Students for their Winter Concert.
Vocal Arts Festival
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIThe Vocal Arts Festival provides an opportunity for talented singers to interact with, perform for, and join their voices with peers from around the region as they learn and grow as both soloists and choral artists. The festival also includes the UWM Vocal Showcase Recital and the Final Concert with UWM Concert Chorale.
Vocal Showcase Recital
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
Join us for a recital featuring a wide variety of UWM's outstanding undergraduate voice majors singing pieces from a variety of styles and genres. The recital is presented as part of the UWM Vocal Arts Festival but is free and open to the public.
Vocal Arts Festival Final Concert
Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Bader Hall 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event
This final performance of the Vocal Arts Festival features the UWM Concert Chorale and the VAF Festival Choir of 120 of the finest high school singers from around Wisconsin and Illinois.
Percussion guest artist Dr. Michael Vercelli
Music Building, Recital Hall 175 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIPercussion guest artist Dr. Michael Vercelli will be presenting a lecture and performance on the Ghanaian gyil, a 14-note xylophone from West Africa.