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.
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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, WIJoin 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.
An Evening with Rhayne Vermette and Inney Prakash
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIRhayne 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.
Present Music Presents: Cello Cello
Kenilworth Square East, Jan Serr Studio 2155 N. Prospect Ave, Milwaukee, WIThis 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!
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Oliver Ressler
Virtual or Hybrid
Virtual Event
An Austrian-based artist and filmmaker, Ressler produces installations, public projects, and films on economics, democracy, migration, the climate crisis, forms of resistance and social alternatives. He has exhibited internationally and has completed forty-one films that are screened widely.
Film Faculty & Staff Screenings
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIGet 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.
Fiber//Form 2024
Kenilworth Square East, 3rd Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIExhibition of selected pieces from Fibers courses in the Department of Art & Design with an opening reception on Friday, February 2 from 5-7 p.m.
High School Winterdances Matinee & Talkback
Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WIPresenting a special matinee performance of Winterdances 2024 for high school groups and high school students. This show features world premiere dance works, where artists present their newest ideas made with their casts and collaborators.
Dance High School Workshop Day
Mitchell Hall, Studio 254 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WIHigh School Workshop Day is the best way for high school groups and classes to learn from our internationally known faculty. This event is great for those curious and interested in becoming a dance major at UW-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts. High school groups, High School dance programs, and individuals (accompanied by a chaperone) are welcome to register.
Experimental Tuesdays: to sense, to animate, to enliven
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WILetting 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.
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Mo Zell
Virtual or Hybrid
Virtual Event
An award-winning architect, educator and author, Zell’s transformative programs connect art, architecture, and community engagement. With notable research, she fosters design thinking and creativity in both architectural practice and education. She holds degrees from University of Virginia and Yale.
Resonance (Jasmine Uras Dance MFA Thesis)
Kenilworth Square East, Kenilworth Five-0-Eight 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WIResonance 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?
Music Department Student Recitals
Virtual or Hybrid
Hybrid Event
Students showcase musical technique and skill, while audience members enjoy expert performances by Milwaukee’s emerging musicians. Recitals are streaming, free and open to the public.