For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Feb. 1: Chiara String Quartet: "Premiered and Loved." 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults, $10 seniors and $5 students. For advance ticket sales, contact the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747. Series tickets are also available. This program features the world premiere of a stunning new quartet by Rome Prize-winner Pierre Jalbert (commissioned for the Chiara String Quartet by the Glenn Korff School of Music), as well as a reprise of another audience-favorite Chiara commission, String Quartet No. 2 by Los Angeles-based composer Jefferson Friedman.
• Feb. 2: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Allison Grant. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Photographer Grant is a Chicago-based artist, educator and curator. She received an M.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 2009 and a B.F.A. from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2004.
• Feb. 2: Jamie Reimer, Assistant Professor of Voice. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Feb. 3: Faculty Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The performance will include guest artist Jerry Bergonzi. Thanks to the support of Chateau Development, L.L.C., Bergonzi will be participating in a clinic on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. The clinic is free and open to the public.
• Feb. 3-10: "Crosswise Arrangements" exhibition at Parallel Visions, 1410 O St., 2nd Floor. As February is African American History Month, this exhibition features the work of Sculptor and alumnus Nathan Murray (B.F.A. 2009) and 2nd year graduate student in Photography Zora J. Murff. An artist talk and closing reception will be held on Feb. 10 from 6-9 p.m. with the talk starting at 7 p.m.
• Feb. 7: Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• Feb. 11: Double Reed Day. All day. Westbrook Music Building. Registration is required. Deadline: Feb. 6. Visit http://go.unl.edu/2fof for more information.
• Feb. 11: Midwest ClariFest. All day. Westbrook Music Building. Registration is required. Deadline: Feb. 1. Visit http://go.unl.edu/s8qy for more information.
• Feb. 13: Paul Haar, Associate Professor of Saxophone and Director of Jazz Studies. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• Feb. 16: Concordia String Trio. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. This performance will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link. Karen Becker is Professor of Cello in the Glenn Korff School of Music, principal cellist of Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra and director of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln/Lincoln Public Schools String Project. She is joined by Marcia Henry Liebenow on violin and Leslie Perna on viola.
• Feb. 17-18: Glenn Korff School of Music Graduate Audition Days. For more information and to register, please visit http://go.unl.edu/6bwz.
• Feb. 18-19: Theatrix presents "Leaving Lundso's: An Evening of Comedy. Feb. 18 at 7:30 and 10 p.m. and Feb. 19 at 2 and 4 p.m. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of the Temple Building. Join us for a night filled with student-written comedy sketches and some clowning around. Tickets: $7 available one hour prior to the show at the door or in advance at http://go.unl.edu/theatretix.
• Feb. 24-25: Glenn Korff School of Music Undergraduate Audition Days. For more information and to register, please visit http://go.unl.edu/gyrd.
• Feb. 24-25: Honors Spring Strings. Lied Center Commons. All day. Registration is required. Deadline: Feb. 12. Visit http://go.unl.edu/nrvb for more information.
• Feb. 24-26: Opera: "Far from Heaven" by Scott Frankel. Performances at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 24-25 and 3 p.m. on Feb. 26. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults and $10 students/seniors. For advance ticket sales, contact the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747. "Far from Heaven" is an operatic musical, which transports us to 1957 to meet the Whitakers, a nearly perfect young couple with a beautiful home in the suburbs and two young children. They are living the American dream, or so it seems. Issues desperately hidden in the 1950s still surface today. These issues cause the couple’s life to unravel as they try to hold the seams of their dream together. A sumptuous score by Frankel sets the couple’s life to music ranging from moments of lighthearted charm to heart-melting passion. You may not yet be familiar with this story, but you will never forget it.