For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Jan. 24: Flyover New Music Series. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. Tonight's concert is titled "Inner Voices." It is a celebration of voices in all their forms, including the human voice – this concert features four new compositions for chorus, alongside premieres of pieces for ensembles from all across the spectrum. Like all Flyover concerts, it is only possible through the fearless contributions of not just our composers, but the performers who tackle and stand behind new music for its first hearing, and the audience which creates an environment in which these voices can be heard. The Flyover New Music Series is the new music series from the composition studio at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. The series is administered and overseen by composition faculty and students.
• Jan. 25: Closing Reception for the Faculty Exhibition. 5-7 p.m. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. See the work of faculty in the School of Art, Art History & Design on display through Jan. 25 in the gallery.
• Jan. 29: Guest Artist: Mi-jung Im, piano. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. South Korean pianist Mi-jung Im (DMA) will give a piano recital with two works by North Korean composers - "Fly high, white dove" and "Arirang" along with piano sonata K.331 in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the 2nd piano sonata in b flat minor by Frederic Chopin. Arirang is a traditional Korean folk tune where the orchestral version was performed by the New York Philharmonic during their 2008 tour in North Korea. Mi-jung has been devoted to South and North Korea reunification movement and this will be a rare opportunity to hear the works of North Korean composers. Currently she serves as the dean and professor in the music department at Hansei University in Korea.
• Jan. 31: Faculty Recital: John Bailey, flute, and Christopher Marks, piano. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Bailey and Marks present a recital titled "Old Favorites," which includes works by Mozart, Roussel, Blumer and Muczysnski. Bailey is Richard H. Larson Distinguished Professor of Music and a member of the Moran Woodwind Quintet, resident faculty quintet at the Glenn Korff School of Music. Organist Marks is a professor in the Glenn Korff School of Music at Nebraska, where he also serves as associate dean of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and interim director of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.
• Feb. 2: Double Reed Day. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. Featuring masterclasses and sessions with Glenn Korff School of Music professors William McMullen, oboe, and Jeffrey McCray, bassoon, as well as guest artists Andrea Hixon, oboe, from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and Christin Schillinger, bassoon, from Ithaca College in New York. For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/er4z.
• Feb. 3: Kevin Hanrahan, tenior, and guest artist Diana Blom, piano, and friends. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. The program is titled "New Art Song of the Pacific Rim" and contains songs from composers in five countries around the Pacific Rim—Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, U.S.A. and Japan. The program of new art song explores the settings of poetry and letters written over several centuries.
• Feb. 4-15: Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. The exhibition features the work of outstanding undergraduate students in the School of Art, Art History & Design.
• Feb. 5: Guest artist: Andy Harnsberger, percussion. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Praised by Percussive Notes Journal as “A Master of Musical Nuance,” Harnsberger, associate professor of music and percussion coordinator at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, enjoys a versatile career as a performer, composer, and educator.
• Feb. 6: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Andrea Modica, photography. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Modica is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and a Knight Award recipient. Her extensive exhibition record includes solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Her photographs are part of the permanent collections of numerous institutions and she lives in Philadelphia where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University and the International Center of Photography.
• Feb. 8-9: Center Stage Stage Reading Festival. 7:30 p.m. each night in the Lab Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Theatrix and Nebraska Masquers. The festival will include five 10-minute plays.
• Feb. 8-9: Graduate Audition Days for Glenn Korff School of Music. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/s75o.
• Feb. 13: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist: Shannon Brock, printmaking. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Papermaker and artist Brock is art director of Carriage House Paper, founder of Gaptoothed Studio in Brooklyn, New York, and president and skater for Gotham Girls Roller Derby. She formed her first sheet of paper in 1990 and has spent the past 28 years developing her techniques and finding new ways to manipulate plant fibers. She has taught papermaking throughout the U.S. and Australia and her pulp paintings and sculptural work are exhibited nationally and internationally.
• Feb. 13-24: Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents "Dutchman." For performance times and ticket information, visit http://nebraskarep.org/dutchman. Preview performances are on Feb. 13-14. By LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. Guest directed by Ron Himes, the founder and producing director of the Saint Louis Black Repertory Company, which has developed a national reputation for staging quality productions from an African-American perspective. A conversation on a subway turns vicious as Dutchman’s two passengers, a white woman and a young black man, flirt with race and rage.
• Feb. 18: Concordia String Trio Performance. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public. The Concordia String Trio is cellist Karen Becker, professor of cello in the Glenn Korff School of Music and principal cellist of the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra; violinist Marcia Henry Liebenow, Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and faculty member at Bradley University; and violist Leslie Perna, professor of viola and member of the Esterhazy Quartet at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
• Feb. 22 & 24: University Opera: "The Tender Land" by Aaron Copland. Performances are 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 22 and 3 p.m. on Feb. 24. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $20 adults and $10 students and seniors, available in advance through the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or at the door. Copland’s quintessential American opera resonates with a musical language born out of our great mid-western landscapes. Taking place in a Depression era rural community, this tune-filled opera depicts the life of a young girl, her family, and two migrant workers in a coming of age story sure to tug at your heartstrings.
• Feb. 22-23: Undergraduate Audition Days Glenn Korff School of Music. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. For more information, visit https://go.unl.edu/ygxj.
• Feb. 22-23: Honors Spring Strings. Lied Center for Performing Arts. The 8th Annual Honors Spring Strings is for high school freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Students will work directly with the University of Nebraska’s faculty and a special guest conductor, Maestro Ian Passmore, who is assistant conductor of the Omaha Symphony. Advanced students who have participated in either an All State or Youth Symphony Orchestra Students are welcome to register directly. As a director or teacher, you may also choose to nominate a student. The link to register is here: https://goo.gl/qf0cBj.
• Feb. 26: University Singers & All-Collegiate Choir Performance. 7:30 p.m. Westminister Presbyterian, 2110 Sheridan Blvd. in Lincoln. Free and open to the public. University Singers, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s premiere and historic flagship choral ensemble under the direction of Peter Eklund, presents the finest and most versatile choral singers in the entire University. All-Collegiate Choir, directed by Marques L. A. Garrett, is comprised of University of Nebraska–Lincoln students as well as singers from the Lincoln area.
• Feb. 27: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Virgil Ortiz, ceramics. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. One of the most innovative potters of his time, Ortiz moves Pueblo pottery into a new era combining art, décor, fashion, video, and film. Ortiz keeps Cochiti pottery traditions alive, but transforms them into a contemporary vision that embraces his Pueblo history and culture and merges it with apocalyptic themes, science fiction, and his own storytelling. Ortiz’s exquisite works have been exhibited in museum collections around the world.