Past Events

Repertoire Edgard Varèse: Offrandes (1921)Tōru Takemitsu: Rain Coming (1982)Hildur Guðnadóttir: From the other place (2014)George Lewis: The Deformation of Mastery (2022) George Lewis’s appe...Read more

Repertoire Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72bAbels: Global Warming (1990) Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943) About the Conductor Now in her ...Read more

Andrew Goldman, “Neuroscience in Music Research: Critical Challenges and Contributions”

“Perpetual Motion” | Featuring student conductor Tess Jones

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via IUMusicLive! About the Director Composer/arranger, bandleader, and former trombonist Brent Wallarab is David N. Baker Professor i...Read more

Presented by the Historical Performance Institute

“Potpourri” | Student Recital – Wade FitzGerald, carillon

Presented by the Historical Performance Institute

Jacobs Mainstage Season

Repertoire Reinecke: Sonata in E Minor (“Undine”), Op. 167Busoni: Elegie in E-Flat Major, BV 286Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Sonata, Op. 128 About the Faculty Artist Hungarian-born clarinetist G�...Read more

Presented by Meredith Michael | Jacobs Mainstage Season

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of music in a stunning and timeless setting.

Repertoire Palestrina: Selections from “Motecta festorum” Howells: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks Schütz: Musikalische Exequien, SWVv 279-81

“Claude Debussy: The Complete 24 Préludes”

Jacobs Mainstage Season

Presented by WFIU and the Jacobs School of Music

Presented by Meredith Michael | Jacobs Mainstage Season

Join us for an evening of Bomba, an Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance tradition. 

Repertoire Rossini: Overture to “La scala di seta”Abels: Delights and Dances (2007)Fauré: Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112J. Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, Hob.I:104 (“London”) About...Read more

Featuring student conductor Esther Tupper

Join the IU Jacobs School of Music and David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean Abra Bush for an exciting evening filled with inspired performances, cinematic screenings, engaging discussion, and delectab...Read more

Featuring Eddie Ludema, trumpet; Aaron Pergram, bassoon; and Bastian Windisch, piano

Presented by WFIU and the Jacobs School of Music

Join us for Renaissance Studies Program’s Beginning of the Year Faculty Roundtable and Reception.

Guest Musicology Lecture: Birgit Lodes (University of Vienna),“Reframing the Song Cycle ‘An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98’: Beethoven the Consoler”: Beethoven the Consoler” | Musicology Coll...Read more

University Student Organization

“Personal Devotion, Indulgenced Prayers, and the Aura of the Chant: Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria Listening to Motets of Ludwig Senfl” (Organized in collaboration with the Renaissance Studies Program...Read more

Repertoire Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major (“Pastorale”), Op. 68Prangcharoen: Phenomenon...the mysterious and unexplained (2004)Stravinsky: Firebird: Concert Suite No. 2 About the Conduct...Read more

Jack Bussert, “Sonic Shadings in Three Versions of BWV 21/3, ‘Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not’” | Respondent: Andrew Mead

Music of Robert Schumann

Featuring Jacobs student performers Evan Duffey, bassoon; Josué Jiménez Morales, tuba; Lilah Senibaldi, flute; and Paige Stafford, clarinet

Guest Recital: Amy Hamburg, carillon | “In Memoriam September 11, 2001”

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via IUMusicLive! Repertoire G. Ortiz: Kauyumari (2021) G. Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major (“Titan”) About the Artist T...Read more

Presented by WFIU and the Jacobs School of Music

Giovanni Zanovello, “Dissecting a Kingfisher”

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Robert Hatten’s arrival at Indiana University to begin his master’s degree in piano performance with Menahem Pressler. The lecture recital is dedicated to h...Read more

A semi-staged workshop presentation of the first act of Bernofsky’s new opera (in progress), set during the Holocaust; featuring performances by Angelo Pollak (Vienna State Opera), Sylvia McNair, Ra...Read more

J. S. Bach, “Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37” – Shannon Barry & Blake Beckemeyer, directors

“Ring In the New (School) Year” | Student Recital: Wade FitzGerald, carillon

Presented by WFIU and the Jacobs School of Music

Phil Ford, “The View from the Cheap Seats at the UFO Show”

“Valongo: Afro-Brazilian Guitar” | Presented by the Latin American Music Center

Repertoire Hoefner/McKay: Selections from “Kinds of Blue” (2022)Downing/Solie: Red Spring (2023)Slean/Solie: Selections from “Canopy” (2023)Hoefner/McKay: Bird Island Suite (2019) About th...Read more

Kyle Adams, “Does Music Mean Anything At All? Towards a Semiotics of Digital Sampling”

Repertoire Fetter: ‘Spain’ from “Bass Lines” (1993)Richards: Rainy Day in Rio (1996)Spillman: Two Songs (1963)Lebedev/Hofmeister: Concerto No. 1 (“In One Movement”)Wilborn: Concertino (2...Read more

“The Halls They Trod” – An Organ Recital Honoring Former Faculty Members | Indiana Organists United

Organ Department Alumni Grand Reunion 2023

Professional Development: “Making the Most of Your Years at IU”

Get an up close and personal look at C. B. Fisk, Opus 91, the country’s only student union pipe organ, in IU’s historic Alumni Hall. Stick around for a rousing performance by organists from the Ja...Read more

Take a backstage tour of one of the largest theaters in the country and learn about the incredible history and architecture of the Musical Art Center (and the Jacobs School of Music, too!). Live music...Read more

“A Musical Journey from Baroque to Modern, Part 2” | Jacobs Academy

“A Musical Journey from Baroque to Modern, Part 1” | Featuring Amy Sze, piano (guest) | Jacobs Academy

Guest Recital

Jacobs Academy

Featuring a discussion about competitions with Katarzyna Popowa-Żydron (chair of the International Chopin Competition, Warsaw, Poland) and faculty members of the Edward Auer Summer Piano Workshop

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Music of Bach, Byrd, Sheppard, and Tavener | Jacobs Organ Academy (Jacobs Academy)

“Ravel’s ‘Ondine’: Approaching an Enhanced Multi-Sensory Experience – Embracing the Concepts of Synesthesia and Tetrachromacy in Pedagogical Ways at the Piano”

Jacobs Academy

Music of Gibbons (featuring viol consort) | Jacobs Organ Academy (Jacobs Academy)

Jacobs Academy

Music of Stanford and Boyce | Jacobs Organ Academy (Jacobs Academy)

***This recital now follows immediately after the Schola Cantorum Evensong at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall

Music of Ayleward and Tallis | Jacobs Academy

A discussion and performance of Black spirituals, presented by IU Jacobs School of Music alumnus Michael Walker (countertenor) and Alchymy Viols (Phillip Spray, artistic director/arranger)

Student Recital – Wade FitzGerald, carillon

A convergence of music, art, and community.

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Presented by the Summer Saxophone Academy | Jacobs Academy

Jacobs Academy

Simin Ganatra, violin; Austin Hartman, violin; Mark Holloway, viola; Brandon Vamos, cello

Presented by the Summer Saxophone Academy | Jacobs Academy

Featuring a new orchestral score by IU Jacobs School of Music student composer and 2020 Jon Vickers Film Scoring Award winner Ryn Jorgensen, performed live by Jacobs students

Massimo Ossi, “Monteverdi’s Orfeo as Classical Tragedy”

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via IUMusicLive! Repertoire Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc (1981) Takemitsu: Rainspell (1982) Honstein: Patter (2009/10)...Read more

On the 40th anniversary of the night of John Lennon’s untimely death, IU Auditorium will host Remembering John Lennon 40 Years Later with Glenn Gass.

An encore broadcast of a 2019 performance by the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Ballet Theater

Sponsored by the Jacobs Flute Academy

Daniel R. Melamed, “A Compositional History for Die Zauberflöte”

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via IUMusicLive! Repertoire Kurtág: A kis csáva (The Small Snag) Op. 15b Pärt: Fratres (1977; version for string quartet, 1989)Farkas...Read more

“Where Are We and How Do We Move Forward from Here?: A Look at the State of Art Music and Music Academics Through the Lens of Black Musicians”

Music Theory Colloquium Series | Five Friends Master Class Series – Honoring Robert Samels

“Low Male Voice Repertoire in Contemporary Musical Theatre: A Studio and Performance Guide of Selected Songs, 1996-2020”

A carillon concert sponsored by the Jacobs School of Music and the Arts and Humanities Council

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We are pleased to invite you to a spend an exclusive evening with Associate Professor Jamie Tagg and Jacobs School alumnus and professional recording engineer Drew Vandenberg as they demonstrate how t...Read more

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Presented by the Historical Performance Institute

Selections from Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Gioacchino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia

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Music Theory Colloquium Series | Five Friends Master Class Series – Honoring Robert Samels

Joseph S. C. Lam (University of Michigan), “Chinese Theories and Practices of Guyue (Ancient Music): An Interpretive Overview”

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Sonia Lee, “‘We Cannot Separate Our Pain from Our Resistance’: Trauma and Political Activism in the Black and Brown Freedom Movements”

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via IUMusicLive! Wayne Wallace is professor of practice in jazz studies and jazz trombone at the IU Jacobs School of Music. A seven-t...Read more

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“Baroque Harp Transcriptions by Henriette Renié, Marcel Grandjany, and Carlos Salzédo”

J. S. Bach, “Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes,” BWV 40 – Martie Perry, director

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“A Concert in Observance of the Quatrocentenary of the Birth of Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704)”

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Community Engagement Summit Keynote 3

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via IUMusicLive! Repertoire Sehrwald: The other side of disassociation (2020, premiere) Dozza: Isolation (2020, premiere) Godfrey: O...Read more

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A carillon concert sponsored by the Jacobs School of Music and the Arts and Humanities Council

Community Engagement Summit Keynote 2

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Join members of the Fifth House Ensemble for a fun Zoom-Jam!

The Music First Year Language Exam (MFYLE) in French, German, Italian and Spanish is offered throughout the year for Music Performance majors who need to demonstrate proficiency in a foreign langua...Read more

Community Engagement Summit Keynote 1 With welcome by Alain Barker & Ed Comentale