“Blue Notes” is a community-engaged experience in discovering how we can promote healing and our movement toward aliveness through art-making. In this conversation-workshop, Dr. Jones draws on practices from her training in Embodied Social Justice, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Theatrical Jazz to guide those gathered through a series of sonic, writing and movement experiences to uncover our “Blue Notes”—truths in our lives that are seldom expressed but can support us in our wholeness. This engaged workshop is an opportunity to think about the connections between intellectual projects and liberation, with particular attention to the ways that Africana spirituality emerges as a healing framework. All of Dr. Jones’ work rests on the premise that deep inner liberation is a necessary building block for lasting social transformation. She has provided workshops for domestic violence first responders through Safe Space (now The Safe Alliance) in Austin, Texas; for The Austin Project which she founded to use artmaking as a productive examination of inner wounds among women of color and our allies; and for The Diaspora Project which gathered Black women throughout the African diaspora to examine how anti-Blackness has created divisions among potential allies. Dr. Jones holds a Ph.D. from New York University, and is a Professor Emerita from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, a mother, a Queer wife, and a curious sojourner. For more information about her work see: https://ournextnow.com/called-by-water

Voice faculty Katherine Pracht Phares, mezzo-soprano and Kevin Bylsma, piano will present a recital as part of the Faculty Artist Series. This event is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed. LIVESTREAM LINK  PROGRAM LINK

Audition Day for prospective music students. 

Guest Artist Donald Berman, piano, will give a recital. Free and open to the public.  

Praecepta, the student chapter of the Society of Composers, Inc., promotes new music activities in the Bowling Green community. This event is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed. LIVESTREAM LINK

Saxophonist Nicolas Arsenijevic and pianist Lise Charrin will present a recital. This event is free and open to the public. PROGRAM (not digital) VIOLIN SONATA in E Minor (1778)….…….....Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro Tempo di Minuetto                                                                                                                 LILITH (1984)…………………………………............ William Bolcom (b.1938) The Female Demon Succuba Will o’-the-Wisp Child Stealer Night Dance SONATE en Ut# (1943)……………………….......Fernande Decruck (1896-1954) Très modéré, espressif Noël Minuet Anime GIMMICK………………………………………............Christian Lauba (b.1952)     SONATINE (1905)……………………………... ......Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Modéré Menuet Animé _________________________________ Nicolas Arsenijevic Soloist and pedagogue, Nicolas Arsenijevic is a French saxophonist born in 1988.  A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and laureate of numerous international competitions (Adolphe Sax Competition in Dinant, Andorra Sax Fest, Josip Nochta Competition in Zagreb), he is invited to give masterclasses and recitals around the world and is regularly engaged by prestigious ensembles such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. His discography, spanning contemporary creations, romantic music with piano or string quartet, and traditional Balkan music with the group Kosmopolitevitch, reflects his resolutely exploratory musical approach. In tune with the evolution of his instrument, Nicolas Arsenijevic collaborates with many composers, including Riccardo Nillni, Florent Caron Darras, Christian Lauba, Maël Bailly, and Benjamin Attahir, both as a soloist and within renowned contemporary music ensembles such as Court-Circuit, Alternance, and TM+.  A passionate chamber musician, he is a member of the wind ensemble Saxback, an unconventional group created around the figure of Adolphe Sax and the instrumentarium associated with him. In chamber music, his duo with pianist Françoise Bu\et-Arsenijevic has taken him to major French venues such as Salle Gaveau and Salle Cortot. In 2024, Nicolas Arsenijevic was appointed to the prestigious position of saxophone professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Lise Charrin Born in 1986 in the center of France, Lise Charrin studied the piano in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with famous French pianists Bruno Rigutto, Anne Que\élec and Franck Braley. She obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degrees,followed by a high teaching diploma. As a soloist or in chamber music, she has given concerts in prestigious places such as the Chopin festivals in Paris and Nohant, the Petit Palais and the National Archives (Paris), or the San Luigi Del Francese Cathedral in Rome.  At the same time, she explores other paths and participates in numerous transversal projects, in plays directed by the renowned French director Jean Bellorini (French national theaters of Toulouse, Rennes, Nantes) or in the show Opus Lunae around the archetypal figure of "Pierrot in the Moonlight", between chamber opera and musical theater (“Flâneries Musicales de Reims”, National Theater of Luxembourg, Radio France).