Stephen Eckert, piano, will be performing Philippe Manoury's "Pluton" in a recital. This event is free and open to the public. LIVESTREAM LINK: https://youtube.com/live/Z2fQgTBh-PA?feature=share

Soprano faculty member Sarah Luebke and Kevin Bylsma, piano will present a recital in our weekly faculty artist series. This event is free and open to the public. LIVESTREAM LINK PROGRAM LINK

The College of Musical Arts will hold virtual auditions for prospective music students.

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano, will present a masterclass as part of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition. Lee is on the piano faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and is the winner of the Naumberg and Concert Artist Guild Competition. Free and open to the public. The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.

The semifinals of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano competition will be held in Kobacker Hall beginning at 9:40 AM. The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano, will give a guest artist recital as part of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition. This event will not be livestreamed. PROGRAM (not digital) from Préludes...................................................................................................Claude Debussy      La Puerta del vino      Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest      Minstrels Kreisleriana, Op.16........................................................................................Robert Schumann      Äußerst bewegt      Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch      Sehr aufgeregt      Sehr langsam      Sehr lebhaft      Sehr langsam      Sehr rasch      Schnell und spielend ~intermission~ Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.35...................................................................Frédéric Chopin      Grave – Doppio movimento      Scherzo      Marche funèbre: Lento      Finale: Presto Mother Moon Songs (2023)...................................................................................Paola Prestini La Valse.................................................................................................................Maurice Ravel   This performance is a Kobacker Concert, funded by the Marvin S. Kobacker Concert Fund.  

The piano competition finals of the 15th annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition will be held in Kobacker Hall beginning at 9:00 AM. LIVESTREAM LINK The David D. Dubois Piano Competition supports student pianists at several levels. It provides a number of scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend BGSU, it encourages undergraduate piano students to develop innovative programming ideas for outreach projects and it supports current piano students to participate in music festivals around the world.

The final concert of Trombone Day will be at 8 pm. LIVESTREAM LINK

“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 will present a recital. This event is free and open to the public.  

Culture and Code – Transforming Languages into Technological Performance Culture and Code brings the Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble to BGSU for a collaborative project exploring the intersections of technology, ethics, and cultural expression. This project will encourage BGSU students to translate their cultural backgrounds into a digital realm through physicality and motion capture technology, resulting in interdisciplinary and immersive performances. Led by Brian Ellis, a creative coder and multi-instrumentalist, and his ensemble, the residency will broaden students’ perspectives on artistic expression by integrating dance and technology to create movement-based musical interfaces. The workshop for the technology will be held on Jan 28, 3:30–5:20 p.m. in the Choral Rehearsal Hall, and the performance will be on Jan 30, 8-9 p.m. in Bryan Hall. The event is supported by Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (ECAP) and BGSU College of Musical Arts. Curated by Dr. Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Assistant Professor in Composition.  

BGSU composition students will present their new works, performed by fellow music students. This event is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed. LIVESTREAM LINK: https://youtube.com/live/kEPaZ50RXls?feature=share PROGRAM LINK COMING SOON

Dr. Hannah Levinson, viola, will present a recital in Bryan Recital, assisted by Robert Satterlee, piano and Dan Piccolo, percussion. This event is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed. LIVESTREAM LINK PROGRAM LINK

Culture and Code – Transforming Languages into Technological Performance Culture and Code brings the Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble to BGSU for a collaborative project exploring the intersections of technology, ethics, and cultural expression. This project will encourage BGSU students to translate their cultural backgrounds into a digital realm through physicality and motion capture technology, resulting in interdisciplinary and immersive performances. Led by Brian Ellis, a creative coder and multi-instrumentalist, and his ensemble, the residency will broaden students’ perspectives on artistic expression by integrating dance and technology to create movement-based musical interfaces. The workshop for the technology will be held on Jan 28, 3:30–5:20 p.m. in the Choral Rehearsal Hall, and the performance will be on Jan 30, 8-9 p.m. in Bryan Hall. The event is supported by Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (ECAP) and BGSU College of Musical Arts. Curated by Dr. Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Assistant Professor in Composition.  

Culture and Code – Transforming Languages into Technological Performance Culture and Code brings the Brooklyn Motion Capture Dance Ensemble to BGSU for a collaborative project exploring the intersections of technology, ethics, and cultural expression. This project will encourage BGSU students to translate their cultural backgrounds into a digital realm through physicality and motion capture technology, resulting in interdisciplinary and immersive performances. Led by Brian Ellis, a creative coder and multi-instrumentalist, and his ensemble, the residency will broaden students’ perspectives on artistic expression by integrating dance and technology to create movement-based musical interfaces. The workshop for the technology will be held on Jan 28, 3:30–5:20 p.m. in the Choral Rehearsal Hall, and the performance will be on Jan 30, 8-9 p.m. in Bryan Hall. The event is supported by Ethnic Cultural Arts Program (ECAP) and BGSU College of Musical Arts. Curated by Dr. Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Assistant Professor in Composition.