By Jonathan Shelby, Assistant Lifestyle Editor
| November 8, 2024
In a race to earn funds for the World Music Program, members of the NIU World Music Program successfully reached their goal of raising $10,000 on Monday.
The NIU World Music Program is a division at NIU that specializes in helping learning musicians...
By Jonathan Shelby, Assistant Lifestyle Editor
| October 22, 2024
Jazz could be heard echoing late into the night, paying tribute to a legend of jazz himself.
The NIU School of Music held their first Jazz Faculty Recital of the year at 7 p.m. Monday and kicked it off with a bang.
Paying tribute to Benny Golson,...
By Jonathan Shelby, Assistant Lifestyle Editor
| October 9, 2024
The minutes dragged on as a large crowd of jazz enthusiasts slowly grew around the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall of the Music Building, eagerly awaiting to hear the latest masterpiece of the NIU School of Music.
Students of the NIU School of Music...
By Caleb Johnson, Lifestyle Writer
| November 4, 2022
Music and technology collided as enthusiasts gathered Wednesday for the opening night of NIU School of Music’s Tenth Year Anniversary New Music Festival. The three-day event was helmed by Gregory Beyer, director of percussion studies and the new music...
DeKALB – For its ten year anniversary celebration, the NIU Music Festival will host three evenings of music from Nov. 2-4.
At 7 p.m. Nov. 2 in the Music Building Recital Hall, the first event will be held. There will be live electroacoustic music...
By Nick Glover, Lifestyle Editor
| October 10, 2022
The NIU Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra held their first concert of the fall semester on Thursday.
Led by professor Rodrigo Villanueva Conroy and graduate teaching assistant Austyn Menk, the Jazz Ensemble started the concert with “Hay Burner,”...
DeKALB — NIU’s Avalon String Quartet is set to perform an original theatrical performance Wednesday night at the Music Building Recital Hall.
The performance, “Seven Ages of Man”, is an original interpretation of a famous speech from the play...
The NIU School of Music hosted the New Music Festival from Nov. 5 to Nov. 8 in the Music Building. Five concerts were shown over the course of four days and the Northern Star Entertainment Section sent multiple reporters to cover this event. Day 1- Parker...
The School of Music will hold a concert of new music for flute and percussion at 8 p.m. today in the Music Building, Recital Hall.The program will feature guest artist Stefanie Abderhalden accompanied by graduate percussion student Kyle Flens. Abderhalden will...
