Fall Dance Festival - Nov. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m.Featuring exciting collaborations and new choreography, the 2008 Fall Dance Festival includes works and performances by guest artists Element Dance Theatre and choreographers Kristen Heavey and Jennie Pitts, faculty members Cari Cunningham and Barbara Land, and University dance students.
Nevada Repertory Company presents Much Ado About Nothing - Nov. 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 23 at 1:30 p.m. In one of Shakespeare’s most delightful yet bittersweet comedies, the sparring, reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick find themselves the victims of a practical joke that may, indeed, change their lives forever.
Performing Arts Series presents violinist Midori with pianist Charles Abramovic - Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Over the past 25 years, the virtuosity of violinist Midori has led such maestros as Zubin Mehta, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman to claim she performs musical miracles — and Leonard Bernstein to literally fall to his knees in disbelief.
Susan Murrell is an emerging artist from Hood River, Ore., who will create an eclectic and detailed installation in the gallery.
Nevada Chamber Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s topsy-turvy musical comedy, H.M.S. Pinafore. Find out if love conquers all in this glorious production told with laughter, love and lunacy. Nov. 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 23 at 2 p.m..
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Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery presents
Siebren Versteeg and Eunjung Hwang
Aug. 25-Sept. 26, gallery hours: Mon.-Thur., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Fri., 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
This two-person exhibit does not have a theme, but rather will concentrate on two diverse yet complimentary artists, one from Korea and the other from the Netherlands, both of whom work out of New York City. Versteeg is an artist working in the fabricated notion of ‘real’ time. He uses all media, including collage, computer programming, video, drawing and sculpture. Hwang is an artist and animator who creates multi-screen animation installations, light projections, sculptures and digital prints. Her work combines early Korean cartoon imagery resurrected in mountainous landscapes, blending her quirky drawing style with photography and narration.
Opening reception: Thursday, Sept. 4, lecture 5:30-6:30p.m. Room 153, reception 6:30-8p.m.
University Faculty Recital featuring violinist/Violist Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio and pianist James Winn
Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Enter the wonderful world of chamber music with violinist/violist Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio and pianist James Winn as they perform solo and duo works of Kreisler, Mozart, Schulhoff, Bach and de Falla.
Performing Arts Series presents
Matt Wilson’s Arts and Crafts Quartet
Sept. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Stretching the “classic” jazz quartet instrumentation, award-winning drummer, composer and bandleader Matt Wilson has assembled — and recorded with — his Arts and Crafts Quartet to critical acclaim. With bassist Dennis Irwin, trumpeter Terell Stafford and pianist Larry Goldings, Arts and Crafts was recently nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association as Small Group of the Year. “. . . a superb evening of innovative compositions, beautifully executed standards and arresting musicianship.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch www.mattwilsonjazz.com
Performing Arts Series season tickets available.
Individual tickets: $20 adult; $17 senior, University faculty & staff, University Alumni Association members; $12 students, $7 University students
University Faculty Recital featuring bassoonist Christin Schillinger and percussionist Andrew Heglund
Sept. 28 at 2 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Tonight’s recital will feature a unique assembly of compositions that treat percussion not as accompaniment, but as an equal partner to the bassoon. These works are rarely performed due to the technical demands and intricate collaboration required of the artists. Joining Schillinger and Hegulnd will be guest bassoonist, Albie Micklich, associate professor from Arizona State University. This recital is supported by a University Junior Faculty Research Grant, which also includes recording this repertoire on an audio CD.
Nevada Repertory Company presents Juvenilia
By Wendy MacLeod, Directed by Rob Gander
Oct. 2, 4, 8, 10 at 7:30 p.m., and Oct. 12 at 1:30 p.m.
Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building
Bored of frat parties and second-run movies, a group of college friends challenge each other to have a three-way with the Christian who lives next door. (“It could be the new Survivor.”) In this undergraduate world of irony and Internet porn, sex is common, but love is the thing that dares not speak its name. Nevada Rep season tickets available. Individual tickets: $15 general, $14 students, or buy both Juvenili and This is Our Youth for $25.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery presents
Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life
Oct. 2 – Nov. 7, Gallery Hours: Mon.-Thur., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Fri., 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
This group exhibition is inspired by an essay, Eco-Sophia (1989), written by German philosopher Wolfgang Schirmacher. Eco (translated house) - Sophia (translated wisdom) implicates the inner intelligent self as the deepest and most dynamic location of wisdom and survival. Artwork is about the necessary, yet complicated and nuanced symbiotic relationship between technology, the environment and individual agency. The exhibition features Allora & Calzadilla, Ann Hamilton, Lynn Richardson, Kahn & Selesnick, Andrea Polli and Paul Stout. Catalogue includes new essay by Thomas Zummer and a revised essay by Schirmacher.
Opening reception: Oct. 7, lecture 5:30-6:30 p.m. Room 153, reception 6:30-8p.m.
Lynn Richardson
Nevada Repertory Company presents
This is Our Youth
By Kenneth Lonergan,
Directed by Rob Gander
Oct. 3, 7, 9, 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct 5 at 1:30 p.m.
Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building
This is Our Youth follows 48 hours of three, very lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan era: Warren Straub, a dejected 19-year-old who steals $15,000 from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman for whom Warren yearns. Funny, painful, and compassionate, This is Our Youth is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers — ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine. Nevada Rep season tickets available. Individual tickets: $15 general, $14 students, or buy both Juvenili and This is Our Youth for $25.
Argenta Trio presents
Café Music
Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Join Argenta Trio members Stephanie Sant’Ambrogio, violin; John Lenz, cello; and James Winn, piano, for their 2008-2009 season opening concert titled Café Music, featuring a wonderful mix of chamber music including Haydn’s Trio in C major, Saint-Saens’ Trio No. 1 in F major and Schoenfield’s Café
Music. Season tickets: $40 general, $18 students and children. Individual tickets: $15 general, $8 students and children.
Argenta Trio
University Jazz Big Band
Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Join us for a night of big band jazz performed by the University’s Jazz Big Band, under the direction of Leonard Neidhold.
Oct. 16, 5:30 - 8 p.m.
Church Fine Arts Building, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Join us for Arts Night Out, an energetic evening of interactive arts activities, exhibitions, performances, demonstrations and an art sale presented by the University of Nevada, Reno School of the Arts. Be prepared to have some fun. More information
Performing Arts Series presents
Alison Brown Quartet with Joe Craven
Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
After touring as a banjo-playing teenage prodigy, Alison Brown took a detour through Harvard, then UCLA to earn a master of business administration degree, and finally two years in finance with Smith Barney. Thankfully for bluegrass audiences everywhere, she returned to her musical roots, earning Grammys to go with the MBA. She’ll be joined by mandolinist, violinist and percussionist extraordinaire, Joe Craven, whose own creds as a member of the Garcia/Grisman band put him in esteemed company indeed.
“Alison Brown left a career in investment banking for a life as a banjo musician. Anyone who thinks this was a foolish move hasn’t heard her play.”
— The New Yorker. www.alisonbrown.net
Individual tickets: $20 adult, $17 senior, University faculty & staff, University Alumni Association members, $12 students, $7 University students.
Unversity Marimba Recital
Oct. 21 at 7:30 pm.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Tonight’s concert will feature world-renowned marimbist Julie Spencer and university students as they explore the majesty and beauty of the marimba by performing a wide range of repertoire from around the world. Spencer is an exceptional American artist and internationally renowned marimba virtuoso.
Griot
Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Griot is an avant-garde jazz trio rooted in world music, consisting of American saxophonist Peter Epstein, German multi-instrumentalist Gernot Blume and American percussionist Julie Spencer. The musical chemistry between these three composers, who combine their diverse vocabularies, creates a brilliant and fascinating sound. Each of these musicians has developed an individualistic expressiveness audible in organic-rhythmic and intuitive improvisations between surprising sound textures and soaring melodic phrases.
$10 general, $5 students and For the Love of Jazz (FTLOJ) members
University Fall Choral Concert
Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Chuch Fine Arts Building/Free
Join the University of Nevada Concert Choir, Chamber Chorale and Symphonic Choir under the direction of Jennifer Tibben-Lembke and Denell Hull for a performance of choral repertoire from 1600 – 2006.
University Wind Ensemble presents
Wood, Brass and Ivory
Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
The University Wind Ensemble will open its 2008-09 season with a program titled Wood, Brass and Ivory. The program will feature David R. Gillingham’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra featuring James Winn. Also included on the program is Percy Grainger’s 1933 masterpiece, Lincolnshire Posy.
James Carney Quartet
Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Room 110, Church Fine Arts Building
Pianist, keyboardist and composer James Carney is an improviser who draws inspiration from many musical sources. Along with saxophonist Tony Malaby, bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Dan Weiss, Carney is recalibrating his songbook to suit his recent ensemble design. University of Nevada, Reno music faculty member and saxophonist Peter Epstein may join the quartet for a tune or two. For more information on James Carney, visit www.jamescarney.net.
$10 general, $5 students and FTLOJ members
University Percussion Ensemble Concert
Nov. 6 at 7:30 pm.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Join the University Percussion Ensemble for an evening of percussion music from around the world. Every year this concert turns out to be one of the audience’s favorite events.
Nov. 13 and 14 at 8 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Featuring exciting collaborations and new choreography, the 2008 Fall Dance Festival includes works and performances by guest artists Element Dance Theatre and choreographers Kristen Heavey and Jennie Pitts, faculty members Cari Cunningham and Barbara Land, and University dance students. Element Dance Theater has performed engaging dance works for San Francisco audiences that explore the physical and emotional effects of contemporary culture on the body, using a range of styles and mediums that resonate with today's viewers. $15 adults; $13 students; $10 seniors and children.
Element Dance Theatre
Nevada Repertory Company presents
Much Ado About Nothing
Guest directed by Jane Powell
Nov. 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 23 at 1:30 p.m.
Redfield Proscenium Theatre, Church Fine Arts Building
Can we be fooled into loving? In one of Shakespeare’s most delightful yet bittersweet comedies, the sparring, reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick find themselves the victims of a practical joke that may, indeed, change their lives forever. Balanced boldly between comedy and tragedy, Much Ado revels in reversals, exposing the betrayed as traitor and the misogynist as besotted lover. Set in a time of peace at the end of a foreign war, it unmasks the conflict that follows soldiers home: insidious battles hidden deep within souls left silently embittered by society and circumstance. Individual tickets, $13 opening weekend special, $15 mid-week special (Wed. and Thurs.), $17 general admission; $15 seniors, students and children.
Performing Arts Series presents violinist Midori with pianist Charles Abramovic
Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Over the past 25 years, the virtuosity of violinist Midori has led such maestros as Zubin Mehta, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman to claim she performs musical miracles — and Leonard Bernstein to literally fall to his knees in disbelief. At 10, Midori debuted with the New York Philharmonic, and today she holds a master’s in psychology from New York University, chairs the strings department at the University of Southern California and travels as an agent for outreach, fostering accessibility for young musicians the world over. Midori’s appearance is made possible by a generous grant from Partners in Performance.
“Flat-out wowed everyone . . . spellbinding.”
--Eugene Register Guard. www.gotomidori.com
Individual tickets, $35 adult, $30 senior, University faculty & staff, University Alumni Association members, $20 students, $7 University students.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery presents
Susan Murrell
Nov. 17-Dec. 17, Gallery Hours: Mon.-Thur., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Fri., 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Susan Murrell is an emerging artist from Hood River, Ore., who will create an eclectic and detailed installation in the gallery. Murrell uses invented biomorphic imagery to create a visual language to explore the acquisition and recall of knowledge. Her large installations contain watercolor and pen drawings, gouache paintings on vellum, latex sculptures, encaustic and printmaking. Murrell’s installation process will be open to the public as she creates her piece. Sheppard Gallery will invite two undergraduate students work as Murrell’s assistants, an honor which gives our students first-hand knowledge of an artist’s process. Opening reception: Nov. 20, lecture 5:30-6:30 p.m. Room 153, reception 6:30-8p.m.
Nevada Chamber Opera presents
Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore
Nov. 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 23 at 2 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Nevada Chamber Opera presents Gilbert and Sullivan's topsy-turvy musical comedy, H.M.S. Pinafore. Find out if love conquers all in this glorious production told with laughter, love and lunacy. Designed and directed by the creative team from the University’s recent hits The Threepenny Opera, A…My Name Is Alice, and Godspell, this new production of H.M.S. Pinafore is directed by Sue Klemp. Musical direction is by Damon Stevens, and the production is choreographed by Barbara Land.
$17 general admission, $7 students
Guest Artist Recital featuring Pianist Ken Osowski
Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Join University alumnus Ken Osowski for an evening of piano repertoire including duo piano works with James Winn. Osowski, who received a doctorate of music arts in piano performance at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, performs widely throughout the East Coast and has received numerous awards for his outstanding piano playing. He has been a member of the York College piano faculty since the fall of 2001.
University Orchestra Concert
Nov. 25 at 8 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Join the University Orchestra for its debut performance with Jason Altieri, continuing lecturer and conductor. Altieri received his doctorate in conducting from Michigan State University and has conducted concerts in many locations in the United States and Europe and has toured in China, Japan and Taiwan.
University Jazz Band
Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Jazz Band Director Leonard Neidhold leads the University Jazz Big Band in a performance of big band jazz.
University Wind Ensemble presents
Awakening and Awareness
Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Join the University Wind Ensemble for a Nevada premiere performance of American composer David Maslanka’s Give Us This Day (2007) as well as works by Saint-Saens, Grieg, Jager and Sousa.
Nightingale String Quartet
Dec. 3, at 5 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
The Nightingale String Quartet, comprised of University graduate students, will perform music from the chamber music repertoire.
University Composer's Concert
Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
During the course of the fall semester, university composition students will be creating new work to showcase during tonight’s concert.
Argenta Trio presents
Global Warming
Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building
Argenta Trio presents Global Warming, featuring Martin’s Trio on Popular Irish Melodies, Zhou’s Spirit of Chimes and Beethoven’s Trio in E-flat.
Individual tickets: $15 general, $8 students and children.
University Flute Ensemble
Dec. 7 at 7 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Members of the University Flute Ensemble will perform a variety of music on an assortment of instruments including piccolos, alto flutes and bass flutes.
University Holiday Choral Concert
Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts Building/Free
Come start the holiday season with favorites from many traditions, featuring University of Nevada Concert Choir, Chamber Chorale and Symphonic Choir. Jennifer Tibben-Lembke and Denell Hulla are conducting.