Fanfare

The Summer Music Festival is here! The American Chamber Players kick things off this Sunday at 4 p.m. in Auer Hall. And, by popular demand, the Beaux Arts Trio has added another concert, Friday, July 1, 8 p.m. in Auer Hall! Other showcase events include performances by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the Saint Louis Brass Quintet, and the Penderecki Quartet. Three internationally renowned conductors will direct the virtuosic Festival Orchestra. IU Opera Theater will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s finely crafted and entertaining musical H.M.S. Pinafore. Be sure to set aside three July evenings for the popular sunset band concerts on the MAC lawn!

Violinist Mark Kaplan, who has played with nearly every major American and European orchestra and performs regularly around the world as both a soloist and a chamber musician, will join the faculty at the Indiana University School of Music, it was announced today (June 17). He will be joined on the faculty by renowned concert pianist Yael Weiss, his wife and chamber music partner.

Two Indiana University School of Music composition students, Joseph Sheehan and Jeffrey Stanek, have been named winners in the 53rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards competition. Both also received BMI awards in 2003.

This edition of Fanfare celebrates the achievements of Michael Gordon, Paul Kiesgen, Dorothy Riggle, Susie Buzan, Skip Sluder, Sean Shepherd, and more!

Soprano sensation Angela Brown continues to ‘Garner’ headlines and the Beaux Arts Trio’s fiftieth anniversary celebration is fast-approaching. We keep track of these articles and more from around the state and country for your information and convenience. Also, with the decision by the Herald-Times to reduce the number of printed articles and reviews in their publication, you will want to visit this page to find out what Peter Jacobi has written. 

H.M.S. PINAFORE
OPENS JULY 29