Davee Media Library
Visiting Artists
Bienen School visiting artist Claire Chase performs an excerpt from a work in progress, Pan, by Northwestern alumnus Marcos Balter '08 DMA. The piece is scored for acting-singing flutist and mass community participation.
Steve Reich, winner of the 2016 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, discusses his first Bienen School residency with conductor Alan Pierson.
The Callipygian Players, Chicago’s premier baroque music ensemble, join the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble in a memorable performance of Handel’s iconic Messiah, conducted by Donald Nally.
The Callipygian Players, Chicago’s premier baroque music ensemble, join the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble in a memorable performance of Handel’s iconic Messiah, conducted by Donald Nally.
The Callipygian Players, Chicago’s premier baroque music ensemble, join the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble in a memorable performance of Handel’s iconic Messiah, conducted by Donald Nally.
The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble, University Chorale, and Anima: Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus joins forces for this concert conducted by Donald Nally.
Mallory Thompson leads the Symphonic Wind Ensemble in a performance of …and the mountains rising nowhere (1977) by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner ’66 MMus, ’68 DMus.
The Symphonic Band, conducted by Timothy J. Robblee, performs From A Dark Millennium (1981) by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner ’66 MMus, ’68 DMus. This video includes pre-performance comments by the composer.