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The Gateways Music Festival, which connects and supports classical musicians of African descent, will launch a series of Chicago area performances at Northwestern.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/02/phylicia-rashad-joins-bienen-scho…Toni-Marie Montgomery, dean of the Bienen School of Music since 2003, will step down at the end of the 2022-23 academic year after a distinguished two-decade tenure.
The Bienen School is continuing its Black Composer Showcase series with three more videos highlighting Black composers.
The Bienen School of Music has launched a new series of videos featuring performances of art songs and chamber music by Black composers.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/06/bienen-school-of-music-launches-b…A joint effort by the Bienen School of Music and its technology colleagues at the Yale School of Music and other peer institutions has resulted in upgrades to Zoom that will greatly benefit online music instruction.
Gifted young musicians from around the world converge in the Chicago area each fall for the same reason: to study at one of the widely revered music schools.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/howard-reich/ct-ent-music-sc…The Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra (NUSO) enjoyed a successful three-city tour of Asia from March 23 to April 1, 2018.
When the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra departs March 25 for its first trip abroad, the three-concert tour will enrich the musicianship of the 87 student participants and likely broaden their world view.
https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2018/03/23/student-orchestras-tour-china-luri…Toni-Marie Montgomery is the second recipient of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano chamber music and accompanying from the University of Michigan.
Learn MoreThe Ryan Center has been certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold for New Construction (v2.2) by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/10/ryan-center-for-the-musical-arts-…Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, recently reviewed the Bienen School’s new Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts.
Dean of the Bienen School of Music Toni-Marie Montgomery spoke as part of the dedication ceremony for Northwestern University’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts on September 24, 2015.
Heralded by trumpets and featuring a performance by music students, Northwestern University dedicated the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts yesterday (Sept. 24).
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/09/ryan-center-dedicationEncased in glass and measuring approximately 155,000 square feet, Northwestern University’s $117 million Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, the new home of the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, has set sail along the Evanston lakefront.
https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/09/24/northwestern-universitys-new-ryan-ce…In recognition of the unprecedented generosity of Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan and their longtime support of the arts both at Northwestern and in the greater Chicago area, Northwestern University will name the recently opened music and communication building the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/09/music-and-communication-building-…The Music Administration Building – a former women's college and dormitory built in 1874 and refashioned as the music school in 1940 – makes music no more.
The Bienen School of Music and Northwestern Alumni Association presented a gala evening with the New York Philharmonic and conductor Alan Gilbert at Lincoln Center on March 27.
Four students and one alumnus of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music will perform in a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, as part of the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project.
The Dover Quartet -- a young American string ensemble that catapulted to international stardom after winning the grand prize plus all three special prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition -- will be headed to Northwestern University this fall as “quartet-in-residence.”
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/04/dover-quartet-to-begin-three-year…The first classes in Northwestern’s new Music and Communication Building were held Monday for music students, but the formal opening will not occur until Fall Quarter 2015.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2015/03/31/campus/northwestern-new-music-and-comm…The first classes to be held in Northwestern University’s new Music and Communication Building will begin Monday (March 30) for music students, while the formal opening of the building will take place this fall.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/03/classes-start-at-new-music-and-co…The scheduled opening of the Bienen School’s new state-of-the-art lakefront building this year will do much more than replace MAB’s long-outdated facilities.
The stunning new rehearsal and performance space will be housed inside the Music and Communication Building, which is under construction on the lakefront on the University’s Evanston campus and is expected to be completed in 2015.
Northwestern University Professor Lee (Leon Joseph) Hyla, an award-winning American composer, known for his ingenious skill and originality, passed away June 6 in Chicago. He was 61.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2014/06/composer-and-bienen-school-of-mus…Bassoonist David McGill has been appointed to the Bienen School of Music faculty, Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery recently announced. He will join the Bienen School in Fall 2014 as professor of bassoon.
Soundproofing, Chris Erickson of Power Construction observes, has come “light years” in the less than four decades since Regenstein was built.
Garrick Ohlsson is the 2014 recipient of the $50,000 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance.
The Robert W. Galvin Foundation has made a $6 million gift in honor of Mary B. Galvin, a 1945 graduate of Northwestern University, in support of Northwestern’s Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music.
Bracketed by trumpet fanfares, the groundbreaking ceremony for Northwestern University’s new Music and Communication Building took place today against a brilliant blue sky and aqua-colored lake with Chicago’s skyline beckoning in the distance.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2012/05/music-groundbreakingThe Carol and David McClintock Choral and Recital Room has been named in the Bienen School of Music’s new building in honor of a $3 million gift from the Carol and David McClintock Trust.
Northwestern University’s School of Music will be named the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music in honor of the retiring University president and his wife, announced Patrick G. Ryan, chair of Northwestern’s Board of Trustees today (May 13, 2008).
Northwestern University will construct a $90 million School of Music building on the lakefront of its Evanston campus, Northwestern President Henry S. Bienen announced today.