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Bienen Prof. Victor Yampolsky conducts the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra on Friday. The concert was part of the annual American Liszt Society Festival, which Northwestern hosted for the first time this year.

Bienen hosts annual American Liszt Society Festival for first time

May 3, 2017

The Bienen School of Music hosted the annual American Liszt Society Festival for the first time this weekend, celebrating the works and influence of Franz Liszt, a 19th-century composer and virtuoso pianist....

More than 200 Bienen students sign petition to diversify music curriculum

April 12, 2017

Steven Banks, a second-year graduate student in the Bienen School of Music, recalls playing just two pieces by black composers in his life. One of the pieces was written by his best friend and member of...

Left to right: Doyle Armbrust, Clara Lyon, Maeve Feinberg, Russell Rolen. The four members of Spektral Quartet are coming to NU for a concert this Sunday. The group’s album “Serious Business” was nominated for a Grammy this year.

Spektral Quartet to play concert featuring student compositions

April 5, 2017

The Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet will perform the works of eight Bienen students in a concert this Sunday. With a repertoire list spanning a wide variety of genres, centuries and styles, Spektral...

Opera vocalist Matthew Polenzani, right, teaches a vocal master class to one of four selected NU vocalists. This was Polenzani’s second time teaching at Northwestern, and said he chose to return because of the high caliber of students he worked with last year.

Opera star leads Northwestern master class

January 19, 2017

Opera vocalist Matthew Polenzani returned to Northwestern to teach his second vocal master class with four students on Wednesday. The master class was part of the Robert M. and Maya L. Tichio Vocal...

Pianist Marilyn Nonken sits with a piano. Nonken will perform at NU on Friday as part of Bienen School of Music's New Music Conference and Festival.

Celebrated pianist to perform as part of Bienen’s music festival

November 4, 2015

A&E Bienen Prof. Hans Thomalla has called musician Marilyn Nonken one of the best piano performers of contemporary music of the century. Nonken will play Morton Feldman’s 90-minute piece, “Triadic...

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