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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

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 Musics 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...

Third Coast Percussion performs with a cellist in Walla Walla.

Alumni musicians and composer collaborate in new percussion compositions

April 8, 2015

A&E When he was an undergraduate student in the Bienen School of Music, David Skidmore (Bienen '05) was the captain of the Northwestern University Drumline and a member of Boomshaka. He now performs...

Northwestern study: Singing on key can be learned through practice

February 5, 2015

A new Northwestern study suggests that singing is a learned skill and that, through practice, one can learn to sing on key. The study, published in February in the interdisciplinary journal Music Perception, compared...

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