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Bobby Sanabria and Ascensión at Wesleyan Center for the Arts
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownLed by multiple Grammy Award-nominated drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, and educator Bobby Sanabria, his ensemble Ascensión has been critically-acclaimed for its Pan-Latino approach to Latin jazz. Encompassing Afro-Cuban, Brazilian and traditions from Venezuela, Colombia, Sanabria's ancestral homeland of Puerto Rico and beyond, as well as straight-ahead jazz and the avant-garde, Ascensión is a musical laboratory that is constantly […]
Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert at Wesleyan Center for the Arts
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownFriday, April 25, 2025 at 8:00pm Crowell Concert Hall Free and open to the public The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra directed by Professor of Music and African American Studies Jay Hoggard ’76, MA ’91, and the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble, directed by Noah Baerman, present an exciting evening of classic and contemporary jazz repertoire as the start of the 22nd annual Wesleyan […]
Calefax Reed Quintet at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownFree and open to the public. “Calefax—five extremely gifted Dutch gents who almost made the reed quintet seem the best musical format on the planet.” —The Times (London) Based in Amsterdam, the Calefax Reed Quintet returns to Wesleyan for the first time in a decade to perform a program featuring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, George Gershwin, […]
This Is It! 2.0: The Complete Chamber Music of Neely Bruce – Part V at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownFree and open to the public This festive concert, featuring works of chamber music by Neely Bruce, John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, continues a year-long celebration of the composer’s 50 years of teaching at Wesleyan. The West End String Quartet–Sarah Washburn and Marianne Vogel on violin, Wesleyan Chamber Music Ensemble Director John Biatowas on viola, and Anne Berry on cello–will perform A Partita for […]
On Mentorship: Public Discussion with Anna Deavere Smith and Samora Pinderhughes at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownFree and open to the public.ddd Anna Deavere Smith Hon. ’97, the 2024–2025 CFA Artist in Residence, will engage in a discussion about method and mentorship with musician and composer Samora Pinderhughes. One of the most important relationships artists can have is to each other. In this conversation, Smith and Pinderhughes will explore the history and meaning […]
Emma Mistele presents “Perfect Lives”— A TV Opera by Robert Ashley at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, Middletown11am to 1:30pm Graduate music student Emma Mistele presents a day-long (from 11am to 11:30pm) screening of her adaptation of "Perfect Lives" (1977-1983), a TV opera by Robert Ashley (1930–2014). Ashley’s original television opera is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, et al., in the American Midwest. One of the definitive text-sound compositions […]
Sound of Minangkabau: A Concert of Music, Dance, Theater and Martial Arts from West Sumatra, Indonesia at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownFree and open to the public The concert weaves together the traditional music and dance of the Minangkabau of West Sumatra in Indonesia. Performances will include Randai and Tari Piring. Randai performances involve martial arts dances, songs, and acted-out scenes. Stories are delivered by both the acting and the singing and are mostly based upon Minangkabau legends and […]
Anna Deavere Smith’s This Ghost of Slavery at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownWith her newest play, This Ghost of Slavery, Anna Deavere Smith combines her signature interview-based documentary theater with research into the archives of American slavery. Exploring the deep roots of historical trauma as it persists in the present, the play also considers how performance might provide new ways of understanding the collective stories we tell ourselves as individuals […]
V.V. Subrahmanyam: Violin Concert at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownOne of the finest violinists in classical Karnatak (South Indian) music, Shri. V.V. Subrahmanyam returns to campus for his 80th anniversary concert, joined by fellow violinist Shri. V.V.S. Murari, Shri. Trichy Sankaran on mridangam (double-headed drum), Shri. K.V. Gopalakrishnan on kanjira (frame drum), and Smt. Banu Jaiganesh on tampura (four-stringed harmonic instrument). Shri. V.V.S. Murari and Shri. K.V. Gopalakrishnan will also both be performing with vocalist B. Balasubrahmaniyan and David Nelson PhD ’91 on mridangam for their 20th annual […]
Connecticut Flute Orchestra Fall Concert at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownThe Connecticut Flute Orchestra, a collective of professional flutists that performs diverse repertoire for multi-flute orchestra, presents a fall concert featuring instruments of all sizes, from the 13-inch piccolo to the 13-foot subcontrabass flute, conducted by Nadya Potemkina, Director of Private Lessons, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. The […]
B. Balasubrahmaniyan: Vocal Music of South India at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownVocalist and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music B. Balasubrahmaniyan will be joined by Adjunct Associate Professor of Music David Nelson PhD ’91 on mridangam (double-headed drum) for their 20th annual Navaratri Festival concert together. The duo will be accompanied by violinist L. Ramakrishnan. This event is part of the 47th annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan. B. Balasubrahmaniyan (voice) performs and teaches Karnatak music in India and in the United […]
Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan
Crowell Concert Hall 60 Wyllys Ave, MiddletownThe 48th annual Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan will take place from Thursday, October 10 through Saturday, October 12, 2024. Since the 1960s, the teaching of South Indian music, dance, and the arts have been central to the Wesleyan University curriculum. Formally established in 1976, Wesleyan’s Navaratri Festival (based on the Hindu holiday) remains an annual […]