The annual University of Portland Jazz Festival takes place on Wednesday and Thursday, April 9- 10, all day, in the Chiles Center, according to the performing and fine arts department. The festival features middle school and high school jazz bands competing from throughout the region. Attendance is free and all are welcome. For more information […]
Performing & Fine Arts
Music At Midweek, March 5
Music at Midweek performers for Wednesday, March 5 are sopranos Rebecca Wascoe from Texas Tech University and Nicole Leupp Hanig, performing and fine arts (pictured). They will be joined by pianist Richard Bower. Their free performance begins at 12:30 p.m. in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. Music will include operatic duets and solos from the […]
Theatre Students Shine
University of Portland performing and fine arts students received the following awards at the 2014 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region VII) at the University of Boise in Boise, Idaho, on February 18-22: Jordin Bradley received an acting scholarship award of $500 toward enrollment fees for CSU Summer Arts 2014 Jeff Phillips received a […]
PFA Presents “Woyzeck,” Feb. 26-March 1
The performing and fine arts department will present Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck on February 26-28 and March 1 in Mago Hunt Center Theater. All performances are at 7:30 p.m., with two performances set for Saturday, March 1, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. No Sunday matinee is scheduled for this performance. Admission is $10 for adults […]
UP Orchestra Concert, Feb. 22
The University of Portland Orchestra will present Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” on Saturday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to all. “Scheherazade,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s epic musical tale based on the story of The Arabian Knights, is one of the most popular works ever composed for orchestra. It tells the […]
Music At Midweek
This week’s Music at Midweek performance will feature Adam LaMotte and colleagues, playing music that focuses on English composers, on Wednesday, February 19, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. The concert is free and open to all. For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.
Music At Midweek, Feb. 12
This week’s Music at Midweek performance will feature pianist Aszemar Glenn on Wednesday, February 12, at 12:30 p.m., in Hunt Center recital hall. Glenn will perform “Waltz in A Minor Op. 12, No. 2” by Evard Grieg, “Sonata in Eb Major, Hob. XVI No. 53 by Joseph Haydn, “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Modeste Mussorgsky, […]
Music At Midweek, Feb. 5
Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts, will discuss his recent trip to Moscow during this week’s Music at Midweek, on Wednesday, February 5, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. The event is free and open to all. Murphy will focus on the trials and tribulations he faced in attempting to obtain musical […]
Music At Midweek
Ken Kleszynski, performing and fine arts, will present a brief lecture about the British composer George Lloyd (1913-1998), followed by the short film “Strange Storms and Symphonies,” about Lloyd’s life and music, on Wednesday, January 29, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. His presentation will be this week’s “Music at Midweek” event, […]
Music at Midweek, Jan. 22
The performing and fine arts department will present Elisa Doughty, soprano (pictured), and Susan McDaniel, piano, in the next Music at Midweek performance on Wednesday, January 22, at 12:30 p.m., in Mago Hunt Center recital hall. The performance is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Selections will include Six Elizabethan Songs […]