Assistant Professor of Music Erin K. Bryan has won an honorable mention as a finalist in the 2022 The American Prize in Vocal Performance — Women in Art Song and Oratorio. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American […]
Kurt Dietrich, professor emeritus of music at Ripon College, will speak Monday, May 9, at Winchester Academy in Waupaca, Wisconsin. His talk will be “Wisconsin Jazz: From the Roots to the Present.” He will give an overview of important jazz artists from Wisconsin and the trends that have led from the early days up to […]
The performance originally scheduled for Sunday, May 1, in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, has been canceled because of illness. The Ripon College Choral Union and Chamber Singers, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Paul Thompson, in collaboration with the Ripon College Orchestra, under the direction of Adjunct Instructor […]
The senior baritone vocal recital by Yacob Bennett of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, originally scheduled for April 30 has been postponed to Friday, May 6. The performance will begin at 5 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Included will be works by Arnold Schoenberg, Sergei Rachmaninoff Franz Schubert, Ralph Vaughan-Williams and others. […]
Caleb Klinzing ’22 of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, will present his senior organ recital Friday, April 29, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Selections include Toccata in F Major, by Dietrich Buxtehude; “8 Kleine Präludien und Fugen,” by Johann Ludwig Krebs; No. 8 […]
Spring Arts Celebration will be held April 29 at Ripon College, highlighting special offerings from the visual art, music and theatre departments. Festivities will run from 4:30 p.m. to about 9 p.m. in C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. All are free and open to the public. Pre-registration can be made here. 4:30 p.m.: Caleb […]
“The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” a riveting musical comedy with a touch of Jerry Springer drama, will be presented April 27-30 by the departments of theatre and music at Ripon College. Performances will begin each evening at 7:30 p.m. in Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free, but reservations are […]
Abbegayle Lane ’22 of Neenah, Wisconsin, will present her senior vocal recital Saturday, April 23, at Ripon College. The recital will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The accompanist will be Visiting Instructor of Music Deb MacKenzie on piano. Lane, a soprano, majored in music education with […]
A recital with Adjunct Professor of Music Jessica Jensen, trumpet, and Visiting Instructor of Music Deb MacKenzie, piano, will be presented Saturday, April 23, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 1 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public. Selections will be […]
The Ripon College Jazz Ensemble will present their spring concert Friday, April 22. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public. The 18-member ensemble, which features Ripon College students as well as Ripon faculty and staff and area […]
Lydia Wiley Deal ’22 of Whitewater, Wisconsin, will perform a senior recital Saturday, April 9, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 7 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free. Selections to be performed include Sonata for Flute in E Minor, by J.S. Bach; Sonata for Flute […]
The Ripon College Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Tobin Shucha, will perform April 10 at Ripon College. The concert will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. It is free and open to the public. Selections will be “Kirkpatrick Fanfare,” by Andrew Boysen Jr.; “First […]
The jazz album “Under the Venus Moon,” featuring songs by Mario Friedel ’88 of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, reached the ballot portion of the nomination process for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Album of the year. While the album did not make the final cut, it did place among the top 78 entries out of […]
Arcomusical, a world music sextet, will perform Friday, April 8, at Ripon College as part of the Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon series. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Because of generous donations from Ripon’s Friends of the Arts, events in the Chamber […]
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” will be presented in a faculty-student recital Friday, March 25, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 5 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free. Assistant Professor of Music Erin K. Bryan will sing the soprano solos and Lydia Wiley Deal ’22 […]
The Ripon College Chamber Singers will present their spring tour in Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Ripon. The choir is under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Paul H. Thompson. The choir will perform at 7 p.m. Monday, March 14, at Roncalli High School in Manitowoc as part of the high school’s spring choir concert. The […]
The Mary Louise Knutson Trio will perform Friday, March 4, at Ripon College as part of the Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon series. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The trio will present a concert of jazz works. Knutson also will lead an […]
Assistant Professor of Music Erin Bryan, soprano, and Visiting Instructor of Music Deb MacKenzie, piano, were invited to present a recital as part of the Sam Houston State University Art Song Festival this month. The performance, which was offered virtually, highlights American composer Lauren Spavelko’s Baby Book, a song cycle the composer describes as “truly […]
Research by Erin K. Bryan, assistant professor of music and voice area coordinator, has been selected for a poster paper presentation at the 2022 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Conference in Chicago in July. The research is on the final Neapolitan operas of Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774). While many of the composer’s instrumental pieces […]
The Christmas section of G.F. Handel’s “Messiah” will be performed in a singalong event Saturday, Dec. 18, at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 51 W. Division St., Fond du Lac. The event is co-sponsored by the Ripon College Department of Music. The program will begin at 7 p.m. and include recitatives, arias and duets […]