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The UW-Eau Claire Music & Theatre Arts Department presents more than one hundred concerts and recitals annually featuring large and small student ensembles, faculty ensembles, solo faculty recitals, student degree recitals, guest artist recitals; five mainstage plays; an active opera theatre ensemble; a one-act play festival; touring theatre; Danceworks, and several special events such as the nationally-recognized Jazz Festival and Viennese Ball. 

Check here often for upcoming events on the Performing Arts Calendar; the Faculty and Department News page for an introduction to new faculty and other news; and Guest Artists (see menu on the left).  Also follow the Alumni News page for alumni highlights; and the latest Alumnotes newsletter. In addition, see more highlights below for special events.

Upcoming Events

Into the Woods

Fractured fairy tales of a darker hue provide the remarkable context for Into the Woods. Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award winning score, combined with James Lapine's ingenious book,tell a story of warmth, pragmatism, and romantic radiance.

Book by James Lapine
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by F. Reed Brown
Music Direction by Mitra Sadeghpour
Conducted by Nobuyoshi Yasuda

February 23-25 at 7:30 p.m.
March 1-3 at 7:30 p.m.
March 4 at 1:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall

Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727 

Symphony Band and Wind Symphony

Sunday, March 11, 2012  1:00 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727

University Symphony Orchestra

featuring "Concerto Competition Winners"

Thursday, March 15, 2012
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Past Events

Clearwater Choral Festival

Friday & Saturday, October 14 & 15
Gantner Concert Hall
Haas Fine Arts Building

A Cappella Extravaganza

Friday, October 14 at 7:30 PM – Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts
Tickets required from UW-Eau Claire Service Center – 715-836-3727
UW-Eau Claire Chamber Choir, Fifth Element, Girls Night Out, Impromptu, Audacious, Innocent Men, Soundscape, Memorial High School Vocal Jazz

Choral Area Concert

Saturday, October 15 at 1:15 PM – Gantner Concert Hall
Free admission
Women’s Concert Chorale and The Singing Statesmen

Festival Concert

Saturday, October 15 at 7:00 PM – Gantner Concert Hall
Free admission
UW-Eau Claire Concert Choir, Waterford Union High School Choir, Honor Choir and soloists

The festival will feature four choral ensembles from UW-Eau Claire including the Chamber Choir, Concert Choir, The Singing Statesmen, and Women’s Concert Chorale. The Clearwater Festival Honor Choir will be comprised of the top vocal musicians from high schools in the upper Midwest.

Symphony Band and Wind Symphony

Featuring Guest Conductor Craig Kirchhoff of the University of Minnesota

Sunday, October 16, 2011
2:00 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Darren K. Woods, opera 

General Director of the Fort Worth Opera

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
All Events Free & Open to the Public (except as noted)
email msadeghp@uwec.edu for more information

SCHEDULE:

10:30-12:00   Lecture and Question/Answer:  Importance of Young Artist Programs  
                    Phillips Recital Hall
12:00-1:30     Lunch with Darren in the Dulany 
                    (pay for own - RSVP  msadeghp@uwec.edu)
2:00-4:00       Acting Coaching with Opera Workshop    Gantner Concert Hall
4:00-7:00       Auditioning with Darren Woods.  
                    RSVP msadeghp@uwec.edu for audition time.  
                    Not open to the public.
7:30 p.m.      Dinner with Darren Woods at The Livery (pay for your own)

Sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire Department of Music & Theatre Arts, Opera Workshop Ensemble, NATS Student Chapter, and the Newman Parish

Darren K. Woods became general director of Fort Worth Opera in July 2001. Under his leadership, Fort Worth Opera has increased both subscription and donor bases while establishing a reputation for high-quality, dynamic productions. In May 2007, Fort Worth Opera changed its format to a spring festival season and mounted its first mainstage commissioned work – Frau Margot composed by Thomas Pasatieri on a libretto by Frank Corsaro. Within only four years, Fort Worth Opera also produced Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls as its second world premiere, and Opera News hailed the Fort Worth Opera Festival as one of the best in the country. Demonstrating Mr. Woods’ dedication to young artists, the Fort Worth Opera Studio launched in 2002, which has now expanded to include four main young artists beginning their professional careers and four apprentice artists currently in the midst of their college training. In 2011, Mr. Woods was appointed vice chairman for the board of Opera America, the national service organization for the art form. He serves on the finance and information services committees for the board, and he chairs the artist services committee.

Mr. Woods was appointed general director of the Seagle Music Colony in the summer of 1996 and continues as artistic director today. Since that time, Seagle Colony has expanded from nineteen young artists, a faculty of seven, and two productions to thirty-two artists selected from over 1,000 applicants, six productions, and a faculty of seventeen. The Colony recently expanded to include the new Frank and Dorothy Shames rehearsal studio and new construction continues to expand the campus. Past Seagle Colony artists have had recent debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and even on Broadway.

Mr. Woods is in great demand as an adjudicator of vocal competitions. In recent seasons, he served as a panel judge for the Richard Tucker Foundation, the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Lieber Competition, the Denver Opera Guild Competition, the Dallas Opera Guild Competition, and the Marguerite McCammon Competition.

Prior to his appointment in Fort Worth, he was the general director of the Shreveport Opera in Louisiana. While in Shreveport, Mr. Woods founded Shreveport Opera Express, or SOX, a touring, arts-in-education program that involved schoolchildren working with professional artists in the schools.

Before becoming an opera administrator, Mr. Woods performed as a professional operatic tenor for twenty years in such venues as New York City Opera, Carnegie Hall, Washington Opera, L’Opera Madrid, Opera Trieste, Seattle Opera, Dallas.

The Oresteia

By Aeschylus
Adapted by Richard Nimke and Paul Calenberg
Directed by Richard Nimke
October 20-22 and 26-29 at 7:30 p.m.
October 30 at 1:30 p.m.
Kjer Theatre

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpIyrQanx3Y

Press Release: http://www.uwec.edu/newsreleases/11/oct/1011TheatreProduction.htm 

University Symphony Orchestra

FALL CONCERT

Sunday, November 6, 2011
2:00 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727

2011 UW-Eau Claire Honor Band Concert

Peter Haberman, conductor

featuring Melissa Koprowski, clarinet
with the
Symphony Band
and
Wind Symphony

Saturday, November 12, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

UW-Eau Claire Concert Choir

Sunday, November 13, 2011
2:00 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall
Haas Fine Arts Center
UW-Eau Claire

Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center
for ticket information 715-836-3727

Women's Concert Chorale

FALL CONCERT

Sunday, November 13, 2011
5:00 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Jazz II Ensemble

Directed by Robert Baca

Friday, November 18, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center 
for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Symphonic Choir and

University Symphony Orchestra

FALL CONCERT

Sunday, November 20, 2011
2:00 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center 
for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Symphony Band and Wind Symphony

Sunday, November 20, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Jazz III Ensemble

Directed by Jeffery Crowell

Tuesday, November 22, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center 
for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Women's Chorus

FALL CONCERT

Monday, November 28, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Jazz IV Ensemble

Directed by Robert Baca

Thursday, December 1, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center 
for ticket information 
715-836-3727

Jazz I Ensemble

Directed by Robert Baca

Friday, December 2, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall, Haas Fine Arts Center
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center 
for ticket information 
715-836-3727

37th Annual Holiday Concert

Sunday, December 4, 2011
2:00 and 5:00 p.m.
Zorn Arena
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center 
for ticket information 
715-836-3727

University Band Concert

Directed by Randal Dickerson

Monday, December 5, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Gantner Concert Hall
Haas Fine Arts Center
UW-Eau Claire

Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center
for ticket information 715-836-3727

Fuddy Meers

A story with a funhouse plot and hysterical twists and turns, the content and language is for mature audiences.

By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Jennifer Chapman

December 6-10 at 7:30 p.m.
December 10-11 at 1:30 p.m.
Riverside Theatre

Contact the UW-Eau Claire Service Center for ticket information 
715-836-3727 

Cabaret XXXIV

Careers

 
Featuring performers from UW-Eau Claire's
Concert Choir

Jazz Ensembles

The Singing Statesmen
University Symphony Orchestra
Women's Concert Chorale

January 19-21  7:30 pm
January 21        2:00 pm
January 26-28  7:30 pm
January 28        2:00 pm
 

Council Fire Room, Davies Center

Tickets go on sale starting December 5th.  Contact the Service Center (715)836-3727 or 
(800)949-8932. Payment required with MasterCard, Discover or Visa. A $3 handling fee will be charged for telephone orders.

Additional ticket information, including the order form, is available here.