Music + Theatre Arts News
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Inaugural Keezer Legacy Concert set for Oct. 21 at Pablo Center
UW-Eau Claire jazz studies presents the inaugural Keezer Legacy Concert on Thursday, Oct. 21, in the RCU Theatre at Pablo Center at the Confluence. Buy your tickets now.
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Five to receive UW-Eau Claire alumni awards
UW-Eau Claire graduates will receive awards on Oct. 17 as part of the university's Homecoming festivities.
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Concert for Healing
The arts have been a powerful tool for healing during the pandemic, offering a way to express pain, sooth our sense of loss, inspire us to move forward, and to connect with others. The Music and Theatre Arts Department is offering a “Concert for Healing”
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Summer immersion in Central Europe builds knowledge and understanding of history and cultures
A UW-Eau Claire program looked different this year but still gave Blugolds opportunities to be immersed in European history and culture this summer. Three students and two faculty leaders spent three weeks in Germany, Czech Republic, Austria and Slovakia.
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Student uses summer research project to create drum line music for Blugold Marching Band
Now in his fourth year, Andrew Smits has enjoyed bringing the Blugold Marching Band's music to life during performances. This year, however, he took things a step further — he wrote and arranged the drum line music for the season.
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Creative Collaboration: A Shakespeare Experiment
Coming this fall, the UW-Eau Claire theatre program will release Disruptions: Illusion vs. Reality, a devised Shakespeare production featuring a sonnet from English professor Dr. Dorothy Chan and music by UWEC student Sam Stein.
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Drum and bugle corps trains at UW-Eau Claire, plans public performances
UW-Eau Claire graduate David Lofy is programs director for the Madison Scouts, a 165-member drum and bugle corps composed of performers ages 15-22 from 29 states and three countries.
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Blugold's journey takes her from opera singer to award-winning poet and bestselling novelist
UW-Eau Claire graduate Jacqueline Cobian West is an award-winning poet and a New York Times bestselling author whose young adult novels are beloved by tweens, teens, parents and teachers. She was a music major but realized writing was her passion.
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Recent music education graduate finds great success in Texas
“Rookie Teacher of the Year”. That’s the new title of 2020 UW-Eau Claire graduate Peyton Gunzke. A native of Waseca, MN, Grunzke majored in Music Education with an instrumental emphasis in her time at UWEC.
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Threepenny Opera: A Conductor's Perspective
Making more with less. This is the mindset Dr. Alastair Wright is adopting this semester while working on UW-Eau Claire’s production of “The Threepenny Opera” (music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, Blitzstein English translation).
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Theatre Program Celebrates Eau Claire with Get Lost Podcast
On April 16, 2021, the UWEC Theatre Arts program released the first two episodes of Get Lost: A Walking Podcast of Eau Claire. Entirely devised, written, and performed by students, Get Lost explores common areas of the city and their not-so-common stories
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Eau Claire Jazz Festival will be virtual, livestreamed event on April 23
After a one-year hiatus because of the pandemic, the Eau Claire Jazz Festival is back in 2021 with an online concert featuring Chippewa Valley talent and virtual music education clinics for middle and high school students.
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Threepenny Opera: A Director's Perspective
As the old saying goes: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This well-known proverb rings especially true in the discussion of UW-Eau Claire’s upcoming mainstage production: “Threepenny Opera”. In a world plagued by COVID-19, the Department of Music
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Music and Theatre offer four new summer camps
In summer 2021, the UW-Eau Claire Music and Theatre Arts department will begin offering new week-long, immersive summer-learning options for middle and high school students interested in varying areas of music and theatre.
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UWEC Students Bring Adaptive Music Skills from the Classroom to the Juvenile Detention Center
In between her various teaching duties at the university, professor and music therapist Lee Anna Rasar spends her free time and holidays providing music services at the regional juvenile detention center, a local hospital, multiple long term care centers,
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Virtual Viennese Ball set for April 8 and 10
Through creative determination, abundant talent and the genius of technology, the grand traditions of UW-Eau Claire's Viennese Ball return for 2021, with the virtual event beginning at 7 p.m. each night.
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UW-Eau Claire pianist to perform two recitals featuring underrepresented composers
A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire pianist who often includes pieces written by underrepresented composers is playing two virtual recitals in the coming weeks that celebrate equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Board of Regents approves Haas Fine Arts Center renovations
Renovations to the 50-year-old UW-Eau Claire building include remodeling rehearsal spaces and classrooms to improve acoustics and sound isolation.
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First Fridays Series set for spring
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UW-Eau Claire composer's work featured in The Minnesota Orchestra concert
Dr. Chia-Yu Hsu tells her music students getting to know other Blugolds will make a difference in their future careers. After all, who you know matters in the music world. Her work will be included in a concert this week thanks to her own college network.
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UWEC's Mainstage Productions Adapt to Virtual World
Like any performing arts institution within the past year, the UWEC Theatre Arts program has had to adapt its season to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, none of its four mainstage productions will see live, in-person audiences, but
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School and college experiences help Blugold find future career path
Ryan Pelle came to UW-Eau Claire thinking he would someday be a field biologist. Instead, he discovered that his passion is education. After earning his biology degree this month, he plans to return to college for a teaching degree.
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Piano Professor Namji Kim releases debut CD
Dr. Namji Kim, a professor of piano at UW-Eau Claire, has released "Les 13 Barcarolles," her debut CD recording of music by composer Gabriel Fauré.
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Virtual Music and Theatre Guest Artist Series
We are excited to announce UW-Eau Claire’s Music and Theatre Arts Department’s 2020-2021 Guest Artist Series! Because of the pandemic, this series will look different, but we are now able to welcome in more guest artists than ever before, virtually!