All School of Music and Dance Events

This event has been cancelled. 

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UO Students w/ID Free 

The UO Hip Hop Jam is a free, all ages, and open to the community celebration of hip hop music, dance, art, and culture. The event is organized by 20 first year students with two undgraduate mentors and a faculty member. 

This year our event will feature performances by Vary, BATHLETE, Prim8s, and K.I. Design, live graffiti by Tasko, scratch DJ set by DV8/Connah Jay/food stamp, and dance by Duck Street Dance Crew, Kings Krew, flex Studios, Flock Rock, and breakdance and pop and lock ciphers with Portland and Seattle breakers. We will also host and open dance cipher 9:30-10:00 p.m.

This year we are also doing a free raffle with some incredible prizes inlcuding new hip hop vinyl records and movie passes (the raffle will be at the end of the night). 

Thanks to this year's co-sponsors: Cinema Studies, First Year Programs, Broadway Metro, Art House Cinemas, and more TBD. Doors at 6:30 p.m.

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Showcase and jam session.

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UO Students w/ID Free 

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A short concert of holiday favorites performed by students from the UO harp studio. 

Students perform ensemble pieces, duets, and solos, including "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet, well-loved carols such as "O Holy Night" and "Coventry Carol," and a solo composed for harp by Benjamin Britten from his Ceremony of Carols.  

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UO Students w/ID FREE

This event has been moved to First Congregational Church in Portland and will be produced and ticketed by Portland Baroque Orchestra.

Before your next Chamber Music at Beall concert, enhance your listening experience with a pre-concert talk featuring OBF artists and scholars.

Grammy-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to Oregon Bach Festival to perform a “colorful and idiosyncratic” (The New York Times) concert shaped by musical interconnection.

Rameau        Gavotte et six doubles Lasser            Twelve Variations on Chorale by J.S. Bach J.S. Bach        15 Sinfonias

The Oregon Humanities Center presents Christopher Brown and his jazz band

Each moment of our lives presents us with opportunities and challenges for us to make decisions that will shape the next minute, hour, day, week, month, year, and decade to come. If we want positive outcomes, the challenge is learning how to string together appropriate decisions in each moment. And for that, a decision-making filter is required. Christopher Brown and his band will demonstrate how jazz musicians use decision-making filters to identify what’s worth and what’s not worth paying attention to in various moments of our lives. His presentation and the band’s performance “Beyond the Buzz: Finding the Signal in a Noisy World” will take place in the Sheffer Recital Hall. There will be a reception with no-host bar at 5:30 p.m. The presentation and performance will begin at 6 p.m.

Christopher Brown is a Portland-based musician, composer, bandleader, and educator who seeks to be a voice for the advocacy of jazz music and American culture. After 20 years of military service, Brown studied jazz at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in Jazz Studies/Performance. He has taught as an artist in-residence at Wells Fargo’s “NJPAC Jazz For Teens” program (NJ), Mt. Hood Jazz Camp (OR), Mel Brown Jazz Camp (OR), Litchfield Jazz Camp (CT), Rutgers Summer Jazz Institute (NJ), Montclair Jazz Camp (NJ), and the International Summer Music Camp (Brno, Czech Republic). His musical and personal experiences have led him to an interest in synthesizing the principles of jazz with the day-to-day practicalities of life.

This event is part of the 2025–26 Cressman Lectureship.

Recognized as one of today’s foremost pianists and pedagogues, Fabio Bidini has dazzled audiences worldwide with his rare combination of technical brilliance and poetic expression. From early competition victories in Italy to top prizes at the Busoni and Van Cliburn International Piano Competitions, his career has taken him to the world’s most prestigious stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, and the Barbican Centre with leading orchestras and conductors.

A Steinway Artist and professor at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, Bidini’s artistry promises an evening of profound musicality and unforgettable beauty. Don’t miss the chance to hear this internationally acclaimed pianist live. $5-10, UO students FREE with ID

Filippo Gorini’s musicianship has drawn unanimous acclaim in recitals in venues such as Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, New York Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Konzerthaus, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, London Wigmore Hall, Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, Zurich Tonhalle, Van Cliburn Foundation, Vancouver Recital Society, as well as with orchestras such as the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchester, the Nagoya Philharmonic, the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, the Gyeonggi Philharmonic in Seoul, the Opera Nacional de Chile.

Filippo’s highlights from 2023-24 include his recital debuts in Teatro alla Scala di Milano, at Cal Performances in Berkeley, and Carnegie Hall, and concertos with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Daniele Gatti, Shenzhen Phillharmonic and Musikalische Akademie Mannheim.

Filippo’s multi-year project “The Art of Fugue Explored” has shown his vision and creativity to go further than just his performing abilities: with the support of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, he has released the work on Alpha Classics in 2021, performed it internationally over 30 times, and has released on RAI5 and RaiPlay a series of filmed conversations on Bach’s music involving personalities such as Peter Sellars, Frank Gehry, Sasha Waltz, Alexander Sokurov, Alexander Polzin, Alfred Brendel, George Benjamin, and many more. Produced by Unitel, they will soon be published internationally.

His upcoming project “Sonata for 7 cities”, due for 2025-27, aims to show a new, responsible and ethical approach to concert life with monthly residencies in Vienna, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Portland, Milan and more, centred around performances, outreach, teaching, and philanthropy. During this project he will also perform seven newly commissioned piano pieces by composers such as Beat Furrer, Stefano Gervasoni, Yukiko Watanabe, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Federico Gardella, Oscar Jockel.

Filippo has received the “Premio Abbiati”, the most prestigious musical recognition in Italy, in 2022, as well as the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2020 and First Prize at the Telekom-Beethoven Competition 2015. His three albums featuring Beethoven and Bach late works, released on Alpha Classics, have garnered critical acclaim, including a Diapason d'Or Award and 5-star reviews on The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, Le Monde.

Alongside his solo career, Filippo has performed chamber music with musicians such as Marc Bouchkov, Itamar Zorman, Pablo Ferrandez, Brannon Cho and Erica Piccotti, in renowned festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, the Prussia Cove Chamber Music Seminars, as well as “Chamber Music Connects the World” in Kronberg with Steven Isserlis. He has taught masterclasses at the Liechtenstein Musikakademie, the University of British Columbia, the Royal Welsh College of Music, and the conservatories in Bergamo and Siena. He follows actively the world of contemporary composition, and has played works by composers such as Stockhausen, Kurtág, Boulez and Lachenmann as well as commissioning new pieces.

After graduating with honours from the Donizetti Conservatory in Bergamo and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Filippo’s artistic development is now supported by the mentorship of Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Pavel Gililov, Alfred Brendel and Mitsuko Uchida.

Before your next Chamber Music at Beall concert, enhance your listening experience with a pre-concert talk featuring OBF artists and scholars.

The award-winning choir Tenebrae is one of the world's leading vocal ensembles, renowned for its passion and precision.

Holst                    The Evening Watch McDowall              Standing as I do before God Pott                      The Souls of the Righteous C. Shaw                 and the swallow Bennett                  A Good-Night Vaughan Williams     Rest Thompson               A Prayer for Deliverance Tavener                   Song for Athene Vaughan Williams     Valiant for Truth Pearsall                   Lay a Garland Sullivan                   The Long Day Closes Howells                   Requiem Harris                      Bring us, O Lord

Hailed as “the real deal… a pianist of apparently limitless raw technique” (American Record Guide), Steven Spooner stands at the forefront of American pianists, captivating audiences with performances compared to the golden age of Horowitz and Arrau. A prizewinner at seven international competitions and a Steinway Artist, Spooner has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, and major halls across the globe.

Known for his daring, audience-inspired programming and breathtaking virtuosity, Spooner’s concerts blend masterworks, his own transcriptions, and the kind of artistry that lingers long after the final note. Don’t miss this rare chance to experience his electrifying presence live in concert. $5-10, UO students FREE with ID.

Before your next Chamber Music at Beall concert, enhance your listening experience with a pre-concert talk featuring OBF artists and scholars.

Les Délices (pronounced Lay day-lease) delights, inspires, educates, and expands audiences for music on period instruments through innovative programming and world-class performances.

Lefebvre           Le lever de l’Aurore Corelli             ‘La Folia’ Sonata Handel             Mi palpita il cor Scarlatti           Sonata in D Minor, K. 213 Rameau            Le Berger fidèle 

Before your next Chamber Music at Beall concert, enhance your listening experience with a pre-concert talk featuring OBF artists and scholars.

The Manhattan Chamber Players is a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level.

W.A. Mozart        Divertimento No. 11                          Adagio and Fugue Mendelssohn      Octet Casarrubios        Overture and Chorale Copland             Appalachian Spring

Join us in celebrating the Class of 2026! 

For graduate RSVP requirements and day-of details, email somdscheduling@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-5648