Wheelchair-accessible seatings and assisted listening devices are available in Beall Concert Hall. If you have special seating needs, call 541-346-3811 at least 24 hours prior to the concert to make arrangements. Photography, videography, and recording of UO concerts and events without prior permission is prohibited. UO students majoring in dance or music please review SOMD Student Ticket Policies. Tickets may be purchased online or by phone through the UO Ticket Office, 541-346-4363.
February 2026
5:00 p.m.
The 5 pm opening set will feature performances from 4-5 small ensembles from the UO Jazz Studies program. The 7:30 pm set will feature two more UO small groups along with guest artist George Colligan. Repertoire will include a variety of jazz classics, songbook standards, original compositions/arrangements by students of the UO Jazz Studies program, and the music of guest artist George Colligan.
5:00 pm, free; 7:30 pm, $15 general admission, $12 student members, $5 UO jazz students
7:00 p.m.
La Vida Breve was Manuel de Falla's first big opera, and his first attempt to commit to an authentic Spanish sound. This opera follows the intense suffering and discrimination against the Gitanos or Roma people of Southern Spain, in particularly of a young girl who is taken advantage of by a wealthy non-gitano. La Vida Breve, literally "The Short Life", presents the hopelessness of the main character and her people. A work full of intense feelings, glorious singing, stirring orchestral music and dance, it is not to be missed.
Come early for a free pre-opera talk at 6:00 PM in Frohnmayer Music Building, Room 142.
UO Students w/ID Free
3:00 p.m.
La Vida Breve was Manuel de Falla's first big opera, and his first attempt to commit to an authentic Spanish sound. This opera follows the intense suffering and discrimination against the Gitanos or Roma people of Southern Spain, in particularly of a young girl who is taken advantage of by a wealthy non-gitano. La Vida Breve, literally "The Short Life", presents the hopelessness of the main character and her people. A work full of intense feelings, glorious singing, stirring orchestral music and dance, it is not to be missed.
Come early for a free pre-opera talk at 2:00 PM in Frohnmayer Music Building, Room 163.
UO Students w/ID Free
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:00 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
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7:00 p.m.
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6:00–7:30 p.m.
Join Trotter Visiting Professor, vocalist/composer Majel Connery, for a performance of her composition Elderflora (“old trees”), which combines Connery’s own lush electronic vocal manipulations with the earthy tones of cello (played by Felix Fan). Elderflora is the story of the life of a tree. From birth by fire to death by lightning, we hear the tree’s inner narrative, told from its own perspective. Together, the two conjure a world where trees can talk to us.
7:30 p.m.
“Gekic rides the charismatic edge of genius”
R. Dyer, Boston Globe
“He is something like a general who has learned all the rules in the book and is therefore free to ignore them in the time of war”
James Roos, Miami Herald
“His playing is transcendental as well as incandescent”
John Ardoin, Dallas Morning News
Performing worldwide from vast repertoire, Kemal Gekic presents fascinating, uncompromising and ever-changing interpretations as a soloist and in collaboration with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, Warsaw Philharmonic and Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in halls such as Gewandhouse Leipzig, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Kennedy Center Washington DC.
As a recording artist, Kemal Gekic has won accolades in Europe, America and Japan for insightful, original views of the music. Among his 15 solo-albums, his Rossini-Liszt transcriptions (Naxos) won “The Rosette” of The Penguin Guide for Music, while his recording of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes (JVC) is generally considered to be one of the most compelling recordings of the set in history. He won a double Grammy nomination for his recording of Fredrick Kaufman's Guernica Concerto, which was commissioned by him.
Born in Split, Croatia, Kemal Gekic got his early training from Prof. Lorenza Baturina. He earned his MD in the class of Prof. Jokuthon Mihailovic (1985) at the Art Academy of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia, and was immediately given a faculty appointment by the piano department which he eventually directed until 1999. Since 1999, he has been Artist in Residence and a Full Professor at the Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
Kemal Gekic is a guest lecturer at numerous universities and academies throughout the world. He has served as a juror on numerous international piano competitions. Since 2010 he also directs Kemal Gekic Summer School and Festival in Split, Croatia.
Programs on his life and his performances were broadcast by RAI Italy, TV Portugal, TV Yugoslavia, NHK Japan, POLTEL Poland, RTV Lower Saxony Germany, Intervision, CBC and PBS.
Kemal Gekic is a Life Member of the American Liszt Society and a Steinway Artist.
For tickets click here: https://www.oregonpianoinstitute.org/ticket-gekic
3:15–4:45 p.m.
Musicologist and composer Majel Connery hosts the podcasts A Music of Their Own (NPR/Capital Public Radio) and Reverberations (New Amsterdam Records). In this talk, she makes the case that podcasting is the next frontier for musicology—bringing intelligent conversation about music to a national audience. If Leonard Bernstein were alive today, surely he would be a podcaster?
7:00 p.m.
The Oregon Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab Bands 2 & 3 perform their Winter Term concert with special guest artist, composer Ayn Inserto. Inserto is a groundbreaking, award-winning composer whose music has been featured at festivals around the world.
UO Students w/ID Free
Evan Ney presents a program of works by Luciano Berio, Saad Haddad, Lucie Robert, Lars-Erik Larsson, and Steven Banks.
7:30–12:00 a.m.
Evan Ney presents a program of works by Luciano Berio, Saad Haddad, Lucie Robert, Lars-Erik Larsson, and Steven Banks.
3:00 p.m.
Celestial Encounters explores how music functioned as a medium of devotion, knowledge, and cultural exchange in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, tracing the circulation of musical ideas across convents, courts, and Jesuit missions linking Europe and Qing-dynasty China. Bringing together sacred vocal works and instrumental repertories, the program invites listeners to hear Baroque music as a global practice shaped by movement, encounter, and translation. Works by Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre illuminate women’s authorship and expressive authority within early modern religious and courtly cultures, while music by Corelli reflects Rome’s central role in shaping instrumental style across Europe. These traditions intersect with the work of Jesuit missionary-composers Teodorico Pedrini and Joseph-Marie Amiot, whose compositions document some of the earliest musical exchanges between Europe and China. Performed on period instruments, Celestial Encounters reveals Baroque music not as a fixed canon, but as a living network of circulation—where sound, belief, and knowledge traveled across borders and were continually reshaped through encounter. About the artists Praised for her “crystalline tone and delicate passagework” (San Francisco Chronicle), soprano Arwen Myers is “a rare vocalist who’s as comfortable performing early music as she is taking on contemporary works” (Stir Vancouver). She has appeared as a soloist with leading ensembles including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Charlotte Bach Festival, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, among many others. She is featured on Baroque Music Montana’s recent release I Melt Like Snow in the Sun of Your Beauty [https://baroquemusicmontana.org/shop/], recorded at the prestigious Tippet Rise Art Center, and Third Angle New Music's premiere recording of Glass’s 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, which will be released in March 2026. Learn more at arwenmyerssoprano.com Andrew Wong is an American baroque violinist and researcher in early music. He has performed with international ensembles such as the American Bach Soloists, Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Jupiter Ensemble, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Arion Orchestre Baroque and Formosa Baroque. His current research interests focus on the influence of vocal music on violin playing. In addition to music, Andrew has degrees in physics and engineering from MIT and Stanford. He has worked professionally as a data visualization designer, specializing in making maps and building tools to understand complex data. He is currently interested in applying information design to early music research. A native of Taiwan, Dr. Joyce Wei-Jo Chen 陳瑋若 is Assistant Professor of Historical Keyboards at the University of Oregon, where she teaches organ and harpsichord, offers musicology courses, and directs the Collegium Musicum. She will complete her Ph.D. in Historical Musicology and Humanities at Princeton University in Spring 2026. An active solo harpsichordist, Dr. Chen has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Taiwan and has appeared at major international festivals and competitions. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Harpsichord Performance from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley. A dedicated church musician with over fifteen years of experience, Dr. Chen specializes in the Baroque organ repertoire and currently serves as Music Director at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mt. Angel.
8:00 p.m.
The University of Oregon Popular Music Ensembles, including the Hip Hop Ensemble, perform covers of famous songs and original songs by students. The groups play pop, rock, indie, singer-songwriter, hip hop, and other genres of popular music.
7:30 p.m.
Join us for an evening of new, energetic and soulful music in the klezmer/Transylvanian folk tradition.
Zoë Aqua and her Transylvanian String Band 2026 Western U.S. Tour: Crossing a Sea of Stars
Zoë Aqua (violin, composition) Kálmán Szopos (brácsa) Károly Dénes (bass) Gergő Réman (cimbalom)
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:30 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
3:15–4:45 p.m.
This presentation investigates the interwoven roles of researcher, observer, and participant within Dagbon and West African music and dance traditions. Through fieldwork and embodied practice, it explores how active participation—drumming, dancing, and performing—becomes a form of inquiry that generates knowledge beyond textual documentation. Engaging with artists and communities, the researcher moves between analysis and experience, revealing how cultural understanding emerges through motion, rhythm, and shared performance. The paper reflects on the ethical and methodological complexities of occupying multiple roles within the same cultural space and argues that embodied research not only enhances scholarly interpretation but also contributes to the preservation and transmission of living traditions. By merging scholarship and performance, this work underscores the body’s central role as both instrument and archive of cultural knowledge.
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:30 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:00 p.m.
This multimedia recital is where the worlds of live performance and popular media collide! Scott performs live while his YouTube videos are projected on the big screen, including selections from films, video games, and so much more. Even the audience gets involved, contributing music and sound effects during the performance through a unique mobile phone app. Come and experience a fusion of live music and digital media like you’ve never seen before!
March 2026
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3:00 p.m.
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7:30 p.m.
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. For tickets click here: https://www.oregonpianoinstitute.org/ticket-gorini
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UO students w/ID free.
7:30 p.m.
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UO students w/ID free.
3:15–4:45 p.m.
Dr. Esther Viola Kurtz, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Washington University, discusses her new book, A Beautiful Fight: The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia (University of Michigan Press, 2025). The book is an ethnography of Black and white participation in the Afro-Brazilian music-dance-fight game that originated among enslaved Africans in Brazil and examines the potentials and limits of capoeira Angola to cohere a multiracial community committed to antiracist struggle.
7:00 p.m.
Dr. Moreira, an illustrious and award-winning Brazilian pianist, will present a solo recital that will include works by Rachmaninov, Messiaen, and one of the famous war sonatas of Prokofiev, his Sonata No.7 in Bb (1942).
UO Students w/ID Free
7:30 p.m.
Featuring four small groups from the University of Oregon’s award-winning jazz studies program. Repertoire will include a variety of jazz classics and original compositions/arrangements penned by the student performers.
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UO Students w/ID Free
5:00 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:00 p.m.
Future Music Oregon is dedicated to the exploration of sound and its creation, to new forms of musical and new media performance, and to the innovative use of computers and other recent technologies to create expressive music and new media compositions. Students’ creative work is presented along with featured composers/performers from around the world.
This concert will feature the music of David Berezan.
3:00 p.m.
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
7:30 p.m.
Can you sleuth the secret Enigma theme that ties all of the Wind Symphony repertoire together? Whoever can guess the secret theme will win a prize! What do Red Cape Tango (Michael Daugherty), Gabriel’s Oboe (Morricone/Longfield), Machu Picchu: City in the Sky (Satoshi Yagisawa), and Zacatecas March (Codena) all have in common?
UO Students w/ID Free
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:30 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:30 p.m.
Concert Description (2-3 Sentences. Include rep, if available): The UO Symphony Orchestra unleashes a powerhouse Russian program—Glinka’s dazzling Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture, Mussorgsky’s colorful and rarely heard Introduction to The Fair at Sorochinski, and Shostakovich’s monumental Tenth Symphony, a gripping portrait of defiance and triumph. Prepare for a night of orchestral fireworks and profound musical storytelling.
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:00 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
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7:00 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
7:30 p.m.
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UO Students w/ID Free
April 2026
7:30 p.m.
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.
2:00 p.m.
Before your next Chamber Music at Beall concert, enhance your listening experience with a pre-concert talk featuring OBF artists and scholars.
3:00 p.m.
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
May 2026
3:00 p.m.
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
June 2026
1:00–3:00 p.m.
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