Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
Pete Lee grew up in Taiwan during the golden era of Asian cinema. But, due to his strict religious upbringing, secular culture was banished from his house. Instead, Lee spent his childhood making up stories in his head while watching his preacher father politely exorcize demons.
Chamber Music Society of Central Kentucky presents the Ariel String Quartet
Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3PM on the SCFA Concert Hall Stage
Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. Formed when the members were just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music…
Join director Stuart Horodner for a conversation with artist Janine Antoni about her works included in the Intentions – Actions – Outcomes exhibition, as well as various aspects of her multi-disciplinary practice. Antoni is a MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, and she has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad.
Image: Janine Antoni
University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
John Nardolillo, conductor
Amit Peled, cello
Nina Shekhar: Lumina (Kentucky premiere)
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Part of the Appalachia in the Bluegrass Series
Paul Brock is an Irish button accordionist born in Athlone now residing in Ennis. In May 1989, Brock co-founded the group Moving Cloud with fiddle player, Manus McGuire. In 2001 he co-founded the new group The Brock McGuire Band also with Manus McGuire. In 2004, Brock was voted Best Male Musician by the Irish American News. His…
The UK Percussion Ensemble (5-time winner of the Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition) presents their fall UKPE concert. Directed by Dr. Joshua D. Smith, with Assistant Directors, Jeremiah Ingram and Kyle McElroy.
Program:
Hands by Rich O'Meara
Escape x12 by Andrew Worden
Death Wish by Gemma Peacocke
Half Light by Taylor Joshua Rankin
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Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
Through the breakdown and rebuilding of the in between, my work mimics the everyday navigation of these realms. Temporary moments of clarity come together and fall apart creating a self in motion, evolving through experience, place, failures and successes. My work is a surface where this dialogue becomes visible explorations of my surroundings and my identity, a surrogate self with limitless…
Join us to celebrate the work of our BFA students. More details to come.
Part of the Appalachia in the Bluegrass Series
Sophia M. Enríquez (she/her) works at the intersections of Latino and Appalachian music, migration, and regional culture. She is an Assistant Professor of music at Duke University where she also teaches in the Program for Latino/a Studies in the Global South. Sophia earned her PhD in ethnomusicology at Ohio State University as well as graduate certificates in folklore and Women's, Gender…
Chamber Music Society of Central Kentucky presents the Parker Quartet
Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 3PM in the SCFA Recital Hall
Internationally recognized for their “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) performances, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation, dedicated purely to the sound and depth of their music. Inspired…
Nov. 9 - 11, 2023
by C.P. Taylor
Professor Halder, a scholar of German literature, is a good man. People tell him so. Even as they come to him to burn his books. Set in 1930s Germany, GOOD explores the creeping growth of fascism as it trickles poison into the ear and points at the 'others' and tells us 'They are the problem.' The good professor must make some choices to protect his books. To protect his life. GOOD is a fever…
