Events // Department of Music // University of Notre Dame

Masterclass with Libor Ondras

Time: Mon Oct 25, 2021, 5:00PM - 6:30PM

Location: LaBar Recital Hall

Trained in Moscow and a recent visiting professor at the Royal Conservatory of Scotland, Libor Ondras will be at Notre Dame to share his unique perspective as violist, violinist and conductor. He is currently Music Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, Petosky, as well as the Kent Phiharmonia and Director of Orchestras and String Specialist at Grand Rapids Community College. …

Please Look: A Cinematic Opera Experience

Time: Fri Oct 29, 2021, 6:30PM - 8:00PM

Location: Browning Cinema

Directed by Evan Monroe Chapman, Kevin Eikenberg With Voice Majors of the Department of Music and Sacred Music Notre Dame Not Rated, 75 minutes, DCP October 29, 6:30 PM October 31, 3:00 PM A PANEL DISCUSSION WILL OCCUR AFTER EACH SCREENING. Opera Notre Dame is proud to present Please Look: A Cinematic Opera Experience. Combining the visuals of trailblazing music film team Four/Ten Media with outstanding performances by vocalists of the Department of Music and Sacred Music Notre Dame, in partnership with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, this series of 5 short films features recontextualized excerpts from the work of the so-called American Minimalist School, including Nixon in China (John Adams), Atlas (Meredith Monk), The Holy Presence of Joan of Arc (Julius Eastman) and Akhnaten (Philip Glass).…

Notre Dame Glee Club Fall Concert

Time: Fri Oct 29, 2021, 8:00PM - 10:00PM

Location: Leighton Concert Hall

The Notre Dame Glee Club presents its annual Fall Concert. Works by Victoria, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, and the choral suite "Rainbow Round My Shoulder" from the pathbreaking 1959 Alvin Ailey Dance Company production For tickets call 631-2800 or here…

Please Look: A Cinematic Opera Experience

Time: Sun Oct 31, 2021, 3:00PM - 4:30PM

Location: Browning Cinema

Directed by Evan Monroe Chapman, Kevin Eikenberg With Voice Majors of the Department of Music and Sacred Music Notre Dame Not Rated, 75 minutes, DCP October 29, 6:30 PM October 31, 3:00 PM A PANEL DISCUSSION WILL OCCUR AFTER EACH SCREENING. Opera Notre Dame is proud to present Please Look: A Cinematic Opera Experience. Combining the visuals of trailblazing music film team Four/Ten Media with outstanding performances by vocalists of the Department of Music and Sacred Music Notre Dame, in partnership with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra, this series of 5 short films features recontextualized excerpts from the work of the so-called American Minimalist School, including Nixon in China (John Adams), Atlas (Meredith Monk), The Holy Presence of Joan of Arc (Julius Eastman) and Akhnaten (Philip Glass).…

Chant Singing Masterclass with Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek from ModernMedieval Voices

Time: Fri Nov 5, 2021, 4:00PM - 5:15PM

Location: 136 O'Neill Hall - LaBar Performance Hall (west side)

Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, creator and artistic director of ModernMedieval Voices and former member of Anonymous 4, will give a virtual masterclass on chant singing to SMND and Music Dept. students at Notre Dame. ModernMedieval Voices, an all female ensemble, will perform a live concert at the Basilica of Sacred Heart on Sunday, Nov. 7; the ensemble has given well received performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, The National Museum for Women in the Arts in D.C., The Virginia Arts Festival, VA and the Ecstatic Music Festival in NYC.…

Notre Dame Chorale Fall Concert

Time: Fri Nov 5, 2021, 8:00PM - 9:30PM

Location: Leighton Concert Hall

In its annual Fall Concert, the Notre Dame Chorale will present a selection of choral arrangements of famous lieder by Schubert and Schumann, motets by Renaissance English composers William Bird and John Bull, Spanish Renaissance motets and villancicos by Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Juan Vasquez, and Francisco Guerrero, choral works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Modest Mussorgsky, choruses from George Friderick Handel's MESSIAH, and a selection of school songs.…

Gilbert Kalish & Christina Dahl, pianists

Time: Sun Nov 7, 2021, 4:00PM - 6:00PM

Location: LaBar Recital Hall

Legendary Stony Brook University piano faculty members Gil Kalish and Tina Dahl lead off the season’s stellar chamber offering with a duo recital. Now head of the performance faculty, Kalish was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and a Presenting Series artist in 2008. Dahl is a chamber musician, soloist, teacher, and a two-time fellow at the Tanglewood Center.…

ModernMedieval Voices Concert

Time: Sun Nov 7, 2021, 8:30PM - 9:30PM

Location: Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame

Words of Love and Wisdom: this a cappella program features some of Hildegard of Bingen’s most ecstatic chants, including O Jerusalem and O Viridissima Virga, reflecting her most important sources of inspiration: Mother Church, Saints, The Virgin Mary, and The Divine Feminine, as represented by Love and Wisdom. These chants are interwoven with new works by acclaimed composers Caroline Shaw, the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Caleb Burhans, “New York’s mohawked Mozart” (Time Out New York), Joel Phillip Friedman, Daniel Thomas Davis, and Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek. The new works are based on, or influenced by, Hildegard’s philosophic writings, her music, and her visions, and each composer presents their own unique and personal interpretation. …

Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra Concert

Time: Fri Nov 19, 2021, 8:00PM - 9:00PM

Location: Leighton Concert Hall

The Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra presents its annual Fall Concert. The program will include the Fifth Symphony of Tchaikovsky, the Violin Concerto of Felix Mendelssohn with Concerto Competition winner Abbey Fontana as soloist, and selections from Dvorak's Slavonic Dances. For tickets call 631-2800 or here…

Department of Music

Upcoming Events

Monday, October 25, 2021

Masterclass with Libor Ondras

Friday, October 29, 2021

Please Look: A Cinematic Opera Experience

Notre Dame Glee Club Fall Concert

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Please Look: A Cinematic Opera Experience

Friday, November 5, 2021

Chant Singing Masterclass with Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek from ModernMedieval Voices

Notre Dame Chorale Fall Concert

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Gilbert Kalish & Christina Dahl, pianists

ModernMedieval Voices Concert

Friday, November 19, 2021

Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra Concert