Bienen saxophone quartet advances to Fischoff Competition
April 1, 2022
Conflux Quartet—an ensemble of Bienen School of Music master’s students—has been invited to the 49th Annual Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
Steven Banks awarded Avery Fisher Career Grant
March 23, 2022
Bienen School of Music alumnus Steven Banks ’17 MMus has been awarded a $25,000 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is the first saxophonist in history to receive this honor.
Dunbar Early Music Festival Explores Bach
March 22, 2022
The 2022 Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival followed the compositional road to Johann Sebastian Bach.
Clarinetists Stephen Williamson and Todd Levy to join Bienen faculty
March 21, 2022
Stephen Williamson, principal clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Todd Levy, principal clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, will join the Bienen School of Music faculty as lecturers beginning September 2022.
Two Bienen students awarded 2022 Luminarts Fellowships
March 18, 2022
Doctoral students Joseph Connor ’19 MMus (saxophone) and Qi Kong (piano) have been named 2022 Fellows in Classical Music by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation.
Bienen cellists to compete in 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition
March 8, 2022
Four cellists from the Bienen School have been invited to participate in the second edition of the Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition this May in Brussels, Belgium.
David Bilger appointed Bienen School Professor of Trumpet
February 28, 2022
David Bilger has been appointed professor of trumpet at the Bienen School of Music, effective September 1, 2022.
Galvin Cello Quartet advances in Victor Elmaleh Competition
February 25, 2022
The Bienen School’s Galvin Cello Quartet has advanced to the semi-finals of the Concert Artists Guild’s 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition.
Bienen School presents Midwest premiere of Jake Heggie opera Feb. 24-27
February 2, 2022
American composer Jake Heggie’s Faustian opera “If I Were You” will make its Midwest debut in Northwestern University Opera Theater’s Feb. 24-27 production at Cahn Auditorium.
Daniel Shanahan appointed to Bienen School faculty
January 18, 2022
Daniel Shanahan has been appointed tenured associate professor of music theory and cognition in the Bienen School of Music, effective September 1, 2022.
Linda Austern book wins Diana McVeagh Prize
November 24, 2021
Linda Austern, Bienen School professor of musicology, has been named the winner of the 2021 Diana McVeagh Prize for her most recent monograph.
Alumni, Faculty among 2022 Grammy Nominees
November 24, 2021
Professor Donald Nally has received a Grammy Award nomination for the sixth consecutive year. Several Northwestern alumni are also among this year’s Grammy nominees.