You'll be inside the music when twenty-one performers ring the UIS Colonnade, surrounding the audience, as we present Terry Riley's mesmerizing experimental work "In C." While fully notated, "In C" is never the same twice. You'll be encouraged to shape your own unforgettable audience experience by moving throughout the space.
FREE!
Rain location: UIS Student Union
Join us as the UIS Band presents a powerful and imaginative program inspired by painting, literature, poetry, and dance. Each work transforms a different art form into sound, creating a vivid, multi-sensory journey for the audience.
The program includes:
• Pictures at an Exhibition – Mussorgsky (paintings, sculpture, architecture)
• The Lord of the Rings – DeMeij (literature/novel)
• The Echo Never Fades – Gillingham (poetry)
• Danzón – Valencia (dance)
Come see UIS students and faculty as well as members of the Springfield community perform experimental works by composers Pauline Oliveros, Cornelius Cardew, and Steve Reich, as well as a world premiere composed collaboratively by everyone in the Make A Noise Ensemble!
FREE and Open to the Public!
VPA 33, Visual and Performing Arts Building
Parking in UIS Parking Lot B
Join us for a Chamber Concert on April 26 at 7:00 PM, featuring UIS Camerata students in an evening of creative and collaborative music-making. The program highlights student-composed works performed by the UIS Camerata Student Band, alongside a variety of intimate chamber ensembles that showcase the artistry and versatility of UIS musicians. The concert also includes a performance by the UIS Flute Choir. Not to be missed!
Join us for the UIS Solo Concert, an end-of-semester recital showcasing our talented student performers! Enjoy an inspiring evening of music as UIS students take the stage to share solo works across a variety of instruments and styles. Come help us celebrate our fabulous student musicians!
Join us on Sunday, April 12, 6pm for the first annual UIS Community Music Concert! The concert features the 2026 UIS Music Solo Competition winners as soloists with the UIS Orchestra; the UIS Jazz Ensemble; UIS Flute Choir; UIS String Academy; and UIS Community Music School students. The concert is FREE and open to the public. Join us in this celebration of our talented community musicians!
Step into the smokey cafes and shadowed streets of old Piraeus... for a brief lunchtime concert featuring Greek rebetika songs—music born of desire, heartbreak, and ultimate resilience. This concert features rebetika songs about love and speaks to the many dimensions of the human heart—affection, longing, separation, and enduring connection.
Join us as Dr. Sharon Graf and fellow duet musicians will explore the theme of Rita Grendze's "Belly" Exhibition: Nourishment and Scarcity.
Join us on Saturday, Dec 6, 7pm for the end-of-semester recital featuring UIS student musicians and students of the UIS Community Music School and UIS String Academy. This concert is a culmination of a semester's work and features repertoire for solo instrumentalists. Support your friends and colleagues and join us at this free event!
FREE and open to the public.
Join us for an inspiring evening of chamber music as our student ensembles present the culmination of their semester’s work. This concert showcases a wide range of repertoire—from classical masterworks to popular music to brand new compositions—compmosed and performed by small chamber ensembles and the UIS Camerata band.