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Join us for the UIS Orchestra Festival Concert, featuring performances by the UIS Orchestra and the Illinois Symphony Youth Ensembles! This family-friendly concert celebrates the joy of orchestral music and offers a special opportunity to experience the progression of musical development, from the youngest beginning musicians to advanced youth performers, college students, and adult musicians.
Sip on some cider and join us for another string concert with the talented UIS Faculty String Quartet! Enjoy classics like Vivaldi, seasonal delights like Danse Macabre, plus a tribute to the late Dolly Parton.
Tickets are "pay-what-you-can," which means you get to choose your price! The concert is co-hosted by the UIS Music Program and the Staley Museum in Decatur, Illinois.
Join trumpeter Frank Parker and the UIS Jazz Band for a night of Jazz at The Pharmacy Gallery.
Light Refreshments Available
$10 Donation at door.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council through federal funds provided by the National Endowment of the Arts and with funding from the Springfield Area Arts Council.
Join us for a festive evening of Greek music, dancing, food, and community, featuring the Rebetiko Roots Ensemble and Springfield International Folk Dancers!
Enjoy an evening of live traditional Greek music, delicious Greek treats and drinks, and the opportunity to experience Greek music and dance up close. Everyone is invited to join the dance floor—no previous dance experience is needed! Whether you are an experienced dancer or have never tried a Greek dance before, come listen, learn, and dance along.
Travel the world through jazz as saxophonist Jade Kastel and pianist David McEathron share a vibrant collection of music inspired by cities and cultures across the globe, highlighting the genre’s remarkable journey across time and place
Dan Clucas (b. 1966) is a cornet and violin player from Los Angeles. He has played and recorded with countless musicians in diverse Jazz, creative music, and free improvisation settings for decades. Performing in trio with Richard Gilman-Opalsky on drums and Adam Larison on guitar.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming how people learn and work, and at the University of Illinois Springfield, faculty are ensuring students are prepared to navigate and shape that change.
Across disciplines, UIS faculty are integrating AI into coursework, research and community-focused projects, giving students hands-on experience with tools and concepts that are changing the workforce.
Here are just a few of the ways AI is being used at UIS:
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