Music

Performances by UIS Camerata Students

Performances by Dr. Adam Larison, Richard Gilman-Opalsky and Guests

Soprano Kristina Bachrach and pianist Winston Choi perform music by Armando Bayolo about love, identity and what it means to be Hispanic. The program includes two recent largescale works: the song cycle Neruda Enamorado, setting Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, and the autobiographical piano cycle, Memorias Vagabundas, which Nico Muhly has called “a gift to pianists” and Vicky Chow declares as “a masterpiece.”

Performances by UIS and Community Musicians

Fourteen years ago, a stack of music was found amongst the papers of the black Chicagoan composer Florence Price: it was her long-lost cantata "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," set to the poem by Springfield native Vachel Lindsay. And now this lost & found masterpiece will be heard for the first time in Springfield, the city of both Lincoln and Lindsay. The UIS Orchestra will join forces with the Springfield Choral Society and baritone soloist Justin Johnson, under the baton of Jacobsen Woollen. Admission is free. No reservations required. Program: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8, Allegro Aperto (featuring UIS Solo Competition winner Ruoshui Cai) Florence Price: Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight This concert is the culminating event of Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight: A Springfield Festival. For more information about the festival, including a full line-up of events, please visit the festival webpage: https://www.springfieldchoralsociety.org/post/abraham-lincoln-walks-at-midnight-a-springfield-festival-february-22-24-2024

Performances by UIS Camerata Students

Performances by Dr. Adam Larison and Richard Gilman-Opalsky

Performances by Adib Young and Eli Naragon

The show’s pitch perfect harmonies, dynamic choreography, & costuming perfectly capture the sights & sound of Motown.

​The Magic of Motown – A Journey Through Motown’s Best Including: The Temptations, The Jackson Five, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson and more!

John Mellencamp’s career in music, spanning more than 35 years, is one of the most highly respected singer/songwriters of a generation. Mellencamp is incredibly acclaimed; he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a recipient of the John Steinbeck Award, ASCAP Foundation’s Champion Award, The Woody Guthrie Award and Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award and more recently, the Founders Award, the top honor assigned by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.