Past Events
Department of Music Lecture: Walter Parks, guitarist, composer, storyteller based in St Louis
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
A Clinic with Walter Parks, guitar
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Artist Talk: Ballaké Sissoko, kora
in conversation with Patrick Burke and El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Great Artists Series '26: Ballaké Sissoko, kora and Derek Gripper, guitar
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Kemper Unplugged: Afolia
Co-sponsor: Kemper Art Museum
Kemper Art Museum
CANCELLED - Coffee and Conversation with Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
Moderated by Todd Decker
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Vicki Ray, piano, Guest Recital
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
WashU Jazz Series: Maurice Carnes Quartet with Kendrick Smith
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
442s Holiday Spectacular
The 442s: Adam Maness, multi-instrumentalist; Shawn Weil, violin; Shannon Williams, viola; Bjorn Ranheim, cello; Bob DeBoo, bass; and Kaleb Kirby, drums.
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Wind Division Recital
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Guitar Gala
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Holiday Celebrations: Lights, Laughter, and Fa-La-La
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Voice Division Recital
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
WashU Faculty String Quartet at the Med Campus
Sponsored by the Frieden and Jiang Endowed Fund for the Arts
Moore Auditorium, North Building (Medical Campus)
Chamber Music Division Recital
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Wind Ensemble Concert
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
WashU Jazz Series: Jazz Combo Program
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
WashU Choirs present "Woven Song: A Choral Journey through American History"
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Piano Division Recital
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Kemper Unplugged: The Perseid String Quartet
Co-sponsor: Kemper Art Museum
Kemper Art Museum
WashU Jazz Series: The Bridge #2.8
Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall
Symphony Orchestra: Symphonic Adventures
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
String Division Recital
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Tyondai Braxton, composer, guest artist performance
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Lecture: Tyondai Braxton, composer/performing artist
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
WashU Jazz Series: Cabaret
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Friends of Music Concerto & Aria Competition
Sponsored by Friends of Music
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Memorial Concert for Sandra Geary
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Masterclass with Einav Yarden, piano
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Einav Yarden, piano, guest artist recital
Sponsored by Drs. Joseph Marcus and Margaret Olsen
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
The Living Earth Show, Samuel Adams, & Post:ballet present 'Lyra'
Harold Blumenfeld Concert
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Tale of Two Rivers – featuring the WashU Faculty String Quartet and Jazz Trio
in conjunction with the opening of Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea, Saint Louis Art Museum
Sculpture Hall, Saint Louis Art Museum
Department of Music Lecture: Graduate Student Lectures
WashU Graduate Students
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Kemper Unplugged: Candice Ivory and WashU students interpret the Great American Songbook
Co-sponsor: Kemper Art Museum
Kemper Art Museum
FMS Colloquium Lecture Series: Lisa Mumme “‘Art Thou a Witch or a Woman?’: Gender, Queerness, Sound, and Music in Witch Films "
(co-sponsorship with Department of Music)
Seigle Room 106
WashU Jazz Series: Jazz Band Concert
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Chamber Project St. Louis presents The Americas: A tapestry of sound
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Lecture: Graduate Student Conference Lectures
WashU Graduate Students
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Chamber Choir Concert
Graham Chapel
Workshop of Afro-Brazilian Samba and Capoeira from Backland Bahia, Brazil
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Encore! A Celebration of Family and Music
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Showcase
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Ariel Concert Series
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Kemper Unplugged: The Wire Pilots
Co-sponsor: Kemper Art Museum
Kemper Art Museum
St. Louis Symphony on the South 40
A St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Community Partnerships program
South 40 (just outside of Bear's Den)
WashU Jazz Series: Kasimu Taylor Quartet
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Open House
We invite all WashU students to learn about music classes, ensembles, and lessons for the fall semester!
Gaylord Music Library
Concert II: Bygone - Missouri Chamber Music Festival, Season 15
Graham Chapel
Jenny Lin, Senior Minor Recital, piano
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Wind and Brass Recital
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Guitar Gala
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
David Donoghue, Senior Minor Recital, voice
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Voice Division Recital
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Jazz Band Concert
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Symphony Orchestra and Choirs: A Sea Symphony
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Noah Kennedy, Senior Minor Recital, violin
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Chamber Music Division Recital
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Wind Ensemble Concert
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Jazz Combos Concert
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Edgar Palomino, Senior Minor Recital, violin and piano
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Sean Wang, Senior Minor Recital, trombone
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Nora Navid, Senior Minor Recital, violin
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Henry Kessler, Senior Minor Recital, viola
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
String Division Recital
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Lecture: "Luminous Striations: Composing with Justly Tuned Unison Canons"
Connor Elias Way, Visiting Lecturer in Electronic Music and Composition, Washington University in St. Louis
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Great Artists Series '25: Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ and the Blood Moon Orchestra
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Josephine Kopff, Senior Recital, voice
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Piano Division Recital
Recital Hall, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Lecture: The Architecture of Xenakis’s Persepolis: Sound, Spatiotemporality, and Ontology
Khashayar Shahriyari, Ph.D. Student in Music Theory, Washington University in St. Louis
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Jazz at Holmes: WashU Student and Faculty Combo ft. James Baba
Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall
Faculty Showcase
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Concert Choir and Chamber Choir Concert: From Earth to Sky
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Lecture: “Cómo un fantasma se aparece”: Ghost Smuggling Ballads as Repositories of Haunting, Transgenerational Trauma, and Undocumented Migrant Survival
Teresita Lozano, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Kemper Unplugged: Women in Jazz
Co-sponsor: Kemper Art Museum
Kemper Art Museum
Great Artists Series '25: Lawrence Brownlee, tenor and Kevin Miller, piano
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
A Masterclass with Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
Free and open to the public!
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Chamber Choir Concert: Her Voice, Her Song, A Celebration of Women Composers
Graham Chapel
Great Artists Series '25: Yefim Bronfman, piano
Annual Pillsbury Event
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Lecture: "Adventures in Functional Space, an Expanded Map of Harmonic Function"
John Bayne, Ph.D. Student in Music Theory, Washington University in St. Louis
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Wind Ensemble Concert
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Symphony Orchestra
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
JJJJJerome Ellis
In partnership with New Music Circle
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
Department of Music Lecture: Roland Wiggins’s (META) Music Theory: How to “Become your own Theorist”
Marc Hannaford, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of Michigan
Music Classroom Building, Room 102
Jazz Band Concert
Pillsbury Theatre, 560 Music Center
A Masterclass with Karen Gomyo, violin
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Great Artists Series '25: Karen Gomyo, violin and Orion Weiss, piano
E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, 560 Music Center
Kemper Unplugged: Sweeter Than Roses, A Baroque / Pop Bouquet
Co-sponsor: Kemper Art Museum
Kemper Art Museum