Office for Arts Integration - Master Calendar

University of Illinois Philharmonia Orchestra and Illini Strings

Event Type

Performance

Sponsor

School of Music

Location

Foellinger Great Hall, 709 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801

Date

Oct 9, 2025   7:30 pm  

Cost

10 / SC Senior citizens: age 65 or over, or retired U of I faculty and staff 7 / STU Non-U of I college students, UI Current, full-time U of I student & YTH Youth: high school and younger 4

Registration

Tickets

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Originating Calendar

The Office for Arts Integration Events

Illini Strings
Noah Burch, graduate conductor
Angie Howell, graduate conductor

University of Illinois Philharmonia Orchestra
Dr. Rebecca B. MacLeod, conductor
Victor Yip, graduate conductor

Program

Illini Strings

Gustav Holst: Brook Green Suite
Béla Bartók: 10 Dances for Children
Jack Jarrett: Meditation
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Airs

Illini Strings proudly features students from all colleges across the U of I campus. This ensemble performs staples of the string orchestral repertoire and explores the music of emerging and lesser-known composers from across the globe.

University of Illinois Philharmonia Orchestra

Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to Nabucco
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Idyll
Florence Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: March Slav

The University of Illinois Philharmonia Orchestra (Philharmonia) performs major literature from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. It is comprised of students representing upwards of 35 majors from throughout the university community. The orchestra rehearses twice weekly and typically performs two concerts a semester.

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