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    • 7:30 pm
      5/1/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    Students in these small jazz combos have the opportunity to hone their technique and work on tight arrangements.

    • 7:30 pm
      5/1/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    A preeminent ensemble in the world, the University of Illinois Wind Symphony premieres new works, travels to national and international events, and sets the standard for band performance and training.

    • 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
      5/2/2019

    Looking for a casual place to study on Reading Day from 11am-4pm? Krannert Center has got your back: plenty of seating with charging stations, delicious food and beverages available for purchase from Intermezzo cafe, and more.

    • 5:00 pm
      5/30/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 5:00 pm
      6/6/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 5:00 pm
      6/13/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 5:00 pm
      6/20/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 10:00 am
      6/22/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    Illinois Summer Youth Music (ISYM) is a comprehensive and intensive program of music instruction for student musicians that culminates with free concerts in June and July.

    • 5:00 pm
      6/27/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 10:00 am
      6/29/2019
    • Foellinger Great Halll

    Illinois Summer Youth Music (ISYM) is a comprehensive and intensive program of music instruction for student musicians that culminates with free concerts in June and July.

    • 5:00 pm
      7/11/2019
    • Studio 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 10:00 am
      7/13/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    Illinois Summer Youth Music (ISYM) is a comprehensive and intensive program of music instruction for student musicians that culminates with free concerts in June and July.

    • 5:00 pm
      7/18/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 6:30 pm
      7/19/2019
    • Research Park (1816 South Oak Street, Champaign)

    Krannert Center for the Performing Arts once again joins forces with Fox/Atkins Development, LLC and the University of Illinois to present this free summer concert with Alma Afrobeat Ensemble and Zécca Bom.

    • 10:00 am
      7/20/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall; Tryon Festival Theatre; Studio Theatre

    Illinois Summer Youth Music (ISYM) is a comprehensive and intensive program of music instruction for student musicians that culminates with free concerts in June and July.

    • 7:30 pm
      7/20/2019

    Sinfonia da Camera partners with the School of Music’s Summer Piano Institute in this concert.

    • 5:00 pm
      7/25/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 5:30 pm
      9/5/2019
    • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    Krannert Center’s 50th season opens at high speed with the return of ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival and the Opening Night Party!

    • 9:30 pm
      9/5/2019

    Once you’ve experienced some Opening Night Party goodness, head to the Studio Theatre for this late-night set featuring a powerhouse lineup of six-string practitioners in a totally improvised concert. Luther Dickinson, Steve Dawson, Rob Ickes, Trey Hensley, and Molly Tuttle will light up the night with this collaborative and excitingly extemporaneous experience.

    • 11:00 am
      9/6/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    Experience a broadcast of Illinois Public Media’s "The 21st."

    • 12:00 pm
      9/6/2019

    Slow life down for a moment with the tranquil sounds of slack key guitar—the distinctly Hawaiian finger-style genre known as kī hō’alu in the islands.

    • 1:30 pm
      9/6/2019

    Fabi Reyna—founder of "She Shreds" magazine—will lead this lively conversation about gender and genre in the music industry.

    • 2:45 pm
      9/6/2019

    ELLNORA alum Steve Dawson brings his insightful series of interviews with guitarists and other music makers live to the festival.

    • 4:00 pm
      9/6/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    Rhode Island-based French luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz will lead this panel in an engaging exploration of long-standing guitar-making traditions and the modern craft.

    • 5:00 pm
      9/6/2019
    • Stage 5

    Guitar, percussion, and the 4-stringed bandola llanera drive LADAMA’s chart-topping sound.

    • 6:00 pm
      9/6/2019

    • 7:30 pm
      9/6/2019

    Kaki King is a favorite among Krannert Center audiences. Her newest performance project, DATA NOT FOUND—for which Krannert Center is a commissioning partner and which will premiere at the Center—is an audiovisual expedition featuring new music, projection mapping, and a host of new performative tools.

    • 8:00 pm
      9/6/2019

    Discover the rich and colorful lyricism of this French-born gypsy jazz musician. Past ELLNORA attendees will recall Wrembel’s soaring 2013 fresh-air Amphitheatre sets, filled with flamenco rhythms, Django Reinhardt-inspired odes, and a healthy infusion of rock and blues.

    • 9:00 pm
      9/6/2019

    In 2005, Krannert Center’s very own guitar festival was taking shape for the first time, and jazz icon Pat Metheny made his third visit to the Center’s stages. Fourteen years later, this National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master returns with young jazz frontrunners for a musical incarnation called “Side Eye."

    • 10:00 pm
      9/6/2019

    Discover the rich and colorful lyricism of this French-born gypsy jazz musician. Past ELLNORA attendees will recall Wrembel’s soaring 2013 fresh-air Amphitheatre sets, filled with flamenco rhythms, Django Reinhardt-inspired odes, and a healthy infusion of rock and blues.

    • 10:30 pm
      9/6/2019

    Jazz and experimental guitarist Anthony Pirog leads this instrumental power trio that includes bassist Joe Lally and Brendan Canty on drums (the rhythm section of the legendary punk rock band Fugazi).

    • 9:00 am
      9/7/2019
    • Orchestra Rehearsal Room

    Stretch into the final day of ELLNORA 2019 with a refreshing morning yoga session from Lola Pittenger of GLOW by Lola, including live musical accompaniment.

    • 10:00 am
      9/7/2019

    Bassist Danny Weinkauf is a Grammy Award winner and longtime member of They Might Be Giants. Now with the Red Pants Band, Weinkauf packs his deliciously catchy tunes with pop beats and intelligent topics that reach kids with fun facts and life lessons.

    • 10:15 am
      9/7/2019

    Hear Wrembel’s arrangements of Django Reinhardt’s rare solo guitar works in this 30-minute set.

    • 11:00 am
      9/7/2019

    Emerging Korean guitarist Bokyung Byun enjoys a growing reputation sparked by her first-place finishes in international competitions and proven by her numerous performances across Asia and North America. NPR describes Grammy Award winner Jason Vieaux as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.”

    • 11:00 am
      9/7/2019

    Go up close with the craft of guitar making! Rhode Island-based French luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz is a contemporary luthier with a strong sense of instrument-making traditions.

    • 12:30 pm
      9/7/2019

    Ickes and Hensley are a Grammy-nominated duo made in bluegrass heaven. Together, Ickes and Hensley create a supercharged collaboration that Marty Stuart says affirms “that the real deal still exists.”

    • 1:30 pm
      9/7/2019
    • Stage 5

    Sávila is a medicinal plant that grows wild in tropical climates all over the world, as well as the name of the cumbia/Latin/world/R&B-inspired ensemble of guitarist Fabi Reyna, vocalist Brisa Gonzalez, and percussionist Papi Fimbres. English and Spanish vocals mix in the hypnotizing music of this trio.

    • 2:30 pm
      9/7/2019

    • 2:30 pm
      9/7/2019

    As a young prodigy, Danilo Brito would play the bandolim, a Brazilian-style mandolin, alongside his elders at rodas de choro—informal gatherings of musicians that celebrated Brazil’s popular choro music style. He quickly earned comparisons to Brazil’s pioneering mandolin player Jacob do Bandolim, from whom the bandolim takes its name.

    • 4:00 pm
      9/7/2019

    As a young prodigy, Danilo Brito would play the bandolim, a Brazilian-style mandolin, alongside his elders at rodas de choro—informal gatherings of musicians that celebrated Brazil’s popular choro music style. He quickly earned comparisons to Brazil’s pioneering mandolin player Jacob do Bandolim, from whom the bandolim takes its name.

    • 5:00 pm
      9/7/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Experience a little sonic rejuvenation with this new offering at 5pm and 8pm that combines the wisdom of a spiritual leader with acoustic musical sets.

    • 5:00 pm
      9/7/2019

    These Austin-based rock and rollers own the stage with “irresistible swagger,” unforgettable melodies, and inflections of punk, pop, funk, and soul (The Austin Chronicle). The lineup includes Dominique Davalos (bass, lead vocals), Eve Monsees (guitar, vocals), Kathy Valentine (guitar, vocals—of The Go-Go's), and Christina Comley (drums).

    • 6:00 pm
      9/7/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    Julia Toaspern's lilting, clear vocals and remarkable guitar and fiddle talents combine with Tony McManus’ signature style to create an evening of “breathtaking duets” ("Folker").

    • 7:15 pm
      9/7/2019

    With his embrace of electronica, jazz, rock, and multiple Indian and American musical influences, Rafiq Bhatia—a first-generation son of Muslim immigrants and the guitarist of the band Son Lux—“blows up all expectations about what can be done with the instrument and how it should sound” (The New York Times).

    • 8:00 pm
      9/7/2019

    Experience a little sonic rejuvenation with this new offering that combines the wisdom of spiritual leaders with acoustic musical sets.

    • 8:30 pm
      9/7/2019

    You might know guitar legend Buddy Guy from his eight Grammy wins, his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 37 Blues Music Awards (yes, that’s the most ever!), a Kennedy Center Honor, a Presidential National Medal of Arts, Rolling Stone’s list of “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” or that occasion when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    • 9:00 pm
      9/7/2019

    With his embrace of electronica, jazz, rock, and multiple Indian and American musical influences, Rafiq Bhatia—a first-generation son of Muslim immigrants and the guitarist of the band Son Lux—“blows up all expectations about what can be done with the instrument and how it should sound” (The New York Times).

    • 10:00 pm
      9/7/2019
    • Stage 5

    Come rock out to close out ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival 2019 with beloved local music educator and 40 North ACE Award winner Brandon T. Washington and friends.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/13/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Roussève and his nine-member ensemble powerfully explore the legendary music and complicated emotional truths of Billy Strayhorn, the gay, African-American jazz composer and civil rights activist best known as Duke Ellington’s main arranger and writing partner.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/14/2019
    • Tryon Festival Theatre

    Since the release of his 2004 acclaimed CD "When I Fall In Love," trumpet phenom Chris Botti has become the largest-selling American instrumental artist.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/14/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    Sinfonia’s 36th season opens with a lush, virtuosic program featuring violinist Stefan Milenkovich performing the Bruch Violin Concerto in G Minor.

    • 8:00 pm
      9/14/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    "Smoke & Mirrors," Sasha Velour’s first one-queen show, is an effortless blend of drag, visual art, and magic.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/17/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    The Jupiter String Quartet has invited pianist Jon Nakamatsu—known internationally for the panache and elegance of his solo, concerto, and chamber performances—to join them for "Brahms’ Piano Quintet."

    • 5:00 pm
      9/19/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/19/2019
    • Studio Theatre, Club-Style

    The Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories as well as friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner).

    • 7:30 pm
      9/20/2019
    • Studio Theatre, Club-Style

    The Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories as well as friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner).

    • 7:30 pm
      9/20/2019
    • Tryon Festival Theatre

    Intricate storytelling, a blending of traditional and contemporary song and dance, and a deep connection to traditional ecological knowledge form the heart of Bizhiki Culture & Dance Company, which will present a powerful, intriguing, and informative powwow dance exhibition.

    • 9:30 pm
      9/20/2019
    • Stage 5

    Join us after the performances by Bizhiki Culture & Dance Company and Nathan and Julie Gunn for a free Global Transfer Afterglow concert by Cheick Hamala Diabate and his ensemble at Stage 5.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/21/2019
    • Studio Theatre, Club-Style

    The Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories as well as friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner).

    • 5:30 pm
      9/26/2019
    • Lobby and Theatres

    As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.

    • 6:00 pm
      9/26/2019
    • Amphitheatre

    As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/26/2019
    • Stage 5

    As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.

    • 8:00 pm
      9/26/2019
    • TBA

    As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/27/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    HOME combines dance, illusion, live music, homespun engineering, and inventive audience interaction to compose a work that awakens its viewers to housing dilemmas both local and global while asking, “Where is home?”

    • 7:30 pm
      9/27/2019
    • TBA

    As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.

    • 4:00 pm
      9/28/2019
    • Stage 5

    As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.

    • 7:30 pm
      9/28/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    HOME combines dance, illusion, live music, homespun engineering, and inventive audience interaction to compose a work that awakens its viewers to housing dilemmas both local and global while asking, “Where is home?”

    • 7:00 pm
      10/1/2019
    • Tryon Festival Theatre

    Based on a brilliant script from playwright Peter Terson, the expressive tale portrays the ancient Greek story of a servant on a journey to Mount Olympus, contextualized in the recent history of South Africa and sung in English, Tswana, and Zulu.

    • 5:00 pm
      10/3/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/3/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    If you think you know the Four Seasons, be prepared for surprises, and if you’ve never experienced it before, now is the time. Rich with musical depictions of bird calls, storms, animals, and more, Vivaldi’s story is made clear as Apollo’s Fire precedes each concerto that makes up the work with a quick “tour” of the sound effects to come.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/3/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    Always expect delightful surprises in Studiodance II, when Dance at Illinois students present their dance-making investigations curated by a panel of faculty and students.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/4/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    Always expect delightful surprises in Studiodance II, when Dance at Illinois students present their dance-making investigations curated by a panel of faculty and students.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/5/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    Always expect delightful surprises in Studiodance II, when Dance at Illinois students present their dance-making investigations curated by a panel of faculty and students.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/5/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    CUSO’s 60th-anniversary season begins with some of the most vibrant music ever written, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Dramatic and fateful, amorous and delightful, few works leave an audience more spellbound.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/12/2019
    • Tryon Festival Theatre

    Individually, pianist Chick Corea, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Brian Blade represent the heights of their crafts—so imagine what happens when these three musical masters join forces for a landmark project.

    • 9:30 pm
      10/12/2019
    • Lobby and Stage 5

    Come enjoy a FREE Latin Dance Night in the Krannert Center Lobby, co-sponsored by La Casa Cultural Latina.

    • 5:00 pm
      10/17/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/17/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/18/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/18/2019

    Everyone is invited to this gala concert—and especially all Illinois Bands alumni and their families and friends! Help celebrate one of the most prominent, historic, and largest collegiate band programs in the world.

    • 6:30 pm
      10/19/2019
    • Krannert Room

    Go behind the scenes with a pre-show conversation.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/19/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    Enjoy this University of Illinois Homecoming Saturday concert featuring the world premiere of David Canfield’s recent "Concerto after Elgar," composed for Sinfonia’s principal violist, Csaba Erdélyi.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/19/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.

    • 3:00 pm
      10/20/2019

    The versatile musicians of this orchestra play works ranging from new experimental pieces to classics of the literature.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/23/2019
    • Foellinger Great Hall

    In this delightful program of romantic, captivating, and passionate Italian music, a charming quartet of award-winning, rising musical stars salute tenor statesmen of Italian classical music.

    • 5:00 pm
      10/24/2019
    • Stage 5

    At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/24/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    One of Shakespeare’s earliest commercial successes, critics have sometimes dismissed the tragedy as a failure or as somehow “unShakespearean” for its abrupt tonal shifts and extreme violence.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/24/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/24/2019

    The Illinois Modern Ensemble focuses on contemporary and experimental music. Concerts feature compositions by prominent artists as well as new works by students and faculty members.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/25/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    One of Shakespeare’s earliest commercial successes, critics have sometimes dismissed the tragedy as a failure or as somehow “unShakespearean” for its abrupt tonal shifts and extreme violence.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/25/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/26/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    One of Shakespeare’s earliest commercial successes, critics have sometimes dismissed the tragedy as a failure or as somehow “unShakespearean” for its abrupt tonal shifts and extreme violence.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/26/2019
    • Foellinger Great Halll

    As one of the world’s premier orchestras returns to one of the world’s premier performance halls, David Afkham takes the podium for a program featuring Haydn, R. Strauss, and Brahms.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/26/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.

    • 2:00 pm
      10/27/2019
    • Krannert Room

    Go behind the scenes with a pre-show conversation.

    • 3:00 pm
      10/27/2019
    • Colwell Playhouse

    Part of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, Illinois Theatre’s production is directed by long-time Wilson collaborator Chuck Smith and features a newly choreographed and composed City of Bones section in collaboration with Dance at Illinois.

    • 3:00 pm
      10/27/2019

    This group is made up of undergraduate music majors, graduate students, and other outstanding singers who unite for a wide range of choral works.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/29/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    One of Shakespeare’s earliest commercial successes, critics have sometimes dismissed the tragedy as a failure or as somehow “unShakespearean” for its abrupt tonal shifts and extreme violence.

    • 7:30 pm
      10/30/2019
    • Studio Theatre

    One of Shakespeare’s earliest commercial successes, critics have sometimes dismissed the tragedy as a failure or as somehow “unShakespearean” for its abrupt tonal shifts and extreme violence.