Carmen, Joshua Redman, Eurydice and Valerie Cohen. Big names in the jazz scene, theatrical stage and local artist circles make their appearances at the ƼӰԭ in April.
This year's Reno Jazz Festival will feature concerts by The Bad Plus Joshua Redman, Don Byon with The Collective and three days of the best competitive performances from school bands from middle school to college. The jazz festival continues to bring together both talented students and renown professional artists in an educational setting made for music.
Opera lovers will get a chance to enjoy "La Tragedie de Carmen" based on Georges Bizet's "Carmen." The Nevada Chamber Opera will present the tragic romance between a sensuous gypsy and a Spanish soldier accompanied by the University Symphony Orchestra.
Meanwhile, theater fans can see Sarah Ruhl's "Eurydice," a reimagined vision of the classic Orpheus myth. It will be directed by new faculty member Adriano Cabral.
University Galleries is opening the vaults to showcase three major collections of art that were recently acquired. Highlights include large-scale paintings by Richard Etts, works by Joel Meyerowitz, Paul Sepuya and Darryl Curran; and beaded baskets by Rebecca Eagle. Artist, writer, illustrator and environmental activist Valerie Cohen will be showing alongside with her exhibition, "Tree Lines."
Get your newest copy of the Arts 365 calendar by signing up at www.unr.edu/NVArts365. It is packed with art, dance, theatre and music events for the Spring 2017 semester.
Events through April
Reno Chamber Orchestra/Chamber Singers and Symphonic Choir Concert
7:30 p.m. April 1; 2 p.m. April 2
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
The ƼӰԭ Chamber Singers and Symphonic Choir will join with members of the University voice faculty and the Reno Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Theodore Kuchar for a performance of Antonin Dvorak's "Stabat Mater."
Tickets: $5-$50; tickets are available through the Reno Chamber Orchestra website
Argenta Concert Series: Cello Bello
7:30 p.m. April 4
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
The Argenta Concert Series concert will be dedicated to celebrating the beautiful sound, versatility, and limitless capabilities of the cello. In the hands of cellists Clive Greensmith, Mihai Marica, John Henry Crawford and Dmitri Atapine, Nightingale Concert Hall will resonate with diverse combinations for this instrument. Solos, duos, and trios by Bach, Boccherini, Klengel and Rachmaninoff, to name but a few, will showcase the cello in all its glory to the delight of our audiences. Greensmith has been the cellist of the distinguished Tokyo Quartet and currently is on the faculty at Coburn School in Los Angeles. Marica is the winner of the Irving Klein and Luis Sigall Competitions and a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Crawford is establishing himself as one of the preeminent new voices in the cello world, having performed with such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra or the Dallas Symphony. Atapine is the professor of cello at the ƼӰԭ. Do not miss the events associated with this concert, such as master-classes and workshops to be given by guest artists.
Tickets: $30; $5 University students with ID
Additions: Recent Permanent Collection Acquisitions
April 6-May 18
Reception: 6-8 p.m. April 6
Sheppard Contemporary, Church Fine Arts
Over the past year, University Galleries has added three major collections of art in addition to several individual acquisitions to the Department of Art's permanent collection. This exhibition reviews the highlights of these exhibitions including large-scale paintings by Richard Etts, several dozen photographs including works by contemporary artists Joel Meyerowitz, Paul Sepuya and Darryl Curran; ceramic sculpture by Mary Bowron, beaded baskets by Rebecca Eagle, Southwest ceramic pottery, and more.
Tickets: Free
Valerie Cohen: "Tree Lines"
April 6-May 18
Reception: 6-8 p.m. April 6
Sheppard Contemporary, Church Fine Arts
Valerie Cohen's exhibition Tree Lines corresponds with a forthcoming publication of the same name from University of Nevada, Press. Artist, writer, illustrator and environmental activist, Cohen is a renowned watercolorist and draftsman. This exhibition presents pen and ink line drawings of pine trees growing at or near the timberline in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountain Ranges of Eastern California. Cohen draws the geometric form of each tree she's chosen to represent, but she also reveals how it grows, and where, and how cold the wind is, and how many hundreds or thousands of years the tree has been alive through the thoughtful addition of her own artist voice.
Tickets: Free
Konah Zebert: "Desert as Home"
April 10-20
Reception: 6-8 p.m. April 13
Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building
Public Lecture: 4 p.m. April 13
Room 100, Jot Travis Building
Annual thesis exhibition of artwork by graduating Master of Fine Arts student Konah Zebert. "Desert as Home" reveals the human interaction in the desert lands surrounding Reno, Nevada, as well as the visual impact these activities incur.
Tickets: Free
Artist Talk: Sean Caulfield
5:30 p.m. April 13
William J. Raggio Building, Room 2030
Sean Caulfield makes artist books, prints, drawings and installations that explore the impact of technology on the environment and on our bodies. He makes images that blur the boundaries between the biological and the technological, the organic and the mechanical, and challenges viewers to consider the implications of this merger.
Tickets: Free
La Tragedie de Carmen
7:30 p.m. April 14-15
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
Nevada Chamber Opera presents La Tragédie de Carmen (based on Georges Bizet's "Carmen"), the story of a doomed romance between a sensuous gypsy and Don Jose, a Spanish soldier whom she lures into her world. The opera will be accompanied by the University Symphony Orchestra and performed in French, with English supertitles.
Tickets: $20; $5 for University students with ID
"Eurydice" presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance
7:30 p.m. Apr 14-15, April 19-22; 1:30 p.m. April 23
Redfield Studio Theatre, Church Fine Arts
Called "rhapsodically beautiful" by the New York Times, "Eurydice" is Sarah Ruhl's reimagined vision of the classic Orpheus myth. After her death on her wedding day, Eurydice finds herself in the underworld laced with deep memories and armed with the means to forget. Ruhl's play is a strange, wonderful, and timeless story of love, loss, and the memories we carry-and those we leave behind. Directed by Adriano Cabral.
Tickets: $15; $12 for seniors; $10 for students ages 2-18 and University faculty/staff; $5 for University students with ID (limited quantity).
Percussion Ensemble and World Percussion Ensemble
7:30 p.m. April 18
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
The ƼӰԭ Percussion Ensemble will present a spring concert featuring large and small ensemble compositions. The University's World Percussion Ensemble also will perform.
Tickets: $5; free for University students with ID
Jazz Ensembles 1 and 2
7:30 p.m. April 19
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
Big Band music from the past, present and future.
Tickets: $5; free for University students with ID
Day at the Museum
10 a.m.-4 p.m. April 22
University Museums
The Day at the Museum features a self-guided tour of museums on or nearby the ƼӰԭ campus. The event is geared for families or anyone interested in art, history, earth science, life science and even outer space.
Tickets: Free
UPDATED: Nevada Tuba Day
1-5:30 p.m. April 22
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
The ƼӰԭ Tuba-Euphonium Studio welcomes guest artist Deanna Swoboda. The assistant professor of music at Arizona State University will join participants for a day of performances, rehearsals and master classes at the annual Nevada Tuba Day celebration. Bring your instrument and join the Tuba Day Mass Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble to rehearse and perform in its final concert, or just come to listen! All events are free and open to the public.
Tickets: Free
Tom Drakulich: "To The Things We Will Never Not Remember Again"
April 24-May 4
Reception: 6-8 p.m. April 27
Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building
Public Lecture: 5-6 p.m. April 27
Annual thesis exhibition of artwork by graduating Master of Fine Arts student Tom Drakulich. To interact with the unfamiliar is to deal directly with personal intimacy. In the "To the Things We Will Never Not Remember Again" exhibition, figurative abstraction serves as a trigger to invite cognitive interaction concerning longing, desire and intimacy.
Tickets: Free
Nevada Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band
7:30 p.m. April 26
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
The Nevada Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band present their season finale. Monolithic, moving and meaningful masterworks to be performed.
Tickets: $5: free for University students with ID
Reno Jazz Festival: Don Byron with The Collective
7:30 p.m. April 27
Nightingale Concert Hall, Church Fine Arts
The opening concert will feature Don Byron, a renowned jazz artist, who will join the ƼӰԭ's faculty combo, The Collective. For more than two decades, Byron, a recipient of the first Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, has been a singular voice in an astounding range of musical contexts, exploring widely divergent traditions while continually striving for what he calls "a sound above genre." As a clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and social critic, he redefines every genre of music he plays, be it classical, salsa, hip-hop, funk, rhythm & blues, klezmer, or any jazz style from swing and bop to cutting-edge downtown improvisation. He has been consistently voted best clarinetist by critics and readers alike in leading international music journals since being named "Jazz Artist of the Year" by Down Beatin 1992. Acclaimed as much for his restless creativity as for his unsurpassed virtuosity as a player, Byron has presented a multitude of projects at major music festivals around the world.
Tickets: $24; $19 for seniors; $12 for students
Reno Jazz Festival: The Bad Plus Joshua Redman
7:30 p.m. April 28
Lawlor Event Center
The Bad Plus - bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King - have a well-earned reputation for pushing the limits on what is expected of a piano-bass-drums trio. For almost two decades, the genre-smashing band has created an original repertoire of inventive music, along with iconoclastic covers of artists as divergent as Nirvana, Neil Young, Aphex Twin and Ornette Coleman. For its appearance at the 2017 Reno Jazz Festival, the New York-based trio is joined by saxophonist Joshua Redman. It's a collaboration that began in 2011 with a handful of performances before they went into the studio to record "The Bad Plus Joshua Redman," which was released in 2015. The merger was a successful one. "The newly christened Bad Plus Joshua Redman took the stage ... and proceeded to raise the roof," according to a review in Metroland of Albany, N.Y. "In a word, the music the quartet produces is sublime. More than that, it's as though Redman is the long-lost fourth member of the group, just waiting to be snapped snugly into place."
Tickets: $30; $26 for seniors, University faculty and staff; $20 for students; $5 for University students with ID
Reno Jazz Festival: Showcase and Awards Ceremony
6:30 p.m. April 29
Lawlor Events Center
The Reno Jazz Festival Showcase will feature encore performances from some of the highest-rated groups and soloists in the festival. During the showcase performances, awards will be given in recognition of individuals and groups who place in the top five of each category (top eight for middle school bands).
Tickets: $18; $15 seniors; $12 for students; $5 for University students with ID
ONGOING
Quynh Tran: "Not Here, Nor There"
Until April 6
Student Galleries South, Jot Travis Building
Annual thesis exhibition of artwork by graduating Master of Fine Arts student Quynh Tran. A series of multi-room installations that incorporate printed wallpapers, sculptural structures, light and sound effects to transform viewers' experiences as they transition in between the gallery.
Tickets: Free
The University's School of the Arts embraces its role as a vibrant center for arts and culture in northern Nevada. Its degree programs provide a strong foundation in a range of artistic disciplines, enabling students to contribute as artists, educators and scholars at the local level and beyond. The School also supports and encourages research, innovation and the artistic endeavors of its faculty. Finally, the school encourages broad campus and community participation in the arts through its numerous performances, lectures, shows, core courses and outreach activities that explore diverse cultures and encourage lifelong learning.
Most Arts365 performances and exhibits take place in the Church Fine Arts building on the University campus. For more information about the exhibits and performances, go to www.unr.edu/NVArts365, call 775-784-4278 (4ART), or email arts@unr.edu. Event information, news and photos are also available by following the School of the Arts' Instagram and Twitter @NVArts365, Facebook and Google+ pages.
