Please note: Ticketed events are open to off-campus patrons this season,
with proof of vaccination checked at the door and facemasks during the performance.
We do not accommodate exceptions to this policy.
Christopher Engbretson, conductor
Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 • 7:30 pm
Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Come join us for a joyful, festive celebration of the holiday season in beautifully-decorated Hudson Hall.
Our Holidays in Hudson concerts feature Willamette's Chamber Choir and Voce, performing timeless works from the choral canon, including excerpts from Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, alongside some more familiar holiday tunes.
The evening is an opportunity to slow down and enjoy a moment of peace and beauty amidst the fast pace of the holiday season.
Admission: $10 general admission. Students: Free!
Qinqing Hilkert, conductor
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
The live concert is back! We may not have gone wherever we intended to go for a very long time, but the adventure never ends. The Willamette Wind Ensemble and University Chamber Orchestra bring you the newest music and the ingenious masterpiece from Mozart.
Free admission! Please read COVID guidelines for off-campus guests.
Jean-David Coen, musical director
Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Our second concert brings Pulitzer Award winning composer Caroline Shaw to our campus for a small residency starting January 31, with the concluding concert on February 2, 2022.
We are both fortunate and proud to announce that in collaboration with New Music at Willamette, we will present a world premiere by the composer, commissioned for our Zeller Chair in Dramatic Vocal Arts, Katherine Skovira. The program surrounding the world premiere will involve many musicians: students, faculty, artist associates, and guest artists, from solo unaccompanied works to string quartet and Willamette choirs.
Additional details about the residency will be forthcoming. The opportunity for one of the world's great composers to work with our students, in addition to composing for our faculty and community, is reason to celebrate.
Christopher Engbretson, conductor
Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Free admission! Please read COVID guidelines for off-campus guests.
Qinqing Hilkert, conductor
Thursday, March 3, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Free admission! Please read COVID guidelines for off-campus guests.
James Miley, conductor
Friday, March 4, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Cone Chapel, Waller Hall
The Jazz Collective is pleased to present a special guest for this performance!
Free admission! Please read COVID guidelines for off-campus guests.
Katherine Skovira, conductor
March 12 and 13, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Dramatic Vocal Arts and the Voice Area present the third installment of “Artist as Advocate” Series, with never before heard world and regional/Salem premieres by artist-advocate, BIPOC, and female composer/performers from the 20th and 21st centuries.
DVA singers will present musical premiers of pieces written specifically for their own voices, as well as ensemble pieces that highlight themes driven by advocacy and equity. An exciting evening of chamber, instrumental and solo music, multimedia, and poetry!
Mike Nord, musical director
Thursday, March 10, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Rogers Rehearsal Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Free admission! Please read COVID guidelines for off-campus guests.
James Miley, conductor
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 • 7:30 pm
Cone Chapel, Waller Hall
Join us for a night of instrumental and vocal jazz with the Jazz Collective and Willamette Singers!
Free admission! Please read COVID guidelines for off-campus guests.
Jean-David Coen, musical director
October 27, 2021 • 7:30 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
The last Distinguished Artist concert of the season brings back one of the series' dearest friends, pianist Bryan Pezzone, in collaboration with François Houle, a clarinetist of supremely varied talents.
These two musicians epitomize improvisational brilliance, along with genre defying creativity.
Christopher Engbretson, conductor
Sunday, April 24, 2022 • 3:00 pm
Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
The Willamette University Music Department combines its largest choral and instrumental ensembles in this presentation of the iconic 20th-century psalm settings for orchestra and chorus. Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms is by far the composer’s best known religious work — a powerful, moving, and transcendent piece that moves from lonely isolation and wandering, to rebirth, to joyful exultation.
Willamette University Music Department
Rogers Music Center
503-370-6255
music-info@willamette.edu