Check the Lawrence University Calendar

for a complete schedule of Conservatory performances.

Admission to events listed below is free except where indicated. Many non-ticketed events may also be enjoyed via webcast.

Upcoming Ensemble Performances

  • Nov 8
    Lawrence University Jazz Band Concert
    01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Patty Darling, director | A Tribute to John Harmon '57 | Fred Sturm - Skyhawk | John Harmon - Night of the August Moon, with Nadje Noordhuis, flugelhorn | John Harmon - Humble Pie | John Harmon - solo selection with John Harmon, piano | Patty Darling - North Star, with Nadje Noordhuis, flugelhorn | John Harmon/arr. Matt Turner - Half a Bubble Off | Price: Free
  • Nov 9
    Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble (LUPE) Concert
    03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Jean Carlo Urena Gonzalez, director | Everything But Percussion | Jessie Marino - Piece for the Middle Seat of an Airplane | Mei-Fang Lin - Match, in Memoriam Mauricio Kagel | John Cage - Living Room Music | Thierry De Mey - Musique de Table | Viet Cuong - Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine | Steve Reich - Clapping Music | Price: Free
  • Nov 14
    Lawrence University Choirs Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Shannon Gravelle and Phillip A. Swan, directors | Jennifer Lucy Cook - For You, I Will Be an Island | Sydney Guillaume - Twa Tanbou | Alexi Matchavariani - Doluri | Darius Lim - Fire of Hope | Dieterich Buxtehude - Alleluja from Der Herr ist mit mir, BuxWV 15 | Joshua Rist - Invictus | Brian Tate - Greater Than | Reena Esmail - Take What You Need | Price: Free
  • Nov 15
    Lawrence Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Mark Dupere, conductor | Thea Musgrave - Loch Ness: A postcard from Scotland, with Zach Marley, tuba | Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, op. 56 (Scottish) | Price: Free
  • Nov 17
    Jazz Combos Concert 1
    08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Nov 19
    Jazz Combos Concert 2
    03:10 PM - 04:10 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Nov 19
    Lawrence University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Concert
    08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Matthew Arau and Ceon D. Rumphs, conductors | Memories | William Pitts - Revelry | Vincent Persichetti - Pageant | Kelijah Dunton - Letters, with Nicole Frias, student conductor | Viet Cuong - Deciduous | Paul Dooley - Fantasy of Colors | Caroline Shaw/arr. Danielle Fisher - and the swallow, with Kat Green, student conductor | Joel Puckett - I wake in the dark and remember, with Jenny Snyder Kozoroz, viola | Price: Free
  • Nov 20
    Jazz Combos Concert 3
    04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Nov 20
    Fall Opera Scenes
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Copeland Woodruff, director | Kristin Roach, music director | Mozart - Cosi fan tutte | Lee Hoiby - A Month in the Country | Milton Granger - Angry Birdsong | Menotti - The Saint of Bleecker Street | Jake Heggie - Two Remain | William Finn - March of the Falsettos | Price: Free
  • Feb 22
    Lawrence University Symphonic Band Concert
    03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Matthew Arau, conductor | Price: Free
  • Feb 23
    Improvisation Group of Lawrence University (IGLU) Concert
    08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Matt Turner, director | Price: Free
  • Feb 25
    Lawrence University Jazz Band Concert
    08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Jose Encarnacion, director | Price: Free
  • Feb 28
    Lawrence University Wind Ensemble Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Ceon D. Rumphs, conductor | Frank Ticheli - Postcard | Joseph Schwantner/trans. Andrew Boysen, Jr. - Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, with Jean Carlo Urena Gonzalez, percussion | Paul Hindemith/arr. Keith Wilson - Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber | Price: Free
  • Mar 1
    Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble (LUPE) Concert
    03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Jean Carlo Urena Gonzalez, director | Price: Free
  • Mar 4
    Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE) Concert
    08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Patty Darling, director | Price: Free
  • Mar 5
    Mainstage Opera
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Stansbury Theater
    Evan Mack - A Nearer Mother* | *World premiere | Price: Adults: $15; Seniors: $10; non-LU students: $8; LU faculty/staff/students: free with ID
  • Mar 6
    Mainstage Opera
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Stansbury Theater
    Evan Mack - A Nearer Mother* | *World premiere | Price: Adults: $15; Seniors: $10; non-LU students: $8; LU faculty/staff/students: free with ID
  • Mar 7
    Mainstage Opera
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Stansbury Theater
    Evan Mack - A Nearer Mother* | *World premiere | Price: Adults: $15; Seniors: $10; non-LU students: $8; LU faculty/staff/students: free with ID
  • Mar 8
    Mainstage Opera
    03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
    Location: Stansbury Theater
    Evan Mack - A Nearer Mother* | *World premiere | Price: Adults: $15; Seniors: $10; non-LU students: $8; LU faculty/staff/students: free with ID
  • Mar 9
    Jazz Combos Concert 1
    08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Mar 11
    Jazz Combos Concert 2
    03:10 PM - 04:10 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Mar 12
    Jazz Combos Concert 3
    04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Mar 13
    Lawrence University Choirs Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Shannon Gravelle and Phillip A. Swan, directors | Price: Free
  • Mar 14
    Lawrence Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Mark Dupere, conductor | Bienvenido Bustamante - Suite Macorix | Nikolai Kapustin - Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra, op. 14, with Kyle Roberts '28, piano (Concerto Competition Co-winner) | Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43, with Nhi Hoang Quach '27, piano (Concerto Competition Co-Winner) | Price: Free
  • Apr 15
    New Music Series: Steve Reich's Music for Eighteen Musicians, 50th Anniversary Celebration
    08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    The Lawrence New Music Ensemble performs Steve Reich's groundbreaking and mesmerizing work 50 years after its premiere in April 1976. Scored for four pianos and a battery of percussionists, vocalists, strings, and winds, the work is rarely performed, last heard at Lawrence in 2016. Price: Free
  • Apr 24
    Major Works Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Lawrence University Choirs and Symphony Orchestra | Shannon Gravelle, conductor | Brahms - Gesang der Parzen, op. 89 | Beach - The Canticle of the Sun, op. 123 | Bruckner - Requiem, WAB 39 | Price: Free
  • Apr 25
    Lawrence University Wind Ensemble Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Ceon D. Rumphs, conductor | David Maslanka - Traveler | David Biedenbender - Kyrie (for Machaut and Part) | David Biedenbender - dreams in the dusk, with Joseph Connor, saxophone | Quinn Mason - Symphony No. 4 Strange Time | Price: Free
  • May 13
    Improvisation Group of Lawrence University (IGLU) Concert
    08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Matt Turner, director | Price: Free
  • May 16
    Lawrence University Balinese Gamelan Concert
    03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    I Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana, director | Price: Free
  • May 17
    Kinkaviwo Concert
    03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Nani Agbeli and Greg Riss, directors | Price: Free
  • May 21
    Spring Opera Scenes
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Stansbury Theater
    Copeland Woodruff, director | Kristin Roach, music director and conductor | Price: Free
  • May 22
    Lawrence University Jazz Band Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Jose Encarnacion, director | Price: Free
  • May 23
    Lawrence University Symphonic Band Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Matthew Arau, conductor | Price: Free
  • May 24
    Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble (LUPE) Concert
    03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Jean Carlo Urena Gonzalez, director | Price: Free
  • May 27
    Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE) Concert
    08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Patty Darling, director | Price: Free
  • May 29
    Lawrence University Choirs Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Shannon Gravelle and Phillip A. Swan, directors | Price: Free
  • May 30
    Lawrence University Wind Ensemble Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Ceon D. Rumphs, conductor | Lili Boulanger/arr. Jack Hontz - D'un Matin de Printemps | Carlos Simon - Sweet Chariot | Concerto Competition Winner - TBD | Leonard Bernstein/arr. Clare Grundman - Candide Suite | Price: Free
  • Jun 1
    Jazz Combos Concert 1
    08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Jun 3
    Jazz Combos Concert 2
    03:10 PM - 04:10 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Jun 4
    Jazz Combos Concert 3
    04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
    Location: Harper Hall
    Price: Free
  • Jun 5
    Lawrence Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Concert
    07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
    Location: Lawrence Memorial Chapel
    Mark Dupere, conductor | Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125, with Lawrence University Concert Choir and soloists | Price: Free