The 2023-24 performance schedule is subject to change. The schedule below will be updated accordingly, but for the most up-to-date information, please check the Lawrence University Calendar.

Admission to events listed below are free except where indicated. For ticketed events please contact the Box Office.

Fall Term 2023 Performances

Friday, October 6, 2023 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence University Choirs Concert

Mark A. Miller – Show Us How to Love
Elaine Hagenberg – Refuge
arr. Keith McCutchen – Amazing Grace
Srul Irving Glick – Psalm 47: Lam’natzeiach Livnei Koraach Mizmor
Kirstina Rasmussen Collins – Antigua Canción
Tim Brent/Amanda Quist – Threads of Joy
Joan Szymko – Nothing Short of Grace
Carlos Cordero – This Sky
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Super Flumina Babylonis
Tracy Wong – Antara

Saturday, October 7, 2023 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Concert

Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, op. 14

Saturday, October 14, 2023 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band Concert (with Boston Brass)

Tickets required
J.S. Bach/Hunsberger – Passacaglia and Fugue
Anne McGinty – Red Balloon
Rick DeJonge – Introduction and Vivace, with Boston Brass
Katahj Copley – Halcyon Hearts
Carl Wittrock – Lord Tullamore
Michael Markowski – City Trees
Gordon Goodwin – Perplexing Times, with Boston Brass

Monday, October 23, 2023 • 8 p.m. • Harper Hall
Improvisational Group of Lawrence University (IGLU) Concert

Saturday, November 4, 2023 • 1:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Jazz Band & Jazz Ensemble (LUJE) Concert

Ellington/Oliver Nelson – It’s Glory
Cole Porter/Myles Collins – Night and Day
Ellington – The Mooche
Eliane Elias/Bob Brookmeyer – Just Kidding
Ellington – Jack the Bear
Fred Sturm – Cerulean Sky
Clare Fischer – The Duke

Friday, November 10, 2023 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence University Choirs with Lawrence Chamber Orchestra

Gabriel Fauré – Requiem (1893 version)

Saturday, November 11, 2023 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Wind Ensemble & Symphonic Band Concert

Gustav Holst – First Suite in E-flat
Alyssa Morris – Shine
Jean-Philippe Vanbeselaere – Around the World
Luke Ellard – The Seer, with Brigit Fitzgerald, bassoon
Judith Bingham – American Icons

Sunday, November 12, 2023 • 3 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
LU Percussion Ensemble (LUPÉ) Concert

Jason Treuting – IX. from Nine Numbers
Paul Lansky – Springs
Juri Seo – SHUI
Alyssa Weinberg – Ember II
Devonté Hynes/Third Coast Percussion – Perfectly Voiceless
Dominican Merengue Variations Medley
Dominican Republic folkloric manifestation – Palos o Atabales
Jean Carlo Ureña González – ATEZA'O
Juan Luis Guerra/Amaury Sánchez – La Bilirrubina

Monday, November 13, 2023 • 3:10 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Workshop Concert

Monday, November 13, 2023 • 8 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #1

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Fall Opera Scenes

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 • 3:10 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #2

Thursday, November 16, 2023 • 4:30 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #3

Friday, November 17, 2023 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Concert

Bohuslav Martinů – Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, H 337, with Matthew Michelic, viola
Beethoven – Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92

Winter Term 2024 Performances

Saturday, February 3, 2024 • 3 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Children’s Concert
Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf, op. 67
Benjamin Britten – The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, op. 34

Monday, February 19, 2024 • 8 p.m. • Harper Hall
Improvisational Group of Lawrence University (IGLU) Concert

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 • 8 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Jazz Band Concert

Friday, February 23, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Choirs Concert

Saturday, February 24, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Wind Ensemble Concert
John Corigliano – ­ Concerto for Clarinet, with Andy Hudson, clarinet
Holly Harrison – Splinter
Gustav Holst – Hammersmith

Sunday, February 25, 2024 • 3 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
LU Percussion Ensemble (LUPÉ) Concert

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 • 8 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE) Concert

Thursday–Sunday, February 29–March 3, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. (Sunday: 3 p.m.) • Stansbury Theater
Mainstage Opera Performances

Tickets required
Pauline Viardot – Cendrillon (Cinderella)
Melissa Dunphy – Alice Tierney

Saturday, March 2, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Symphonic Band Concert
Julius Fučík – Florentiner March
Julie Giroux – One Life Beautiful
Clifton Williams – Symphonic Dance No. 3 “Fiesta”
Frank Ticheli – Angels in the Architecture
Kevin Day – Dancing Fire

Monday, March 4, 2024 • 3:10 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Workshop Concert

Monday, March 4, 2024 • 8 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #1

Wednesday, March 6, 2024 • 3:10 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #2

Thursday, March 7, 2024 • 4:30 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #3

Friday, March 8, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Concert

Anna Clyne – Masquerade
Samuel Barber – Essay for Orchestra, op. 12
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Ballade in A minor, op. 33
Ernest Bloch – Schelomo, with David Smith, cello (Concerto Competition Co-winner)
Bedřich Smetana – The Moldau

Spring Term 2024 Performances

Friday, April 19, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Major Works Concert, Lawrence Symphony Orchestra with Lawrence University Choirs

Mozart – Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620
Mozart – Mass in C minor, K. 427 (“Great”)

Sunday, April 28, 2024 • 3 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Wind Ensemble Concert

Joel Puckett – I wake in the dark and remember, with Matthew Michelic, viola
Joseph Bologne – Overture to “L’amant Anonyme” (Symphony No. 2)
Frank Ticheli – Symphony No. 2

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 • 8 p.m. • Harper Hall
Improvisational Group of Lawrence University (IGLU) Concert

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 • 8 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Jazz Band Concert

Thursday, May 16, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Stansbury Theater
Spring Opera Scenes

Friday, May 17, 2024 • Time TBD • Wriston Amphitheater
Wind Ensemble Concert

Repertoire TBD, with Joe Connor, saxophone

Sunday, May 19, 2024 • 3 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Balinese Gamelan Concert

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 • 8 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE) Concert

Friday, May 24, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence University Choirs Concert

Saturday, May 25, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Symphonic Band Concert

Sunday, May 26, 2024 • 3 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
LU Percussion Ensemble (LUPÉ) Concert

Monday, May 20, 2024 • 3:10 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Workshop Concert

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 • 3:10 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #1

Thursday, May 30, 2024 • 4:30 p.m. • Harper Hall
Jazz Combos Performance #2

Friday, May 31, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Concert

John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Camille Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 33, with Annika Schmidt, cello (Concerto Competition Co-winner)
Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 43

Friday, June 7, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Commencement Concert