Past Events

Penn Symphony Orchestra plays as the ensemble of select concertos with guests joining as the soloist. 

Penn Flutes and Traditional Irish Band The Rookery visit the Penn Museum for their annual "Flute Fleadh."  

This event is free and open to the public.

Daedalus Quartet will perform Bartók's 'String Quartet No. 5' and "Deep Summer Folklore" by Andrew Davis (PhD, 2017) in the Arthur Ross Gallery, an intimate exhibition space housed in the historic Fisher Fine Arts Library.

This event is free and open to the public.

Penn doctoral students Sarah Le Van (violin) and Echezonachukwu Nduka (piano) will perform works from across time and space.

This event is free and open to the public, registration required.

A workshop for string players on unique techniques and stylistic approaches to Argentine music, both traditional tango and contemporary popular music. 

A lecture/demonstration of Argentine popular music that is being written today, with a focus on string instruments, showing its mix between folk and contemporary music traditions.

Argentine violinist and tango specialist Guillermo Rubino joins Jim Sykes' World Music & Cultures class to give very intensive review of the evolution of instrumental tango from its 19th century beginnings to today's contemporary tango.