Past Events



Penn Musical Interfaces and Robotics Showcase

Dec 13, 2023 at - | Fisher-Bennett Hall - Rose Recital Hall, Room 419, 4th Floor, 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Explore a performance showcase that features a collection of instruments and sound installations designed by students from the Musical Interfaces and Robotics class.



New Music and the Heterogenous Sound Ideal

Colloquium Lecture by George Lewis
Dec 12, 2023 at - | Penn Music Building - Lerner 101, 201 S. 34th Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Join us for a presentation by George Lewis, American composer, musicologist, computer-installation artist, and trombonist. Lewis’s central areas of scholarship are exemplified by his widely read book, "A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music" (University of Chicago Press, 2008) which received the American Book Award and the American Musicological Society’s Music in American Culture Award.



Penn Samba

Fall Concert
Dec 11, 2023 at - | Houston Hall - Hall of Flags, 3417 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104



Penn Symphony Orchestra

Fall Concert
Dec 9, 2023 at - | Irvine Auditorium - Main Hall, 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Opening the concert will be Beethoven's delightful Creatures of Prometheus overture followed by Wolf-Ferrari's Idillio Concertino, featuring world renown oboist Richard Woodhams.



Penn Sound Collective

Dec 8, 2023 at - | Fisher-Bennett Hall - Rose Recital Hall, Room 419, 4th Floor, 3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Featuring new music by the University of Pennsylvania’s Doctoral student composers David Acevedo, Andrew Burke, Eliana Fishbeyn, Max Johnson, Brendan McMullen, and Susanna Payne-Passmore (with collaborator Elise Mark).



Penn Flutes Holiday Concert

Music in the Stacks Series
Dec 8, 2023 at - | Penn Museum - Museum Library, Level 1, 3260 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Penn Flutes, one of the largest active flute choirs in the United States, performs holiday pieces within the first floor of the Penn Museum.



Penn Arab Music Ensemble

Fall Concert
Dec 7, 2023 at - | Houston Hall - Bodek Lounge, 3417 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

This concert is free and open to the public.