Past Events

Join us in celebrating live music and improvisation with an evening of eclectic jazz performances.

Penn Flutes, one of the largest active flute choirs in the United States, will perform in the lobby of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.

Musicologists Rebecca Cypess (Rutgers University) and Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), together with mezzosoprano Meg Bragle (Penn) and 2023-24 fellows of the Herbert D. Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, discuss the life, music, and contexts of Salamone Rossi, a Jewish composer working in Italy at the same time as Claudio Monteverdi. Register HERE

In keeping with this year’s overarching theme of resilience, Penn Flutes presents “Facing Fear”, a musical depiction of ideas, stories, traditions and world events that scare us— and how sometimes, we enjoy the experience!

Embracing the Resiliency theme of all performance ensembles this academic year, the Penn Symphony celebrates the resilience of our senior graduating class who began their academic journey at Penn during the height of the Pandemic in isolated conditions. This event is free and open to the public!

Hibbler’s idiosyncratic use of the voice presents a challenge to the orthodoxies of “voice studies.”

The Sonical.ly Startup Story: Using Music, Technology and Business to Inspire Creativity. John Kim is a co-founder at Amasia, a thesis-driven venture capital firm that invests in founders fighting the climate crisis through behavior change.