Music Series

2024 - Soft Kill with opening act Fotocrime

Starting with the seminal “An Open Door” and including stand out records like 2016’s “Choke” and 2020’s Billboard chart topping “Dead Kids, R.I.P. City”.

Soft Kill from Chicago Illinois is the brainchild of Tobias Grave, making morose and infectious punk songs since 2011. Tobias’ struggle with addiction and loss have created a depth and emotional landscape often missing from the genre.

Punk | Performance Date: September 19, 2024 8 PM | Madison Theatre

2024 - Ana Vidovic

Ana Vidovic is an extraordinary talent...

She is known for her beautiful tone, precise technique, well-defined phrasing, thoughtful artistry, and musicianship.

Classical Guitar Recital | Performance Date: October 12, 2024 | Bellarmine Chapel

2024 - Too Many Zooz With Opening Michael Wilbur

A viral sensation since they first emerged as New York subway buskers in 2013...

Self-described "Brass House" trio Too Many Zooz make manically kinetic instrumental music that combines avant-garde jazz, EDM, punk rock, and sundry other traditions into their own distinctive brand of high-energy dance music. 

Michael Wilbur is a highly acclaimed American multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and vocalist, celebrated for his virtuosity on the Bass and Tenor Saxophones

Brass House | Performance Date: November 1, 2024 | Gallagher Student Center Theater

2024 - Sara Daneshpour

 Pianist Sara Daneshpour has worldwide audiences and critics spellbound with her “blazing technique, power, expressivity, imagination and stage presence” (The New York Concert Review)

Classical Piano | Performance Date: November 12, 2024 | Gallagher Student Center

2024 - Fred Hersch Jazz Piano

 “The most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The New Yorker

A member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist.

Jazz | Performance Date: November 20, 2024 8 PM | Bellarmine Chapel

2025 - Dave King and Happy Apple

 “Mostly known for their electric live performances, Happy Apple has been a hard beast to capture on record."

 For over 25 years, the Minneapolis based collective, Happy Apple, has delivered its own enigmatic vision of jazz and improvised music to an adoring cognoscenti of listeners.

Jazz | Performance Date: January 21, 2024 8 PM | Northside Tavern

2025 - Zlata Chochieva

Jeremy Nicholas exclaimed “it is certainly one of the most consistently inspired, masterfully executed and beautiful-sounding versions I can recall.”

At only four years old, Zlata made her first stage appearance and just three years later, gave her debut with orchestra performing a Mozart Concerto at Grand Hall of Moscow State Conservatory. Along with an orchestral repertoire of over 50 concerti, Zlata Chochieva is a devoted chamber music performer having worked with Stephen Kovacevic, Lynn Harrell, Gilles Apap, and Jacquelyn Wagner, among others.

Classical Piano | Performance Date: April, 4 2025 | American Sign Museum

2025 - Nicole Zuraitis

"heart as big as her remarkable voice,” (Jazz Police)

Nicole Zuraitis is a 2X GRAMMY winning and 4X GRAMMY-nominated jazz singer-songwriter, pianist and arranger, New York-based bandleader and winner of the prestigious 2021 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medal. With a “heart as big as her remarkable voice,” (Jazz Police), Nicole is a trailblazing artist who is redefining vocal jazz, earning her a place as one of the top artists and "prolific songwriters" (Broadway World) to watch in jazz and beyond.

Performance Date: April, 10 2025 7 PM | The Härth Room

2025 - Jeremy Harrison with opening act Ben Monder from The Bad Plus

"Jeremy Harrison's music is a haunting blend of post-industrial noise and meditative instrumentation"

Creating a dark, liminal folk sound that transports listeners into the hazy spaces between waking and dreaming. Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Harrison's compositions weave together visceral textures with incorporeal vocals, inviting the listener on a sonic journey through the hazy void of the subconscious while filtered through a lens of low-fi intimacy. 

Performance Date: April, 11 2025 7 PM | Radio Artifact