Feb. 16 – The Bowling Green Philharmonia will present its 52nd annual Concerto Concert. Winners of the Competitions in Music Performance will perform concertos with the Philharmonia. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Advance tickets for the event are $7 for adults, $3 for children and students. All tickets are $10 on the day of the performance. Tickets are available at bgsu.edu/arts or by calling the box office at 419-372-8171.
Feb. 17 – The Annual Undergraduate Art and Design Exhibition opens its two-week run with a reception from 2-4 p.m. A juried selection of art in all media by students in the BGSU School of Art will be displayed in the Dorothy Uber Bryan and Willard Wankelman galleries in the Fine Arts Center. The exhibition runs through March 3. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and 1-4 p.m. Sundays. Free
Feb. 17 – Members of the BGSU College of Musical Arts faculty will perform at the Great Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art, 2445 Monroe St., Toledo. The chamber music concert will begin at 3 p.m. The performance is free; onsite parking is $7 for nonmembers of the museum.
Feb. 18 – The BGSU College of Musical Arts welcomes guest artist Robert Weirich on piano. Weirich, who recently retired from university teaching, has performed at venues including Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Tanglewood, Ravinia and Marlboro. He is a past president of the College Music Society and twice received the Educational Press Achievement Award for his writing. His piano recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 18 – The BGSU School of Art welcomes photographer Tim Archibald for a lecture about his book “Echolilia,” a collection of photographs that share the relationship between him and his son, who is on the autism spectrum. He will speak at 5 p.m. in 204 Fine Arts Center. Free
Feb. 19 – Director Jordan Peele’s 2017 debut film “Get Out” is the featured screening at the Department of Theatre and Film’s Tuesdays at the Gish series. The 103-minute film is a jump-scare thriller and a masterpiece of social analysis. The screening will start at 7:30 p.m. in 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
Feb. 19 – The student Chamber Jazz Ensembles will perform at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 20 – Compositions by BGSU faculty members will be performed as part of the Faculty Artist Series. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 20 – BG Reel and the University Film Organization host a 48-Hour Film Festival for spring semester. Students have 48 hours to create a film based on a prompt. The screening of the films will begin at 9 p.m. in 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
Feb. 21 – The BGSU Department of Theatre and Film’s Elsewhere Productions presents a reading of “Kolossians Kolony” by Kester E. Oshioreame. Directed by Leesi Akubue, the reading will begin at 7 p.m. in the Marjorie Conrad M.D. Choral Room at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free
Feb. 21 – The BGSU Creative Writing program, in conjunction with the Career Center, presents “The Write Kind of Jobs,” a career-centric event, from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in 228 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
Feb. 21 – The College of Musical Arts welcomes Bill Street and Jean-Marie Londeix for a saxophone recital as part of the Guest Artist Series. Londeix is a French saxophone legend who has performed more than 600 concerts as a concert soloist, recitalist or conductor. He is a teacher and the author of numerous teaching- methods texts and the founder of several professional organizations, ensembles and associations. Street, who was a student of Londeix’s, is an artistic faculty-in- residence at the University of Alberta where he is a saxophone and chamber music professor and wind band conductor. He has presented concerts throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Thailand. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 22 – Violinist Ari Streisfeld will perform as part of the College of Musical Arts’ Guest Artist Series. Streisfeld, an assistant professor of violin and violin pedagogy at the University of South Carolina School of Music, has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his performances of diverse repertoire and established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music. He will present the recital at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 24 – The Graduate Percussion Quartet will present a recital at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 25 – Current Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) students will perform a showcase recital during the College of Musical Arts’ DMA auditions. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 26 – The spring series of Tuesdays at the Gish presents “Marshall,” the 2017 film directed by Reginald Hudlin. Starring Chadwick Boseman, the film is about Thurgood Marshall, the leading NAACP lawyer from 1938-1961 whose victories include the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka decision and who became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in 1967. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. in 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
Feb. 27 – Piano faculty member Yevgeny Yontov will perform a recital in the College of Musical Arts’ weekly Faculty Artist Series. Yontov, one of the most promising Israeli pianists of his generation, was a finalist in the 2017 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and received the prize for Best Performance of Chamber Music and for Best Israeli Pianist. He has performed chamber music in Israel, Europe, Asia and North and South America in venues that include Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. He joined the BGSU faculty in 2018 as an instructor of piano. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
Feb. 28 – The weekly Prout Reading Series features readings by MFA students Shay Hawkins, poetry, and Matthew Stewart, fiction. The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel. Free
Feb. 28 – The BGSU Department of Theatre and Film presents “The Wolves,” the debut play by Sarah DeLappe about a girls’ indoor soccer team that navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. The play, which earned DeLappe the 2015 Relentless Award for Playwriting and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, runs for two weekends: at 8 p.m. Feb. 28, March 1-2 and 7-9; and at 2 p.m. March 2, 3 and 9 in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Advance tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for students and children; all tickets on the day of the performance are $20. Tickets are available at bgsu.edu/arts or by calling the Wolfe Center box office at 419-372-8171.
Feb. 28 – The BGSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Ken Thompson, will perform a concert at 8 p.m. in Kobacker Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Advance tickets are $3 for students and children and $7 for adults. All tickets are $10 on the day of performance. Tickets are available at bgsu.edu/arts or by calling the box office at 419-372-8171.
March 1 – The College of Musical Arts welcomes Natasha Farny on cello for the Guest Artist Series. Farny is an associate professor of strings, guitar and harp at the State University of New York at Fredonia. She presents master classes and performs with several chamber music groups and as a soloist. She was awarded the Avaloch Farm Music Institute Residency in 2017 and several other awards between 2007 and 2015. Her recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
March 2-3 – The College of Musical Arts hosts the annual Douglas Wayland Student Chamber Competition. Chamber ensembles will compete in semifinal and final rounds in the undergraduate and graduate divisions. The semifinals will start at 10 a.m. March 2; the finals will begin at noon March 3, both in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
March 2 – Tenor Joe Harper will present a recital for the College of Musical Arts’ Guest Artist Series. Harper, an associate professor of voice at State University of New York Fredonia, is a versatile and engaging interpreter of a wide-ranging repertoire from Schubert and Britten to a variety of contemporary composers. His performances include appearances with the Boston Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Boston Academy of Music, Central City Opera, Handel & Haydn Society, South Carolina Opera, Utah Festival Opera and Utah Opera. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in the Marjorie Conrad M.D. Choral Room at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. Free
March 4 – Music at the Forefront features Collect/Project, a transatlantic ensemble based in sister cities Chicago and Hamburg. The ensemble specializes in experimental music and performance with an interest in unorthodox and deeply collaborative experiences grounded in classical and contemporary performance techniques and steeped in popular and folkloric traditions. Comprised of Shanna Gutierrez (flutes), Frauke Aulbert (voice), Eva Zöllner (accordion) and Francisco Castillo Trigueros (electronics), Collect/ Project is dedicated to reshaping the way music is created and experienced. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
March 5 – Voice students of BGSU faculty member Myra Merritt will perform during Music at the Manor House. The event at the Toledo Metroparks Wildwood Manor House, 5100 Central Ave., Toledo, will begin at 7 p.m. Free
March 5 – Tuesdays at the Gish features Director and YouTube personality Justin Chon’s 2017 film “Gook.” The 94-minute film, set in 1992 South Central Los Angeles at the time of the Rodney King case, follows Korean store owners Eli and his brother and Eli’s brotherly friendship with a preteen African American girl whose family, like everyone in the neighborhood, see the Koreans as part of the racist system. The screening will begin at 7:30 p.m. in 206 Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Free
March 5 – The BGSU Graduate Brass Quintet will perform a recital at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
March 6 – The College of Musical Arts’ Faculty Artist Series presents cellist Brian Snow, a gifted and versatile performer in chamber music, orchestral and solo settings. Prior to joining the BGSU music faculty as an assistant professor of cello, Snow pursued a varied performing and teaching career in the New York City area. In addition to being a member of the NYC-based ensembles Newspeak, OMNI Ensemble and Trio Chimera, he has performed and recorded with a variety of artists. The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center. Free
