UConn students Michael Farina and Ciara Garcia present a jazz Saxophone recital in von der Mehden Recital Hall. 

Be sure to stop by for this celebratory concert featuring UConn Choirs. 

Though the sarabande and the chaconne were stylized sections of courtly suites by Baroque composers such as Scarlatti and Bach, their origins are far removed from any European court, stemming instead from New Spain. In a book about the Spanish colony in 1579, a Dominican friar described the sarabande as a lascivious dance and identified it with the indigenous population. However, at least one surviving song — a villancico for Christmas — links it with enslaved Africans, suggesting that both populations were involved in the creation of the genre. This program, which is related to one Ensemble Origo presented in 2023, a dancer joins the ensemble's instrumentalists to demonstrate both the seventeenth-century courtly dances in relation to early dances from New Spain. The concert sketches the printing history of both genres (which were related at one time) from simple guitar strumming patterns to the stylized instrumental works adopted by hundreds of European composers in the centuries that followed. The program aims to bring what is known of the genres' lost??or suppressed—histories to light, thus rethinking Eurocentric notions of these distinctive musical genres, their history, and their trajectory.

Pianist Eric Reed performs solo at von der Mehden Recital Hall on the UConn Storrs campus for the annual Heilig Memorial Piano Concert. A vital force in jazz for more than 25 years, Reed has collaborated with legends such as Freddie Hubbard and Wynton Marsalis and released twenty-eight recordings, including his most recent, Out Late. Supported by the Murray-Heilig Annual Concert Fund, this relaxed, story-driven performance features Reed sharing personal musical narratives while shaping each moment organically.

  In the Fall of 2025, UConn Choirs and Symphony Orchestra will be presenting the Mozart Requiem (Süssmayr edition) at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. The UConn Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Festival Chorus will be joined by alumni in this performance. The Requiem was last performed at UConn with Dr. Peter Bagley soon after 9/11 and it is one of history's great masterworks.