Present Music

Acclaimed Songwriter / Composer Gabriel Kahane to Perform Landmark “Magnificent Bird” Album Live With Present Music

Introspective Songs Written In Year Off Internet, During Pandemic

Present Music’s “Northern Lights | Southern Nights” Concert April 6 Offers Modern Music From Land of Midnight Sun and Southern Hemisphere

Concert Features Compositions and Performers from Scandinavia, Brazil and Ireland, Including Two World Premieres

Present Music’s “Future Folk Machine” Concert Feb. 17 and Feb. 18 Offers Futuristic Takes on Folk Music, Poems, Dance Forms in Wide Variety of New Music

Show features guest artists soprano Ariadne Greif and modified-banjo player Paul Metzger, piece by renowned Korean composer Unsuk Chin

Present Music invites public to perform “Unsilent Night” with cell phones, speakers in free post-modern holiday “caroling” event through streets of Milwaukee Dec. 14

2nd annual holiday tradition includes visits to holiday displays, free cider and music performance

Rarely seen William Kentridge animated films to be screened with new music by South African composer Philip Miller performed live for Milwaukee’s Kentridge Arts Festival

Performance to include premieres of newly commissioned Miller works set to poetry

Acclaimed International Artist William Kentridge Kicks off U.S. Tour in Milwaukee for Multimedia “Kentridge Arts Festival”

Kentridge to speak and attend open rehearsal at festival; festival emphasizes his interactive practice with career-spanning art, film, theater and music

See for Yourself” at The Warehouse Art Museum July 8 – Dec. 16, 2022

The exhibit includes work in a variety of media spanning his career and emphasizes his interactive art & practice

2022 Pulitzer Prize for Present Music Commission by Raven Chacon

Milwaukee Performing Arts Organizations Update COVID-19 Safety Requirements

Florentine Opera, Marcus Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee Ballet, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra among organizations announcing COVID audience screening and mandatory masking to end in March

Milwaukee Performing Arts Organizations Require Proof of Vaccination or Negative COVID-19 Test for Audiences

Florentine Opera, Marcus Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra among organizations announcing COVID audience screening

UPAF Announces August Rally for Arts Education Fundraising Effort

Community will have the opportunity to directly support arts education programming.

UPAF Announces Affiliate Program Becomes Fully Unrestricted Grant Initiative

Grant applications are now open and more accessible to performing arts organizations.