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Present Music opens it’s 2024-25 Season with “Holy Lift Off!” with guest curator and flutist Claire Chase on Oct. 31

Present Music Unveils Its 2024-2025 Season Lineup

Present Music to Perform “The Blue Hour”

Grammy-nominated composition will only be Performed Live in Milwaukee in 2024

Present Music to Receive $10,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for “CELLO CELLO” Concerts to be Performed on January 31 and February 1

Present Music’s “CELLO CELLO” Concert on January 31 and February 1 to Feature Two World Premieres

Present Music’s Thanksgiving Concert Has Spiritual Touches

Simple Songs, traditional drumming and the return of a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.

Present Music Unveils 2023-’24 Season Lineup, Featuring Groundbreaking Film, St. John Cathedral Concert, World Premieres and Stellar Guest Artists

Works by women composers lead programming; Raven Chacon returns to Present Music

Folk Music of the Future. Sort Of

Present Music's next concert offers a wild mix of music, performers and instruments.

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

2022 Pulitzer Prize for Present Music Commission by Raven Chacon

Present Music Opening Concert Examines The Nature of Time

The selections explore time, in its use in music and otherwise, creating a diverse program of new music.

Present Music Finishes with Genre-Bending Show

"Neon Life" will feature five contemporary compositions.

Present Music Celebrates Thanksgiving

Annual concert is virtual, but chock full of interesting music.

New Traditions in Present Music’s Online Thanksgiving Concert

Can Music Be a Call to Action?

Hip hop artist Klassik, Madison soprano Sarah Brailey and others take on challenging contemporary fare.

Present Music Offers Free Online Concert

Works by Steve Reich, Angelica Negron and Milwaukee native and Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Torke.

Take-Out Concert

Love, Baby, All About Love

Present Music's Valentine's concert presents more aspects of love then might seem possible.

Let Us Give Thanks With Present Music

Group's annual Thanksgiving concert offers works by eight different composers.

Present Music’s Thanksgiving Concert Introduces New Traditions

Sunday, November 17, 2019 - 5pm. Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist

Present Music May Be Better Than Ever

New leadership, but the same sense of adventure. Ride along sometime.

Linking Rock to Classical, and Vice Versa

Present Music mixes Steve Reich and Radiohead, Rhiannon and Kronos, Ligeti and taxi horns.

The Sheer Power of Music

Present Music’s final concert under Kevin Stalheim was packed with significance and wonderful music.

Kevin Stalheim’s Last Waltz

After 37 years his last show as artistic director. After party features Mrs. Fun, R&B Cadets.

Two Evenings of Women Composers

Present Music offers wild range of 21st century works by many woman composers.