Kevin Stalheim

Present Music’s “All Souls Eve” Concert to Debut Renowned Composer Viet Cuong’s Newest Work

Several traditions will converge at this celebration held on Halloween night, Friday, October 31st 7:30 at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Present Music Announces Bold and Visionary New Season

This 2025–26 Season Delivers Celebrated and Emerging Living Composers From Around the World to Intimate Milwaukee Spaces for Timely, Curiosity-Filled Concerts

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 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

2022 Pulitzer Prize for Present Music Commission by Raven Chacon

New Traditions in Present Music’s Online Thanksgiving Concert

City of Milwaukee Arts Board announces 2020 Mildred L. Harpole Artists of the Year and Friends of the Arts Awards

Take-Out Concert

Present Music’s Thanksgiving Concert Introduces New Traditions

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

Final Nominees Announced for 2019 Footlights People’s Choice Awards

And the nominees are...

Give Chance a Piece

Four fortuitous concerts, seven compositions, in four distinct venues

Present Music brings museum exhibits to life musically with exploratory concert on April 29

Featuring first-ever collaboration with the Milwaukee Public Museum

Present Music Celebrates 5th Annual Chamber Series with ‘GIANTS’

Concerts feature five musicians and 100 metronomes in three intimate venues

Present Music’s Annual Musical Meditation on Gratitude Thanksgiving concert melds tradition with the best of what’s new and inspiring.

Sunday, November 20, 2016 - 5 p.m. at Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist

Present Music Kicks Off Milwaukee Art Museum Special Exhibit with ANGST, HORROR & FUN

Continuing its 35th Anniversary Season, Present Music, Milwaukee’s devilishly dark and devious new music pioneers, revel in a night of cinematic and musical terror with ANGST, HORROR & FUN

Present Music Season Opener Celebrates Past Commissions and Presents a World Premiere

Made for Milwaukee – September 3, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

Present Music Announces Executive Director for 35th Season

Meaghan Heinrich brings over ten years of experience in non-profit arts management to Present Music.

Present Music Brings Contemporary Music to Milwaukee and the World for 35 Years

2016-17 Season Announcement

Present Music Presents “In The Chamber”

Personal. Intimate. Inspired.

Fire Your Imagination. Enter Present Music’s Carnival

8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 24, 2015 at the Broadway Theatre Center

Big and Bold. Present Music Presents… Mozart?!

Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. at the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts

Present Music Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that Present Music is one of 886 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant.

Danceworks Performance Company and Present Music: Temptation’s Snare

March 6-9, 2014 • Next Act Theatre

City of Milwaukee Artist of the Year

Evelyn Patricia Terry, an artist, educator, and curator, and Barbara Leigh, co-founder of what has become the Milwaukee Public Theatre, were named Artists of the Year, the Milwaukee Arts Board announced today.

Milwaukee Arts Board recognizes Outstanding Artists of the Year

The Milwaukee Arts Board will honor the recipients of its Outstanding Artists of the Year award on Tuesday, March 12, 2013.