WPR Music, Arts & Culture calendar

The UWM Percussion Ensemble presents its annual Fall concert, featuring a wide variety of instruments, sounds, and compositions from different periods. The UWM Percussion Ensemble is a chamber ensemble that focuses on diverse repertoire written in the 20th and 21st centuries for percussion. Emphasizing new compositions alongside historically significant contributions to the chamber repertoire, the […]

Join Wisconsin Public Radio for a night of live music and storytelling in the city of Milwaukee. “Afternoon Classics” host Lori Skelton will guide you through the evening, leading interviews […]

Swedish musical sensation, Gunhild Carling, is an internationally acclaimed superstar whose show is a can’t-miss event! Whether she is singing favorite swing and jazz standards, playing one of many instruments […]

Chamber Music Milwaukee presents a concert with the theme of music in times of war, including music of the Holocaust. As part of this event, Jamie Hofman, Director of UWM String Academy, will perform on one of the violins from Violins of Hope. The concert will be preceded by a talk by Jewish educator Jody […]

Join the UWM Symphony Band for their spectacular concert full of repertoire by living composers, band standards, and featuring the various musical talents of UWM students! The Wind Ensemble is the premier concert band in the Peck School of the Arts and has been recognized nationally and internationally through numerous invitations to perform at major […]

Join WPR and the North Wind Ensemble for an afternoon of classical favorites, pop covers and craft brews. We’ll be at Sawmill Brewing Company in Merrill from 3-4 p.m. with the North Wind Ensemble on Saturday, November 15. Grab a friend and spend the afternoon supporting local music, local radio and local breweries! After the […]

Celebrate 50 Years of Music and Community! For half a century, the American Suzuki Foundation has supported more than music lessons, it’s been a family, a community, and a life-changing […]

Join the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra for another LSO tradition, Songs of Freedom, our annual musical salute to our veterans. Bringing together the favorite with the unfamiliar. Violinist Elisa Lee Koljonen — who amazed us back in 2021 with her reading of the romantic Violin Concerto of Samuel Barber — returns to La Crosse. This […]