World premieres of works by Rutgers graduate and undergraduate composers.

Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" is known the world over thanks to Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Join us as Nicholas Music Center takes on one of the loudest pieces in … Read More

East Coast premiere of Andrea Clearfield's "Standing at the Beam".

This is a free and unticketed event. View the Livestream

In the Fall of 2024, the Latin American Chamber Music Ensemble’s musical journey takes them to Brazil, with a broad range of folk, popular, classical, and cross-genre works including maracatú, … Read More

General Public $15 / Rutgers Alumni, Employees, and Seniors $10 / Students $5   Performances of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a parable composed in the Terezín concentration camp in 1943 that tells the … Read More

General Public $15 / Rutgers Alumni, Employees, and Seniors $10 / Students $5   Performances of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a parable composed in the Terezín concentration camp in 1943 that tells the … Read More

Brass Prism is an exciting Brass Department event that highlights the audience experience of immersive performance. Large and small brass chamber ensembles will perform in various locations in Nicholas Music Center to submerge the audience in sound. Become part of the event at this exciting performance! View the Livestream

“Chiaroscuro” In art, chiaroscuro is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures. In our concert, titled … Read More

The Rutgers University Jazz Lab Band, directed by Professor Abraham Burton, will showcase arrangements from Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and Charles Mingus. The premier twenty-two-piece repertoire ensemble focuses on studying and developing the performance of foundational jazz works from various eras and styles, which it features at concerts. View the Livestream