Fine & Performing Arts Calendar

October 18 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

The Lovestruck Balladeers enchant audiences with their masterful performances and inspired repertoire of ragtime, jazz, and beautiful songs from  around the world. Together or on their own paths, this stellar band of traveling musicians has traversed the country and the globe, carrying traditional styles into modern times.

October 25 • 5 p.m. • HH 105

The Croatian pianist Dr. Javor Bracic was praised by New York Concert Review for “deep, genuine musicianship and an outstanding technique” at his Carnegie Hall debut recital. He has given recitals in five continents. Dr. Bracic is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut and Queens College.

November 8 • 6 p.m. Bistro;  7 p.m.  Concert

Grammy award winning soprano Christine Brewer and the ECC Culinary Department present an  unforgettable evening of food and beautiful music. Christine Brewer was named one of the top 20 sopranos of all time (BBC Music). The seating is limited, please reserve your tickets early.

January 24 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

It is our great pleasure to once again welcome St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster David Halen and acclaimed SLSO cellist Bjorn Ranheim  with pianist Jennifer Judd for an evening of spectacular music. Halen, Ranheim and Judd will perform trios by Rachmaninoff and Brahms.

February 7 • 4 p.m. HH 105

Early Music Missouri presents a concert of intimate and moving French vocal music for the Lenten season. Tenebrae Lessons, sung in the final week of Lent, were heard in churches and chapels across Europe. This concert feature some of the finest Baroque Tenebrae Lessons by Marc-Antoine  Charpentier and Louis-Nicolas Clérambault sung by a trio of sopranos accompanied by period instruments.

March 7 • 4 p.m. • Theatre

Members of the ECC Music Department faculty present a dynamic concert that includes works by a diverse array of composers and styles. Please join us to hear the very talented ECC Music Department faculty in this popular recital.

April 4 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

Led by Baroque violin soloist, Daniel Lee, Early Music Missouri brings Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to the ECC stage. Probably the best-known  program music in the classical repertoire, these concerti depict roiling streams, wintery blasts, dancing peasants, baying dogs and more. Performed by a chamber ensemble playing  period instruments, this concert offers listeners an exciting introduction to the sounds of Vivaldi’s musical world. The ECC Choir will join singers and instrumentalists from Early Music Missouri for a performance of excerpts from Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria.

April 25 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

Multiple GRAMMY-nominated/winning trombonist composer-arranger Alan Ferber has been called “one of the jazz world’s premier composers and arrangers for larger groups” by All About Jazz NY. His twin brother, Drummer Mark Ferber can be heard on over 200 recordings. This star-studded group will bring an amazing finale concert to the Jazz Festival.