IN RECITAL
JEFFREY PANKO WITH MINGHUAN XU AND DAVID CUNLIFFE
New Music School Concert Hall

PLAYLIST
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor
Chopin: Cello Sonata, Op. 65

About:
This event is ticketed for $40 each (+ fess). Please use the link below to purchase.

NMS ADULT STUDENT VALENTINE’S EVENT
Astor Hall Study - 900 Shops, Level 6

New Music School will be hosting an Adult Student Valentine’s performance at the Astor Hall Study in the 900 Shops. Please join us to support our adult music makers in performance! The theme will be Songs of Love and Romance, and refreshments will be available for purchase at the Bar.

About:
This event is free and open to the public. NMS Adult Students will be performing Valentine’s themed selections.

IN RESIDENCY
CLARISSA BEVILACQUA

New Music School alumna, Clarissa Bevilacqua, will be in Residency for a Masterclass on Sunday February 22nd from 1:00-3:00pm, with a recital following shortly after from 3:00-4:00pm.

About:
Violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua is known to enchant audiences with her deeply inspiring musicality, and her playing has been described as “luminously elevated” (Gramophone) and “elegant and nimble” (The Strad).

Clarissa's debut solo album, Mozartiana, will be released in Spring 2026 by Berlin Classics, in collaboration with Bayerischer Rundfunk

ADULT STUDENT RECITAL - MARY FLAHERTY
New Music School Concert Hall

Mary Flaherty, student of Steve Yepez, will be performing a Sunday afternoon recital of favorite flute works.

About:
This event is free and open to the public.

NMS DEPARTMENTAL RECITALS
New Music School Concert Hall
Free - Open to the Public

On Sunday March 15th, New Music School will be hosting our semesterly Departmental Recitals. Recitals featuring students from our Piano, String, Voice, and Woodwind studios will be taking place every hour on the hour from 11:00 to 5:00pm.

About:
This event is free and open to the public. We ask out of respect to our performers that all audience members stay for the duration of the recital they’re attending. Our departmental recitals are a chance to observe the progress of our study body in a formal recital setting.

IN RESIDENCY
ANTONIO POMPA BALDI
Concert Pianist
Head of Piano Department, Cleveland Institute of Music
Artistic Advisor, Lang Lang International Music Foundation

About:
Born and raised in Foggia, Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a multifaceted career that continues to extend across five continents.

A top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Pompa-Baldi won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears at the world’s major concert venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Milan’s Sala Verdi, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Shanghai’s Grand Theatre, and Paris’ Salle Pleyel, to name a few. He has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf, James Conlon, Miguel Harth- Bedoya, Theodore Kuchar, Benjamin Zander, Louis Lane, and Keith Lockhart. He has performed with colleagues such as Takacs String Quartet, Alison Balsom, Sharon Robinson, and principals of the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Juilliard Quartet, among others. Pompa Baldi has recorded over 30 CDs to date, for various labels including Centaur Records, Harmonia Mundi, Steinway, TwoPianists, Azica, and Brilliant Classics. Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist since 2003.

NMS SHOWCASE RECITAL
New Music School Concert Hall
Free - Open to the Public

On Sunday May 3rd, New Music School will be hosting our Fall Showcase Recital. This event will feature stand-out students from our recent Juries, as well as students invited to perform based on competition success throughout the semester.

About:
This event is free and open to the public. We ask out of respect to our performers that all audience members stay for the duration of the recital.

CHAMPAGNE SHOWCASE
Join our Adult Lesson Learners for a evening of bites, bubbles, and bops.

About:
This event is free and open to the public. NMS Adult Students will be performing a variety of musical works to showcase what they’ve been studying during the Spring Semester. Must be 21+ to attend.

NMS HALLOWEEN RECITALS
New Music School Concert Hall

Join us for two Spooktacular Recitals on Sunday October 26th during the 900 Shops Trick-or-Treat Event! New Music School students will delight and dazzle in our Concert Hall at both 1:00 and 2:00pm.

About:
This event is free and open to the public. NMS students will be performing both spooky and non-spooky repertoire in costume. The atmosphere will be casual as we will keep the Concert Hall doors open to welcome Trick-or-Treaters and passersby to catch a glimpse of the performance.

900 SHOPS TRICK-OR-TREAT
FEATURING AN NMS PETTING ZOO
900 Shops, Level 3

Stop by the 900 Shops on Sunday October 26th from 12:00-3:00pm for a building wide Trick-or-Treat! NMS will be hosting a Petting Zoo for interested potential string students, so invite your friends for the fun and festivities!

About:
Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the link below.

IN MASTERCLASS
CLARISSA BEVILACQUA
New Music School Concert Hall

Join NMS former student, Clarissa Bevilacqua, IN Masterclass as she works with our current string students who are preparing for the Sejong Music Competition.

KEN GALLWAS, FIRST PLACE
ROCKFORD SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA CONCERTO COMPETITION

Congratulations to Ken for winning the RSYO Concerto Competition performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, III. Rondo. Allegro-Presto. Ken studies with Mary Sauer, Jeffrey Panko and Sean Bennett at NMS.

About:
Kenneth Gallwas of Chicagoland, a senior at York Community High School, has quickly emerged on the piano scene as the 3rd Place winner of the 2024 MTNA National Competition (Senior Piano Duet) with his twin brother, Joseph. An avid 17-year-old concerto and solo pianist, he has performed with the Chicago Arts Orchestra, the TIMM Ensemble Orchestra in Todi, Italy, and the SEEN Festival Orchestra under Conner Gray Covington, and earned top prizes in the DuPage, IYACC, ISMTA, Sejong, Aloha International, and other national and international competitions. Kenneth studies with Jeffrey Panko, Mary Sauer, and Sean Bennett at the New Music School in Chicago, and has performed in masterclasses with renowned pianists including Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Steven Osborne, and Joyce Yang. Also a cellist and varsity ice hockey player at York, he is a Level 4 USA Hockey referee, youth coach, sports counselor, and community musician performing at senior residences and churches in Elmhurst.

IN MASTERCLASS with
Steven Osborne
Grant Park Music Festival

New Music School’s Mika Mastsuyama will be performing Chopin’s 2nd Scherzo in a Masterclass with Steven Osborne at the Grant Park Music Festival. Attend link below.

About:
Steven Osborne OBE is one of Britain’s most treasured musicians with an immense depth of musicality and exceptional refinement of expression across diverse repertoire be it in Beethoven or Messiaen, Schubert or Ravel, Prokofiev or jazz improvisations. His numerous awards include The Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year, two BBC Music Magazine Awards and two Gramophone Awards.

IN RESIDENCY
STEVEN OSBORNE
Concert Pianist
Visiting Professor at the
Royal Academy of Music & the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Performance with Grant Park Symphony Orchestra · Masterclass at Grant Park Music Festival · Private Lessons at NMS

About:
Steven Osborne OBE is one of Britain’s most treasured musicians with an immense depth of musicality and exceptional refinement of expression across diverse repertoire be it in Beethoven or Messiaen, Schubert or Ravel, Prokofiev or jazz improvisations. His numerous awards include The Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year, two BBC Music Magazine Awards and two Gramophone Awards.

IN MASTERCLASS
with Imani Winds
Grant Park Music Festival

NMS Piano Trio (Tongbai Deng, Kevin Hernandez, Gabby Joew) perform in a CHAMBER MUSIC MASTERCLASS with the Imani Winds at the GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Weber: Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano, Op. 63 1. Allegro moderato

About:
Imani Winds is the 2024 GRAMMY® winner in the Classical Compendium category for Jeff Scott’s “Passion for Bach and Coltrane” released on their recently formed record label, Imani Winds Media.

Celebrating over a quarter century of music making, the four time GRAMMY® nominated group has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

The ensemble’s playlist embraces traditional chamber music repertoire, and newly commissioned works from icons to new voices reflectly the times in which we live. 

IN RECITAL
TONG-BAI DENG (16)
NMS PIANO, HOUSE OF RAVEL
Free - Open to Public

Playlist
Liszt, Rhapsodie espagnole, S. 254. R. 90
Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 26 in E Flat Major, Op 81a - Les Adieux (The Farewell)
Liebermann, Gargoyles, Op. 29: IV. Presto feroce
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16: IV. Finale. Allegro tempestoso

CONGRATULATIONS TO TONGBAI DENG
for winning 1st Alternate (2nd Place) in the 2025 Crain-Maling Foundation Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition

Tongbai Deng is a student of Winston Choi, Sean Bennett, and Jeffrey Panko.

IN RECITAL
WENTING SHI
Concert Pianist and NMS Artist Faculty
Free - Open to Public

Playlist
An All Liszt Program including transcriptions of works of August Conradi, Johann Herbeck - Tanzmomente SW 492, Joachim Raff  -Tanz Caprice Op. 54, Bedřich Smetana - Polka de salon  Op. 7 and Franz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor SW 178

IN RESIDENCY
JENNIFER GUNN
Flute & Piccolo of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Recital · Masterclass · Private Lessons

Mentored by Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians, renowned collegiate professors, and other world-class faculty, our students participate in a robust five-level curriculum, combining private study, chamber music, and theory/ear training.

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