Upcoming Events
January 29, 2025
(Wednesday)
7:30 PM
Live Theater - Song of the North
An epic Persian love story told through a large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of heroine, Manijeh.
February 6, 2025
(Thursday)
7:30 PM
Live Music - Heloísa Fernandes Quartet
Brazilian pianist and composer Heloísa Fernandes paints her musical pictures with contrasts - driving rhythm and delicacy, joyous dance, and quiet introspection, playfulness, and elegance.
February 16, 2025
(Sunday)
3 pm
Live Music - Faculty Artist Series: Kirk O'Riordan and Holly Roadfeldt
O'Riordan and Roadfeldt will perform chamber music for saxophone and piano.
February 22, 2025
(Saturday)
8 PM
Ballet Kelowna - MAMBO and Other Works
Ballet Kelowna brings compelling and inspiring performances to regional, national, and international audiences. The company presents numerous styles of dance from Canada's finest emerging and established choreographers.
February 28, 2025
(Friday)
8 PM
Live Music - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra & Pablo Sainz-Villegas
Guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas channels the passion and flair of fellow Spaniard Andres Segovia, the original star who premiered Joaquin Rodrigo's debonair fantasy on old Spanish melodies.
March 6, 2025
to March 9, 2025
Live Theater - Much Ado About Nothing
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Rumors fly in this Shakespearean battle of the wits.
March 12, 2025
(Wednesday)
7:30 PM
Live Music - Yumi Kurosawa Trio
Yumi Kurosawa was born and raised in a traditional Japanese music environment, taking up the koto from a young age and rising fast to the upper echelons of her craft.
March 28, 2025
(Friday)
8 PM
Flamenco Vivo
Flamenco Vivo has commissioned Patricia Guerrero, internationally acclaimed flamenco dancer/ choreographer and winner of the 2021 Spain National Dance Award, to create QUINTO ELEMENTO (Fifth Element), a new evening-length work
March 29, 2025
(Saturday)
8 pm
Live Music - World Piano Day Celebration
Lafayette College’s World Piano Day Celebration.
April 4, 2025
(Friday)
8 PM
Live Music - Pesky Artist: Holly Roadfeldt
Few musicians balance the new opposite the old quite like American pianist Holly Roadfeldt.
April 6, 2025
(Sunday)
3 pm
Live Music - PA Sinfonia Performs Lafayette Student Composers
In this special collaboration, the Lafayette College Music Department presents the PA Sinfonia performing the work of Lafayette College student composers.
April 11, 2025
(Friday)
8 PM
Live Music - Doric String Quartet
Doric String Quartet brings elegance and intimacy both to the classical canon and new music. Their intellectual rigour has led them to use specially made original-style bows for performing Classical repertoire from Haydn to Mendelssohn
April 17, 2025
to April 19, 2025
7:30 PM
Live Musical Theater - Marquis Players present Rent
The Marquis Players-a student-run theater company-present their annual musical production to support local charities.
April 28, 2025
(Monday)
8 pm
Live Music - Jazz Combos
The Jazz Combo performs chamber music for saxophone, trumpet, vocals, and rhythm section. Tom DiCarlo, director
April 30, 2025
(Wednesday)
8 pm
Live Music - Jazz Ensemble
The ensemble repertoire for this 20-member student/community group is selected from famous band libraries such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Bill Holman, and Bob Mintzer, as well as works by established composers from the local area. Jeff "Tain" Watts, director
May 1, 2025
to May 5, 2025
Live Theater - Silent Sky
Set in the early 1900s and bursting with music and math, Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson is a groundbreaking true story of how the brilliant astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers changed our understanding of the cosmos.
May 2, 2025
(Friday)
8 pm
Live Music - Contemporary Music Ensemble
Focusing on chamber music composed since 1900, the Contemporary Music Ensemble performs music by established master and emerging composers, with a focus on Lafayette student composers. Its performances often involve multi-media, theatrical, and digital components and a stylistic range from Impressionism to Minimalism to avant-garde. Holly Roadfeldt, director
May 3, 2025
(Saturday)
8 pm
Live Music - Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
First-year students through seniors from all academic disciplines bring their perspectives and experiences to sing together as one voice. With a broad repertoire presenting meaningful storytelling from complex emotion to lighthearted fun, the Choirs seek music and lyrics that connect with a diverse audience. Jennifer Kelly, director
May 4, 2025
(Sunday)
8 pm
Live Music - Chamber Orchestra
This primarily-string ensemble explores and performs repertoire from the baroque era to the present day. Recent Orchestra concerts have included the music of Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelsohn, Tchaikovsky, Vaughan Williams, and living composers. Lewis Baratz, director
May 5, 2025
(Monday)
8 pm
Live Music - Percussion Ensemble
The Percussion Ensemble performs a wide variety of music from all over the world: Japanese Taiko, Afro-Caribbean drumming, jazz, popular, and many others. The often-humorous works performed by the group range from solos to exhilarating 30-piece showstoppers. Matt Wells, director
May 9, 2025
(Friday)
8 pm
Live Music - Student Honors Recital
Some of of Lafayette’s finest student musicians, selected through a competitive audition process, present repertoire ranging from musical theater to jazz to classical.
May 10, 2025
(Saturday)
8 pm
Live Music - Concert Band
This 45-member ensemble includes students from all majors who thrive on working together to give expressive and exciting performances of music by composers such as Bernstein, Copland, Holst, Maslanka, Mackey, and others. Kirk O’Riordan, director
May 11, 2025
(Sunday)
3 pm
Live Music - Marquis Consort
Specialists in the performance of music before 1800 on both modern and historical instruments, the Marquis Consort performs music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, early and late Baroque eras, and Colonial and Federal America. Lewis Baratz and Jorge Torres, directors
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