The Faculty and Friends Series continues on March 23 with another concert of outstanding chamber music performed by Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music faculty. The program will include Schumann's Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Kamran Ince's Drawings, Barber's Capricorn Concerto and other works. Artists who will be performing on the program are: Leonardo Altino, cello; Elise Blatchford, flute; Cathal Breslin, piano; Evan Jones, baritone; Robyn Jones, clarinet; Kevin Sanders, tuba; David Spencer, trumpet; and Michelle Vigneau, oboe.

Join the Memphis Woodwind Quintet for a special concert on Friday, March 21. The faculty ensemble will be presenting a performance followed by games and refreshments.  Let the Latin sounds of Paquito Rivera's Aires Tropicales take you away to a tropical island.  Let Poulenc's Sextet for Piano and Winds draw you inside a 1920s speakeasy. Then stay for refreshment and games like Twister, Taboo, Charades and Sardines. This will be just too good to miss.

Announcing the 2014 Orff Summer Institute at the University of Memphis July 14 - 25. The Level I course is for anyone with musical training who wishes to acquire basic knowledge and pedagogic foundations in the Orff Schulwerk approach. Recommended for persons with no previous two-week training course. The course can be taken for-credit or non-credit. Learn more and register.