Guest Artist Concert: Joan Tower Celebration

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 @ 7:30 PM; Bezanson Recital Hall; Free

Celebration of Guest Artist Composer Joan Tower

The Music & Dance Department presents a celebratory concert in Bezanson Hall, of music by world-renowned composer Joan Tower, performed by students, faculty, guests & Tower herself.

Also join us for the Lois E. Toko Lecture, given by Joan Tower at 11am on 3/31 in Bezanson Hall.

From Wikipedia:
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist, and conductor. Her work has been performed worldwide. Since gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem that structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has written a variety of instrumental works, including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman—something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man—the Island Prelude, five string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was the pianist and a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely performed Petroushskates. The New Yorker has called her "one of the most successful woman composers of all time."