Edward W. Hardy News

See photos of Our Song, Our Story, created and directed by composer, conductor, and multi-genre musician Damien Sneed.

'Created and directed by composer, conductor, and multi-genre musician Damien Sneed, Our Song, Our Story is an evening of music highlighting some of the world's most well-known operatic arias, art songs and spirituals.

'Created and directed by composer, conductor, and multi-genre musician Damien Sneed, Our Song, Our Story is an evening of music highlighting some of the world's most well-known operatic arias, art songs and spirituals. The concert brings together two of today's most exciting operatic voices in a diverse and powerful event featuring Raven McMillon and Raehann Bryce-Davis, and accompanied by a string quartet and Damien Sneed on piano. This will be an evening of memorable and beautiful music as they pay homage to Marian Anderson and Jessye Norman, who have paved the way for them and other African American opera singers, as well as George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and more.

Created and directed by composer, conductor, and multi-genre musician Damien Sneed, Our Song, Our Story - the New Generation of Black Voices is an evening of music highlighting some of the world's most well-known operatic arias, art songs and spirituals.

After a beautifully engaging concert by the UNC Asian Ensemble and an exquisite and crowd-pleasing performance of 'Tambourin Chinois' by Edward W. Hardy (violin) and Hanguang Wang (piano), Beethoven in the Rockies will have its season concert finale this Friday featuring The Loveland Orchestra.

On March 23, 2023, the Northern Colorado Center for Arts Entrepreneurship founding members Edward W. Hardy, Dr. Sarah Off, and Dr. Rand Harmon will host the 8th annual UNCO StART Salon.

The University of Northern Colorado, School of Music's amazing graduate students are behind this evening of musical creativity, with performances by individual students and student-led chamber groups. Come and enjoy this family-friendly, free concert that showcases the very best UNCO has to offer! This multi-genre concert, which follows the DAY OF ART events, is presented by Edward W. Hardy and the UNCO faculty.

On Friday, October 14, 2022, the Northern Colorado Center for Arts Entrepreneurship will present an all-day event that features music, visual arts, theatrical, and cabaret performances by current students attending the University of Northern Colorado. DAY OF ART is a student-produced showcase of performances and exhibits from UNCO's College of Performing and Visual Arts.

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) opens its 2022-2023 season, under the leadership of Artistic Director Derek Bermel and President Melissa Ngan, at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall with The Natural Order, on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 7:30pm.

The University of Northern Colorado faculty and composer Edward W. Hardy have have announced the launch of the the Northern Colorado Center for Arts Entrepreneurship. The Northern Colorado Center for Arts Entrepreneurship (NOCO CfAE) is a new arts institution that strengthens the connection between the Northern Colorado arts community and the university.

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announces its 2022-2023 season, under the leadership of Artistic Director Derek Bermel and President Melissa Ngan. ACO is dedicated to the creation, celebration, performance, and promotion of orchestral music by American composers, with a commitment to diversity, disruption, and discovery.

Experience the beauty of Schubert's Cello Quintet (two violins, two cellos, and a viola) together with the backdrop of New York City's Central Park on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at 7 PM EDT.

In a collaboration with Golden Hornet, Austin Chamber Music Center presents jazz legend Andre Hayward.

Carnegie Hall's Link Up music education program has facilitated deeper connections between the concert hall and the classroom through a highly participatory instrument-focused curricula. A new online concert—Link Up: The Orchestra Sings—is now available for teachers, students, and families everywhere.

Wolf Trap Opera has announced the world premiere of BORN FREE, composed by Edward W. Hardy with lyrics by American poet and writer Margaret Walker. BORN FREE, a song cycle based on four poems by Margaret Walker (Sorrow Home, Lineage, The Struggle Staggers Us and Southern Song) for soprano, violin, and piano, is a newly commissioned work by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.

This in-person and live stream concert will take place on Wednesday, April 27 at 7:30 pm, at the UNC Campus Commons Performance Hall.

The University of Northern Colorado URSA Early Music consort, under the direction of Derek Chester and Jubal Fulks, will present Bach's Jesu, Meine Freude Motet, Vivaldi's La Folia, and vocal solo selections from Bach's Cantatas and Passions. This concert will feature Colorado musicians Jubal Fulks, Edward W. Hardy, Miriam Kapner, Derek Chester, and students of the University of Northern Colorado.

On Saturday, May 7 at 8:00 pm ET live and in-person, three major, mission-aligned organizations-the Apollo and American Composers Orchestra (ACO), with co-curation by National Black Theatre (NBT)- will present The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout.

The phenomenal winners of the 2022 Angie Southard Music Competition will perform on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at the UNC Campus Commons Performance Hall.

On Friday, April 1, 2022, the University of Northern Colorado, College of Performing and Visual Arts, will hold its first-ever Arts Equity Summit! UNC students, faculty, and staff will come together with guest artists from across the country for a day of workshops, discussions, and performances that explore issues of equity in the arts.