Guest artist cello performance

The GVSU Department of Music, Theatre and Dance is hosting a performance entitled “Free Play 48: Nick Photinos” that features multi-Grammy Award-winning cellist Nick Photinos.

This performance is part of Photinos’ week-long residency. During this time he will perform on and off campus as part of “Cello-Fest” and work with student composers and performers.  

The event will take place on Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall in the Haas Center for Performing Arts.

CelloFest recital features female composers

As part of CelloFest, guest artists Natasha Ferny and Eliran Avni will perform on Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sherman van Solkema Recital Hall in the Haas Center for Performing Arts.

The duo will perform music by female composers with Farny playing the cello and Avni on the piano. 

This event is free and open to the public.   

GV Opera Theatre hosts showings of “A MINISTER’S WIFE”

GV Opera Theatre is holding performances of “A Minister’s Wife” from Oct. 28-30 and Nov. 4-6. 

This production is a musical that is based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida.” The play is set in late 19th-century London. The action centers around a love triangle between Candida, the wife of Reverend James Morell, and Eugene Marchbanks, a young poet who aims to win affection of Candida. 

The performances will take place in the Linn Maxwell Keller Black Box Theatre in the Haas Center for Performing Arts. Tickets can be purchased online. 

GV theatre takes new approaches to Shakespeare scenes

As part of the GV Shakespeare Festival, the GVSU theatre program will be holding its performance of “Bard to Go: Bardic Inspiration” on Oct. 29 at 2 p.m in the Louis Armstrong Theatre located in the Haas Center for Performing Arts. 

This performance presents Shakespeare’s stories through the story of a group of friends playing a Shakespeare-themed role-playing game. Within this story, actors present scenes from “Macbeth,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest.”

This event is free and open to the public.