Wake the Arts Events
The Arts are alive in every corner of campus, with new events happening every week. Whether you’re into hip-hop or abstract painting, poetry or puppetry, ballet or Balinese gamelan, we’ve got you covered. The Arts are for you.
Coming up
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February 26, 2025 | 5:00pm
Z. Smith Reynolds LibraryA public lecture on heritage research and conservation training in China presented by Dr. Chang Liu, a renowned architect, historian, and conservator of traditional Chinese wooden architecture. This event is brought to you by the Departments of History, Politics and International Relations, Art, East Asian Languages & Cultures, East … -
February 26, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for a special faculty recital with WFU Music piano faculty Mathilde Handelsman! Featuring the works of Unsuk Chin, Maurice Ravel, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Free and open to the public. -
February 28, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music and Symphony Orchestra present our 2025 Concerto Competition Winners Concert! A highlight of our concert season, the WFU Symphony Orchestra will share the stage with the winners of our Fall 2024 Concerto Competition. Featuring Haozhen Xu, marimba, Sarah Bo, cello, and Karina Yang, flute. Free and open … -
March 2, 2025 | 3:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents a special recital from WFU Music minor and Presidential Scholar Nora Resk. With Lauren Winkelman, piano and Adam Waszkiewicz, clarinet Featuring the music of Franz Schubert, Stephen Sondheim, Germaine Tailleferre, Giuseppe Verdi, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Victor Herbert and Jerry Bock. Free and open … -
March 3, 2025 | 5:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterFilm Screening & Reception | Sick-Amour: A Love Story by Joel Tauber (Professor of Art, Activist, Artist, and Filmmaker) Monday, March 3, 2024 / 5-8pm / Scales 102 (Reception Immediately Following in Scales Lobby) Sick-Amour: A Love Story (2024) celebrates the forlorn and lonely Tree that Joel Tauber adopts in the … -
March 4, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for our first WFU Wind Ensemble concert of the semester! **This event has been rescheduled from its original date of February 25** Free and open to the public. -
March 6, 2025 | 7:30pm
Brendle Recital HallDescribed by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” Vijay Iyer is one of today’s most in-demand jazz musicians, and is a composer, pianist, and professor in the Harvard University music department. His honors include … -
March 18, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music welcomes Dr. Yevgeny Yontov to Brendle Recital Hall for a special guest recital. Yevgeny Yontov has received international top prizes including gold medals at the Wideman International Piano Competition and Berliner International Music Competition, and additional prizes at the Boesendorfer International Piano Competition, the Olga … -
March 19, 2025 | 6:00pm
Porter Byrum Welcome CenterWake Forest University’s Documentary Film Program Teams with Get in the Game to celebrate the groundbreaking documentary “Hoop Dreams” The Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University, and Get in the Game, invite you to a special event honoring the 30th Anniversary of the groundbreaking documentary … -
March 22, 2025 | 10:00am
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents our annual Giles-Harris Music Competitions! 10:00 am: Piano Competition 1:00 pm: Open Competition Both competitions to be held in Brendle Recital Hall, Scales Fine Arts Center. Free and open to the public. The Christopher Giles and Lucille S. Harris Competitions in Musical Performance began in 1977. The … -
March 25, 2025 | 2:00pmThe WFU Department of Music welcomes Dr. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, curator in the Musical Instruments Division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a special online lecture for Dr. Stewart Carter's First Year Seminar, The World of Musical Instruments. Free and open to the public. -
March 26, 2025 | 7:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music and Program for Leadership and Character welcome acclaimed choral director, educator, and author Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt! Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is Professor Emerita of Choral Studies at the University of Toronto where she held the Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting. From 2013–2018, she … -
March 26, 2025 | 7:30pm
Brendle Recital HallFrenchman Thomas Dunford is a rising star of the European early music movement, and a dynamic and charismatic performer of Renaissance, Baroque, and modern music on the lute. BBC Music Magazine has written of him, “Dunford’s supple technique, combined with his passion for jazz, allows him to … -
March 28, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for our first Choirs concert of the semester! Free and open to the public. -
April 1, 2025 | 7:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music invites you to a special presentation from WFU Music major Alexandra Eliasek. For this project, Alexandra will explore the soundtracks in children's films and demonstrate how the film industry uses movies to teach children about various music genres and the cultures associated with them.&… -
April 4, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe Tempest By William Shakespeare Directed by Michael Kamtman April 4-5 & 10-12 at 7:30 pm & April 6 & 13 at 2:00 pm Long ago and somewhere far away: A mighty storm. A shipwreck. An island. Fantastical creatures. A sorcerer and the sorcerer’… -
April 9, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music invites you to our Spring 2025 Student Chamber Music Concert! Free and open to the public. -
April 11, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for a Senior Honors Recital from WFU Music major and Presidential Scholar Adam Waszkiewicz. Featuring: Solo de Concours – André Messager Fantasiestücke, op. 73 – Robert Schumann Sonata for Clarinet and Piano – Francis Poulenc Bug – Bruno Mantovani Three Preludes – George Gershwin Arr. … -
April 13, 2025 | 3:00pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents a special recital from WFU Music minor and Presidential Scholar Kyria Pidherny. Free and open to the public. -
April 15, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music presents our Spring 2025 concert for our Collegium Musicum and Gamelan Giri Murti! The Collegium Musicum ensemble is devoted to the performance of Renaissance and Baroque music on period instruments such as recorders and violas da gamba. The Gamelan Giri Murti ensemble is WFU's Balinese … -
April 18, 2025 | 7:30pm
Brendle Recital HallWe Play Together: Concert (music from Starfield and Fallout) with Guest Artist, Inon Zur (WFU Symphony Orchestra) Friday, April 18, 7:30pm, Brendle Recital Hall Reception in lobby to follow We Play Together: Music & Gaming is an extraordinary three-day event blending music, gaming, and academic exploration. Featuring Emmy Award-winning composer&… -
April 18, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe Wake Forest University Department of Music and Symphony Orchestra welcome special guest, EMMY award-winning and three-time BAFTA-nominated composer Inon Zur to Brendle Recital Hall in Scales Fine Arts Center. Inon Zur is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful composers in the media industry today, internationally renowned … -
April 19, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterJoin us for a special faculty recital featuring Mathilde Handelsman, piano and Edward Cho, cello. Free and open to the public. -
April 22, 2025 | 7:30pm
Scales Fine Arts CenterThe WFU Department of Music invites you to join us for our Spring WFU Wind Ensemble concert! Free and open to the public.