All events are free, unless noted
Wednesday – The Faculty Artist Series welcomes Brittany Lasch on trombone. Lasch is an assistant
professor in the College of Musical Arts. As the second-place winner of the 2017-18 American Prize, she
has appeared as soloist with numerous ensembles including the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” the
Queens Symphony and the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass. She also was a winner of Astral Artist’s
2017 National Auditions and the 2015 national Collegiate Solo Competition hosted by the U.S. Army Band.
The recital will begin at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center.
Jan. 31 – The Prout Reading Series presents poet Julie Webb and fiction writer Ali Miller during the
first reading of the semester. Both women are MFA students in the BGSU Creative Writing program. The
reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Prout Chapel.
Feb. 1 – The Center for Women and Gender Equity presents “Women, Gender and Poetry Open Mic,” featuring
1997 BGSU alumna Kayla William as the keynote speaker. The event, which runs from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in 207
Bowen-Thompson Student Union, includes collaborative poetry activities, blackout poetry tables and open
mic time.
Feb. 1 – Bowling Green Opera Theater presents world premiere performances of chamber operas written by
BGSU student composers. The performance begins at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts
Center.
Feb. 1 – The BGSU Department of Theatre and Film’s Elsewhere Productions presents “I Didn’t Want a
Mastodon” by Halley Feiffer and directed by Melissa Snyder. The production will begin at 8 p.m. in the
Eva Marie Saint Theatre at the Wolfe Center for the Arts. A second performance will begin at 8 p.m. on
Feb. 2.
Feb. 2 – The College of Musical Arts will host the eighth annual David D. Dubois Piano Competition, which
features accomplished high school pianists competing for prizes. Mariana Lomazov, a Ukrainian-American
pianist, is this year’s guest artist for the piano competition. One of the most passionate and
charismatic performers on the concert scene today, she is the Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Fine Arts
at the University of South Carolina School of Music, where she is founder and artistic director of the
Southeastern Piano Festival. She will present a solo piano recital at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at
the Moore Musical Arts Center. The competition semi-finals take place from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 2, and the
finals will be held from 8:30 a.m.-noon Feb. 3, both in Kobacker Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center.
For more information about the competition and a full schedule, visit bgsu.edu/dubois.
Feb. 3 – Praecepta, the BGSU student chapter of the Society of Composers Inc., presents “24/24,” which
pairs performers and composers randomly to collaborate over a period of 48 hours. During the first 24
hours, the composer writes a piece for his or her paired performer. For the second 24 hours, the
performer learns the piece. The resulting concert, with the performances of the newly composed and
learned pieces, will begin at 4 p.m. in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center.