Illinois Wesleyan Voice

09/25/2026

IWU Voice Area will be welcoming Dr. Chadley Ballantyne as a guest artist and teacher! All events are free and open to the public:

This coming week we have a treat for our students! Guest Artist, Dr. Chadley Ballantyne will be visiting, teaching a master class with our singers, presenting a lecture, and presenting a recital with Dr. Ingrid Kammin!

Resident Artist Schedule:
*All events free and open to public

Monday, September 28th
Vocal Masterclass
Westbrook Auditorium, Presser Hall
6pm - 8pm

Tuesday, September 29th
Guest Lecture:
“Explorations of Biomechanics of Breathing”
Room 258 Presser Hall
1:40-2:55pm

Tuesday, September 29th
Vocal Recital
Westbrook Auditorium - Presser Hall
8pm

Chadley Ballantyne, bass-baritone
Ingrid Kammin, soprano
Caleb Wayman, piano
Works by: Handel, Copland, Wayman, Weigl, Poulenc, Zemlinsky

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07/03/2026

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06/20/2026

Congratulations to all involved in this wonderful festival, including alum Filip Duda and Lucy Tester (BM ‘27) who gave a fabulous recital last night! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

05/28/2026

Celebrating IWU alum Filip Duda and his upcoming appearance with The Five Cities Baroque Festival 🎊🎉🙌

The next installment of our series focuses on the tenor member of our Young Artist quartet, Filip Duda!

Chicago-based tenor Filip Duda is a versatile artist with a passion for early music, vocal chamber music, and opera. A dedicated performer of baroque repertoire, he has appeared in previous The Five Cities Baroque Festivals, Chicago’s Landowska Harpsichord Society, also participating in Juilliard415’s St. John Passion workshop (2024) and Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute (2019). Likewise comfortable in the world of opera, he has appeared as King Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Young Ivan Turgenev (Notes on Viardot) and Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus), each with Music On Site, Inc., as well as Mr. Upfold (Albert Herring), Telemaco (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria), and Bardolfo (Falstaff) with . Filip is cantor at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Barrington, IL, where he also leads the choir. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from and M.Mus. in Voice from . When not performing, he enjoys teaching his cat, Rameau, new tricks. www.filip-duda.com

You can hear Filip, like our other Young Artists, at ThThe Five Cities Baroque Festival: Young Artists in RecitalThe Five Cities Baroque Festival: Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” (Springfield performance) , and The Five Cities Baroque Festival: Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” (Decatur performance). All events are free and open to the public!

05/27/2026

Hooray for Lucy Tester (BM ‘27) and her upcoming performances with The Five Cities Baroque Festival ❤️💕🎉

We are so proud!!!

With 3 weeks to go until we open the Fourth Five Cities Baroque Festival, we turn our on our quartet of stellar Young Artists who will be in residence with us for the week. First up is soprano Lucy Tester!

Lucy Tester, soprano, is a rising senior at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance with a minor in Entrepreneurial Studies. At Illinois Wesleyan, Lucy has appeared in multiple operatic productions, with past roles including Gretel in Humperdinck’s "Hansel and Gretel," Miss Silverpeal in Mozart’s "Der Schauspieldirektor," and a fairy in Gilbert and Sullivan’s "Iolanthe." Lucy has also spent the last two seasons as a core member of Prairie Fire Theatre’s touring children’s opera, which annually performs for over 5,000 children throughout the Central Illinois area. Following graduation, she intends to pursue a professional performing career while also owning and operating her own private voice studio. Lucy is thrilled to be a part of The Fourth Five Cities Baroque Festival and extends her sincere thanks to Nate Widelitz and Ingrid Bowen Kammin for this opportunity.

You can hear Lucy featured at The Five Cities Baroque Festival: Young Artists in Recital on Friday night, June 19, and in our closing performances of The Five Cities Baroque Festival: Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” (Springfield performance) and The Five Cities Baroque Festival: Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” (Decatur performance). As always, every event is free and open to the public - you won't ant to miss hearing her and the rest of our next generation of musical leaders before they make it big!

05/11/2026

Celebrating these wonderful performers! Check out the IWU voice students and Professor Mangialardi, with The Prairie Fire Theater's/IWU Children's Opera!!! They will be touring over 50 local schools!!! 🤩
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03/06/2026

There is still time to Audition!!! Even if you cannot make the dates listed we are always happy to hear you! 🤩

🎶 Calling all future musicians!
Auditions are now open for Fall 2026 at the Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music! 🎻🎤🎹

🌟 Talent Scholarships up to $39,000/year—no extra forms needed!
🎓 Exceptional musicians may qualify for awards over $50,000!

📍 On-Campus Audition Dates:
🗓️ Nov 8, Dec 6, Jan 17, Feb 21, Mar 7

💻 Prefer video? Apply to IWU, upload your audition to your Student Status Portal, and you’re all set—even if the video uploads sideways, we’ve got you!

🎵 Learn more & apply:
🔗 iwu.edu/music/admissions/major-audition

01/16/2026

Happening THIS Weekend! Fabulous productions of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Mozart's The Impresario!! Can't wait to see you there!!! 🤩
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01/14/2026

Happening this weekend!

🎭 Spend Your Weekend at the Opera! 🎶

Join Illinois Wesleyan Opera Theatre, in collaboration with the Illinois Wesleyan Symphony Orchestra, for an unforgettable weekend of opera featuring two incredible works:

✨ Trouble in Tahiti — Leonard Bernstein
✨ The Impresario — W.A. Mozart

📍 Westbrook Auditorium, Presser Hall
🗓 Jan 16 at 7:30 PM
🗓 Jan 17 at 3:00 PM & 7:30 PM
🗓 Jan 18 at 3:00 PM

🎟 FREE & open to the public!

Experience the drama, comedy, and music of opera—performed by talented IWU students. Don’t miss it!

10/29/2025

Excited for this wonderful program!!! See you there!

We hope you'll join us for the Titan Choirs' Fall Concert titled "Critical Mass"! This concert features music from all over the globe in celebration of 500 years of Palestrina's influence in the choral tradition!

November 2nd, 2025 - 4pm
Wesley United Methodist Church - Bloomington, IL