2022-2023
Concert & Event Season
Currently we are finalizing our season. This page is currently under construction. Please keep checking back for updates on more concert dates and times as they are added, along with ticket information.
TUESDAY COFFEE CONCERT (FREE)
10:30am CST
September 20, 2022
featuring Allyson Partin-horn & Sarah Lockwood-piano
Our Coffee Concert Series kicks off with a duo featuring Allyson Partin, French horn & Sarah Lockwood, Piano. This will be the first performance in concert as a duo, although Sarah & Allyson have performed and worked together in other ensembles and formats. Both Allyson and Sarah have performed in Rochester Symphony seasons, and both serve as music instructors for Blessings Academy of Arts and Music at Hastings Arts Center. Please come and help us kick off the HAC 2022-2023 season by attending this free concert! Works included on the program include Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Leonard Bernstein and William Grant Still.
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Allyson Partin
Sarah Lockwood
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Doors open at 10:00am with coffee and treats. Audience members may enjoy the art gallery before and after the concert. Cash or Check donations to Friends of the Hastings Arts Center are welcomed and appreciated. Thank you!
If you are unable to come in person, you may catch the livestream on our Facebook page by clicking here.
If you are unable to come in person, you may catch the livestream on our Facebook page by clicking here.
TUESDAY COFFEE CONCERT (FREE)
10:30am CST
October 4, 2022
featuring The Classic Brass Quintet
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Since 1983, the Classic Brass Quintet has performed music to suit all occasions. From the casual outdoor setting of a park concert to the more formal concert series venue, this quintet has played to appreciative audiences. The group has a large and varied repertoire, specializing in light classical music, Scandinavian brass music, and special jazz arrangements for quintet.
Members of the group have performed with the following organizations: Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, ”Prairie Home Companion” radio show, National Symphony, Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, The United States Army Band (Pershing’s Own), Eastman Wind Ensemble, Yale Orchestra, Gustavus Adolphus College Band, University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble, and various other professional and community ensembles, large and small. |
TUESDAY COFFEE CONCERT (FREE)
10:30am CST
October 11, 2022
featuring Amy Nam-harp
A confident and energetic performer, Twin Cities-based harpist Amy Nam has appeared as a soloist with the McGill Contemporary Ensemble, the Vanderbilt University Orchestra, and the Sewannee Summer Festival Orchestra. She holds a master’s degree in harp performance from McGill University, where she studied harp with Montreal Symphony Orchestra principal harpist Jennifer Swartz, as well as a master’s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied harp with Kathleen Bride. She completed her undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University, where she studied harp with Marian Shaffer and graduated with first honors as the Blair School of Music Founder’s Medalist.
Nam has written a number of works both for the harp and other instrumental ensembles. Recently, Nam received funding through Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning program to write and perform a new piece with the Rochester, NY-based ensemble fivebyfive to be premiered this October. In 2018 Nam’s work Somewhere to Elsewhere, for harp and ensemble, was selected from nearly 700 entries for a BMI Student Composer Award. In 2020, she won the Lyra Society’s 7th Annual Costello Competition for Composition.
Nam is on faculty at Luther College in Decorah, IA, and teaches at Mt. Calvary Academy of Music in Excelsior, MN.
www.amynam.com
Nam has written a number of works both for the harp and other instrumental ensembles. Recently, Nam received funding through Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning program to write and perform a new piece with the Rochester, NY-based ensemble fivebyfive to be premiered this October. In 2018 Nam’s work Somewhere to Elsewhere, for harp and ensemble, was selected from nearly 700 entries for a BMI Student Composer Award. In 2020, she won the Lyra Society’s 7th Annual Costello Competition for Composition.
Nam is on faculty at Luther College in Decorah, IA, and teaches at Mt. Calvary Academy of Music in Excelsior, MN.
www.amynam.com
SATURDAY-October 15, 2022
7:30pm
Special Event
PRESENTS
To purchase tickets, please go to the Sod House Theater website here. |
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
Sod House Theater has teamed up with The University of Minnesota’s Center for Orphan Drug Research to develop a new production focused on bringing attention to those diagnosed with a rare disease. The collaboration will adapt the Greek tragedy, Philoctetes, to help a Upper Midwest audience gain greater awareness and deeper understanding of the medical, economic, psychological, and social challenges facing people with rare diseases. Kevin Kling, best known for his popular commentaries on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, has adapted the Greek story to a modern play about rare disease. The production will perform the show during the month of October in Minneapolis, Hastings, Morris, Rochester, Duluth, Prescott WI and Fargo ND. Tickets are required, reserve yours today. The performances are free, but seating is limited; so please only reserve the seats you will use. Tickets will all be available at the will call box office and a freewill offering is encouraged at the time of pick-up. Note that all venues require the audience members to wear a mask for the performances. |
Sod House Theater is a Minnesota nonprofit that combines community collaboration, relationship building, and theater arts to move people’s hearts and minds on issues that matter. We know firsthand the power of story and live theater to surface emotional truths that lead to deeper understanding of our shared humanity and our collective power to make a difference.
TUESDAY COFFEE CONCERT (FREE)
10:30am CST
November 1, 2022
featuring Ruckus in the Bearbrush
Ruckus in the Bearbrush comes to the Hastings Arts Center stage for the first time! More info coming soon...
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SUNDAY Matinee Concert
3:00pm CST
November 13, 2022
featuring Mirage Performing Arts
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MIRAGE Performing Arts is a Twin-Cities based group of performing artists who create a new and authentic expression of Classical Music and Ballet through innovative collaboration, programing and choreography. From concert halls to city streets, museums, amphitheaters and online, they perform at a variety of spaces and mediums to reach wider audiences. Mirage Performing Arts were featured by StarTribune, Minneapolis Downtown Council, Compassion International, ParkTV St. Louis Park, and Citizens Independent Bank.
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TICKET INFO COMING SOON!
STUDENT DISCOUNTS for Sunday Matinees:
1) Blessings Academy students are admitted for FREE
2) All other students may be admitted for $5 CASH with a current School ID (enrolled for 2022-23 school year).
PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE YOUR STUDENT TICKETS ONLINE.
***To reserve a student seat, please contact us at hastingsartscenter@gmail.com. Although we don't anticipate this concert selling out, it is best to plan ahead by letting us know you want to attend!***
1) Blessings Academy students are admitted for FREE
2) All other students may be admitted for $5 CASH with a current School ID (enrolled for 2022-23 school year).
PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE YOUR STUDENT TICKETS ONLINE.
***To reserve a student seat, please contact us at hastingsartscenter@gmail.com. Although we don't anticipate this concert selling out, it is best to plan ahead by letting us know you want to attend!***
TUESDAY COFFEE CONCERT (FREE)
10:30am CST
November 29, 2022
featuring John Huth & Larry Prescott-trumpets with Sarah Lockwood-piano
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SPECIAL HOLIDAY SHOW
FRIDAY
December 2, 2022
7:30pm
Returning to the HAC
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
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Ticket info coming...
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