Fine Arts Events
At Stevenson High School, we believe it is vital that we provide experiences to students that will instill a life-long love for, appreciation of, and involvement in the arts. Through our curricular and co-curricular offerings, students have the opportunity to explore many disciplines of the arts and, in doing so, build not just their skills and proficiency in that art but their passion for it as well. Students also have the opportunity to showcase their skills through a variety of performances throughout the year. We invite our school community to join us in celebrating our talented students and the importance of fine arts through these events, listed below.
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Auditions
Auditions
Auditions for co-curricular opportunities, including the fall play, fall musical, freshman/sophomore play, winter play and improv, can be found below. For auditions to place in a specific course, please visit the Fine Arts Academic Division webpage.
Patriot Theatre Company Fall Productions
Welcome to the Patriot Theatre Company! We're excited to invite you to be a part of our next season, featuring two spectacular productions: the timeless drama of Macbeth and the beloved magic of Mary Poppins. Whether you dream of the stage or prefer to work behind the scenes, we have a place for you. Detailed information regarding auditions and production applications is available in our downloadable info packet below – be sure to check it out!
Check back for future audition opportunities!
Past Productions
Past Productions
Orchestra
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Orchestra Chamber Concert
Feb. 18, 2025
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The yearly orchestra chamber concert highlights some of Stevenson's most musically talented musicians from the Symphonic and Patriot orchestras, The repertoire for this concert includes a varied and exciting list of pieces that will be sure to please any musical tastes.
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Theatre
2024 Frosh/Soph Play: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
Feb. 7 & 8, 2025
Stevenson High School | The Little Theatre
This new dramatization of C.S. Lewis' classic, set in the land of Narnia, faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion; his struggle with the White Witch; and the adventures of four children who inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the exciting, never-to-be-forgotten Narina. The intense action features chases, duels, and escapes as the witch is determined to keep Narnia in her possession and end Aslan's reign. All the memorable episodes from the story are represented in this exciting dramatization: the temptation of Edmund by the witch, the slaying of the evil wolf by Peter, the witnessing of Aslan's resurrection by Susan and Lucy, the crowning of the four new rulers of Narnia, and more. The supporting characters are also here: the unicorn, the centaur and other forest animals, along with Father Christmas, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver and Tumnus the Faun. This story of love, faith, courage and giving, with its triumph of good over evil, is a true celebration of life.
Audience Advisory: Patriot Theatre Company rates this production PG. The staging includes moments of combat, flashing lights, and atmospheric fog.
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- PURCHASE: Tickets via GoFan (Feb. 7 @ 7 p.m. | Feb. 8 @ 2 p.m. | Feb. 8 @ 7 p.m.)
- DOWNLOAD: Event Program
Choir
Consortium Choir Cocnert
Jan. 16, 2025
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Our annual singing spectacular, featuring all six of our consortium middle schools, our Stevenson A Cappella groups, and our curricular choirs!
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Orchestra
Consortium Orchestra Cocnert
Jan. 15, 2025
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
This is our annual Consortium Orchestra concert featuring all the 8th graders from all of the schools that feed into our orchestra program. We are expecting 185 students to join us for this event.
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Music Production
Music Production Showcase
Dec. 6, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium & Room 2104
Music Production students will present and perform their music from the fall semester! This will be a fun concert atmosphere! Classes showcased are Music Production 1, Music Production 2, Advanced Music Production from instructors Maddie Vogler and Roland Hatcher.
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Theatre
Acting 3 Showcase
Dec. 18, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Get Ready for a Night of Unscripted Fun and Powerful Performances! Join us for Patriot Theatre Company's Acting 3 Showcase, where our talented students will take the stage to dazzle you with their creativity, wit, and raw emotion!
Expect the unexpected as we dive into the world of Improv Comedy-think quick thinking, big laughs, and unforgettable moments! Feel the energy of passionate Slam Poetry, where words come alive with rhythm, emotion, and soul.
This is more than just a showcase; it's an evening of pure entertainment, heartfelt artistry, and boundary-pushing creativity. ✨ Don't miss this one-of-a-kind performance-a true highlight of the PTC season!
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Orchestra
December Orchestra Concert
Dec. 17, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The Stevenson orchestras will be performing a wide variety of winter-themed music. Repertoire will include works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Respighi, Messager, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and more!the Stevenson orchestras will be performing a wide variety of winter-themed music. Repertoire will include works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Respighi, Messager, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, and more!
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Jazz
Jazz Cafe
Dec. 13, 2024
Stevenson High School | Room 2104
A concert featuring all instrumental jazz groups, including Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo 1, and Concert Jazz.
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Choir
December Choir Concert
Dec. 12, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
This concert will feature all three concert choirs showcasing a wonderful and diverse program of music. The concert choirs will also be joined by our three fabulous a cappella groups, who will make their 2024 concert debuts! Groups include Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir, Patriot Singers (Hatcher/Snelten), Low Frequency (Hatcher), Polyphonics (Hatcher), Nothing But Treble (Borkowski).
Visual Art
Winter ArtFest 2024
Dec. 10 & 11, 2024
Stevenson High School | Upper Forum & Room 2104
Winter ArtFest features all first-semester art students. Art students can showcase one of their art pieces at this annual Stevenson event. The show will be open to all Stevenson students during the school day on Tuesday, December 10th from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, Dec. 11 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
A public reception will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 10 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in both the Upper Forum and Room 2104 in the West Building.
All teachers are encouraged to bring their classes to the art show any period during the show's run.
Each Fall 2024 first-semester art student is invited to include one piece created in each art class to be viewed in the art show. All visual art classes are represented in the art show.
Band
December Band Concert
Dec. 9 & 10, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
These Concerts will feature performances of a wide variety of music by each ensemble in our Band Program. This includes Freshman Band, the Symphonic Bands, Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble. This is Freshman Band's first concert!
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Music Production
Music Production Showcase
Dec. 6, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium & Room 2104
Music Production students will present and perform their music from the fall semester! This will be a fun concert atmosphere! Classes showcased are Music Production 1, Music Production 2, Advanced Music Production from instructors Maddie Vogler and Roland Hatcher.
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Dance
Winter Dance Concert
Dec. 6 & 7, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The Winter Dance Concert features student choreography from the Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class. Each dance was chosen via an audition process. Choreographers developed the concept and cast the dancers for their pieces under the mentorship of their directors. Guest artist work by Adam Houston.
The Winter Dance Concert features the Mélange Dance Company, the Repertory Dance Company, and the Concert Dance Class.
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Guitar
December Guitar Concert
Dec. 4, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Get ready for an unforgettable evening as our guitar classes take the stage for their December concert! From classical masterpieces to vibrant pop hits and fiery Spanish tunes, this performance promises something for everyone. You won't want to miss the energy and variety - there's definitely a piece you'll love!
This concert will feature the full Guitar 1 and Guitar 2 classes performing on stage, along with small groups from the Patriot Guitar Ensemble showcasing pieces they've worked on independently.
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Theatre
The Failed Presidential Candidates present: Improv in Space
Nov. 22-23, 2024
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall (Room 4100)
The Failed Presidential Candidates are performing the first improv show on the moon! Join us for a real out-of-this-world experience. Performances are Friday, November 22nd, and Saturday, November 23rd at 7 pm in the Recital Hall (the moon). Admission is free!
Baroque
Stevenson Baroque Ensemble & Viol Consrt
Nov. 17, 2024
Church of the Ascension | Chicago, IL
Our Stevenson Baroque Ensemble and Viol Consort will perform at Church of the Ascension, 1133 N. LaSalle St, Chicago, Il 60610 at 2:30 pm.on Nov. 17.
It is a great venue in the Gold Coast area of Chicago, where our friends and families can enjoy a great lunch, a beautiful concert, and great shopping on Michigan Ave. This is a free concert, and donations will be graciously accepted to help our students get to the Boston Early Music Festival in June 2025. Here is a donation link for anyone wanting to donate for our future trip to Boston.
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Theatre
2024 Fall Musical: The Prom
Nov. 15-17, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Step into the glitz and glamor of high school in our electrifying production of the hit Broadway musical, The Prom! With over 150 students lighting up the stage as cast, crew, and pit orchestra, get ready for a spectacle that'll dazzle your senses and warm your heart.
In this exuberant new musical comedy, four eccentric Broadway stars are in desperate need of a new stage. So, when they hear that trouble is brewing around a small-town prom, they know that it's time to put a spotlight on the issue…and themselves. The town's parents want to keep the high school dance on the straight and narrow-but plans go awry when one student invites her girlfriend to prom. On a mission to transform lives, Broadway's brassiest join forces with a courageous girl and the town's citizens and the result is love that brings them all together. It's a vibrant celebration of community, where love knows no bounds and acceptance reigns supreme.
Get ready to be swept away in a whirlwind of fun and festivity, where every scene is a party, every costume sparkles with sequins, teenagers embark on a journey of self-discovery, and parents learn the true meaning of love and acceptance.
Join us for an unforgettable experience that's sure to leave you dancing in the aisles!
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Chamber
Band Chamber Concert
Oct. 30, 2024
Stevenson High School | Patriot Wellness Center
Students from Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony will be performing advanced music in small chamber groups. Many of these pieces were prepared independently by students!
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Orchestra
2024 Fall Orchestra Concert
Oct. 17, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The Fall Orchestra Concert will feature students from all curricular orchestra classes in their first performance event of the year. The musical highlights will be centered around music with dark, spooky themes, contrasting with high energy and lush selections. A treat for the eyes and ears!
This concert is always exciting, as it is a premiere for each of our new ensembles and the first time on our SHS concert stage for many new students. The fall themes really help color the event into something special!
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Guitar
Patriot Guitar Ensemble Concert
Oct. 9, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The guitar program's first concert of the year featuring our auditioned Patriot Guitar Ensemble.
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Choir
2024 Fall Choir Concert
Oct. 8, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Fall Choir Concert featuring Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir and Patriot Singers, primarily highlighting music of Latina, Black and Female composers! Join us at Culver's in Lincolnshire or Buffalo Grove after the concert to help support the choir program!
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Theatre
2024 Fall Play: Anon(ymous)
May 16, 2024
Stevenson High School | Little Theatre (Room 4200)
Separated from his mother, a young refugee named Anon embarks on a perilous journey across the United States, encountering a diverse array of characters-some compassionate, others dangerously cruel. From a sinister one-eyed butcher to charming barflies and a special curry restaurant, Anon must navigate an unpredictable, ever-changing landscape to reunite with his family. "Anon(ymous)," commissioned by the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis and written in 2006 by Japanese-American playwright Naomi Iizuka, reimagines Homer's The Odyssey through the eyes of a modern-day refugee. The play explores serious themes as our young hero makes life-altering decisions-some lives are saved, while others are lost. With its captivating blend of magical realism and ensemble storytelling, "Anon(ymous)" resonates with our shared human quest for belonging and how we are shaped along the way.
*Patriot Theatre Company advises Anon(ymous) has mature content due to moments of discrimination and violence. This production runs approximately 90 minutes with no intermission and utilizes moments of flashing lights, lights directed at the audience, and a6 6tmospheric fog.
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Band
2024 Fall Band Concert
Oct. 1, 2024
Stevenson High School | Patriot Wellness Center
Join the Fine Arts department as the 3nd Period Symphonic Band, 5th Period Symphonic Band, Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble groups perform music from the last century by diverse composers.
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Music
Honors Senior Solo Recital
Sept. 12, 2024
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall (Room 4100)
This year's soloists represent some of Stevenson's most talented and skilled musicians. The soloists auditioned and were selected from a panel of judges who determined the four soloists featured in this highly esteemed performance.
The four soloists featured in this recital are from the band and orchestra program.
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Band
2024 Marching Band Exhibition Night
Sept. 3 2024
Stevenson High School | The Stadium
Theatre
24 Hour Theatre Project
Aug. 23 & 24, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Art Center
Sign-ups are now available for 24 Hour Theater Project. This fast-paced philanthropy experience is an excellent kick-off event for Patriots who want to get involved in SHS Theater. Students will write, produce, and rehearse plays all within 24 hours! This event takes place on Friday, Aug. 23 after school and all day on Saturday, Aug. 24 with the culminating performance at 7 p.m. All students are welcome regardless of grade level or theatrical experience. A $5 fee is required to cover a pizza dinner and snacks. Sign-up with our google form and register through the school store.
If you are interested in writing, designing, directing, or stage managing, please complete this registration form no later than Monday, Aug. 12. Cast and crew may sign-up through Friday, Aug. 23 at 3:30 p.m.
Theatre
Theatre Kickoff
Aug. 15, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Patriot Theatre Company welcomes you back to school! Come to our Theatre Kickoff to learn about all the ways you can be involved: audition for plays and musicals, become a theatre designer, Stevenson Backstage, Failed Presidential Candidates Improv Troupe, Scripts Studio Playwrights Club, Field Trips, workshops, and more! All are invited - no experience necessary!
2023-24 Events
Orchestra
2024 Orchestra Pops Concert
May 16, 2024
Stevenson High School | Patriot Wellness Center
This end-of-the-year POPS extravaganza will feature fun and exciting music from well-known musicals, movies, and pop hits! On this program, we will also be dazzled by the Sibelius violin concerto performed by senior, Vishal Subramanian.
The strings of the Patriot/Symphonic Orchestras and Stevenson/concert Orchestras will be combined for this concert. We are also joined by our woodwind, brass, and percussion musicians for this event.
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Guitar
2024 Spring Guitar Concert
May 15, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The year's last concert for the guitar programs, including Honors Guitar Ensemble, Guitar 1, Guitar 2 and Patriot Guitar Ensemble.
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Band
2024 Spring Band Concert
May 9, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Our final Band Concert of the school year will be a celebration of all we have accomplished this year, and all our seniors have contributed over their high school careers. Performance selections will feature music from a wide variety of composers, including two pieces transcribed and arranged by the Symphonic Bands. We will also perform works by Shruthi Rajasekar, David Maslanka, John Williams, Robert Sheldon, Erika Svanoe and more! Performing groups include Freshman Band, 4th Period Symphonic Band, 5th Period Symphonic Band, Adv. Symphonic Band and Honor Band.
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2024 Spring Choir Concert
May 8, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Join us for the final choir concert of the year! Celebrate the outstanding Class of 2024 and listen to some of your favorite choral, broadway, and pop music, spanning various genres, and featuring our fabulous curricular choirs and a capella groups, including Patriot Singers, Advanced Choir, Stevenson Choir (Hatcher/Snelten), Polyphonics, Low Frequency, Nothing But Treble (Hatcher/Singer/Borkowski).
Students will be recognized before the concert (6:45 p.m.) for various accomplishments, including ILMEA and Solo/Ensemble, and seniors will be recognized before the final song.
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Theatre
The One Acts: Find My Way
May 3 & 4, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The Patriot Theatre Company proudly presents our annual evening of student-written and student-produced One Acts. Though these six short plays were born from mere whiffs of inspiration over the last year, they represent a lifetime of lived experiences. They were nurtured in workshops through our Scripts Studio club, drafted countless times, and finally selected from over 20 works submitted early December. Then, the real work began to refine their story to create highly engaging experiences for the audience. These plays offer a mirror to our present complicated world and a window into what is possible when students are given the leeway to create and collaborate with their peers. These plays are hilarious, touching, and above all else-honest depictions of what it means to really see the world through fresh and talented eyes. We look forward to you joining us!
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Dance
2024 Spring Dance Concert
May 3 & 4, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The Spring Dance Concert consists of student choreography from the Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies, the Concert Dance Class, and usually a guest artist. All dances are chosen via an audition process. Choreographers develop the concept and cast the dancers for their pieces under the mentorship of their directors. Featuring the Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class.
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Percussion
2024 Percussion Ensemble
May 1, 2024
Stevenson High School | Band Room 2203
Percussion Ensemble will be performing in their final concert of the school year, with a culmination of all the music they have been working on this year.
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Visual Art
The 44th Annual Consortium 125 Artfest
April 30, 2024
Stevenson High School | Field House
The Consortium ArtFest celebrates the artistic work of our Consortium K-8 and Adlai E. Stevenson High School students. This collaborative event is a favorite among our communities.
Parents, guardians, families, students, and friends are cordially invited to attend the 44th Consortium ArtFest Evening Reception on Tues. April 30, 2024, between 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Stevenson High School's Field House. Parking and entrance details are included on the map on the back page of this invitation.
The Consortium ArtFest Evening Reception is an open-house event. Come anytime between 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. During this window of time, the Consortium Art teachers will pass out certificates to each participating student. Light refreshments will be served throughout the event and the following activities will be part of the celebration.
Other activities include:
- Empty Bowls Project Fundraiser (Bowls are $5 each and proceeds go to the Vernon Township Food Pantry)
- Ceramic Wheel Demonstrations
- Coloring, Painting, and Button Making
Baroque
2024 Baroque Concert
April 26, 2024
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall
An evening of music performed by the Stevenson Baroque Ensemble and Viol Consort. This concert will feature vocal pieces, a harpsichord concerto, a concerto for three violins and viol consort gems.
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Music
Small Ensemble Concert
April 18, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The Small Ensemble Concert will feature performances from the Flute Choir, Double Reed Ensemble, Clarinet Ensemble, Saxophone Ensemble, and Brass Choir. Music will include works by Eric Ewazwen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Leonard Bernstein and more!
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Visual Art
The AP and Advanced Art Show
April 16 - 17, 2024
Stevenson High School | Room 2104 & Upper Forum
The AP and Advanced Art Show exhibition will take place Tuesday, April 16, and Wednesday, April 17 in 2104 and the Upper Forum. The show is open to the school during periods 1-8 on Tuesday, April 16, and periods 1-7 on Wednesday, April 17. The evening reception will be held on Tuesday, April 16 from 7 - 9 p.m.
The Show includes work from students enrolled in AP Art, AP Photography and Digital Design, as well as students enrolled in Advanced Photography & Digital Design.
The AP Art, AP and Advanced Photography & Digital Design students would greatly appreciate your attendance at their show!
Dance
2024 Day of Dance
April 12, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
All Dance Classes will present student choreography based on the theme "Unveiling Life". This free performance will be open to all students and faculty for the entire day in the Performing Arts Center. Faculty are welcome to bring their classes. Little Pats etc. Performing groups include All Dance 1, 2, 3, 4, Jazz Fusion, and Concert Dance classes. Solos by Dance Leaders and other students will also be featured.
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Jazz
2024 Combo Concert
April 9, 2024
Stevenson High School | Little Theater
This small group jazz presentation will feature all original music and arrangements by students in the SHS jazz program. It is the culmination of a year of learning about improvising and arranging. Performing groups include Jazz Combo and Jazz Workshop.
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Jazz
Evening of Jazz Concert 2024
April 5, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Students in co-curricular vocal and instrumental jazz groups will perform! Groups performing include Jazz Ensemble, Concert Jazz Band, Lab Band, Polyphonics, Nothing But Treble and Low Frequency.
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Orchestra
Spring Orchestra Concert
March 19, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The spring orchestra program will present a variety of exciting musical pieces highlighting women composers, traditional Irish and Indian favorites, a highly expressive string composition by Sir Edward Elgar, and the first-ever performance of the Grøndahl trombone concerto featuring our senior soloist. Featured orchestras include the Stevenson Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra and Patriot Orchestra.
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Theatre
2024 Winter Play -- Birds of a Feather
March 8 - 10, 2024
Stevenson High School | Black Box Theatre (Room 2204)
This Helen Hayes award-winning play recounts the story of Roy and Silo, the two Central Park Zoo chinstrap penguins who partnered, adopted an egg, hatched, and raised a chick together
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Band
Winter Band Concert
March 7, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Members of the SHS Band will collaborate for a night of performances with the Mundelein Wind Ensemble. A two-night spectacular event featuring some of the most advanced music in the band repertoire by diverse composers. Performing bands include Honor Band, Advanced Symphonic Band, Symphonic Band and Freshman Band.
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Choir
Winter Choir Concert
Feb. 28, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Our curricular choirs, Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir and Patriot Singers, will be performing an extensive repertoire of music from various musical genres and styles.
We will be collaborating with musicians from the Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago on a performance of Arirang. We will also feature SHS student musicians in a string quartet and on percussion
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Baroque
Baroque Ensemble Concert
Feb. 23, 2024
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall (Room 4100)
This student group, performing on period instruments, will be showcasing pieces by Renaissance and Baroque masters. The concert will highlight pieces by Vivaldi, Corelli, Pachelbel, East, and traditional favorites.
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Guitar
Chamber Guitar Concert
Feb. 22, 2024
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium (Room 2206)
Guitar 2 and Patriot Guitar Ensemble are performing chamber music. Our chamber unit highlights the students working in small groups, making musical decisions, rehearsing, and performing pieces that they worked on as a group.
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Odyssey
Odyssey Fine Arts Festival 2024
Feb. 13 & 14, 2024
Stevenson High School
Odyssey is Stevenson High School's biennial arts festival where students attend various curated performances and creative hands-on workshops during two school days in February. Odyssey features over 200 professionals in dance, music, performing, visual, and media arts. These artists, educators, and performing groups teach, inspire, entertain, and encourage students to think creatively throughout their time at Stevenson and beyond.
Throughout Odyssey, we hope you will embrace these two unique school days for the adventure they provide, and connect with art forms that teach, inspire, strengthen, and entertain us as individuals and as a community.
For more information, please visit the Odyssey web page.
Orchestra
Chamber Orchestra Concert
Feb. 8, 2024
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall (Room 4100)
This chamber concert showcases the wonderful talents of our two top orchestras, Patriot and Symphonic Orchestra. These young talented musicians are sure to bring beautiful music to your ears and souls.
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Theatre
Frosh/Soph Play -- Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood: Teen Edition
Feb. 1 - 3, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Hear ye, hear ye! All of Stevenson Institute of Learning is formally invited to attend this year's freshman/sophomore play, Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood. Join in our merriment and witness the work of over 50 underclassmen.
Hailed as "A gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take on the classic tale," Marian provides as much comedy as it does heart. This swashbuckling adventure has hilarious fight choreography, slapstick comedy, and many surprises along the way. Robin Hood is (and always has been) Maid Marian in disguise, and leads a motley group of Merry Men (few of whom are actually men) against the greedy Prince John. As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, who will stand for the vulnerable if not Robin? What is the cost of revealing your true self in a time of trouble? Modern concerns and romantic entanglements clash on the battlefield and on the ramparts of Nottingham Castle in this play about selfishness, selflessness, love deferred and the fight. Always the fight. The fight must go on.
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Art Gallery
Featuring Philip Schorn
Through Feb. 23, 2024
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
The Fine Arts Division is proud to feature Christian Arrecis in the 2023-2024 Visiting Artist Series.
Ms. Hurley is a Chicago based installation artist with a background in scenic design. Her work, inspired by the seemingly eternal and awe-inspiring patterns found in nature, allows her to explore the beauty, fragility, and interconnectedness of the natural world and our responsibility towards it. She creates installations, sculptures, and fine art utilizing clean contemporary lines to honor the beauty and diversity of the natural world. She works in corporate, commercial, public and residential spaces.
Ms. Taylor is a professional Artist and Designer that works with a variety of mediums in wide range of styles. Her artistic abilities, work ethic, attention to detail and craftsmanship are consistent and easily seen in every project, big or small. Shayne often employs muted colors to whimsical illustrations with an art nouveau sensibility; but she not afraid to use vibrant colors to evoke an exaggerated reality.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Jazz and Band
Consortium Jazz and Band Festival
Jan. 18, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
8th-graders from consortium middle schools will join together for their first-ever Stevenson High School band performance! They will be joined by the SHS Honor Band and SHS Jazz Ensemble.
Consortium middle school band students will rehearse and perform with students from other schools. They will be guided, mentored, and inspired by current SHS students, and will get to sample the SHS Band curriculum and tour the space.
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Orchestra
Consortium Orchestra Festival
Jan. 22, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
NOTE: Baroque Ensemble will perform for consortium students in the Recital Hall before the Consortium Orchestra performance.
This event is our yearly Strings Consortium clinic and performance event, highlighting the student talents from the consortium of schools that feed into the Stevenson orchestra program. All of the performers are 8th-grade students.
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Theatre
Adv. Acting & Acting 3 Showcase
Dec. 19, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Improv Comedy! Musical Theatre! Slam Poems! The Acting 3 & Advanced Acting showcase has it all!
Featuring the talents of over 40 students, this event showcases performances from throughout the semester. Acting 3 students will perform improv comedy and slam poems based on their lived experiences. Advanced Acting will perform scenes and songs from the musicals "Company," and "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown," along with monologues from a variety of plays.
Join us for a performance unlike any other in the PTC season!
PLEASE NOTE - this performance includes mature content and may not be appropriate for young ages.
Choir
Consortium Choir Concert
Jan. 17, 2024
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
7th and 8th-grade choir students from Daniel Wright Middle School, Aptakisic Middle School, Twin Groves Middle School, Woodlawn Middle School, West Oak Middle School and Fremont Middle School will join members from the SHS choir program on a combined concert. Other Stevenson groups to be featured include Polyphonics, Nothing But Treble and Low~Frequency.
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Orchestra
December Orchestra Concert
Dec. 18, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The December Orchestra Concert will be featuring all of the orchestras of the Stevenson Strings Program. The evening will feature a performance of the Stevenson Chamber Orchestras formed by Concert and Stevenson Orchestras members. We are honored to be joined by the wind, brass, and percussion of the Advanced Symphonic Band and the Honor Band. Ethan Zhang, senior soloist, will perform the Grieg piano concerto with the Patriot Orchestra!
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Jazz
Jazz Cafe
Dec. 15, 2023
Stevenson High School | Room 2104
This concert will showcase students in our large jazz groups (Jazz Ensemble, Concert Jazz Band, Lab Band) and our top combo. Students will be performing a variety of pieces!
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Guitar
Winter Guitar Concert
Dec. 13, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Guitar 1, Guitar 2, and Patriot Guitar ensemble perform their pieces from 1st semester at the Winter Guitar Concert. There will be a performance from the honors chamber group during the concert, which is run by Dr. Julie Goldberg.
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Choir
2023 Fall Musical -- Legally Blond: The Musical
Nov. 17 - 18, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Stevenson's curricular and co-curricular ensembles will perform a wide variety of music at the December Choir Concert. Groups include Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir, Patriot Singers, Low~Frequency, Nothing But Treble and Polyphonics.
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Band
December Band Concert
Dec. 11 - 12, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The December Band Concert will feature performances from the Freshman Band, Symphonic Band, Advanced Symphonic Band and Honor Band.
Combined 7th & 8th Period Freshman Band, 4th Period Symphonic Band, 5th Period Symphonic Band, Advanced Symphonic Band, Honor Band; Teachers are Caitlin McGovern and Mark Hiebert
FUN FACT: This will be the Freshman Band's first concert at Stevenson!
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Dance
2023 Winter Dance Concert
Dec. 8 - 9, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The Winter Dance Concert features student choreography from the Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class.
Each dance was chosen via an audition process. Choreographers developed the concept and cast the dancers for their pieces under the mentorship of their directors.
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Visual Art
Winter ArtFest 2023
Dec. 5 - 6, 2023
Stevenson High School | Room 2104 & Upper Forum
Each Fall 2023, each first-semester art student is invited to include one piece created in each of their art classes to be viewed in the art show. All visual art classes are represented in the art show.
Winter ArtFest features all first-semester art students. Art students have the opportunity to showcase one of their art pieces at this annual Stevenson event. The show will be open to all Stevenson students during the school day on Tuesday, Dec. 5 (8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.) and on Wednesday, Dec. 6 (8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.)
A public reception will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 5 from 6 - 8 p.m. in both the Upper Forum and Room 2104 in the West Building.
Theatre
2023 Fall Musical -- Legally Blond: The Musical
Nov. 17 - 18, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Stevenson's Fine Arts Department is proud to present Legally Blonde The Musical! A fabulously fun international award-winning musical based on the adored movie Legally Blonde. The musical follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she overcomes discrimination, inappropriate behavior, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. This hilarious, action-packed show filled with memorable songs, dynamic dances, and heartwarming scenes inspires everyone to find their courage and confidence within
Content Warning: There are mature themes presented in Legally Blonde.
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Music Production
Music Production Showcase
Dec. 1, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Students in music production classes will showcase their music through performances, artist talks, and live listening sessions. Experience their music at these locations throughout the school: West Auditorium, Patriot Lobby, Room 2104, Room 2201 (aka MIDI Lab) and the Music Lobby.
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Orchestra
Fall Orchestra Concert
Oct. 18, 2023
Stevenson High School | Patriot Wellness Center - Sports Turf
This concert will feature the wonderful musical talents of all of our amazing musicians from the orchestra program -- Stevenson, Concert, Symphonic, and Patriot Orchestras. Each of our orchestras will perform a variety of beautiful pieces that will certainly appeal to a variety of musical tastes.
Our Patriot Orchestra will accompany this year's first senior solo performance of Cimarosa's concerto for Flute and Oboe featuring Anna (oboe) and Isabel Edgcomb (flute). We will end the night with the extremely passionate String Serenade by Tchaikovsky.
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Art Gallery
Featuring Philip Schorn
Through Dec. 16, 2023
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
The Fine Arts Division is proud to feature Christian Arrecis in the 2023-2024 Visiting Artist Series.
Schorn is a longtime graphic designer, 2D artist, author, and teacher. His color pencil artwork focuses on realism, shape, color and detail. He has been featured in numerous publications including Color Pencil Magazine, Voyage Chicago, Sunshine Artist Magazine, and Chicago Tribune. He is a member of the Lake County Art League, Grayslake Arts Alliance, Glenview Art League, and Color Pencil Society of America.
Along with classes and private lessons, Schorn teaches for Adler Arts Center (Libertyville), Gorton Community Center (Lake Forest), Antioch Fine Arts Foundation (Antioch), Water Street Studios (Batavia) & Perkowitz Art Studio (Grayslake). He holds a double major in graphic design and 2D art from Eastern Illinois University.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Band
Band Chamber Concert
Oct. 30, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Students from the Honor Band and Advanced Symphonic Band will be performing in small groups, otherwise known as Chamber Ensembles.
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Guitar
Patriot Guitar Ensemble Concert
Oct. 25, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Patriot Guitar Ensemble (featuring sophomores juniors and seniors) will be playing jazz, classical and Spanish dance music.
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Theatre
Patriot Theatre Company presents: SPARK
Oct. 5 - 8, 2023
Stevenson High School | Black Box Theatre
Patriot Theatre Company presents "SPARK: The peer leadership program that will get your kid into Harvard/Yale/Princeton/
Hey, have you heard about SPARK? No, not the internship - the play!
Just picture - Shakespeare's Julius Caesar meets Mean Girls. The play is so relatable - it's set in a highly competitive high school where the pressure of colleges is REAL. SPARK follows Kaashvi, an anxious-Davey-Vishwakumar-esk girl who wants to take down and destroy Priyanka, the president of the peer leadership program called SPARK. There's comedy, there's parties, puking, rivalries, manipulation, neon, backstabbing, and possibly even death?!?!?!
And now, a quote from the play: "I think a little bit of all of us wants to be Regina George.
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Choir
Fall Band Concert
Oct. 16, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Stevenson's curricular choirs will perform their first concert of the 2023-24 school year. All classes will be performing songs from various genres and styles of music featuring the Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir and Patriot Singers.
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Fall Band Concert
Oct. 12, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
This concert will feature performances from the Symphonic Band, Advanced Symphonic Band, and Honor Band.
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Patriot Theatre Company presents: The Bully Plays
Sept. 23, 2023
Stevenson High School | Little Theatre
The Patriot Theatre Company presents a Theatre for Young Audiences production of The Bully Plays. Our presentation of six 10-minute plays explores the theme of bullying through physical clowning and contemporary scenes. The plays are touching, imaginative, powerful, uplifting and funny. Best for ages 10 and up, this collection of short plays will challenge, inspire, and enlighten audiences and aims to confront the issue of bullying in a constructive and creative way.
*TYA Content Warning: This production includes name-calling, physical altercations, and references to suicide and death.
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Art Gallery
Featuring Christian Arrecis
Through Nov. 3, 2023
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
The Fine Arts Division is proud to feature Christian Arrecis in the 2023-2024 Visiting Artist Series.
Christian Arrecis is an Illinois-based artist working primarily in photography and drawing. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions throughout the midwest, while teaching at Illinois Central College, Kishwaukee College, Northern Illinois University and Waubonsee Community College, among others. Arrecis is the co-curator and co-founder of The Exhibition Project and is currently the Visual Arts Coordinator at Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin, Illinois. He earned his MFA in art from Northern Illinois University in 2008. Arrecis presents Phænomena Naturalis, a series through which he attempts to navigate and understand the natural world, speak to the unknown, and to answer universal and enduring questions.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Music
Honors Senior Solo Recital
Aug. 29, 2023
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall 4100
This performance will highlight some of Stevenson's most highly skilled and talented musicians! These musicians will be performing exciting repertoire featuring their musical and technical virtuosity! Not to be missed!
The students performing at this concert were selected by the Stevenson music faculty to participate in this year's senior solo auditions. Every musician was highly praised by all the music and their performances are sure to demonstrate their incredible musical talents.
Art Gallery
Featuring Bonnie Katz
Through Sept. 22, 2023
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
The Fine Arts Division is proud to feature Bonnie Katz as the first artist in the 2023-2024 Visiting Artist Series.
An Evanston based artist and teacher, Bonnie Katz is inspired by observing behaviors and characteristics of the animal world. Her mixed-media drawings and ceramics are in constant dialogue with each other. Charcoal drawings that explore movement through shape and texture inspire forms that are reinterpreted into soft clay slabs to build her ceramic sculptures. Katz, also an SHS Odyssey artist, has also taught at Evanston Art Center, Loyola University, Columbia Colleges in Chicago, and Highland Park High School’s Focus on the Arts. Katz received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
2022-23 Events
Art Gallery
Featuring Martha Wade
Through May 26, 2023
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
The Fine Arts Division is proud to feature Martha Wade as the final artist in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist Series.
Martha A. Wade is an award winning visual artist from Chicago who has always carried a deep passion for art making. Wade is deeply involved in the fine arts community as an artist, educator, muralist, and curator. Her artwork has a dreamlike feel, where a sense of movement is created in every piece. You will often find star constellations immersed in Martha’s work, exhibiting how we are all connected to each other, and to the Universe. Her art seeks to uplift our spirits by giving a glimpse of what people can achieve at their highest potential. Her tapestry of everyday people with rustic elements of fantasy suggest that common ground exists, where everyone is empowered to fulfill their dreams. Martha has 15 years of experience in painting and art administration while running Galleryna19, and serving on the Board of the South Side Community Art Center.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Music Production
Music Production Showcase
May 5, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Music Production students will showcase their work from this semester in a variety of ways including performances, artist talks, and casual sharing. Classes include Music Production 1, Music Production 2, and Advanced Music Production. Enjoy music in different venues at the school: West Aud (main location), Room 2104, Patriot Lobby, Music Lobby, and MIDI Lab (2201).
Music Production Activist Playlist Project
Our 2022-23 Music Production 2 classes engaged in an activist songwriting project centered around topics that are important to us. We hope to use the music we wrote to raise donations for the following three organizations: Brave Space Alliance (https://bravespacealliance.org/), Good Kids Mad City (https://www.gkmcenglewood.com/), and Youth Services of Glenview/Northbrook (https://ysgn.org/).
Musicians Featured: Vee Allen, Maja Bacic, B Baker, Rei Betz, Luis Tadeo Figueroa Calleros, Ariela Cruz, Anand Dastidar, Meghana Dixit, Soheni Dutta, Leo Fontane, Silvana Gonzales, Tommy Garden, Kolby Gordon, Roh Habib, Alison Kim, James Kim, Suji Kim, Tyler Martini, Nishitha Nirmal, Kian Odongo, Tobi Ogundimu, Vik Paliwal, Jamie Ryan, Daniel Vazquez, Joseph Wang, Lylian Zhu
Artists Featured: Luis Tadeo Figueroa Calleros, Ariela Cruz, Sonika Jalem, Alison Kim, Jamie Ryan
Link to Playlist (contains explicit language): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLap5ZkjM9rSHRhYQIcuvciCBebPXstqgA
Theatre
One Act Plays 2023
Apr. 28 & 29, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The One Acts Plays was born months ago-from a spark of creativity that led to an actual script, months of writing and rewriting, taken through a series of workshops-and rewritten again. 35 plays were submitted in December, and the 6 that were chosen are the plays that you will see during this production. From musicals to comedy, to drama-these shows highlight what is best in our students.
The One Acts is student acted, directed, and produced-and is evidence of what students are capable of doing when adults get out of their way.
Dance
2023 Spring Dance Concert
Apr. 28 & 29, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center (Room 4000)
The dances showcased in the Spring Dance Concert are composed of student choreography from the Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class. Each dance was chosen via an audition process. Choreographers developed the concept and cast the dancers for their pieces under the mentorship of their directors.
The Spring Dance Concert features Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class.
Student Choreographers: Marielle Angeles, Maya Faust, Joy Fei, Zoe Fledderman, Fran Gao, Rowan Hite, Emily Hsiao, Elaina Kravchenko, Kacper Kurek, Nicolette Lagen, Erin Liu, Victoria Nenadovic, Sophia Perlin, Meredith Polonsky, Dowon Shim, April Tan, Nicolett Tarnorutskaya, Alyssa Weber, Gloria Xing
Guest Artist Choreography: Hot Crowd Dance
Baroque
Stevenson Baroque Ensemble and Viol Consort
Apr. 21, 2023
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall (Room 4100)
This concert features the music of J.S. Bach performed on period instruments by the Stevenson Baroque Ensemble.
Percussion
Percussion Ensemble Concert
Apr. 18, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The SHS Percussion Ensemble will have its final performance of the year, showcasing all their hard work and dedication to the percussive arts they have accumulated this school year!
Percussion Ensemble will be performing five works of contemporary literature, inspired by various emotions including love, anger, sadness, and madness. These performances originally debuted in the ensemble's recent success at the Elk Grove Percussion Festival, along with this past Solo & Ensemble Contest.
Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Tiffany Gholar
Through Apr. 14, 2023
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature Tiffany Gholar in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist Series.
Gholar’s exhibit, Post Consumerism, features artworks created using otherwise disposable, one-time-use material imbued with a new sense of permanence and purpose through artmaking. Post Consumerism will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery (first floor rotunda, west building) through April 14th.
Gholar is a lifelong resident of Chicago, Illinois. She studied art as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and interior design at Harrington College of Design and has a Masters Degree in Painting from Governors State University.
Her work has been exhibited in several Chicago area venues, including solo exhibitions at The Harold Washington Library, The Adler School of Professional Psychology, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as in group shows at The Chicago Children’s Museum and The Chicago Center for Green Technology. When she is not painting, she works as a freelance interior designer. She is also a Jeopardy! Champion.
Learn more about Tiffany's art at www.tiffanygholar.com/art
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Jazz
Evening of Jazz Concert
Apr. 14, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Students in our co-curricular vocal groups and jazz ensembles will perform a variety of music. Groups include:
- Jazz Ensemble
- Concert Jazz Band
- Jazz Lab Band
- Low~Frequency
- Polyphonics
- Nothing But Treble
Dance
Day of Dance: "Inside Out: State of Mind"
Apr. 14, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performance Arts Center
All Dance Classes will present student choreography based on the theme "Inside Out: A State of Mind". This free performance will be open to all students and faculty for the entire day in the Performing Arts Center. Faculty are welcome to bring their classes. Groups performing include all dance classes -- Dance 1, 2, 3, 4, Jazz Fusion, and Concert Dance. Solos by Dance Leaders and other students will also be featured
Music
Small Ensemble Concert
Apr. 10, 2023
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall
SHS Small Ensembles are ensembles of like-instrument groups that have been working together throughout the year. Performances will range from traditional classical music to pop. Students in these ensembles have also performed at SHS concerts and SHS Solo and Ensemble Festival.
Visual Arts
The AP and Advanced Art Show
Mar. 21, 2023
Stevenson High School | Room 2104 and The Upper Forum
The AP and Advanced Art Show includes work from students enrolled in AP Art, AP Photography & Digital Design, as well as students enrolled in Advanced Photography & Digital Design.
The AP Art, AP and Advanced Photography & Digital Design students would greatly appreciate your attendance at their show!
Featured Classes, Groups, or Students:
AP Art: Drawing, 2D & 3D Design: Hundana Allepalli, Katharine Boardman, Amy Choi, Diana Delsooz, Lily Frobish, Julia Galyayeva, Gabriela Gil Gomez, Chloe Jeon, Alison Kim, Sadie Latragna, Jeanette Lee, James Li, Claire Lyman, Samuel Minin, Nijaa Nishanth, Ellen Niu, Daniella Oh, Angelina Pontano, Sydney Putera, Ananya Ramji, Preeti Rao, Evan Tian, Anna Trush, Tisha Vasudeva, Sherry Wang, Hana Wienckowski & Hannah You
AP Photography & Digital Design: Skylar Beegun, Siyaa Bhargava, Elan Gurevich, Zara Hashmi, Milo Jablonski, Vibha Joshi, Ria Karwande, Ellen Niu, Santosha Pochiraju, Hannah Smith, Rachel Stavola, Srika Sudheer, Samatha Syuhanova, Audrey Tutty & Lizzy Yuan
Advance Photography & Digital Design: Maxwell Ajazi, Ariana Aristodemo, Kayla Becker, Blesson Daniel, Taha Elmehdi, Carson Freund, Von Gigante, Sonika Jalem, Fiona Jin, Deborah Lee, Olivia Lee, Rachel Lee, Richard Lu, Shaan Majumdar, Kaavya Naresh, Mary Petrov, Shaila Pochiraju, Sivani Potnuru, Anneliese Rudloff, Yuka Sakurai, Aiden Shrode & Kellie Wu
Orchestra
Spring Orchestra Concert
Mar. 21, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The SHS four curricular orchestra classes in concert, featuring many different composers and styles of pieces. Our featured soloist is Trinity Shin on the Hue Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra.
Patriot, Symphonic, Concert, and Stevenson Orchestra classes, with major help from the student Strings Board club and the String Parent Association.
Our SHS curricular orchestra classes gather in their annual Spring concert, featuring a variety of melodic & lively works. Our featured soloist is Trinity Shin on the Hue Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra. This music will both celebrate and brighten the first official day of Spring!
Guitar
Chamber Guitar Concert
Mar. 16, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Guitar 2 and Patriot Guitar Ensemble are performing chamber music. Our chamber unit highlights the students working in small groups, making musical decisions, rehearsing, and performing pieces that they worked on as a group.
Theatre
2023 Winter Play: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mar. 9 - 12, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Join Patriot Theatre Company for this electric production as we explore Christopher's world and the mysteries unravel. This unique production is presented on a runway-style stage with the set, lights, costumes, and sound, completely designed and composed by students.
15-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain: He is exceptional at mathematics but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he distrusts strangers. Now it is 7 minutes after midnight, and Christopher stands beside his neighbor's dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. Finding himself under suspicion, Christopher is determined to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington, and he carefully records each fact of the crime. But his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a thrilling journey that upturns his world.
Band
Winter Band Concert
Mar. 8 & 9, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Students from Honor, Advanced Symphonic, Symphonic, Concert and Freshman Bands cordially invite you to their two-night spectacular musical experience. Repertoire will include a grand mix of core band literature, with up-and-coming musical selections.
Baroque
Baroque and Viol Consort Winter Concert
Feb. 24, 2023
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall
Performance of repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque Period performed by the Stevenson Baroque ensemble and Viol consort on period instruments. This concert highlights performances by the Stevenson Viol consort and the Baroque Ensemble performing works by Corelli, Handel, Bach and more. This performance features students from the Stevenson music program performing on period instruments.
Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Lilach Schrag
Through Feb. 24, 2023
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature Lilach Schrag in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist Series.
Shrag’s exhibit, Transforming, combines a multimedia installation with video production and performance, juxtaposing the intimate and the universal, with a focus on transformative encounters. Transforming will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery (first floor rotunda, west building) through February 24th.
Lilach Schrag is an artist and art educator. She graduated from Hamidrasha Art School in Israel, and holds a Master of Arts from Spertus Institute, Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows, including at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, the Evanston Art Center, as well as the Janco Dada Museum and the Jerusalem Biennale in Israel. Ms. Schrag currently teaches art at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in Deerfield IL. To see more images and information about her artwork, please visit lilachschrag.com
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Choir
Winter Choir Concert
Feb. 22, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Please join the Stevenson Fine Arts department as the Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir, and Patriot Singers, under the direction of Alice Nuteson and Kirstin Snelten, perform a variety of choral literature from classics to Disney.
Orchestra
Chamber Orchestra Concert
Feb. 13, 2023
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall
Members of the Patriot and Symphonic orchestra classes will perform in small ensembles in two exciting events (6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.) in one night!
Featured Classes/Groups and Lead Teacher/Sponsors:
- 1st period Patriot Orchestra
- 2nd period Symphonic Orchestra
Theatre
PTC Presents: You, Me, and PTC: A Thespian Caberet
Feb. 9, 2023
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Come one, come all to the Annual Thespian Cabaret! This is a performance and production opportunity for inducted Thespians in the Thespian National Honor Society. Performances include acting, singing, dancing, musical instruments, and improv! All production aspects are completely student-designed and led, including lighting design, sound, and stage management.
Theatre
Romeo and Juliet
Feb. 2 - 4, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Join Patriot Theatre Company as we share the classic tale of the ever-famous "star-crossed lovers" with our community through this abridged, one-act version of Shakespeare's original Romeo and Juliet. Conceptualized in a celestial world where the day and the night are indefinitely separated and ushered by popular and favored music of today's era, this Freshman/Sophomore production will open your eyes to reimagining how love can indeed be born from hate.
Choir
Consortium Choir Concert
Jan. 23, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
In its 27th year, choirs across our 125 Consortium join together to perform a variety of choral pieces.
Featured Classes/Groups and Lead Teacher/Sponsors:
- Aptakisic
- Daniel Wright
- Fremont
- Twin Groves
- West Oak
- Woodlawn
Orchestra
Consortium Orchestra Concert
Jan. 19, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Mini performance for families and friends of future Stevenson Orchestra members. The performance will feature all incoming students from all the sender schools.
This event provides all incoming students the opportunity to experience working with Stevenson Orchestra directors, and student leaders from the strings Board, see the Baroque Ensemble perform, and have a combined performance experience with all the 8th graders from all the consortium schools.
Jazz
Consortium Band Jazz Festival
Jan. 18, 2023
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
8th-grade students from consortium middle schools will meet at Stevenson High School for a musical summit event! Students will get to interact with current band students and hear some of the top-performing ensembles from our school. The concert is open to parents and families of performing students.
Featured Classes/Groups and Lead Teacher/Sponsors:
- Honor Band
- Jazz Ensemble
- Area middle schools
Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Chuck Hodes
Through Jan. 13, 2023
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature Chuck Hodes in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist Series. Hodes’ photography will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery (first floor rotunda, west building) through January 13th.
An award winning photographer with over 40 years experience, Hodes’ career includes motion picture and television set photography as well as commercial advertising and corporate campaigns. He is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, which accredits him to shoot stills for television and feature films through the major studios. During his career on set, Hodes has compiled a list of over 100 credits, including FX's Justified: City Primeval, premiering later this year on Hulu, and Night Sky, starring Sissy Spacek and J.K Simmons, released this past summer on Amazon. Other notable credits include six seasons on the hit Fox series, Empire, as well as 10 seasons of Shameless on Showtime. Hodes is a member of the ICG's National Executive Board and a 2015 nominee and 2016 winner of the prestigious Hollywood Publicist Guild Award for Excellence in Unit Still Photography. A Midwest native, Hodes earned a B.A. in Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. He currently resides in northwest suburban Chicago with his wife. He has three children, all of whom graduated from Stevenson High School.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Visual Art
2022 Winter Artfest
Dec. 6 - 7, 2022
Stevenson High School | Room 2104 & Upper Forum
Each Fall, first-semester art students are invited to include one piece created in each of their art classes to be viewed in the art show. All visual art classes are represented in the art show.
Music Production
Music Showcase Production
Dec. 2, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
This event will feature the work that students have been doing in Music Production classes this semester. Students will be showcasing their original music through performances, artist talks, and live listening sessions. Featuring students from Music Production 1, Music Production 2 and Advanced Music Production.
Theatre
Beauty and the Beast
Nov. 19 - 20, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's classic, Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage version includes all of the wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Menken and Tim Rice. The original Broadway production ran for over thirteen years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Bryan Gallo
Through Nov. 11, 2022
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature Facilities team member Bryan Gallo in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist Series. Mr. Gallo’s diorama and photography will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery (first floor rotunda, west building) through Nov 11.
Bryan Gallo is known for his three dimensional dioramas featuring replica locations from the comic book universe, as well as original and real world settings. Inspired by comic books and animated television series from the 1990’s to present day, Bryan builds and paints intricate dioramas that become the backdrop for photo essays featuring new adventures for pop culture heroes and villains. Capturing his unique diorama subjects, textures, and mediums with dramatic lighting and composition, Bryan’s photography inspires you to look at his creation in a different light.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Band
Band Chamber Concert
Nov. 1, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Small groups of students from the Advanced Symphonic and Honor Bands will perform chamber music in the West Auditorium. All of these ensembles are entirely student-led, and students have had the opportunity to work with and be coached by professionals from the Chicagoland area.
Featured Classes, Groups, or Students:
- Advanced Symphonic and Honor Bands
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo
Guitar
Fall Guitar Concert
Oct. 27, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The Patriot Guitar Ensemble is hosting their first concert of the year featuring a variety of music. This short (45 minutes) event is packed with full ensemble performances, solo performances, and a crowd-pleasing finale!
Featured Classes, Groups or Students:
- Patriot Guitar Ensemble
Fundraiser details:
- String Parents Association for Lesson Sponsorship support (flowers and concessions)
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Theatre
Children's Theatre -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Oct. 15 - 16, 2022
Stevenson High School | Black Box Theatre
When Alice falls down a rabbit hole, she finds herself in Wonderland, where the curious and confounding residents are all a bit mad. To return home, Alice ventures through Wonderland, visiting the Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpty, Cheshire Cat, TweedleDee and TweedleDum, the White Rabbit, the court of the Queen of Hearts, and many more. Join Alice at a race with no winners, a tea party with no manners, and-her final challenge-a trial with no justice. In this adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel, nonsense makes quite good sense.
Band
Fall Band Concert
Sept. 28, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
A concert not to be missed! Honor, Advanced Symphonic and Symphonic Bands will be presenting a spectacular concert of music in the theme of light, warmth, and triumph. Students have already tackled some challenging repertoire for the year and are working with great enthusiasm and energy. No tickets necessary.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo
Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Piyas Bhattacharjee
Through September 23, 2022
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature Piyas Bhattacharjee in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist Series. Ms. Bhattacharjee artwork and textiles will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery (first floor rotunda, west building) through September 23rd. Learn more about her artwork and teaching at www.paisleyartsfabrics.com
Piyas Bhattacharjee is an practioner and teacher of Kalamkari, a 3000 year old traditional Indian art on textiles, and Batik, a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth. Artistically trained at the School of Art Institute, Chicago, Ms. Bhattacharje is a firm believer that art and science are not mutually exclusive, as she also holds an MS in Computer Science, with a minor in Math. Over the last four years, she has taught over 300 students at her school, Paisley Academy Arts & Fabrics. The artworks of Ms. Bhattacharjee and her students have been featured in many events and collaborations, including at the Indian Consulate Chicago. She is currently experimenting with handwoven materials and natural dyes and collaborating with artisans in India to create fabrics. She hopes to keep her traditions alive through art.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Theatre
Clue
Sept. 22 - 24, 2022
Stevenson High School | Black Box Theatre
Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The tale begins at a remote mansion, where six mysterious guests assemble for an unusual dinner party where murder and blackmail are on the menu. When their host turns up dead, they all become suspects. Led by Wadsworth - the butler, Miss Scarlett, Professor Plum, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock and Colonel Mustard race to find the killer as the body count stacks up. Clue is the comedy whodunit that will leave both cult-fans and newcomers in stitches as they try to figure out…WHO did it, WHERE, and with WHAT!
2021-22 Events
Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Cristal Sabbagh
Through May 20, 2022
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature SHS faculty member Cristal Sabbagh as the final artist in the 2021-2022 Visiting Artist Series. Cristal's artwork will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery through May 20, 2022. Learn more about Cristal and her artwork at her website.
Cristal Sabbagh’s interdisciplinary practice includes traditional portraiture, ceramics, and performance. Her practice looks outward to portraits of the world around, taking the forms of traditionally drawn portraits, figurative ceramic sculptures, and nontraditional portraits on ceramic mugs. Sabbagh labors over each piece, that act as homage and memorials and are a resistance to white-supremacy. Not only do these works infuse the user’s everyday coffee and tea rituals, but their ceramic forms will stand the test of time, potentially outliving the user by thousands of years and leaving traces of how we lived recorded by Sabbagh’s hand. Learn more about Cristal's interdisciplinary events by visiting her website.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Visual Arts
The 42nd Annual Consortium 125 Artfest
May 137 2022
Stevenson High School
The art show for all second semester SHS art students as well as selected students from our K-8 Consortium schools. This collaborative event is always a favorite among SHS students, district schools, teachers, and the larger community.
Featured Classes, Groups, or Students:
- All second semester SHS art students as well as selected students from our K-8 Consortium schools
- Laura B. Sprague Elementary School, Half Day School, Daniel Wright Junior High, Tripp Elementary School, Pritchett Elementary School, Aptakisic Junior High School, Meridian School, Fremont Middle School, Fremont Intermediate School, Fremont Elementary School, Twin Groves Middle School, Woodlawn Middle School, West Oak Intermediate School, Diamond Lake School, West Oak Middle School, Country Meadows Elementary School, Prairie Elementary School, Ivy Hall Elementary School and Kildeer Countryside Elementary School
Theatre
The Failed Presidential Candidates: Improv Show
May 13, 2022
Stevenson High School | The Little Theatre
Join the Failed Presidential Candidates for a live comedy show! 30 of Stevenson's funniest students will make up an entire performance, never to be seen again! All are encouraged to join for a night of laughter and fun. This show is appropriate for audiences of all ages.
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Band
Spring Band Concert
May 11 & 12, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Stevenson band classes will give their final performance for the year featuring some of the most advanced compositions they've performed so far. On the first night, members of the Concert Band and Freshman Band will explore "programmatic music." On the second night, members of the Honor, Advanced Symphonic and Symphonic Bands will tackle some of the most challenging Band repertoire available…plus a few other surprises! Join us for two outstanding nights of music!
Featured Classes, Groups or Students:
- Honor
- Advanced Symphonic
- Symphonic
- Concert
- Freshman Bands
Other involved organizations:
- Band Parent Organization
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Strings
Strings Awards Concert
May 5, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Come join us at our yearly "Awards" concert, celebrating and honoring our seniors and all of our strings students from both orchestra and guitar. The students in these year long classes are excited to perform great music featuring "Music from Coco", "Phantom of the Opera", "One Direction", "Encanto" and "Toy Story"! Come see Stevenson Senior Linda Wang performing the Paganini violin concerto no.1! Stay to the end for a surprise encore!
Featured Classes, Groups or Students:
- Stevenson Orchestra
- Concert Orchestra
- Symphonic Orchestra
- Patriot Orchestra
- Guitar 1
- Guitar 2
- Patriot Guitar Ensemble
Other involved organizations:
- String Parents Association
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Music Production
Music Production Showcase
May 4, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium & Room 2104
Students in Music Production 1 and 2 classes will be showcasing their work from this semester through performances and artist talks. This event is open to family, friends, and the community.
Featured Classes, Groups or Students:
- Music Production 1 and 2 students
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Theatre
One Act Plays
Apr. 29 & 30, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The Patriot Theatre Company proudly presents our annual evening of student-written and student-produced, One Acts. In a year that has found us rediscovering who we are in a world that changed overnight with Covid, we present 6 short plays that explore-in comedic and dramatic ways-how we communicate who we are to our communities, to our friends, and to ourselves. These shows demonstrate all of the ways our student body are grappling with what seems to be the one constant of our lives: change. We look forward to you joining us.
Others groups involved:
- Patriot Theater Company
Dance
2022 Spring Dance Concert
Apr. 29 & 30, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The dances showcased in the Spring Dance Concert are composed of student choreography from the Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class.
Each dance was chosen via an audition process. Choreographers developed the concept and cast the dancers for their pieces under the mentorship of their directors.
There are two guest artist pieces by Danielle Izzo and MaryAnn McGovern.
Featured Classes, Groups or Students:
- Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies
- Concert Dance Class
Percussion
Percussion Ensemble Concert
Apr. 19, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The Stevenson High School Percussion Ensemble will be having its in-person concert debut for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The students will be showcasing percussion stylings from classical to the contemporary of our instrument family.
Featured Classes:
- This concert will feature many smaller ensemble pieces based on grade, along with three large ensemble pieces with all students involved.
- Freshmen will have a chamber-style performance of "Chipboard" by Josh Gottry.
- Sophomores and Juniors have a smaller piece played together, "Not Far From Here," by Blake Tyson.
- Seniors will be showcasing another chamber styling of "Persistence," by Brian Blume.
The large ensembles are comprised of high energy pieces that involve six-foot dowels and choreography (Stick Schtick by Chris Brooks), full instrumentation with mixed time signatures (Luminescence by Nathan Daughtery) and a student-created piece that will wrap the concert (Oye Como Bap by Senior Madison Rios)
Additional Notes:
- There will be a highlighted section on our last piece revolving around explaining the process of how the student-created piece came about, and its world debut as a percussion ensemble piece.
- This concert is almost two years in the making!
- There are a few songs that are being showcased that would have been played at our first concert back in 2020.
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Small Ensembles
Small Ensembles Concert
Apr. 14, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Description: SHS Clarinet, Saxophone, Flute, and Brass Ensembles will perform a concert.
Featured Classes:
- SHS Clarinet
- Saxophone
- Flute
- Brass Ensembles
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Tri-M Music Honor Society
2nd Semester Benefit Concert
Apr. 12, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
The Tri-M Benefit Concert is Stevenson High School's Tri-M Honors Society's bi-annual concert. The concert highlights Tri-M members' musical talents through a variety of musical performances, including instrumental and vocal performances. All of the proceeds raised from the Benefit Concert goes towards a non-profit organization.
Featured students include members of Stevenson High School's Tri-M Honors Society, which consists of high achieving music students involved in Stevenson's Music programs. Performers are Tri-M members Jenna Chen, Sahiti Kadari, Maggie Atkinson, Tvishi Krishnakumar, Rishabh Wuppalapati, Ariela Cruz, Ashwin Vazhayil, Arjun Nair, Reese Suren, Jordan Winkelman, Aria Shum, and Michael Cheung, along with Tri-M Eboard members Eileen Kang, Abby Froyshteter, Ashwini Narayanan, and Mahitha Chaturvedula.
Sponsor: Alice Nuteson
Dance
Day of Dance
Apr. 8, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Day of Dance is a performance event for all dance classes throughout the entire school day. This year's theme is Fairytales. Students will perform group choreography that they have worked on for the past 6 weeks in the PAC during their dance class period. All students, parents, and faculty are invited to watch this performance. Faculty may also bring their classes. The show will be live-streamed all day as well.
Featured Classes, Groups, or Students: All dance classes (Dance 1, 2, 3, 4, Jazz Fusion, Ballet / Jazz, Concert Dance, and Dance Leaders)
Any additional notes: Throughout the day various Concert Dancers and Dance Leaders will present solos/duets
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Art
The AP and Advanced Art Show
Apr. 5 & 6, 2022
Stevenson High School | Room 2104 and The Upper Forum
The show is open to the school during periods 1-8 on Tuesday, April 5th, and periods 1-7 on Wednesday, April 6th. The evening reception will take place on Tuesday, April 5th from 7-9 pm.
The Show includes work from students enrolled in AP Art, AP Photography and Digital Design, as well as students enrolled in Advanced Photography and Digital Design.
AP Art: Drawing and 3D Design: Jenna Balaban, Naransolongo Batgerel, Abigail Cabrera, Jessica Callahan, Dylan Clavel, Joy Fei, Varsha Ganesh, Jazmin Gaytan, Drew Heilman, Abigail Jiang, Ishaan Joshi, Mia Korsunsky, Natalie Koziol, Madelyn Lee, Amili Paer, Deven Puttick, Hannah Robertson, Nicole Rose Vestidas, Vin Yolles, Nancy Zhang, Marharyta Zhyvozhenko, Zachary Zimbalist
AP Photography and Digital Design: Aniketh Bhaskar, Braden Burns, Rachael Chen, Maya Fergus, Trisha Gannu, Andrew Krawcewicz, Yaci Li, Maja Mancewicz, Nikita Tuli, Tia Vasudeva, Eric Zhou
Advance Photography and Digital Design: Skylar Beegun, Aarnav Bhagwan, Siyaa Bhargava, Katie Borgerding, Sophia Brown, Anshul Dandapani, Karina Dyakov, Ally Frank, Elan Gurevich, Zara Hashmi, Kamila Jablonski, Vibha Joshi, Ria Karwande, Santosha Pochiraju, Nick Posadas, Hannah Smith, Rachel Stavola, Srika Sudheer, Samantha Syuhanova, Sonya Todorov, Audrey Tutty, Tiffany Washington, Lizzy Yuan, Nancy Zhang
The AP Art, AP and Advanced Photography and Digital Design students would greatly appreciate your attendance at their show!
Jazz
Evening of Jazz
Apr. 1, 2022
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Jazz Concert featuring instrumental and vocal groups.
This is a shared concert featuring our co-curricular jazz bands and a cappella groups. A wide variety of current and classic songs will be featured!
Featuring:
- Jazz Lab Band
- Concert Jazz Band
- Jazz Ensemble
- Low~Frequency
- Nothing But Treble
- Polyphonics
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Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Melina Scotte
Spring 2022
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature Melina Scotte in the 2021-2022 Visiting Artist Series. Melina's artwork will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery through April 1, 2022. Learn more about Melina and her work by visiting her website.
Melina, born and educated in Argentina, works with knife painting, brushes, watercolors, acrylics, oils, and pastels to transmit vivid beauty and imagination through her artwork. Taking inspiration from the joys of daily life, people, bright colors and details, she specializes in creating fictional female subjects. A driving force behind Melina’s work is her belief that if people surround themselves with beauty and harmony, they are more inclined to be kind to one another. She shared, “I am always looking to inspire people to be creative and to look for those things that feed the soul.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Orchestra
Spring Orchestra Concert
Mar. 15, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
This concert will feature Rosie Wang performing the Reinecke flute concerto Op. 283, the Finale. Additionally, the Patriot orchestra will perform Vaughan Williams monumental Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for double orchestra. This is the first time this piece has ever been performed at Stevenson.
Symphonic orchestra will perform the Romance by Christopher Wilson and the Mendelssohn String Symphony no. 7.
Stevenson Orchestra and Concert orchestra will perform high energy pieces by Robert Frost and Todd Parish while also featuring an American classic, Deep River.
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Guitar
Chamber Guitar Concert
Mar. 10, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Guitar 2 classes and Patriot Guitar Ensemble are performing full ensemble and chamber ensemble literature ranging from Boccherini, Stevie Ray Vaugn, and a variety of traditional pieces.
Featured Classes:
- Patriot Guitar Ensemble
- Guitar 2
Other involved organizations:
- String Parents Association
Students work on chamber music individually and in small groups. They detail, practice, rehearse, and make musical decisions on these pieces of music without the help of a teacher. The students in these classes are very excited to show off their work for the past weeks as they have been preparing for this concert.
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Band
Winter Band Concert
Feb. 28 & Mar. 1, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Honor, Advanced Symphonic, Symphonic, Concert, and Freshman Bands will combine to perform two programs of music that they have prepared in their second semester. Students will be performing some original arrangements that they developed as a class. Our top ensembles will be performing some of the most challenging pieces that are available for high school bands to play.
Others involved -- Band Parent Organization (BPO)
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Choir
Choir Concert
Feb. 15, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
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Orchestra
Orchestra Chamber Concert
Feb. 14, 2022
Stevenson High School | Recital Hall (4100)
This concert will feature chamber music performances by Stevenson's Symphonic and Patriot musicians, including String Quartets, Piano Trios, Quintets and more!
Other groups involved: String Parents Association (SPA) and Tri-M music honor society.
- Students will perform pieces by a wide variety of composers and of different genres and traditions.
- There is one student to a part
- Students have committed to this chamber unit for the last 5 weeks.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Odyssey Fine Arts Festival
Odyssey Fine Arts Week
Feb. 7-11, 2022
Stevenson High School
Stevenson has traditionally presented a biennial Odyssey Festival, featuring more than 250 guest artists for two days of performances and workshops. This year, Odyssey Festival was reimagined as Odyssey Fine Arts Week, featuring a full week of performances and events for students to enjoy during lunch periods and after school.
Highlights of the week included interactive art projects sponsored by NAHS and after school shows featuring professional dancers, theater artists, musicians, and filmmakers. Students saw pop-up performances and atmospheric artists on campus including the SHS Jazz Ensemble, harpist Annette Bjorling, live-painter Natalie Shugalio, drummer Tony Garrett, and more.
For more information on events of the week, visit the Odyssey Fine Arts Festival 2022 page.
Please contact Odyssey Coordinator Amanda Long at along@d125.org with questions.
Jazz
2022 Consortium 125 Jazz Concert
Jan. 31, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Middle school jazz students will receive a clinic and watch performances by professional jazz musicians and by Stevenson students.
Featured classes:
- Stevenson Jazz Ensemble + Combo 1
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Theatre
2022 Frosh/Soph Play: The Marvel Plays
Jan. 27-29, 2022
Stevenson High School | Little Theatre
Patriot Theatre Company is thrilled to present 2 short plays from the Marvel Spotlight collection. This dynamic production features the talents of over 60 SHS freshmen and sophomores onstage and offstage!
Mirror of Most Value: A Ms. Marvel Play
When a strange Terrigen Mist descended upon Jersey City, Kamala Khan was imbued with polymorphic powers. Her life was changed forever and so were the lives of her family and friends.
Using her newfound abilities to fight evil and protect Jersey City, she became the all new Ms. Marvel! In Mirror of Most Value, Kamala attempts to boost Ms. Marvel's fledgling superhero profile by writing her own fan fiction. But when building a fandom becomes an obsession, Kamala's schoolwork and relationships begin to suffer. To become the Jersey City hero of her dreams, Kamala must learn to accept herself just as she is - imperfections and all.
Squirrel Girl Goes To College: A Squirrel Girl Play
Doreen Green secretly possesses the powers of a squirrel… and the powers of a girl! She uses her amazing abilities to fight crime and to be as awesome as possible! You know her as the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! In Squirrel Girl Goes to College, Doreen arrives at Empire State University to make new friends - and protect them from super-villains - by keeping her superhero identity a secret. But when a beloved computer science professor suddenly disappears, can Doreen trust her friends with her inner squirrel so she can save the day?
Click here to view the event program.
Art Gallery
Visiting Artist Series featuring Sebastian Sparenga
Nov. 22, 2021 - Jan. 10, 2022
Stevenson High School | Visiting Artist Gallery
Stevenson is proud to feature Sebastian Sparenga in the 2021-2022 Visiting Artist Series. Mr. Sparenga's photomicrography will be exhibited in the Visiting Artist Gallery November 22 through January 10, 2022. Learn more about Sebastian and his work by visiting his website.
The Visiting Artist Program connects Stevenson students to professional visual artists through gallery exhibits and artist presentations. Created over 20 years ago by Stevenson emeritus faculty member, John DePinto, the Visiting Artist Program aims to feature a range of diverse artists, styles, and mediums throughout the school year. Annually, six artists exhibit for 6-7 weeks in the Visiting Artist Gallery. During the course of their exhibition, each artist visits two visual arts classrooms for an ARTalk, discussing their work, concepts, and process. The Visiting Artist Program and ARTalks are presented in partnership with the Stevenson Foundation.
Choir
2022 Consortium 125 Choral Concert
Jan. 10, 2022
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Middle School choral students from SHS Consortium schools will combine for an informal concert performance. Members of Stevenson's co-curricular a cappella ensembles will join the middle schoolers for their afternoon rehearsal and participate in the concert performance as well.
To view the event program, click here.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Orchestra
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2021 Winter Orchestra Concert
Dec. 13, 2021
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
An evening of intense musical literature accented by popular seasonal favorites. This concert will feature highlights from the Nutcracker, Schubert's famous Unfinished Symphony, Benjamin Britten's passionate and exciting Simple Symphony, Mendelssohn's picturesque Hebrides Overture, Leroy Anderson's Popular Sleigh Ride and Kevin Gao performing the Rachmaninoff Piano concerto no. 3 and more!
Others: String Parents Association (SPA)
To view the event program, click here.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Baroque Ensemble
Early Music at the Barn presents The Stevenson Baroque Ensemble
Dec. 12, 2021
The Byron Colby Barn
The Stevenson Baroque Ensemble and faculty will be performing at the Byron Colby Barn on Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 4:00 pm. Tickets are available at the door and SHS students and anyone under 16 are free!
Come join us on this historically informed performance experience we are sure you will love!
To view the performance program, click here.
Jazz
2021 Jazz Cafe
Dec. 10, 2021
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Join the SHS Jazz Program for their first public performance of 2021! Performances will feature students from the Jazz Ensemble, Concert Jazz Band, Lab Jazz Band, and each of our three student combos.
Featuring: Jazz Ensemble, Concert Jazz Band, Lab Jazz Band, Combo 1, Combo 2, Combo 3
Additional Notes: Students rehearse after school two days a week and started their rehearsals in September. In October, they participated in a "Jazz Brunch" at school and got to perform for each other and get feedback from the jazz teachers. Then, they had snacks and played games together. In February, they will participate in the New Trier Jazz Festival.
To view the event program, click here.
Choir
2021 Choir Concert
Dec. 9, 2021
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The December Choir Concert will feature our curricular and co-curricular choirs performing a variety of selections.
Curricular choirs: Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir, Patriot Singers
Co-Curricular choirs: Low~Frequency, Polyphonics, Nothing But Trebl
To view the event program, click here.
Band
2021 Winter Dance Concert
Dec. 6 & 7, 2021
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
Join us on December 6th and 7th for two nights of spectacular musicianship and performances from the students in the Freshman, Concert, Symphonic, Advanced Symphonic, and Honor Bands. This event will take place in the PAC
Students in the Freshman, Concert, Symphonic, Advanced Symphonic, and Honor Bands.
Other organizations: Band Parent Organization
Additional notes: For some students, this will be their third concert performance of the semester, for others, this will be their first performance as students at Stevenson High School.
To view the event program, click here.
Dance
2021 Winter Dance Concert
Dec. 3 & 4, 2021
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
2021 Winter Dance Concert featuring student choreography from Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class will be held in the Performing Arts Center on Friday, December 3 and Saturday, December 4 at 7pm. Students create dance works through the Fall semester and design lights and costumes for each piece. This performance also features original work from guest choreographer Nicole De Matteo and faculty choreographer Janet Rothwell.
The Winter Dance Concert features Mélange and Repertory Dance Companies and the Concert Dance Class.
Student Choreographers: Ashley Callen, Kamille Cortezano, Sophie Ezrol, Allie Fairman, Maya Faust, Maggie Feldstein, Caroline Feng, Emily Hsiao, Lauren Lee, Shreeya Ryali, Jennifer Stevens, Nicolett Tarnorutskaya, Alexis Trojan, Ava VanLue
Guest Choreographer: Nicole De Matteo
Faculty Choreographer: Janet Rothwell
To view the event program, click here.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Music Production
Music Production Showcase
Dec. 2, 2021
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
A showcase of our Music Production student work including live performances, artist talks, displays of student projects, and tours of the MIDI Lab classroom. This event will take place in the West Building in room 2104 and W. Auditorium.
Featured classes - All Semester 1 Music Production 1 and 2 classes!
Art
2021 Winter Artfest
Dec. 1 & 2, 2021
Stevenson High School | Room 2104 + Upper Forum
You are cordially invited to attend Winter ArtFest 2021, the art show for all first-semester art students. The art show will be up all day on Wednesday, December 1st and until 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, December.
A public reception will be held on Wednesday, December 1st from 6 p.m. to 8PM in both the Upper Forum and Room 2104 in the West Building. It is our hope that all students and their family members attend!
Every student in a studio art class this semester is invited to show their favorite piece they've created this semester.
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Tri-M Music Honor Society Benefit Concert
Nov. 30, 2021
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium
Stevenson's Tri-M Music Honor Society will present a benefit concert on Tuesday, November 30 at 7 pm in the West Auditorium. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the music charity "Crescendo For A Cause". The evening will feature a variety of student performances from every area of the music department.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Theater
2021 Fall Musical: The SpongeBob Musical
Nov. 19-21, 2021 (Live Production)
Dec. 5, 2021 (Streaming Event)
Stevenson High School | Performing Arts Center
The stakes are higher than ever in this dynamic stage musical, as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage. The power of optimism really can save the world!
Please join Patriot Theatre Company as we make our homecoming back to the theater on November 19th and 20th at 7:00 p.m. and November 21st at 2:00 p.m., all performances in the Performing Arts Center! We will be strictly following local mask mandate guidelines, but our performance will be sure to deliver the same quality experience it always has and more!
Streaming Info: The SpongeBob Musical will also have a free streaming event on December 5th, two weeks after the production debuts in performance. For tickets to the virtual event, please visit our online box office at: https://www.showtix4u.com/
Theater
Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021: Lily's Purple Plastic Purse
2:00p.m.
Online Stream Event
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse is based on the Lilly books by Kevin Henkes: Chester’s Way, Julius, Baby of the World, and Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse.
In this light-hearted and energetic play, Lilly navigates challenges with new friends, a baby brother, and a non-traditional teacher. Dancing, biking, and eating along the way, she goes on adventures that teach her how to solve problems, right wrongs, and even accept her baby brother.
Free tickets available now on ShowTix
While tickets are free, donations to the Stevenson Foundation are encouraged.
Guitar
Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021: Fall Guitar Concert
7:00p.m.
Online Stream Event | Vimeo
Guitar classes, including Guitar 1, Guitar 2, and Patriot Guitar Ensemble have put together a 30-45 minute set of music, and are excited to perform it for you on October 28th at 7 pm. Due to limited seating, this in-person event is only for Guitar student families.
Students in the Guitar 1 class have only been playing guitar for 2 months and are excited to show their progress!
Others involved - String Parents Organization.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Band
Monday, Oct. 25, 2021: Band Chamber Concert
6:30p.m.
Stevenson High School | West Auditorium (2600)
The Stevenson Band Chamber Concert features small-group performances by students from the top two band classes at SHS. Students independently chose their music and had the opportunity to work with top music professionals from the Chicagoland area.
The Band Chamber Concert will feature members of the SHS Flute Choir, Percussion Ensemble, Honor Band and Advanced Symphonic Band.
Theater
Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021: Lily's Purple Plastic Purse
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse is based on the Lilly books by Kevin Henkes: Chester’s Way, Julius, Baby of the World, and Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse.
In this light-hearted and energetic play, Lilly navigates challenges with new friends, a baby brother, and a non-traditional teacher. Dancing, biking, and eating along the way, she goes on adventures that teach her how to solve problems, right wrongs, and even accept her baby brother.
Program
Theater
Friday, Oct. 8, 2021: Failed Presidential Candidates Improv Comedy
Join the Failed Presidential Candidates for a live comedy show on October 8 at 7:00p.m.! Thirty of Stevenson's funniest students will make up an entire performance, never to be seen again! All are encouraged to join for a night of laughter and fun. This show is appropriate for audiences of all ages. This event will limit seating to 175 people, so get your tickets soon!
After the performance, we will be collecting donations for Giveathon.
The Improv Comedy Team called “Failed Presidential Candidates” is Stevenson’s premier comedy team. They perform completely improvised shows multiple times a year, including at school and community events. Each semester ends with a high-paced, action-packed, comedy showcase, guaranteed to leave audiences and performers laughing. At weekly rehearsals, the team develops improv skills, including taking risks, saying “yes and,” developing characters and scene work. No experience necessary, just a willingness to try new things, play hard and collaborate with the team.
Band
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021: Fall Band Concert
Please join us on September 29 at 7:00 via Vimeo for our first-ever fall band concert featuring Honor, Advanced Symphonic and Symphonic Bands. This will be our first formal public performance since February of 2020. We encourage you to watch our event online as we celebrate performing together again!
The concert will be a ticketed event for Parents and immediate family members. The concert will be streamed live via Vimeo.
Theatre
Wednesday, Sept. 23-26, 2021: Fall Play
A Midsummer Night's Dream - A Radically Inclusive Shakespeare Comedy
You’re invited to a Royal Wedding!
Duchess Theseus’s marriage to Hippolyta is only four days away, and the guests are arriving at the Prince Royale Resort to ready for the wedding of the century. Join us for this classic Shakespeare comedy of order and disorder reimagined at a tropical resort. Witness wedding guests, Hermia and Lysander, eloping through the woods, followed closely by Demetrius and Helena. Behold Fairy King Oberon and trickster Puck playing tricks on Queen Titania, as the lovers get trapped in their web of comedy. Laugh as Petra Quince and her eclectic team of rude mechanics ready the festivities while preparing a play to perform at the wedding. End the night celebrating with a festive triple wedding!
The performance will take place in a tent on the SHS Athletic fields, with audiences limited to 100 per performance to ensure proper distancing can occur. This will be a ticketed event. Tickets will be linked from the theatre website and public tickets are available on Sept. 3. We request that all audience members wear masks, and encourage you to dress up in tropical and/or wedding attire if desired. The play runs approximately 90 minutes with no intermission, and is appropriate for audiences of all ages.
Performances will be held Sept. 23 at 5:00 p.m., Sept. 24 at 7:00 p.m., Sept. 25 at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m., Sept. 26 at 2:00 p.m. We hope to see you there!
Orchestra
Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021: Fall Orchestra Concert
- 6:30 pm: Including the Symphonic Orchestra & Stevenson Orchestras periods 5 & 6
- 7:30 pm: Patriot Orchestra & Concert Orchestra
Our orchestral return to the PAC stage, these concerts will feature members of all four ensembles and five classes over the two events. A featured Saxophone soloist will be highlighted with the Patriot Orchestra, as well as many other delightful musical treats!
Due to limited seating, this concert is reserved for Orchestra student family members only. Tickets are required. We will provide live stream option for online viewers.
Concert Program
Vimeo Live Link
HIGHLIGHTS
- Saxophone soloist Justin Chung performing the “Glazunov Saxophone Concerto”
- First indoor orchestra concert in over 500 days!
- First orchestra concert with an audience since our outdoor event last spring!
Sponsors - String Parent Association (SPA)
Choir
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021: Fall Choir Concert
Please join us for our Fall Choir Concert! Our three curricular ensembles will perform a variety of pieces, including our piece commissioned in the 2020-21 school year, written by local composer Paul Langford.
Watch the event at the SHS Fine Arts Vimeo.
Orchestra
Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021: Honors Senior Solo Recital
Please join us on Wednesday, Sept. 8 in Recital Hall 4100 at 6:30 p.m. for an Honors Senior Solo Recital. No tickets are required. We hope to see you there!
Live Stream: https://vimeo.com/event/1252743
Program: HonorsSeniorSoloRecital21-22.pdf
2020-21 Events
Acting
Dec. 12, 2020: Acting 3 Showcase - "Written in Quarantine"
Our Acting 3 Showcase - "Written in Quarantine" was held Saturday, Dec. 12 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. This virtual, fun-filled, show included original slam poems, musings on the pandemic, and improv comedy. Performances were streamed on Zoom.
Band
May 20, 2021: Spring Band Awards Concert
On Thursday, May 20 at 7 p.m. the Stevenson Band Program hosted the Spring Band concert, virtually via Vimeo, featuring pre-recorded performances by the students. Band sections represented include: Freshman Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Advanced Symphonic Band and Honor Band. Senior awards were also presented during this virtual event.
March 31, 2021: Virtual Spring Band Concert
On Wednesday, March 31 at 7 p.m. a virtual showcase of pre-recorded performances by the students of the Stevenson High School Band Program was streamed via Zoom. Five different pieces of music were performed, featuring over 400 students from Freshman Band, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Advanced Symphonic Band and Honor Band.
Dec. 10, 2020: December Virtual Band Concert
On Thursday, Dec. 10 at 7:00 p.m, each of the five levels of our band program hosted virtual performances. This concert included previously unseen solo and chamber performances from the semester. Performances were streamed via Zoom.
Benefit Concert
April 17, 2021
The SHS Tri-M Music Honor Society is held a benefit concert teaming up with Crescendo for a Cause, a local, Stevenson alumni-ran, non-profit organization with the mission of improving music education in underserved areas through fundraising, donating, and performing. The event took place on Saturday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m. through a YouTube Premiere. The concert will featured performances from the Tri-M members. The goal was to reach $500. Thank you for joining!
Choir
May 19, 2021: Spring Choral Concert
Our culminating choir concert of the year, featured both pre-recorded and live-streamed moments honoring our students, and especially, our 2021 graduating seniors!
This virtual performance streamed via Vimeo, Wednesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. All Stevenson choral ensembles were featured: Curricular choirs are Stevenson Choir, Advanced Choir and Patriot Singers. Co-curricular groups are Low Frequency, Polyphonics and Nothing But Treble.
The concert also included a special tribute to seniors and showcased songs we learned during the second semester.
Jan. 11, 2021: Consortium 125 Choir Night
The Stevenson Choir Department hosted their annual annual Consortium 125 Choir Night for all 8th grade students interested in learning more about choir at Stevenson on Monday, Jan. 11 at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The event featured music, info sessions and fun games. Please contact Alice Nuteson (anuteson@d125.org) for more information and help with any questions.
Dec. 13, 2020: December Choir Concert
The Virtual Choir Concert, originally scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11, was rescheduled and streamed on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 7:00pm.
The December Choir Concert was held on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 7:00 p.m. This virtual event featured our curricular and co-curricular choirs singing ensemble pieces they have learned during semester one remote learning. We ended the evening with a special original commissioned piece by composer Paul Langford, with text by Maya Angelou, titled "Open Your Eyes." Many thanks to the Stevenson Choral Guild and the Stevenson Fine Arts Department for their support making this commission possible! Performances were streamed on Vimeo.
Nov. 6, 2020
The Fall Choir Collage Recital was streamed on Nov. 6, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Watch the performance.
Guitar
March 15, 2021: Guitar Chamber Concert
On Monday, March 15 at 7 p.m., the guitar chamber concert virtually showcased quartets and quintets of student performances. Students picked, rehearsed and recorded their pieces independently and were excited to showcase their work! Concert streamed on Vimeo.
Orchestra
March 10, 2021: Senior Solo Recital
There was a showcase performance of four selected senior soloists for the 2020-21 school year on Wednesday, March 10 at 6:00 p.m.
Soloists:
- Bella Kim, Viola
- Lana Zeller, Violin
- Haoming Song, Cello
- Connor Friedman, French Horn
Strings
May 11, 2021: Strings Outdoor Concert
There was an outdoor concert on the front lawn of Stevenson for all of our Guitar and Orchestra classes, Tuesday, May 11 at 6 p.m. Participating classes included: Guitar I, Guitar II, Patriot Guitar Ensemble, Stevenson Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra, Concert Orchestra and Patriot Orchestra. There was also an awards concert for all the Orchestra and Guitar students at this time.
This was a "Ravinia-style" event where families could bring blankets and chairs to come watch and support their students! Attendees followed social distance guidelines and wore masks at all times. For those who couldn't join in person, the concert was streamed via Vimeo.
May 7, 2021: Baroque Ensemble Concert
On Friday, May 7 the Baroque Ensemble performed a virtual concert via Vimeo featuring works by Corelli, Bach and Vivaldi. Check out a preview of the performance.
Feb. 25, 2021: Strings Winter Concert Showcase
The Guitar and Orchestra classes virtually presented small solo and chamber setting performances on Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. to benefit our String Parent Association’s (SPA) "4 Weeks of Giving" fundraising effort. Performance videos were collected throughout the year, and therefore, some featured our musicians in warmer, outdoor settings. Pieces were announced live during the showcase. Performance streamed via Zoom.
Feb. 17, 2021: Strings Chamber Concert
On Feb. 17 at 6:00 p.m., students in in Symphonic and Patriot Orchestra class performed a virtual showcase via Zoom. This concert was our student small group chamber performances featuring trios, quartets, quintets, and sextets that chose their own music. All groups were virtually coached by professional music chamber coaches - Emma Strohbusch, Renee Henley, Nazar Dzhuryn and Morgan Little.
Strings Chamber Concert Program
Jan. 14, 2021: Strings Consortium Concert
The Strings department hosted a special virtual version of their annual Consortium event on Thursday, Jan. 14 at 7:00 p.m. This event was for 8th grade students and their families interested in joining SHS guitar and orchestra classes in the fall of 2021. It was a fun and informational evening! Zoom link invitations were provided by school directors.
Jan. 12, 2021: Strings Winter Concert
The Strings department showcased the amazing musical work of each guitar and orchestra class during this one night virtual concert. Held on Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 7:00 p.m. on Vimeo, this event featured the best and brightest of our strings program in the debut of their first semester recording projects!
Theatre
April 29 - May 1, 2021: Patriot Theatre Company Virtual One Act Plays 2021
Join us as we celebrate our annual One Act Plays through the Patriot Theatre Company, produced entirely virtually for the second year in a row! These plays are entirely student written, directed, acted, designed and produced. From comedy to murder mystery and musicals... the One Acts represent a diverse body of work and talent from our practically professional student theatre artists!
The "Reading Series" will take place on April 29 at 7 p.m. and will include plays produced as staged readings.
The "One Act Plays" will be performed April 30 and May 1 at 7 p.m. as fully produced virtual productions, some pre-recorded and some live!
Click this Zoom link or scan the QR code to join us!
View the event program for more information.
March 5-7, 2021: The Compass
Performances of "The Compass" were held Friday, March 5 at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 6 at 2 p.m., Saturday, March 6 at 7 p.m., and Sunday, March 7 at 2 p.m. "The Compass" was a groundbreaking, live interactive performance that explored the intersection of technology and decision-making. The audience interacted with the actors through optional virtual breakout rooms and audience polls.
At the center of "The Compass" was a trial, determining the fate of a teenager who used an app to make a life-altering decision. In this play, every show ended differently, depending on what the audience decided as the jury. The audience joined us as we navigated the question: When someone else, or something else, tells you what to do, what exactly are you responsible for?
This play was recommended for mature audiences only, as it confronted such issues as racism and school violence.
Feb. 12-14, 2021: Almost, Maine
The Freshman/Sophomore play, "Almost, Maine." was streamed online on Friday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. This multimedia production was filmed in a series of locations and the entire cast and crew was comprised on Stevenson freshmen under the direction of Theatre teacher Joey Fitzpatrick.
November 20-22, 2020: Disney's Newsies
Streamed performances: Nov. 20 at 7 p.m., Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 22 at 2 p.m.
Access to reserve tickets will begin on Nov. 2.
Oct. 24-25, 2020: OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist
OLIVÉRio streamed on Oct. 24 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Oct. 25 at 2 p.m.
Please visit this online ticketing site to receive your free access code to stream this production.
Theatre - Improv
Feb. 5, 2021: The Failed Presidential Candidates, Live Virtual Comedy Show
The Failed Presidential Candidates hosted a live virtual comedy show on Friday, Feb. 5 at 7:00 p.m. Twenty-seven of Stevenson's funniest students made up an entire performance, never to be seen again! This show was appropriate for audiences of all ages. Performance was streamed via Zoom.
Youth Arts Month
March 11, 2021: The Arts Connect Us, Youth Arts Month
Stevenson’s Fine Arts Department celebrated Youth Arts Month with a virtual presentation at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 11. The presentation featured student performances and creative highlights from each area of our programs: Music, Theatre, Dance, and Visual Art. Performances were streamed via Vimeo.
The evening featured collections of artwork and montages of performances created during Fall 2020’s Remote Learning semester. Works included:
- Patriot Theatre Companies' performances of Newsies, Oliverio and Failed Presidential Candidates Improv.
- Collections of music and artwork from scenic design, sound design, music production and visual arts classrooms.
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Performances from Dance 3 classrooms, Repertory Dance Company and Mélange Dance Company.
- Performances by Patriot Orchestra, Concert Band, Freshman Band, Stevenson Orchestra Chamber Ensemble and all Stevenson choirs in a collaborative finale.
Visual Arts
May 17- 31, 2021: Consortium ArtFest
The annual Consortium ArtFest celebrates the artistic and creative work from our K-8 Consortium and Stevenson High School students. The visual arts provide all students the opportunity to explore their creative potential using a variety of media for diverse purposes and audiences.
While this year will be quite different from years previous, this virtual event reflects our continued commitment to showcase our students’ artistic growth and achievements!
The exhibit is available now through Monday, May 31. Click the flyer on the right for links to each school. We hope you and your family will attend!
Livestream/Recordings
Contact
Contact Stevenson Fine Arts
Jon Grice
Director of Fine Arts
847-415-4751
jgrice@d125.org
Lindy Fox
Administrative Assistant
847-415-4750
lfox@d125.org