2025-26 Austin Arts Center Events
FALL 2025
Scroll below for this semester’s regularly updated event details.
SEPTEMBER 2025
Welcome Back Cookout
Wed, Sept 3 (5:00-7:00 pm)
Austin Arts Center Lobby + Patio
Join us in meeting, greeting, and celebrating the start of a new academic year with other arts and arts-curious faculty, staff, and students! Sponsored by TrinArts Collaborative.
Trinity Organ Series
Thurs, Sept 5 (12:10–1:15pm)
Trinity Chapel
Trinity College Chapel and Department of Music present the Trinity Organ Series, featuring Ellen Dickinson (College Carillonist) and Duo MG (Jacquelyn Matava, mezzo-soprano, and Samuel Gaskin, organ) in recital. Our exceptional pipe organ, built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, contains over four thousand pipes that range in size from pencils to large trees. Each pipe has its own unique sound, combining to create a thrilling sonic experience.
Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival
Trinity Chapel
Jacob Gruss, organ
Fri, Sept 25 (7:30 pm)
2024 Young Professional First-Prize and Audience-Prize Winner
Biennial High School Competition
Sat, Sept 26 (starting at 10:00 am)
Young organists compete for $14,000 in prizes. Refreshments and a light lunch are provided.
Festival Concert: Psalms for Choirs, Organ, and Percussion
Sat, Sept 26 (7:30 pm)
Gabriel Löfvall, conductor
Christopher Houlihan, organ
Amanda Evans Carabase, harp
Ling-Fei Kang, oboe
Doug Perry, percussion
Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus; Schola Cantorum of the Cathedral of Saint Joseph; Choirs of St. James’s Church; The Chapel Singers
Featuring the North American Premiere of A Psalm for Chichester by Joanna Marsh, and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms
Now over 25 years old, the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival is proud to be one of the top competitions for young organists in North America. The festival’s mission is to support and encourage young organists in the earliest stages of their education and careers, and to increase appreciation of organ music in the general public. At the heart of the Festival is an annual, national competition for young organists hosted at Trinity College, Hartford. Alternating biennially between a High School and Young Professional Division (up to age 26), competitors earn significant cash prizes to support their education and career endeavors.
Memorial Piano Recital
in honor of Michael Mahoney and Raymond Bahor
Featuring Concert Pianist Fiachra Garvey
Sun, Sept 21 (3:00p)
Gruss Recital Hall
This memorial recital honors the life and legacy of Dr. Michael Mahoney (Genevieve Harlow Goodwin Professor of the Arts, Emeritus) and his spouse, Raymond Bahor, following their recent passing. As a companion to a memorial concert at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, distinguished pianist Fiachra Garvey will offer this recital to the friends and family of Mahoney and Bahor, and the wider Trinity community.
Wičozani Singers of Mashantucket
Tues, Sept 24 (4:00-6:00 pm)
Washington Room, Mather Hall
OCTOBER 2025
Trinity Organ Series
Thurs, Oct 2 (12:10–1:15pm)
Trinity Chapel
Trinity College Chapel and Department of Music present the Trinity Organ Series, featuring Ellen Dickinson (College Carillonist) and Nicholas Capozzoli (Organist) in recital. Our exceptional pipe organ, built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, contains over four thousand pipes that range in size from pencils to large trees. Each pipe has its own unique sound, combining to create a thrilling sonic experience.
Are You Also Divergent, Friend?
An Exhibit by Dennis Delgado
Mon, Oct 6-Sat, Dec 5
Reception: Thurs, Noc 6 (5-7pm)
Gallery Hours: Mon–Fri, 10 am – 5 pm, and by appointment
Widener Gallery (AAC)
Are You Also Divergent, Friend? addresses the experience of being a person of color in a new age of automated and algorithmic surveillance. Four projects by artist Dennis Delgado, including video, tapestries, installation, and collage, explore how technologies of vision shape the discursive formation of the “Other.” Sponsored by the Studio Arts Program, the exhibit is free and open to the public.
Choral Evensong
The Chapel Singers
We, Oct 8 (5:15pm)
Trinity Chapel
Choral Evensong is a contemplative choral and organ music to mark the close of day; all are welcome to this 45-minute offering.
Where We Stand
Written by Donetta Lavinia Grays
Directed by Vernice Miller
Starring Laugh Sanchez
Thurs-Sat, Oct 9-11 (7:30p)
Sat, Oct 11 (2pm)
Tues-Thurs, Oct 14-16 (7:30pm)
Goodwin Theater (in AAC)
The Austin Arts Center and HartBeat Ensemble present Where We Stand, a long-form poem with humor, heart, and music that tells the story of a man standing before his town asking them for forgiveness after he has made a deal with a mysterious stranger on their behalf. More than a recounting of events, this piece both engages and implicates the audience in determining the man’s fate. “Where We Stand” asks what it means to practice compassion, forgiveness, and accountability in a democracy. Join HartBeat Ensemble members director Vernice Miller and multifaceted performer Laugh Sanchez for this uniquely theatrical experience where the outcome is in your hands.
A Bouquet of Romances
Marcia Lehninger (violin), Virginia Eskin (piano), Peter Guidi (horn)
Faculty Recital with Guest Artists
Tu, Oct 21 (7:30pm)
Trinity Chapel
A Bouquet of Romances will feature Brahms’ Horn Trio and works by Clara Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, and Scriabin.
The recital will be preceded by a Women Composers lecture during common hour earlier that day:
Women Composers Lecture
Tu, Oct 21 (Common Hour)
Gruss Music Hall
The Wolves
Written by Sarah Delappe
Directed by Kristen Moriarty
Th-Sa, Oct 23-25 (7:30pm)
Sa, Oct 25 (2pm)
Garmany Hall (in AAC)
The Wolves is a highly physical ensemble play about a girls’ indoor high school club soccer team. Every Saturday morning, as the girls gather to take on another team, their pregame warmup provides a glimpse into their experiences as girls who are becoming adults—menstruation, teen pregnancy, war, immigration, relationship to authority, their own interpersonal dynamics, and themselves.
“The Wolves” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.
NOVEMBER 2025
Trinity Organ Series
Th, Nov 6 (12:10–1:15pm)
Trinity Chapel
Trinity College Chapel and Department of Music present the Trinity Organ Series, featuring Ellen Dickinson (College Carillonist) and the Trinity Organ Studio (students of Christopher Houlihan, Artist-in-Residence) in recital. Our exceptional pipe organ, built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, contains over four thousand pipes that range in size from pencils to large trees. Each pipe has its own unique sound, combining to create a thrilling sonic experience.
mayfield brooks
Alumni Residency
Tues-Thurs, Nov 11-12
Class Visit to Improvisation as Composition class
Tues, Nov 11 (1:30-2:45pm)
Performance Lab (in Trinity Commons)
Class Visit to the Theater + Dance Senior Capstone class
Wed, Nov 12 (4:15-5:30pm)
Location TBA
Whale Fall Screening and Artist Talk
Wed, Nov 12 (7:00pm)
Cinestudio
In this alumni residency, mayfield brooks (movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer) returns to Trinity to share their award-winning work for the first time. Join mayfield for an artist talk and screening of their experimental dance film, Whale Fall, which earned mayfield a 2021 Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award. Experience mayfield’s dance improvisation strategies developed in their Improvising While Black practice. Learn more about mayfield’s career trajectory since leaving Trinity.
Choral Evensong
The Chapel Singers
We, Nov 12 (5:15pm)
Chapel
Contemplative choral and organ music to mark the close of day; all are welcome to this 45-minute offering
The Mix: Meditations on Space (THDN)
Directed by Peter Kyle
Th-Sa, Nov 20-22 (7:30pm)
Various throughout AAC
Marking the 60th anniversary of Trinity’s Austin Arts Center (AAC), The Mix: Meditations on Space will call attention to and celebrate the AAC building, in expected and unexpected ways. Meditations on space provides a framework for animating different parts of AAC with a variety of creative projects ranging from professional restagings of historic works—including Simone Forti’s Dance Construction, Slant Board, and Judy Dworin’s My Body, My Body—to original student work created for the production. Don’t miss this artful journey through AAC’s architecture, times, sounds, and people on stage and beyond.
DECEMBER 2025
Ensembles Concert
Tues, Dec 2 (Common Hour)
Gruss Music Hall (GMC in AAC)
Jazz Concert
Tues, Dec 2 (7:30pm)
Goodwin Theater (AAC)
Steel + Hand Drum Concert
Wed, Dec 3 (7:30pm)
Goodwin Theater (AAC)
Chamber Ensemble Concert
Thurs, Dec 4 (Common Hour)
Gruss Music Hall (GMC in AAC)
Last Night
Mon, Dec 8 (5:30pm)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons )
A joy-filled and comradery-building showcase of projects and coursework from the Department of Theater and Dance this semester.
Trinity/La Mama Showcase
Wed, Dec 10 (7:30pm)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons)
An evening of original multidisciplinary theater and dance performances created by the students of the Trinity/La MaMa study away class of Fall 2024. This performance is the culmination of TLM, an intensive performing arts program, where throughout the semester the cohort immerse themselves in the diverse art scenes and everyday life of New York City. They explore a wide range of approaches to creating performance: from puppetry to butoh, clowning to vogueing, improvisation to writing solo performance. This show is the culmination of their artistic experiences, experimentations, and on-going discoveries.
To find out more about the Trinity/La MaMa program and how you can apply, please visit our website: www.trinitylamama.org
