Music Series
2024-2025 Season
The Xavier University Music Series is proud to announce its 2024-2025 season, continuing its tradition of bringing the very best to Cincinnati. With so many unique atmospheres and artists, the 2024-2025 season truly features something for everyone.
Box Office
Our box office provider, TicketLeap, allows for online purchasing, contactless ticket delivery, and simple check-in at events. If you would like to speak to a box office representative over the phone, please contact Polina Bespalko at (513) 745-3162, or email the box office.
Directions and Parking
Most concerts are held in the Gallagher Student Center Theatre, accessible via University Drive. Jazz and Guitar events are frequently held in Bellarmine Chapel, also on Xavier's Campus. We look forward to welcoming you!
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2024 - Soft Kill with opening act Fotocrime
Starting with the seminal “An Open Door” and including stand out records like 2016’s “Choke” and 2020’s Billboard chart topping “Dead Kids, R.I.P. City”.
Soft Kill from Chicago Illinois is the brainchild of Tobias Grave, making morose and infectious punk songs since 2011. Tobias’ struggle with addiction and loss have created a depth and emotional landscape often missing from the genre.
Punk | Performance Date: September 19, 2024 8 PM | Madison Theatre
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2024 - Ana Vidovic
Ana Vidovic is an extraordinary talent...
She is known for her beautiful tone, precise technique, well-defined phrasing, thoughtful artistry, and musicianship.
Classical Guitar Recital | Performance Date: October 12, 2024 | Bellarmine Chapel
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2024 - Too Many Zooz With Opening Michael Wilbur
A viral sensation since they first emerged as New York subway buskers in 2013...
Self-described "Brass House" trio Too Many Zooz make manically kinetic instrumental music that combines avant-garde jazz, EDM, punk rock, and sundry other traditions into their own distinctive brand of high-energy dance music.
Michael Wilbur is a highly acclaimed American multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and vocalist, celebrated for his virtuosity on the Bass and Tenor Saxophones
Brass House | Performance Date: November 1, 2024 | Gallagher Student Center Theater
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2024 - Sara Daneshpour
Pianist Sara Daneshpour has worldwide audiences and critics spellbound with her “blazing technique, power, expressivity, imagination and stage presence” (The New York Concert Review)
Classical Piano | Performance Date: November 12, 2024 | Gallagher Student Center
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2024 - Fred Hersch Jazz Piano
“The most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair and “a living legend” by The New Yorker
A member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an influential creative force over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist.
Jazz | Performance Date: November 20, 2024 8 PM | Bellarmine Chapel
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2025 - Brian Marsella
“Marsella is as versatile and talented a pianist as you will find” - Frank Alkyer, Downbeat
Brian Marsella is a pianist, composer, bandleader and educator living in New Jersey. A Philadelphia native, Marsella moved to New York in 1998 and has been touring and recording consistently since.
Piano | Performance Date: March 5, 2025 8 PM | Gallagher Student Center Theater
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2025 - Zlata Chochieva
Jeremy Nicholas exclaimed “it is certainly one of the most consistently inspired, masterfully executed and beautiful-sounding versions I can recall.”
At only four years old, Zlata made her first stage appearance and just three years later, gave her debut with orchestra performing a Mozart Concerto at Grand Hall of Moscow State Conservatory. Along with an orchestral repertoire of over 50 concerti, Zlata Chochieva is a devoted chamber music performer having worked with Stephen Kovacevic, Lynn Harrell, Gilles Apap, and Jacquelyn Wagner, among others.
Classical Piano | Performance Date: April, 4 2025 | Gallagher Student Center Theater
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