Continue to share in the magic of dance with us this Spring 2024 in our Boundless Dance Concert Encore Livestream. This dance concert features works choreographed by our dance faculty, students, and guest artists Kristin Kusanovich, Tim Stevenson, and Sara VonGillern. Share with us an artistic adventure of stage dance and dance for camera works that celebrates dance at IVC!

Boundless Dance Concert Encore Livestream

Join us for student an informal dance concert presenting works in progress by IVC students and faculty, including choreography students' final projects and dance technique class presentations.

Choreographic Showcase

Irvine Valley College

Join IVC Chorale as they perform Duruflé Requiem, with Dr. Matt Tresler, Conductor and David Ball, Organ.

Duruflé Requiem

A 17th century lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he banished years before, undertakes a journey into a cave to engage the services of a mysterious magician in the search for his long-lost son.  With the help of a peculiar servant, the magician conjures up visions from the son's life during his 15 years spent in exile.  The lawyer (and audience) watch the illusions unfold, enthralled by his son's struggles, but only when the strange tale reaches its conclusion does the lawyer confront the ultimate - and unexpected - truth about his son and himself.

The Illusion

Join us for the 2024 Jazz Picnic featuring Anibal Seminario, Director, and the Irvine Valley College Jazz Ensembles performing works by Corea, Nestico, Gillespie, Escoto and more.  Bring your own food, drinks and umbrellas.

Jazz Picnic

Join us for the Guitar Ensemble in Concert!  Featuring works by Beethoven, Fauré, Tárrega, Iron Maiden and more.

Guitar Ensemble in Concert

Come share in the magic of dance with us this Spring 2024 in our Boundless Dance Concert on the Rezanoor Stage. This dance concert features works choreographed by our dance faculty, students, and guest artists Kristin Kusanovich, Tim Stevenson, and Sara VonGillern. Join us on an artistic adventure of live dance and dance for camera works that celebrates dance at IVC!

Boundless Dance Concert

Student Piano Recital

Original chamber works by IVC students.  Featuring IVC faculty Dr. Daniel Luzko's Violin Sonata performed by IVC faculty Dr. Susan Boettger and guest violinist Dr. Alejandro Drago.

17th Annual Student Composers' Concert

Hailed by music critics as “a superb musician” with the “classical virtuosity of a Heifetz or Perlman,” Alejandro’s discography in France, USA and Argentina includes string quartets, concertos and avant-garde tangos for the EMI International label and Naxos Music Library Japan.

Alejandro Drago Violin Master Class

Surfin’ Days is a new musical inspired by the legendary surfers and historic events that transformed Dana Cove in the early 1960s. With a score that evokes the myth and romance of a carefree endless summer, it depicts a tribe of mavericks during one life-changing weekend and looks back with humor and soul-searching fondness at the way things will never be again.

Surfin' Days

Join special guest Dr. Felix Wang of Vanderbilt University for a memorable evening offering valuable insight to the art of chamber music.  Dr. Wang is a Professor of Cello, as well as the cellist of the Blair String Quartet and Blakemore Trio.

Dr. Felix Wang Chamber Music Master Class

Get ready for a high-energy experience filled with hip hop/funk and performance-style attitudes that will leave you quilled for the industry. This class is about embracing your creativity and unleashing your inner performer!

Dance Master Class - Hip Hop

Dr. Timothy McAllister will be conducting a saxophone masterclass and recital featuring students of Dr. John Hallberg.

Dr. Timothy McAllister Saxophone Masterclass

Join us for Jazz Ensembles & Combo!  Performing works by Ellington, Sinatra, Nestico, Parker, Jarvis, Basie, and more.

Jazz Ensembles & Combo

Join us for the Wind Symphony concert with Mathieu Girardet, Conductor.  Featuring world premieres of The Earthen Chapel by Alex Belzer, Composer and Sentimental Trips by Justin Suzukawa, Composer, and D. Alexander Warner as Student Conductor.  Also performing works by Vaughan Williams, Goto, Uallacháin, David, and Bernstein.

Wind Symphony

The Irvine Valley College Symphony Orchestra presents Concertos & Cinematic Classics with special guests Dr. Daniel Luzko, Kevin Mills, and Jieming Tan.  Performing music from Pirates of the Caribbean, Downton Abbey, and The Magnificent Seven, and works by Kabalevsky and Beethoven.

Concertos & Cinematic Classics

Join the IVC Chorale for their Spring Sing!

Spring Sing

Join us for Soulful Elegance, featuring Marek Szpakiewicz on the cello, Susan Boettger on the piano and JinHee Kim on the violin performing Dumky piano trio by Antonin Dvorak, Oblivion and Winter by Astor Piazzolla, and Cafe Music by Paul Schoenfield.

Keyboard Series - Soulful Elegance

Join us for the third concert of the IVC Keyboard Series, Chamber Music Extravaganza, featuring Irvine Valley College Piano Faculty members and Junior Chamber Music Faculty members together in concert.  

Chamber Music Extravaganza

This student-led group will develop and perform a new original play about love, death, and the ethereal bond that unites us all.  Come be a part of their first public audience.

Theater Conservatory Show

Watch students from our musical theater courses perform songs from musicals you know and love.

Musical Theater Showcase

See students from our acting program perform scenes and monologues from classic periods to today's artists

Actors' Showcase

Join us for the Jazz Ensemble Winter Concert featuring the Laguna Beach High School Jazz Ensemble.  Performing works by Menza, Guerraldi, Liston, Jarvis and more.

Jazz Ensemble Winter Concert ft Laguna Beach HS

Join us for the Wind Symphony Winter Concert featuring the Woodbridge High School Wind Ensemble.  More information to follow.

Wind Symphony Winter Concert ft Woodbridge HS

Join us for the Symphony Orchestra Winter Concert, Music of the Theater.  Performing the Dvorak Othello Overture, Star Wars, and more

Symphony Orchestra Winter Concert

Join us for A Choral Benefit Concert!  Works by Handel, Vivaldi, and the Western U.S. premiere of Nisi Dominus by Martin Palmeri

A Choral Benefit Concert

Experience the timeless masterpiece of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in a new translation by Michael Frayn.  Journey into the depths of human emotions and the complexities of relationships as you witness a talented ensemble bring this iconic play to life on stage.  The masterful translation infuses new vitality into Chekhov's poignant tale, evoking laughter, tears, and self-reflection.  Don't miss this unforgettable theatrical experience - book your tickets now and join us for an evening of drama, heartache, and profound introspection with Uncle Vanya.

Uncle Vanya

Join us for the Guitar Ensemble Winter Concert, featuring the large ensemble, small ensemble, and solos.  Works by Villa-Lobos, Bach, Clyne and more.  Seating is limited.

Guitar Ensemble Winter Concert

Come and see what the dance department is constructing together this Fall 2023 on the Rezanoor Stage with Collective Movement Dance Concert. This dance concert features works choreographed by our dance faculty, students, and guest artist, JoAnna Mendl Shaw. Join us on a journey of what we can do when we will all come together to create live dance and dance for camera works that celebrate the arts and movement at IVC!

Collective Movement Dance Concert

Join us for the Piano Recital featuring students from piano classes

Piano Recital

Every bit as relevant to audience members who will remember the original as it will be to newcomers, Young Frankenstein has all of the panache of the screen sensation with a little extra theatrical flair added.  With such memorable tunes as "The Transylvania Mania", "He Vas My Boyfriend", and "Puttin' on the Ritz", Young Frankenstein is scientifically proven, monstrously good entertainment.  Please be advised: contains adult themes and raunchy humor.

Young Frankenstein

Please join us for our 14th Annual Midnight Blue Concert for new music including compositions by George Crumb, Timothy Peterson, Nic Gerpe, Juhi Bansal, Eric Guinivan, Vera Ivanova, Alexander Elliott Miller, Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Thomas Osborne, Gilda Lyons, Viet Cuong, Gernot Wolfgang, Julie Herdon, and IVC student Alexander Belzer. California native Nic Gerpe performs outstanding new piano music celebrating the 50th year anniversary of “Makrokosmos” by American composer George Crumb.

14th Annual Midnight Blue Concert

The IVC Theater Arts Department will present a sneak peek at our Spring 2024 musical Surfin' Days, a vibrant new musical inspired by the legendary surfers and historic events that transformed Dana Cove in the early 1960s. Our students will be doing a public reading of the script accompanied by songs from the show. This is your first chance to see and hear a brand new musical that will have its premier performance at IVC this spring!

Surfin' Days Public Reading

Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in Hell.  The windows are bricked up, there are no mirrors, the electric lights can never be turned off, and there is no exit.  Please be advised: contains sensitive topics.

No Exit

The Irvine Valley College Instrumental Music Area performs at 4:00pm on Sunday, October 1 at the IVC Performing Arts Center.  Featuring the IVC Symphony Orchestra (Eleanor Nunez, director), IVC Wind Symphony (Mathieu Girardet, director), IVC Guitar Ensemble (Kevin Jellison, director), and IVC Jazz Ensemble (Anibal Seminario, director) performing the music of John WIlliams, Omar Thomas, Germaine Tailleferre, Tom Kubis, and more!

Instrumental Music Area Benefit Concert

IVC Chorale presents A Choral Kaleidoscope - "Choral music from around the world

A Choral Kaleidoscope

Join us for the 14th Annual Alumni Concert, showcasing performances by IVC alumni music students. Featuring music for wind, strings, voice, piano and original works by IVC student composers with Kate Lin, staff collaborative pianist.

14th Annual Alumni Concert

Join us for the opening concert of the IVC Keyboard Series, featuring Svetlana Smolina playing iconic pieces from Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky.  Described by LA Times as "an outstanding pianist with luxuriant tone," and by New York Times as "mesmerizing and dynamic", Svetlana has won several prestigious international competitions and is among "The Best Pianists of the 21st Century".

Keyboard Series - Svetlana Smolina

Let's raise the roof with Party of Twelve!  Join the Theater Arts Department musical theater students on Wednesday May 24th at 7:30pm in the Performing Arts Center Studio Theater for a showcase-style celebration.  They've got a lineup of songs that will have you dancing in your seat and singing all night.  From classic showtunes to modern hits, they've got something for everyone.  So put on your party hats, and get ready to have a blast with us!  IT's going to be a wild night you won't forget, so don't miss out.  See you at the party!

Party of Twelve

Join us for an informal dance concert presenting works in progress by IVC students and faculty. Including choreography students’ final projects and dance technique classes presentations. A great way to wrap up the Spring 23 semester with an evening of dance!

What do you do when there are no good options?  How do you react?  Who gets to tell your story?  Inspired by Greek mythology, this play explores a modern story of dealing with situations out of our control.

InPrint

Join us for the Piano Performance Final concert, featuring Piano Majors and students in the Piano Master Class course.

Piano Performance Class Final Concert

Please join us for the IVC Chorale May Concert.  They'll be performing works by Brahms and Shearing.

IVC Chorale May Concert

Please join us for the IVC Wind Symphony May Concert with Mathieu Girardet, conductor.  Featuring works by Stuart, Giroux, Mackey, Camphouse, and two world premiers by student composers Justin Suzukawa and D. Alexander Warner.  Student conductors Melissa McElroy and Galen Weiss make their conducting debuts and the new Applied Saxophone Faulty Dr. John Hallberg will be introduced.

IVC Wind Symphony May Concert

Please join us for the IVC Symphony Orchestra and Guitar Ensemble together in concert.  They'll be performing works by Grieg, Bizet, Mozart and more, and celebrating student composer and conductor Galen Weiss and student composer Annie Guzman.

IVC Symphony Orchestra and Guitar Ensemble May Concert

It's a dark and stormy night, and you've been invited to a very unusual dinner party.  Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well... dead.  So whodunnit?  Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, and Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up.  Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, Clue: On Stage is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.

Clue: On Stage

Please join us for the 23rd Annual IVC Piano Feast Benefit Concert, an exciting extravaganza featuring a medley of pieces performed by the IVC piano faculty and guest artists.  Featuring a world premiere of a piano duo work by Vera Ivanova.

23rd Annual IVC Piano Feast

Join us for the 20th Annual Jazz Picnic on the Live Oak Terrace!  This concert features guest artist Anibal Seminario and his jazz combo, and the IVC Jazz Ensemble performing music by Kubis, Shorter, Nestico, Gershwin, Ellis and more.  Bring your own food, drinks, and umbrellas!  

20th Annual Jazz Picnic

Come and see what the dance department has blossomed this Spring 2023 on the IVC PAC Rezanoor Stage. Emergence Dance Concert features works choreographed by our dance faculty, students, and guest artists, John Pennington and Gabriella Carey. Join us on a journey through live dance and dance for camera works that celebrate the arts at IVC!

Emergence

Come join us for an evening of dance on film! Featuring Award Winners from the Dance Camera West 2023 International Shorts Program including world, U.S. and L.A. premieres of short experimental dance films from Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Finland, France, French Southern Territories, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States.

Best of Dance Camera West 2023 Screening

9 to 5 The Musical, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick, is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie.  Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking, and even a little romantic.  Pushed to the boiling point, three female coworkers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss.  In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy, and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy - giving their boss the boot!  Hey, a girl can scheme, can't she?

Irvine Valley College

7 - 28 Jun, 2024

Boundless Dance Concert Encore Livestream

May 15, 2024

Choreographic Showcase

Irvine Valley College