'Monte Belknap, with Friends,' a unique evening featuring Brigham Young University School of Music violin professor Monte Belknap and guest artists, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, in the Madsen Recital Hall.

The Brigham Young University School of Music will present an Evening of Piano Concertos Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall. Admission is free.

The winter semester performance by Orpheus Winds, Brigham Young University's faculty wind ensemble, will feature the world premiere of Sextet for PIano and Five Winds: 'Musings on Images from Hubble' by ensemble member Laurence Lowe Saturday, Jan. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall. Admission is free.

The January 2013 Brigham Young University arts calendar features plays, recitals and concerts with talented guests as well as BYU faculty and student artists. Tickets can be purchased at the Fine Arts Ticket Office at (801) 422-4322 or online at byuarts.com/tickets.

Just one year after its 10,000th performance and 25th anniversary on Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera comes to Brigham Young University as one of the first university productions of the epic musical. It will be presented in the de Jong Concert Hall of the Harris Fine Arts Center and will run Wednesday, Jan. 16 to Saturday, Feb. 2.

Considered one of the 100 Web-Savviest Professors in the World by Best Online Universities, Professor Dale Cressman said he is honored to have his name on the same list as academics he admires, like Clayton Christensen, Jay Rosen, Jim MacMillan and Carrie Brown-Smith. “These are people who, in my field, are influential, followed and respected,” Cressman said. A self-proclaimed “news guy,” Cressman is an associate professor in the Brigham Young University Department of Communications.

Are comic-book mythologies becoming the new morality of the 21st Century? The upcoming contemporary art exhibition at the BYU Museum of Art, 'We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art,' delves into this growing captivation with super heroes and monsters in contemporary pop culture.

The Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation of Orange, Texas, will present 11 mural-sized Minerva Teichert paintings to the Brigham Young University Museum of Art Friday, Dec. 7. A ceremony to accept these works will take place in the museum at 11:15 a.m.

The Brigham Young University Chorale will perform its final concert of the semester Thursday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.

The Brigham Young University Chamber Orchestra will be performing Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.

Brigham Young University’s Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony will join in concert Tuesday, Dec.4, at 7:30 p.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall.

Features two new exhibits opening at Museum of Art