Performing Arts Center Events

The Stanley Clark School is pleased to announce “An Evening with Nathan & Julie Gunn,” to be presented on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at 7:00 PM. The concert celebrates the official grand opening of the newly constructed Laura and Jack Boyd Smith, Jr. Performing Arts Center on Stanley Clark’s campus. Join us for an exquisite night of music as ‘85 Stanley Clark Alumnus and American baritone Nathan Gunn and his wife, highly acclaimed pianist Julie Gunn, share his story musically, from his time at Stanley Clark to the present.

General Admission Tickets

General admission seats are available for $75 each, and doors will open at 6:15 PM the night of the performance. Purchase your tickets now for this one-time-only musical event, housed in our beautiful, brand-new performing arts center, where every one of its 372 seats provides an incredible view!

Backstage Mix & Mingle with the Gunns Tickets - Sold Out

Or, gain exclusive access after the concert to connect with Nathan & Julie Gunn with a Backstage Mix & Mingle with the Gunns ticket. Only 20 tickets are available at $150 each. Don't miss this opportunity to connect one-on-one with an internationally-known Grammy Award-winning performer in our historic Atrium while enjoying light refreshments. This ticket price also includes admission to the concert.

About Nathan Gunn
About Julie Gunn

About Nathan Gunn

Nathan Gunn is widely acclaimed for his diverse performing career, bridging the genres of opera, musical theatre, and recital. As a performer, Nathan is respected as an artist, musician, and singing actor. He has performed many of opera and musical theater’s greatest roles on the world’s most prestigious stages.

Nathan has also been seen and heard on television, radio, video, and live simulcast performances, including the first-ever Met in HD broadcast (The Magic Flute), in which he sang Papageno, one of his signature roles. Nathan has frequently collaborated with many stars of musical theater, including Mandy Patinkin, Kelli O’Hara, Audra McDonald, and Kristin Chenoweth.

This season, Nathan will perform new roles with Pittsburgh Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Beth Morrison Projects and PROTOTYPE Festival, and will debut Drytown: A Living Room Vaudeville with Julie Gunn.

Nathan is a professor and Swandlund Chair at the University of Illinois where he is co-director of Lyric Theatre, a comprehensive program embracing a broad continuum of opera and musical theatre, as well as the development of new works.

About Julie Gunn

Julie Gunn is a pianist, educator, and music director. She has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious recital series, including but not limited to the Aspen Festival, Boston’s Celebrity Series, Brussel’s La Monnaie, the Carnegie Hall Pure Voice Series, the Cincinnati Chamber Music Society, the Dallas Opera, Lincoln Center Great Performers,the Metropolitan Opera Summerstage, the Ravinia Festival, San Francisco Performances, the Sydney Opera House, Washington’s Vocal Arts Society, the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills, Washington National Opera, and the United States Supreme Court.

She is the co-director of the Lyric Theatre program at the University of Illinois and produces three mainstage operas, or musical theatre works a year at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Julie enjoys working at the intersection of different disciplines and collaborates with artists in the fields of theatre, dance, and design whenever possible.

Nathan Gunn - Carousel: Soliloquy

“One of America's most accomplished and in-demand Baritones today, Nathan Gunn has one of those deeply lush singing voices that can pierce your heart just as it can effortlessly command the room's attention."
~ Broadway World

“Nathan Gunn commands an operatic baritone whose mighty heft and richness confer an outsize authority on everything it touches ...”
~ The New York Times