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Guitarist Bill Frisell (Photo: Monica Jane Frisell).

Apr. 26, 2025

Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST)

The School of Music and the student-run Improvised Music Project present IMPFest, featuring UW Jazz Studies students and faculty performing with special guests: renowned guitarist Bill Frisell;…

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Wind Ensemble in rehearsal at Meany Hall (Photo: UW Photography).

May 1, 2025

Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Radiance

The Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (David Stewart, Yuman Wu, directors) present a program of music by Carol Bremner, Kevin Day, Christopher Cerrone, David Maslanka, and…

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UW Symphony Orchestra in rehearsal (Mark Stone/UW Photography).

May 2, 2025

UW Symphony Orchestra with Donna Shin, flute

David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Jessie Montgomery, Cécile Chaminade, Francis Poulenc, and Dmitri Shostakovich. With faculty guest Donna Shin, flute.  Program…

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Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery

May 3, 2025

Third Coast Percussion and Jessie Montgomery

Boundary-expanding percussion quartet is joined by the Grammy-winning composer and violinist in a dynamic program of new music.

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Violist/composer Melia Watras (Photo: Michelle Smith-Lewis).

May 5, 2025

Faculty Recital: Melia Watras, Broken Bell

Violist/composer Melia Watras and writer Sean Harvey unveil their latest collaboration, Broken Bell, a mashup of a concert and a play. The program consists of Harvey’s theater piece, interwoven with…

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Four dancers in an abstract pose

May 8 - May 10, 2025

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

With a rich Alvin Ailey lineage and a cadre of stunning dancers, the company blends the world of rock and ballet with a tribute to the legendary Irish rock band U2.

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Jonathan Biss

May 13, 2025

Jonathan Biss

The superb pianist channels his deep musical curiosity to connect the pillars of the repertoire with new compositions.

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Free

Jazz Innovations series in Brechemin Auditorium (Photo: Joanne DePue).

May 14, 2025

Jazz Innovations I

UW Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging. 

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May 15, 2025

Faculty Recital: Craig Sheppard

Chair of the UW piano program presents a program of works by French composers, including Fauré’s 6th Nocturne, Franck’s Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, Joël-François Durand’s Enfance: Quatre Tableaux,…

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Free

Jazz studies students perform in the Jazz Innovations series (Photo: Joanne DePue).

May 15, 2025

Jazz Innovations II

UW Jazz Studies students perform in small combos over two consecutive nights of original tunes, homage to the greats of jazz, and experiments in composing and arranging. 

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Hamid Rahmanian's Song of the North

May 17, 2025

Hamid Rahmanian’s Song of the North

Cinematic theater combines shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell an epic love story adapted from the Book of Kings.

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Free

Baroque Ensemble in rehearsal (Photo: Raymond Smith/UW Photography).

May 19, 2025

Baroque Ensemble

UW music students perform music of the Baroque era. Director Biography

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