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<p>Emerging and established composers explore unconventional sonic landscapes in this concert of music by students, faculty, alumni, and guests of the UW Composition program.</p>
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<p>Pianist Catherine Kautsky, chair of the keyboard department at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, presents a lecture-recital: “Debussy’s Paris: Poets, Politics and the Piano.”</p>
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<h4>Catherine Kautsky</h4>

<p>The UW Baroque Ensemble (Tekla Cunningham, director) performs works by G.P. Telemann, including two of Telemann's Paris quartets, and the orchestral suite "La Bizarre."</p>
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<p><span><span>Guest scholar Orit Hilewicz, Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Indiana Jacobs School of Music, presents "Berio's Compositional Poetics as Performance," an examination of</span></span> Luciano Berio's Continuo for Orchestra and Ekphrasis (Continuo II).</p>
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<p>The renowned Eroica Trio—Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello—performs works by J.S. Bach, Tomaso Albinoni, Fritz Kreisler, George Gershwin, and Johannes Brahms in this concert concluding the group's three-day residency at the School of Music.</p>
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<p>The violin and piano duo<span>—</span><span>Maya Bennardo (violin) and Karl Larson (piano)—performs music</span> by recent Rome Prize winner (and School of Music alumnus) Anthony Vine, Maya Bennardo, and UW graduate student composers Yonatan Ron and Justin Zeitlinger. </p>
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<p>No Abyss is Dead (2025) by Yonatan Ron</p>
<p><br>Worshipful Company (2024) by Anthony Vine</p>
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<p>The School of Music presents a recital by pianist Gil Kalish, professor of music and head of performance activities at Stony Brook University in New York. He performs works by Leoš Janáček, J.S. Bach, and Charles Ives, including Ives's Sonata No. 1. </p>
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<p><span>Chloe Lian (MM, Voice Performance), a student of Thomas Harper, performs works by Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Gabriel Fauré, and others on her master's degree recital. </span></p>
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<p><span>Ma rendi pur contento Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)<br></span><span>Per pietà, bell’idol mio</span></p>

<p><span>Auditions for the Studio Jazz/Big Band will include performance of a chromatic scale from lowest to highest and back down, an up-to-one-minute excerpt (student choice), transcription, etude, etc., that demonstrates the musician's abilities as a jazz player, sight-reading, and improvisation (optional).

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<p>UW students of woodwinds, brass, and percussion compete for outside judges for a chance to perform with the UW Symphony. Adjudicators for this competition are oboist Shannon Spicciati and trumpeter Brian Shaw. </p>
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