<p>The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs music by Mercer Ellington and Bill Holman, as well as other big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern Band performs a set of original compositions by band members EJ Brannan, Andrew Friedrich, Beau Wood, Trevor Eulau, and Jacob Linden.</p>
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<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers) present their Winter Quarter concert. The University Chorale presents “Village Bells," a program of works by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Aaron J. Kernis, Veljo Tormis, and others. With special guest narrator Guntis Smidchens, and soloist Sophia Parker. The Chamber Singers presents "Improvisation, Collaboration, Creation," a program of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Jocelyn Hagen/Spearfisher, and young composers from Seattle's Columbia Choirs organization (Katrina Turman, executive director).

<p>The UW Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) performs music by Florent Schmitt and Jennifer Higdon. The Symphonic Band (Shaun Day, director) performs music by Darius Milhaud, Ronald Lo Presti, and Valerie Coleman. With Scott Farkas, percussion soloist on Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto for Solo Percussion and Band. </p>
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<h4><strong>University of Washington Wind Ensemble</strong><br /><em>Timothy Salzman, director</em></h4>

<p>The UW Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee, director) performs music by Sibelius, Glière and Tchaikovsky in this end-of-quarter concert. With faculty artist John Turman, horn soloist on Glière: Horn Concerto, Op. 91 in B flat Major; and Seattle Symphony assistant conductor Sunny Xia, guest conductor for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Op. 36, in F minor. </p>
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<p><strong><b>Sibelius: </b></strong>Spring Song, op.16<strong><br /></strong></p>

<p>Violist/Composer Melia Watras presents a celebration of the viola with an evening of world premieres composed by UW faculty, students, and alumni. The program includes UW faculty composer Joël- François Durand’s <em>Geister weider… pour alto solo</em> (written for Watras), a collaborative composition by Watras and her former student Madeline Warner, and four pieces commissioned by Watras especially for this event, by UW students and alums Sandesh Nagaraj, Jonathan Rodriguez, Breana Tavaglione, and Wei Yang.

<p>Pianists Robin and Rachelle McCabe return to the Meany stage to perform Brahms’s magisterial two piano arrangement of his F minor quintet as well as music by Ravel and Prokofiev in this spirited display of sisterly chemistry.</p>
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<p>Selected from 689 applicants from 44 countries, composer Chris Trapani was awarded the Barlow commission for a new song cycle to be premiered by an elite quartet of sopranos, including UW’s own Carrie Shaw. Hear the premiere of this major contribution to American art song, alongside works by living composers from around the world in her program "The Weight of Sweetness: Songs for All the Senses." Shaw is joined onstage by faculty colleagues Cristina Valdés, piano; and Andrew Romanick, piano and vocoder.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Chicago-based contemporary music collective Ensemble Dal Niente performs world premieres by School of Music faculty composers Joël-François Durand and Huck Hodge as well as pieces by Miya Masaoka and Andile Kumalo. With faculty violist Melia Watras, performing with the ensemble the world premiere of a new work by Durand, and faculty soprano Carrie Shaw, narrator on Andile Khumalo’s <em>Shades of Words.</em></span></p>
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<p>The School of Music and the student-run Improvised Music Project present the annual Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST), featuring two evenings of distinct performances by UW Music students, faculty, and guests. Featured artists for IMPFest 2023 are composer/pianist (and 2023 GRAMMY winner) <strong>Kris Davis</strong> and multi-instrumentalist/composer <strong>Michael Libramento. </strong></p>
<p><em>IMPFEST is made possible through generous support from Seattle's Raynier Foundation.</em></p>

<p>David Alexander Rahbee conducts the UW Symphony and winners of the 2023 UW Concerto Competition in a program of music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Alfred Desenclos, Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Franz Schmidt, and Richard Wagner. Featuring Concerto Competition winners Dalma Ashby, violin; Katie Zundel, baritone saxophone; and Michael Gu, piano. With Daren Weissfisch and Ryan Farris, assistant conductors. </p>
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