<p>The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern Band performs innovative arrangements of jazz standards, selections from the outer limits of the genre, and new original compositions.</p>
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<p><span>David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University of Washington Symphony in a program of music by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Valentin Silvestrov, and Richard Strauss. With </span><span>Clara Osowski, mezzo soprano, and Music History faculty </span><span>Frederick Reece, narration, on Clara Schumann’s Four Songs.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<p>In the first half of this program, the Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and singers from the UW Opera Workshop, along with the UW Baroque Ensemble, perform Marc-Antoine Charpentier's <em>Les arts florissants. </em>In the second half of the program, the Chamber Singers and<em> </em>University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present “Scatter, Gather,” a celebration of choral music traditions of the Pacific Rim and beyond. With special guest, Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Shoji Kameda.</p>

<p>UW faculty brass instructors (and Seattle Symphony members) David Gordon (trumpet), John DiCesare (tuba), John Turman (French horn), and Eden Garza (trombone) are joined by SSO colleague Alexander White (trumpet) in this concert of works by Paul Dukas, Halsey Stevens, Paquito D’Rivera, Robert Weirich, Alexi Lebedev, Clay Smith, Anthony DiLorenzo, Anthony Barfield, and André Previn. With pianists Andrew Romanick and <span>Alex Kostadinov. </span></p>
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<p>Bonnie Whiting performs recent commissions centered on the speaking percussionist, improvisation, and elements of movement and gesture. Featuring the world premiere of an expansive new solo work by composer Wang Lu, a realization of UW colleague Melia Watras’ graphic score <em>Barking up which tree?</em> and a duo performance, with Voice faculty Carrie Shaw, of Yiheng Yvonne Wu’s <em>Four Poems of Li-Young Lee.</em></p>
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<p>The latest installment of an ongoing series created by artistic director Naeim Rahmani ('10 BM, Guitar Performance), the program includes commissioned works by Iranian composers living outside of Iran and Seattle-based composers with strong ties to the UW Composition Program: Huck Hodge, Joël-François Durand, Jeff Bowen, and Yigit Kölat. </p>
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<div><strong>Farzia Fallah:</strong> Thirty-Three Drops of Water
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Faculty colleagues Sarah Rommel and Craig Sheppard perform evergreen works by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, George Crumb's Sonata for (Solo) Cello, and Nadia Boulanger's Three Pieces.</p>
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<div><strong>Ludwig van Beethoven:</strong>  Variations on Judas Maccabaeus </div>
<div><strong>Nadia Boulanger:</strong>  Three Pieces</div>

<p>Faculty violist Melia Watras welcomes viola legend Atar Arad (her former teacher) and her student Flora Cummings in a concert that celebrates their viola family tree. Arad will perform two chaconnes: his own composition and Bach’s monumental Ciaccona from Partita in D minor, transcribed for viola; Watras will perform three works that she penned for viola solo; and all three violists will take turns performing with each other in selections from Béla Bartók’s 44 Duos.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

<div>The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) explores early 1930s percussion repertoire in its program <em>Ionisation, </em>reimagining Edgard Varèse's iconic early percussion work with the <i> Afrocubanismo</i> pioneer Amadeo Roldán's <i>Ritmicas</i> as well as music by James Tenney, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Nick Hubble.</div>
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<p><span>The Dance Majors Concert is a platform for students to express their creative voices through every aspect of dance- from choreography to lighting, to costuming. Dance majors who have taken 3 dance-making classes</span><span> </span><span>have the opportunity to choreograph on and collaborate with other undergraduates for this annual performance.</span></p>
<p><span>More information to come soon! </span></p>
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