<p>The School of Music keyboard program presents a solo piano recital by Cuban-American pianist Santiago Rodriguez, head of the keyboard program at the Frost School of Music at Miami University.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p></p><p>Santiago Rodriguez is the highly acclaimed Professor and Chair of the Keyboard Performance department at the Frost School of Music. Professor Rodriguez has been hailed as “a phenomenal pianist” by The New York Times and singled out as “among the finest pianists in the world” (according to The Baltimore Sun).

<p>Acclaimed piano–percussion quartet Yarn/Wire performs new works by UW Composition doctoral student Yonatan Ron, alum Yiğit Kolat, and others in an evening of adventurous contemporary music.</p><hr><h2>Biographies</h2><h3><a href="https://www.yarnwire.org">Yarn/Wire</a></h3><p><strong>Yarn/Wire</stron…; is a new music quartet dedicated to the promotion of creative, meaningful live mus

<p>Winter Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist<em> </em>Ramón Gutierrez hails from Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico and specializes in playing the <em>requinto</em> (a small melodic guitar). He is the leader of the group Son de Madera, and has performed and recorded with musicians in other traditions, including the Chicano rock band Quetzal from Los Angeles and Antonio Corona, a performer of early music in Mexico.

<p>Seattle’s contemporary music orchestra performs György Ligeti's piano concerto, featuring faculty pianist and SMO member Cristina Valdés, alongside new works for sinfonietta by graduate student composers and faculty members, including Seattle newcomer and recently appointed UW composition professor William Dougherty.

<p>The School of Music keyboard program presents a solo piano recital by Spencer Myer, associate professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, performing works by Haydn, Ravel, Liszt, and Carl Vine. </p><hr><h2>Program</h2><p class="Body">Fantasia in C Major, Hob.

<p>Seattle orchestra Harmonia (William White, conductor) performs concerto excerpts with UW piano students.<br><br><em>This performance is made possible with support from the Willard Schultz Piano Fund in the School of Music.</em></p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><h3>Harmonia</h3><p>Harmonia is a vocal-instrumental ensemble unique among Pacific Northwest musical organizations, combining a 70-member orchestra with a 55-voice chorus to perform oratorio masterworks alongside symphonic and a cappella repertoire, world premieres and

<p>Violist/Composer Melia Watras brings together an all-star lineup of composers and performers for world premiere performances and new music.

<p style="font:12.0px 'Avenir Next Condensed';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:16.0px;"> </p><p>Expect the unexpected, the lyrical, hints of musical theatre, and storytelling inspired by television, film, and dreamscapes when UW Voice students present operatic comedies and dramas of the 21st century. With stage direction by Kelly Kitchens; music direction by Andrew Romanick. </p><hr><h2>Biographies</h2>

<p style="font:12.0px 'Avenir Next Condensed';margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:16.0px;"> </p><p>Expect the unexpected, the lyrical, hints of musical theatre, and storytelling inspired by television, film, and dreamscapes when UW Voice students present operatic comedies and dramas of the 21st century. With stage direction by Kelly Kitchens; music direction by Andrew Romanick. </p><hr><h2>Biographies</h2>

<p style="font:12.0px Helvetica;margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;min-height:14.0px;"> </p><p style="color:#de5b1d;font:13.0px Times;line-height:9.6px;margin:1.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> </p><p>UW Ethnomusicology, Department of American Indian Studies, and the UW Symphony collaborate with Lushootseed Research’s Healing Heart Project in presenting this special community event.