<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><strong>Modern Band</strong><br><em>Cuong Vu, advisor</em></p>
<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><span>Phyllis Byrdwell leads the UW Gospel Choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions of the Gospel tradition.</span></p>
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<p>God Be Praised<span>: </span>Charles Jenkins</p>
<p>I Will Bless The Lord:<span> </span>Hezekiah Walker</p>
<p>Worth: <span> </span>Anthony Brown<br>Mario D’Ambrosio, <em>soloist</em><em> </em></p>
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<p>Jazz Studies professor Marc Seales, piano, is joined by colleagues Ted Poor, drums, and Steve Rodby, bass, in a concert of original tunes and arrangements of jazz and pop classics</p>
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<p>Chamber group Frequency—violinists Michael Jinsoo Lim and Jennifer Caine Provine, violist Melia Watras, and cellist Sarah Rommel—performs works by Sergei Prokofiev, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, Benjamin Britten, Felix Mendelssohn, Kaija Saariaho, and the world premiere of a new work by Melia Watras in this exploration of the musical form of theme and variations.</p>
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<p>A doctoral degree recital by Alex Fang, DMA piano, a student of Craig Sheppard, performing works by Schubert and Rachmaninoff.</p>
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<p>The recital will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person. <br><strong><a href="https://youtube.com/live/eFKWIfJw44I?feature=share" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Join the livestream</a></strong></p>
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<p>Guitar students of Michael Partington perform works for solo, duo, and group arrangements. Program includes music by Domeniconi, Dyens, Barrios, Mertz, and Catelnuovo-Tedesco.</p>
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<p>Faculty colleagues Rachel Lee Priday and Craig Sheppard present a blockbuster program including the Schubert D Major Sonatina, Fauré Sonata No. 1, and Bartók Sonata #1 for Violin and Piano.</p>
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<p>Sonatina in D Major, D384 (1816):<strong> </strong>FRANZ SCHUBERT<strong> </strong>(1797-1828)<br>Allegro molto <br>Andante<br>Allegro vivace</p>
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<p>Dynamic duo Cuong Vu and Cristina Valdés straddle the worlds of contemporary classical music and free improvisation, premiering works for trumpet and piano by Oliver Schneller, Wang Lu, and Skúli Sverrisson, and performing music by Huck Hodge and <span>Eva-Maria Houben</span>. </p>
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<div><em>for C and C </em>(2024)<em>*</em> - Wang Lu (b. 1982)<br><br></div>
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<div class="field-item even">Students from the UW piano studios perform works from the piano repertoire.<hr>
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