<p><span>Geoffrey Boers leads this year-end program by the University of Washington Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee, director) and combined UW Choirs. </span><span><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<div>The UW Percussion Ensemble performs works integrating choice, performer-realization, and open instrumentation, exploring historical music by Franziska Boas and John Cage alongside newer works by Jeffrey Treviño, and Ivan Trevino plus a new work by Melissa Wang.</div>
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<p>Changing Tensions (1939)<span>.......................................................................................... </span>Franziska Boas (1902-1988)</p>

<blockquote>From 1980s Berlin to the haunting Louisiana bayou, Carrie Henneman Shaw’s <i>Default Mode Network </i>explores composers’ wildly virtuosic and colorful explorations of the solitary singer. Program includes Chaya Czernowin's <i>Shu Hai practices javelin (presented</i> in surround sound audio), plus premieres of two new works by American composers Kari Besharse and Shawn Okpehbolo. Also on the program: works by German composer and conductor Enno Poppe and a work by Iranian composer Aida Shirazi, commissioned by Shaw and premiered in 2020.

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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>

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<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present “Fields and Fences,” featuring works exploring the duality of liberation and constraint.</p>
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<p><strong>University Chorale</strong><br><em>Giselle Wyers, director<br>Serena Chin, piano</em></p>

<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>David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University of Washington Symphony in a program of music by Kurt Atterberg, Jean Sibelius, and Johannes Brahms. With faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday, performing Sibelius' Violin Concerto<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the orchestra. </span></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).