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<p><span>Seattle Modern Orchestra (SMO) completes its third annual residency at the UW with a 70th birthday celebration of UW Composition Professor and School of Music Director Joël-François Durand. SMO presents an evening <span>of world premieres, conducted by UW alum Julia Tai, with works written in tribute to Durand by</span> his former students Byron Au Yong, Jeff Bowen, Yiğit Kolat, Eric Flesher, and Ryan Hare, plus a world premiere by graduate student composer Yonatan Ron. </span></p>

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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Jessie Montgomery (Robert Stahly, conductor), Cécile Chaminade, Francis Poulenc, and Dmitri Shostakovich. With faculty guest Donna Shin, flute. </p>
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<p>Acclaimed new music group the Mivos Quartet, dubbed by the Chicago Reader“ one of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles,” performs premieres by UW faculty composers Joël-François Durand and Huck Hodge and works by Ambrose Akinmusire and Chikako Morishita in this guest artist performance.</p>
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<p>Brigham Young University contemporary voice faculty (Korianne Orton Johnson) and classical voice faculty (<span>Diane</span> Thueson <span>Reich</span>) go head-to-head to collaborate on classical, musical theatre, and contemporary songs in this show of friendship, rivalry, and just plain good singing. With a special presentation by BYU faculty pianist Jared Pierce. </p>
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<p><strong>FACULTY RECITAL</strong></p>

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<p>Faculty colleagues Craig Sheppard, piano; Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello; and Rachel Lee Priday, violin, conclude their three-concert performance of the complete cycle of Beethoven piano trios. The performance, live-streamed from the University of Washington’s Meany Hall, is followed by a brief question-and-answer session. </p>
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<p>Faculty pianist Robin McCabe performs solo works of Ravel and Franck on the first half of her faculty recital. On the second half of the program, she is joined by students in her UW studio to perform festive works for two pianos, eight hands, among them Liszt’s “Rakoczy March,” Bizet’s “Carmen Fantasy,” and Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever.”</p>
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<p class="p1"><strong>In light of public health advisories on social distancing, this performance has been canceled.</strong></p>
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<p class="p1">The UW Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and guests present a spring quarter concert, with special guests Austin Huang, composer; Seattle Chinese Orchestra; Yu Long (Chinese face-changing artist); and Miho Takekawa, marimba.</p>
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<p>Dedicated to the presentation of new and rarely-heard works and gems of the historical avant garde, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble turns its attention to works by UW faculty composers in this program of premieres by William Dougherty, Joël-François Durand, and Huck Hodge<span>, plus a preview of a work by American composer/violist Catherine Lamb.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Huck Hodge </strong>(b. 1977):<strong> </strong>matrix matrī</p>

<p><span>Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Boka Kouyaté is joined by his UW students and special guests the Djeliyah Band in an evening of West African music and dance. </span></p>
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<p>Djeliyah / Lamban<br>Kémebourema<br>Farakourou<br>Fêfo<br>Banine<br>Mamiwata<br>Balakoulandjan</p>

<p>Pianist William Wolfram, faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music, explores the expressive vocabulary of three champions of pianistic Romanticism in his program including the Chopin Sonata #2, Schumann “Humoresque,” and Liszt “Dante Sonata.”</p>