<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>
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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the University Symphony in a program of music by Klengel, Mahler, Pärt, and Schubert. With graduate student conductors Daren Weissfisch and Rylan Virnig.</p>
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<p>The UW WInd Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) performs music prepared for the group's upcoming tour of South Korea. Program includes George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Robin, McCabe, piano); Franz Doppler: Andante et Rondo (Donna Shin and Grace Jun, flutes), and others. WIth Eun Ju Vivianna Oh, soprano, and graduate conductors Shaun Day, Roger Wu Fu, and David Stewart. </p>
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<p>Faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday collaborates with pianist Bryan Wallick of Colorado State University in a program of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Marc-André Hamelin, Jessie Montgomery, and Richard Strauss. </p>
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<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present "Blue Planet," a program of works demonstrating multiple cultures through crossover genre, syncretic styles, and the African diaspora in the United States. With special guest Professor Marc Seales, piano.</p>
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<p>Small combos perform original music and arrangements of jazz standards, modern classics, and deep cuts from the popular music repertoire over two consecutive nights of performance. </p>
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<p>The UW Voice Program presents an adaptation of Haydn’s 1773 one-act <span>singspiel</span> <em>Philemon und Baucis,</em> a tragicomic tale in two parts inspired by Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses.</em></p>
<p>Stage direction by Kelly Kitchens. With members of the UW Symphony Orchestra, Daren Weissfisch, conductor.</p>
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<p><span><span>The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) presents a year-end performance shared with the UW Steel Drum Band (Shannon Dudley, director).</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>The Steel Drum Band performs arrangements of calypso, salsa, reggae, soca, and other dance styles.</span></span></p>

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<p><span> </span>Faculty pianists Craig Sheppard and Cristina Valdés, faculty percussionist Bonnie Whiting, and Seattle principal timpanist James Benoit perform Béla Bartók's exhilarating and popular <span>Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, </span><span>Sz. 110, BB 115</span>. Also on the program: Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448 and Brahms' Waltzes, Op. 39.</p>
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