<p>The School of Music and the student-run Improvised Music Project present the annual Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST), featuring two evenings of distinct performances by UW Music students, faculty, and guests. Featured artists for IMPFest 2023 are composer/pianist (and 2023 GRAMMY winner) <strong>Kris Davis</strong> and multi-instrumentalist/composer <strong>Michael Libramento. </strong></p>
<p><em>IMPFEST is made possible through generous support from Seattle's Raynier Foundation.</em></p>

<p><strong>In light of public health advisories on social distancing, this performance has been canceled.</strong></p>
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<blockquote><em><strong>“How Shall I hold my Soul Still? Songs of Love, Loss and Betrayal” <br></strong></em><em>An eclectic program of American contemporary choral works, the winter quarter concert by the Chamber Singers and University Chorale examines love through many lenses, including the absence of love. </em></blockquote>
<div><em><strong>Conductor: Giselle Wyers, Chair, UW Voice and Choral Conducting </strong></em></div>

<p>The Öngtupqa Trio, featuring Clark Tenakhongva (Hopi singer, recording artist, and past vice chairman of the Hopi Tribe), shares music from their recent Hon Muru (Bear’s Ears) project. This concert is part of a three-day UW residency by the trio.</p>
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<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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