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<blockquote><i><i>Faculty percussionist Bonnie Whiting presents Through the Eye(s), a cycle of pieces for solo speaking and singing percussionist developed in collaboration with nine incarcerated people at the Indiana Women's Prison. </i></i>The program opens with Whiting's realization of faculty composer Melia Watras's graphic score, "Barking up which tree?" </blockquote>
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<p><span>UW keyboard performance students perform for outside judges for a chance to perform with the UW Symphony. Judges for this competition are pianists Paige Molloy and Allan Park.</span></p>
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<p>UW strings students Dalma Ashby, Eugene Chin, Hannah Chou, Christine Chu, and Elena Allen perform for outside judges, competing for a chance to perform with the UW Symphony. Adjudicators for this competition are <span>Brendan Shea, concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic, and Susan Gulkis Assadi, principal violist of the Seattle Symphony.</span></p>
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<blockquote><span>Violist/composer Melia Watras, violinists Tekla Cunningham, Rachel Lee Priday and Michael Jinsoo Lim, photographer Michelle Smith-Lewis and narrator Tigran Arakelyan present the world premiere of Watras’s new work, </span><i class>The almond tree duos. </i><span>The title references the symbol of hope and new beginnings in Oscar Wilde’s</span><i class> The Canterville Ghost.

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<blockquote>Students from the UW piano studios perform works from the piano repertoire.
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<p>Students of Thomas Harper and Carrie Shaw perform art songs and arias in a variety of languages and styles.</p>
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<h2><strong>Note: This concert has been canceled and may be rescheduled for a later date.</strong></h2>
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<p class="p1">The UW Baroque Ensemble (Tekla Cunningham, director) presents its Winter Quarter concert, a program of sonatas by George Frideric Handel.</p>
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<p>Student jazz ensembles coached by Marc Seales and Steve Rodby pay homage to the icons of jazz and break new ground with original progressive jazz compositions.</p>
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<p><span>Student jazz ensembles pay homage to the icons of jazz and break new ground with original progressive jazz compositions.</span></p>
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<p>The UW Modern Band (Cuong Vu, advisor) performs music by Benny Golson, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, and others. In the second half of the program, Jazz Studies faculty Marc Seales (piano), Ted Poor (drums), and Steve Rodby (bass) perform original music by Seales and arrangements of select cover tunes.</p>
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