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september

Time
(Thursday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series Martin Wind, double bass Peter Dominguez, double bass Johannes Wallmann, piano Dave Bayles, drums
Event Details
Purchase tickets
General admission: $15
Students: Free (ticket required)
Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Martin Wind, double bass
Peter Dominguez, double bass
Johannes Wallmann, piano
Dave Bayles, drums
Badger Double Bass: Nick Moran, Jeff Weiss, Colette Mouton, Laura Perry, Max Schooldermann, Oscar Thompson, Jan Grzywacz, Hazael Villapando
Jazz Standards Ensemble: Calvin Carl, saxophone; McGregor Farah, guitar; Alex Feucht, bass; Olivia Flood, drums; Mark Gooden, piano; & Clarice Handoko, voice
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Program
Solo by Martin Wind
Richard and Bill Bill Lee
Peter Dominguez, double bass
Three in One Thad Jones
Peter Dominguez, double bass
Air J.S. Bach (Arr. Martin Wind)
Badger Double Bass
Beatles Medley John Lennon & Paul McCartney (Arr. Martin Wind)
Badger Double Bass
TBA with Jazz Standards Ensemble
Silence Charlie Haden (Arr. Martin Wind)
Badger Double Bass
Johannes Wallmann, piano
Blame it On my Youth Oscar Levant & Edward Heyman
Johannes Wallmann, piano
Dave Bayles, drums
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Bassist and composer Martin Wind was born in Flensburg, Germany in 1968 and moved to New York in 1996 to study at New York University (NYU) with a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service.
In 1995 he earned himself a diploma as Orchestra Musician at the Music Conservatory in Cologne, Germany while studying with Prof. Wolfgang Güttler, former bassist with the Berlin Philharmonics.
In 1998 he earned his master’s degree in Jazz Performance and Composition studying with Mike Richmond, Jim McNeely, Tom Boras, Mike Holober, and Kenny Werner.
Since his move to New York Martin has become a regular at all major jazz clubs and is also in demand as a session player; his credits include movies such as “The Alamo”, “Intolerable Cruelty”, “Mona Lisa Smiles”, “Fur”, “True Grit”, “The Adventures of Walter Mitty”, and “Gemini Man”.
In 1995 Martin came in third at the International Thelonious Monk Bass Competition in Washington, D.C.
In 1996 Martin Wind won the first Cognac Hennessy/Blue Note Jazz Search in Germany with his trio “Dreiklang” and got to record an album for Blue Note Records.
In 2000 he was the first jazz musician to win the Cultural Award of his home state Schleswig-Holstein.
Martin has released more than 20 albums as leader/co-leader including his debut album “Gone with the Wind” (1993), quartet recordings “Salt & Pepper” (2007) and “Get it?” (2009), as well as the orchestral album “Turn out the Stars – music written or inspired by Bill Evans” (2014) featuring Scott Robinson (tenor sax), Bill Cunliffe (piano) and Joe La Barbera (drums), which Paquito D’Rivera called “disgustingly beautiful”. More recent releases include “Light Blue” (2018) and “White Noise” (2020), and “My Astorian Queen” (2021) in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his move to New York City. In 2022 he presented a new project, the New York Bass Quartet: in his 4 ½ star review for Downbeat Magazine, Bill Milkowski called it a “bass manifesto”.
Currently Martin is a member of the trios of Bill Mays, Dena DeRose, Bill Cunliffe, Ann Hampton Callaway, Ted Rosenthal, as well as the quartets of Matt Wilson (“Arts and Crafts”) and Ken Peplowski. Since 2013 he has also been touring with Belgian guitarist and jazz legend Philip Catherine, playing material from their duo album “New Folks” (ACT Records).
Martin Wind has recorded and/or performed with the following artists: Guidon Kremer, Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostopowitch, Lalo Schifrin, Monty Alexander, Pat Metheny, Clark Terry, Mark Murphy, Slide Hampton, Toots Thielemans, Buddy DeFranco, The Metropole Orchestra, Radio Big Bands Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Eddie Daniels, Curtis Fuller, Phil Woods, Bud Shank, Johnny Griffin, Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Stern, Larry Goldings, Johnny Mandel, Frank Wess, James Moody, Hank Jones, John Scofield, Sting, Ann Hampton Callaway, Michel Legrand, Mulgrew Miller, Anat Cohen, Benny Green, Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and others.
Martin Wind is on the faculty at New York University and Hofstra University; he has taught at the National Youth Jazz Orchestra Germany and the Centrum, Stanford, and Litchfield Jazz Camps among others.
Martin was commissioned to write music for the American Place Theatre productions of Tim O’Brien’s “The things they carried” (2005) and Jeanette Walls’ “The Glass Castle” (2007). One of his arrangements appeared in the 2014 movie “Love is Strange” feat. John Lithgow and Tony Molina.
Since 2015 he’s been part of the Kennedy Center Honors Gala, backing up world stars such as James Taylor, Reneé Fleming, John Legend, Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock a.o.
In 2018 he premiered his bass concerto “Legacy” with his hometown orchestra; he has also written the sonata “Into the light” for bass and piano, many arrangements, and original compositions for bass ensemble and about 100 jazz tunes and concert pieces.
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue

Time
(Wednesday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series Artina McCain, piano …… Program Intersections Minstrels Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Three Fours Suite op. 71 no.6
Event Details
Purchase tickets
General admission: $15
Students: Free (ticket required)
Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Artina McCain, piano
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Program
Intersections
Minstrels Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Three Fours Suite op. 71 no.6 Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875-1912)
I Wouldn’t Normally Say Errolyn Wallen (b. 1958)
Stabat Mater, S579/3 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sometimes I Feel Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Tumbao Tania Leon (b. 1943)
Prelude op. 32 no. 5 Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Passion Medley Joseph Joubert (b. 1958)
Etude in g# minor Part II no. 11 H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
Gaspard de la nuit: Ondine Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Near the Cross Joseph Joubert
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Described as a pianist with “power and finesse” (Dallas Arts Society), “beautiful and fiery” (KMFA Austin) and having a “sense of color, balance and texture” (Austin Chamber Music Center) Artina McCain has a built a three-fold career as a performer, educator, and speaker. Recent performance highlights include guest appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Oregon East Symphony, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist, her credits include performances at the Mahidol University in Bangkok, Hatch Recital Hall in Rochester, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, FL and the Desoto Arts Commission in Desoto,TX. In 2022, she will have her debut at Wigmore Hall in London performing the works of Fred O.
McCain’s performances have been heard on radio CKWR Toronto, KMFA Classical Austin, and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Television appearances include features on CSPAN for the MLK 50 Commemoration. McCain is a three-time Global Music Awards winner including collaborative projects “I, Too” (Naxos), with soprano Icy Monroe, focused on African American Spirituals and Art Songs and “Shades” a collaboration with her husband and duo partner Martin McCain.
Dedicated to promoting the works of Black and other underrepresented composers, McCain curates Black Composers Concerts for multiple arts organizations and is an American Prize winner for her solo piano recordings of these works and won a Gold Global Music Award for her recent album project Heritage. She has also won performance awards for curating the Austin Chamber Music Centers’ Black Composers Concert from the Austin Critics Table. In 2021, Hal Leonard will publish her transcriptions of African American Folk Songs.
McCain was a featured inspirational leader in the award-winning PBS documentary series Roadtrip Nation: Degree of Impact in an episode exploring the real-world impact of professionals with doctoral degrees in and outside of academia.
After years of battling a performance injury and now enjoying 10 years of full recovery, McCain is an advocate for musicians’ wellness. Her article on performance injury and Muscle Activation Techniques was published in Clavier Companion and she is a regular contributor for the Piano Magazine. To help other musicians, she hosts an annual Musicians Wellness Forum in Austin, TX which explores the benefits and options for alternative care. McCain has presented on these topics and others at the Music Teachers National Association Conference and the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy.
McCain has performed and served on the faculty of numerous summer festivals including the Austin Chamber Music Festival, the Illinois Summer Youth Music, the Gateways Music Festival in Rochester, NY, and the Walled City Music International Piano Festival and Competition in Ireland. McCain graduated cum laude from Southern Methodist University. She received her Master of Music from Cleveland Institute of Music and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis and Co-Founder/Director of the Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition.
Artina McCain is a Yamaha Artist.
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
202328sep10:00 amArtina McCain Workshop

Time
(Thursday) 10:00 am
Location
Hamel Music Center - Lee/Kaufman Rehearsal Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series Dr. Artina McCain presents “Who’s That? Creating a New Standard Repertoire” Teaching underrepresented composers is experiencing a renaissance. While works
Event Details
Free | No ticket required
Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Dr. Artina McCain presents “Who’s That? Creating a New Standard Repertoire”
Teaching underrepresented composers is experiencing a renaissance. While works of females and Black composers have been discussed for decades, there seems to be a disconnect between individual research and what we see represented in our student auditions, concert halls, and competition programming. In this session, we will learn how to pair “new” pieces with standard programming for intermediate through advanced repertoire.
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Described as a pianist with “power and finesse” (Dallas Arts Society), “beautiful and fiery” (KMFA Austin) and having a “sense of color, balance and texture” (Austin Chamber Music Center) Artina McCain has a built a three-fold career as a performer, educator, and speaker. Recent performance highlights include guest appearances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Oregon East Symphony, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist, her credits include performances at the Mahidol University in Bangkok, Hatch Recital Hall in Rochester, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens in Jacksonville, FL and the Desoto Arts Commission in Desoto,TX. In 2022, she will have her debut at Wigmore Hall in London performing the works of Fred O.
McCain’s performances have been heard on radio CKWR Toronto, KMFA Classical Austin, and Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK). Television appearances include features on CSPAN for the MLK 50 Commemoration. McCain is a three-time Global Music Awards winner including collaborative projects “I, Too” (Naxos), with soprano Icy Monroe, focused on African American Spirituals and Art Songs and “Shades” a collaboration with her husband and duo partner Martin McCain.
Dedicated to promoting the works of Black and other underrepresented composers, McCain curates Black Composers Concerts for multiple arts organizations and is an American Prize winner for her solo piano recordings of these works and won a Gold Global Music Award for her recent album project Heritage. She has also won performance awards for curating the Austin Chamber Music Centers’ Black Composers Concert from the Austin Critics Table. In 2021, Hal Leonard will publish her transcriptions of African American Folk Songs.
McCain was a featured inspirational leader in the award-winning PBS documentary series Roadtrip Nation: Degree of Impact in an episode exploring the real-world impact of professionals with doctoral degrees in and outside of academia.
After years of battling a performance injury and now enjoying 10 years of full recovery, McCain is an advocate for musicians’ wellness. Her article on performance injury and Muscle Activation Techniques was published in Clavier Companion and she is a regular contributor for the Piano Magazine. To help other musicians, she hosts an annual Musicians Wellness Forum in Austin, TX which explores the benefits and options for alternative care. McCain has presented on these topics and others at the Music Teachers National Association Conference and the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy.
McCain has performed and served on the faculty of numerous summer festivals including the Austin Chamber Music Festival, the Illinois Summer Youth Music, the Gateways Music Festival in Rochester, NY, and the Walled City Music International Piano Festival and Competition in Ireland. McCain graduated cum laude from Southern Methodist University. She received her Master of Music from Cleveland Institute of Music and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis and Co-Founder/Director of the Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition.
Artina McCain is a Yamaha Artist.
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Hamel Music Center - Lee/Kaufman Rehearsal Hall 740 University Avenue
october
202301oct2:00 pmUW–Madison Symphony Orchestra

Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Oriol Sans, conductor Benjamin Hudson-Davies, violin
Event Details
Free | No ticket required
Oriol Sans, conductor
Benjamin Hudson-Davies, violin
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue

Time
(Thursday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Corey Pompey, conductor
Event Details
Free | No ticket required
Corey Pompey, conductor
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue

Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Scott Teeple, conductor
Event Details
Free | No ticket required
Scott Teeple, conductor
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
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