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february
202516feb11:00 amEloise Berkley
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(Sunday) 11:00 am
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Eloise Berkley DMA Voice Recital Eloise Berkley Frankie Bones, piano
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Eloise Berkley DMA Voice Recital
Eloise Berkley
Frankie Bones, piano
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
202516feb2:00 pmWisconsin Gagok Ensemble

Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Also streaming live Jessica Schwefel, mezzo soprano Youngjoo Hong, soprano Susan Gaeddert, piano …… Program …… Since our founding in 2023, the
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Free | No ticket required
Also streaming live
Jessica Schwefel, mezzo soprano
Youngjoo Hong, soprano
Susan Gaeddert, piano
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Program
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Since our founding in 2023, the Wisconsin Gagok Ensemble has been dedicated to the promotion and performance of Korean Art Song in Wisconsin and beyond. Soprano Youngjoo Hong, mezzo soprano Jessica Schwefel, and pianist Susan Gaeddert curate programs of music by 20th and 21st century Korean Art Song composers. We strive to make this art form more accessible for western audiences. We collaborate with other artists and performers to cultivate other aspects Korean and Korean American culture in our state.
Youngjoo Hong, soprano, is a dynamic musician in both the concert and teaching fields. Along with her interpretation of standard repertoire, Youngjoo is a passionate performer and advocate of contemporary and early music. She holds a Music Education degree (BM) and a Master of Music (MM) in Voice Performance from the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Her recent performance of a Korean Art Song Recital at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison was impressively received. In 2023, Youngjoo performed her solo voice recital in Seoul and Pusan, South Korea. Also, Youngjoo’s Master’s Recital at UW–Madison at the Hamel Music center in February 2020 was a huge success. Prior to entering the master’s program in UW– Madison, Youngjoo taught General Music and Choral Music in the Middleton Cross plains Area School District. As a church choir director, Youngjoo has served in the Korean Catholic Community mass for many years at the St. Paul University Center. Youngjoo maintains a private voice studio and is a member of the voice and piano faculty at Harmony Conservatory of Music in Waunakee. She is currently the Vocal Music Teacher at St. Maria Goretti Catholic School.
Dr. Susan Gaeddert is a seasoned collaborative pianist who has spent more than two decades as a professional accompanist, coach and teacher working with students of all ages as well as professionals to prepare repertoire for recitals and auditions. She has toured with Opera For The Young, taught at Edgewood College, and performed with a number of local musicians at festivals and recitals in the Madison area.
Susan holds masters degrees in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Collaborative Piano from UW-Madison, where she earned a doctorate in 2007 and was a winner of the Shain Competition for piano and woodwind duos. Susan recently obtained a degree in Urban/Regional Planning, and she now works as Community Programs Director for 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, an organization specializing in land use and transportation planning.
Mezzo soprano, Dr. Jessica Schwefel, is currently a Lecturer of Voice at the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has performed in over 35 operatic productions with Madison Opera, Opera for the Young, Fresco Opera Theatre, UW Opera, Music By The Lake, among others. Jessica was also a member of the Florentine Opera Chorus for over a decade, where she had been involved in a number of productions and outreach performances. Her involvement with the Florentine Opera resulted in a GRAMMY award nomination in 2020, and three GRAMMY awards in 2012 and 2013.
An accomplished solo singer, Jessica has held recent engagements with the Madison Choral Project, LunART Festival, Four Seasons Theatre, the Civic Symphony of Green Bay, Madison Bach Musicians, Present Music, Oshkosh Chamber Singers, and many more.
Jessica’s articles have been published in the VOICEPrints Journal of the NYSTA, the NATS Journal of Singing, as well as the Wisconsin School Musician (WSMA). She resides in McFarland, WI where she maintains her private voice studio, the Timman Music Studio. Jessica has taught studio voice previously at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Madison College, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
202516feb7:30 pmParry Karp with Martha Fischer and William Lutes

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(Sunday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
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Purchase tickets $20 general admission Students free (ticket required) Also streaming live Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series Parry Karp, cello Martha Fischer and William Lutes, piano …… Program
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Purchase tickets
$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
Also streaming live
Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series
Parry Karp, cello
Martha Fischer and William Lutes, piano
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
march

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(Saturday) 2:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required May Kohler Master’s Voice Recital May Kohler Carmen Lemos Andrew Armstrong …… Program O legere hirondelle (Gounod) si tu veux mignonne (massenet) La belle au bois dormant (Jane Vieu) Hebe (Chausson) from Der Liebe
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Free | No ticket required
May Kohler Master’s Voice Recital
May Kohler
Carmen Lemos
Andrew Armstrong
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Program
O legere hirondelle (Gounod)
si tu veux mignonne (massenet)
La belle au bois dormant (Jane Vieu)
Hebe (Chausson)
from Der Liebe Leid und Lust (Maria von Kehler)
1. Das Mädchen spricht:
4. Der Knabe spricht: 2′
Mädchenlied
O mio babbino caro (Puccini)
Intermission
Tell me, some pitying angel (Purcell)
Nana (M. Falla)
oracion de las madres que tienen a sus hijos en brazos (M. Falla)
lagrimas mias (marques)
The House of the Rising Sun (Guthrie)
Taylor Swift
The Best Day
Never Grow Up
Seven
I hope you dance (Lee Ann Womack)
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May Kohler is a Master of Music student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She studies opera, with her most recent roles being Franca (The Light in the Piazza), Calisto (La Calisto), Cis (Albert Herring), Guadalena (Songbird), Isabel (Pirates of Penzance), and selections as Elisabeth (La Balloniste). May has performed with Musiktheater Bavaria and the Madison Bach Musicians, and she maintains a private voice studio with the Academy of Sound in Oregon, Wisconsin.
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
202501mar7:30 pmHetzler, Curry, Di Sanza, & Endres

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(Saturday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Purchase tickets $20 general admission Students free (ticket required) Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series Tom Curry, tuba and electronics Anthony Di Sanza, vibes and percussion Matthew Endres, drum
Event Details
Purchase tickets
$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series
Tom Curry, tuba and electronics
Anthony Di Sanza, vibes and percussion
Matthew Endres, drum set and percussion
Mark Hetzler, trombone and electronics
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Born in Sarasota, Florida in 1968, Mark Hetzler began playing his father’s trombone at the age of twelve. He went on to receive a B.M. from Boston University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music. Mark was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and completed a three-year fellowship with the New World Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
As a member of the Empire Brass Quintet from 1996-2012, Mark performed in recital and as a soloist with symphony orchestras in Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Venezuela, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, Austria, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland, Bermuda, St. Bartholomew and across the United States. He appeared with the group on live television and radio broadcasts in Asia and the United States, as well as Empire Brass recordings on the Telarc label.
Mark has released twelve solo recordings on the Summit Records label with programming that features music in a wide variety of genres. In addition to recording and performing, Mark is active as a composer, orchestrator and arranger, fusing classical styles with many non-classical influences. He has composed a trombone concerto, Three Views of Infinity, as well as numerous works in solo, chamber and large ensemble settings, including wind ensemble, orchestra, big band, brass quintet and jazz/rock combos.
In addition to his solo recordings, he has recently released three ensemble recordings. Don’t Look Down (2020), which he co-produced with UW-Madison colleagues Tom Curry and Anthony Di Sanza, features their collaborative concert-length original composition Don’t Look Down, exploring the impact of social media and technology on society. Mark can also be heard performing his own music on the recordings of the adventurous new music group Mr. Chair. This versatile quartet released their debut recording Nebulebula in 2019, and followed it up with their second album Better Days in 2022.
These recordings can be found on Bandcamp:
https://curryhetzlerdisanza.bandcamp.com/album/dont-look-down
https://mrchair.bandcamp.com/album/nebulebula
https://mrchair.bandcamp.com/album/better-days
Former Principal Trombone of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Mark has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops and the Florida Orchestra. He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and is currently the Professor of Trombone at UW–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music. As a faculty member in the School of Music, he teaches the Trombone Studio, coaches Chamber Music, teaches Brass Fundamentals courses to Music Education students, co-directs the Low Brass Ensemble and performs as a member of the Wisconsin Brass Quintet (faculty ensemble-in-residence). Mark is a Getzen Performing Artist who plays the 4147 IB Custom Reserve tenor trombone. Learn more about Mark at his website: www.markhetzler.com
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Tom Curry has served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music since 2014. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree as well as a Master of Music degree in tuba performance from Northwestern University. He also holds degrees in tuba performance and communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Curry is currently the tubist in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, a faculty ensemble-in-residence at the Mead Witter School of Music, and has performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Philharmonic and many other orchestras. He is a Miraphone performing artist.
As a soloist and composer, Curry’s interests include non-traditional performance techniques and settings, the application of electronics and fixed media, and improvisation. He has commissioned, premiered, and composed works for tuba in a wide variety of contexts and has been invited to perform at numerous conferences, festivals and universities, including recent appearances at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, the Midwest Tuba Trombone and Euphonium Conference, the New Music Gathering, Northwestern University, Michigan State University, Indiana University and many others.
Curry has released several solo and chamber recordings in recent years, including: water_wind (self released, 2021), a solo EP featuring the premiere recording of Ben Davis’ ☞□❒ □❍ ◆❒❒⍓ for microtonal tuba; Don’t Look Down (self released, 2020), a collaboration with trombonist Mark Hetzler and percussionist Anthony Di Sanza; and Alight (Summit Records, 2018), his first solo recording comprised of modern works for tuba, including Sofia Gubaidulina’s Lamento, Galina Ustvolskaya’s Composition No. 1 “Dona Nobis Pacem,” and Giacinto Scelsi’s Maknongan.
His newest ensemble, Nominal Duo, is a collaboration with euphoniumist Brett Keating. The duo is dedicated to merging brass performance with electro-acoustic practices through their own original compositions, commissions, and improvisations. Established in 2018, Nominal has performed throughout the U.S. and in Canada and was recently featured in the 2021 Virtual Tuba Euphonium Conference. Their debut EP, s.i.p_1 was released in 2020.
In his position at the Mead Witter School of Music, Curry teaches applied tuba and euphonium, coaches brass chamber ensembles and co-conducts the University of Wisconsin Low Brass Ensemble. He presents master classes and clinics throughout the country and teaches tuba and euphonium at the University of Wisconsin Summer Music Clinic. Since 2016, Curry has also served as Director of Brass Choirs for the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras.
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Anthony Di Sanza, a recognized international performer and educator, has performed, presented master classes, and held residencies in North America, Europe and Asia. He has appeared as a visiting artist at over 50 colleges, universities and conservatories, and has performed as soloist and chamber musician in some of the world’s most important concert halls. Anthony can be heard on over 15 internationally distributed CD recordings with various artists, including; Sole Nero-Piano and Percussion Duo, Mark Hetzler Chamber Ensemble, Linda Maxey with Galaxy Percussion and Keiko Abe and the Michigan Chamber Players. In review of his 2011 solo CD release, On the nature of…, All Music Guide writes; “Di Sanza dazzles not only in the assurance and polish of his playing but in his tremendous vitality and spontaneity.” In 2015 Anthony’s recording of Michael Udow’s multiple percussion concerto Moon Shadow was released on the Equilibrium label..
Anthony has performed with numerous orchestras as timpanist or percussionist and currently serves as principal percussionist with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. He has performed/presented at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) on fifteen separate occasions and studies/performs music from Brazil and the Middle East. Anthony is regularly involved in the premiering of new works from a wide variety of composers, including with Akira Nishimura, Maki Ishii, Kaoru Wada, Nebojsa Zivkovic, Keiko Abe, Michael Udow, Dave Hollinden, Laura Elise Schwendinger, Les Thimmig, Joseph Koykkar, Payton MacDonald, Jonas Tamulionis and Dennis Wilson.
Also a percussion composer, Di Sanza’s 1st concerto for darabukka (Middle Eastern goblet drum) and percussion quartet has been performed internationally and his second concerto, titled Time’s Arc, was premiered in 2013 at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. He has works published with Alfred, HoneyRock and Tapspace and his book Improvisational Practice Techniques is published by RGM music. Anthony has a line of signature marimba mallets distributed by Encore Mallets and Black Swamp Percussion produces the Di Sanza Triangle Trigger, which he designed in collaboration with Black Swamp.
Anthony earned the bachelor of music education degree from Youngstown State University and graduate degrees in percussion performance from the University of Michigan. Currently professor of percussion at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Anthony is an endorser of Encore Mallets, Black Swamp Percussion, Sabian Cymbals and Remo Drumheads, as well as an educational endorser of Pro-Mark Drumsticks.
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Born in Sauk City, Wisconsin, Dr. Matthew Endres is the teaching professor of drum set and jazz history at the University of Wisconsin, and is the UW Marching Band Percussion Coordinator. In addition, he adjudicates music festivals and competitions extensively throughout the United States. He received his bachelor of music degree in drum set at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, his master’s degree in jazz studies from the University of Illinois, and his doctoral degree in jazz studies and ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois.
Endres has performed extensively as a bandleader and a sideman in national and international venues. He is the drummer for the international award-winning group Old Style Sextet, which in 2014 placed second in the world-renowned Cotai Jazz and Blues Competition in Macau, China. He has appeared on multiple albums, including It’s About Time (2013) with the Adrian Barnett Septet; the Old Style Sextet self-titled album issued by Blujazz (2014); Chris Beyt’s 120 (2015); The Clark Gibson Studio Orchestra’s record, Bird with Strings: The Lost Arrangements, issued by Blujazz (2015); The Chris Beyt Trio’s, A Trio For Three, issued by Ears&Eyes Records (2020); The University of Illinois Concert Jazz Band’s record, The Music of Pepper Adams (2020); and Places with the group, Gate Check. Endres also currently holds an endorsement with Bopworks Drumsticks, based in Austin, Texas.
Endres has worked with talented artists, including, Grammy-award winner, Doc Severinson, Brad Leali, Chris Brubeck, Charles McPherson, Jim Masters, Sharel Cassity, Marquis Hill, Robert Irving III, Frank Gambale, Tom Garling, Víctor García, Michael Blum, Shawn Purcell, Darden Purcell, Oliver Nelson Jr, Jim Pugh, Dave Pietro, Grammy-award winner, Charles “Chip” McNeill, Ron Bridgewater, Dave D’Angelo, Carlos Vega, Larry Gray, Jeff Halsey, Glenn Wilson, Richard Drexler, Mark Colby, Alex Graham, Clark Gibson, Tito Carrillo, John “Chip” Stephens, Joan Hickey, and Adrian Barnett.
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
202502mar2:00 pmUniversity Bands

Time
(Sunday) 2:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Ben Grochowsky, Emilie Bertram, R. Louis Vajda, conductors
Event Details
Free | No ticket required
Ben Grochowsky, Emilie Bertram, R. Louis Vajda, conductors
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
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