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Students free (ticket required)

Lindsay Flowers, oboe & English horn
Garret Ross, piano
Kristen Diederichs, oboe
Amanda Givens, oboe
Keslie Pharis, oboe
Tom Lacy, oboe

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Program

Drei romantische Stücke für Oboe und Klavier (1904)     Léopold Wallner (1847-1913)
I. Chant d’amour
II. Mazurka
III. Rêverie

Garret Ross, piano

Mosaicos (2022)     John Richard Durant (b. 1960)
*World premiere of version for oboe and piano
I. El Laberinto
II. Sosus of Pergamon
III. Casa Batlló
IV. Pan
V. Zellij

Garret Ross, piano

Brief Intermission

Pastoral for English Horn and Piano (1940)      Elliott Carter (1908-2012)

Garret Ross, piano

Daughter of the Sea (2014)      Andrea Clearfield (b. 1960)

Prologue

Kristen Diederichs, oboe

II. Your Hand Flew From My Eyes

Amanda Givens, oboe

IV. You are the Daughter of the Sea

Keslie Pharis, oboe

VI. Don’t Go Far Off

Tom Lacy, oboe

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Dr. Lindsay Flowers is the Assistant Professor of Oboe at the Mead Witter School of Music where she is a member of the Wingra Wind Quintet and guides student-generated community engagement projects. She received a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of Linda Strommen and Roger Roe. Her background in athletics distinguishes her pedagogical approach in her emphasis on performance visualization, disciplined commitment, and supportive teamwork.

Lindsay is an Oboist and English Hornist with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. She previously was a member of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Lindsay was a founding member of the Arundo Donax Reed Quintet, Bronze Medal Winners of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and recorded a duo album with Dr. Andrew Parker to be released in 2023. She has performed with the Milwaukee, Chicago, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Utah, and Nashville Symphony Orchestras and during recent summers with the Santa Fe Opera, Grant Park, Midsummer’s, Lakes Area, Apollo, Bach Dancing and Dynamite, Lake George, Castleton, Aspen, and Banff Music Festivals.

In addition to performing and teaching, Lindsay is recognized for her maintenance and repair of oboe and English horn gouging machines, particularly those designed by Ferrillo, Graf, Kunibert, and Gilbert. Lindsay is also curating gouger clinics for students and professionals to share her knowledge in this specialty.

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Pianist Garret Ross is an experienced soloist and avid chamber musician with a wide ranging repertoire. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Apollo Music Festival. Garret has performed on stages and series across the USA including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, The Roerich Museum in NYC, the Courtroom Concert Series in Saint Paul MN, and Music Northwest in Seattle WA.

As a soloist, Garret gave the World Premiere of Gregory Vajda’s Csardas Obstine with the Texas Festival Orchestra and the Music in The Mountains Festival Orchestra. Other concerto appearances with orchestra include the repertoire of Bach, Beethoven, Grieg, and Rachmaninoff. Garret has attended numerous festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival, Banff Centre, and the International Festival-Institute at Round Top.

Garret’s principal teachers are Alexander Braginsky and Eteri Andjaparidze. Both Braginsky and Andjaparidze studied at the Moscow Conservatory where their teachers, Teodor Gutman and Vera Gornostaeva, respectively, were students of Heinrich Neuhaus. Garret hopes to continue this tradition of piano playing through his performances and teaching. An active teacher himself, Garret teaches students throughout the Twin Cities, and conducts masterclasses at universities throughout the United States. He is on the faculty of The Saint Paul Conservatory of Music.

Garret lives in North Minneapolis with his partner Justin, cat Marzipan, and Doberman Reginald Barclay. He enjoys cooking, gardening, and traveling.

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$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series

James Waldo, cello
Alyona A. Waldo, piano
Sarah Brailey, soprano
Johanna Weinholts, harp
Ricky Medina, flute
Vinicius Sant’ana and Maynie Bradley, violin
Kayla Patrick, viola

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Program

Passaggi (ornamentation) on Cipriano de Rore’s “Ancor che col partire” for the viola bastarda (1592)
Riccardo Rognioni (ca. 1550-1620)

Fluorescenza (2020)      Laura Schwendinger (b. 1962)

Dam Mwen Yo (2016)       Nathalie Joachim
Sunjata’s Time (2015)       Fodé Lassana Diabaté (b. 1971)/arr. Jacob Garchik (b. 1976)

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Humanities Building
Room 1341

Presented by University Opera

A  talk with Lisa Bielawa, composer, Cori Ellison, dramaturg, and Claire Solomon, librettist, about the new opera La Ballonniste. La Ballonniste is a story about the first female balloonist in late 18^th-century France.

Related event
A special workshop of La Ballonniste
September 24 at 7:30 pm, Hamel Music Center
music.wisc.edu/events/la-ballonniste