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The 12th-annual Mead Witter School of Music Schubertiade, a concert of Schubert’s songs, piano music, and ensembles, will take place on Sunday afternoon, January 26, 2025, at 2 pm in Collins Recital Hall. The theme this year is “Favorites and Discoveries.”

The program celebrates the works of the great Viennese composer Franz Schubert in homage to the original “Schubertiades,” evenings at the homes of Schubert’s friends and admirers who gathered to hear Schubert’s sublime music, often with the composer himself at the piano.

Schubertiade is being hosted again by Professor Martha Fischer, who teaches piano and collaborative piano at the School of Music, and her pianist husband Bill Lutes. They will perform as accompanists and in piano duets on a modern copy of an 1828 Viennese fortepiano, built by Rodney Regier of Freeport, Maine.

The concert will include a mix of some of the most familiar and best-loved Schubert lieder, alongside songs that are beautiful, but lesser known. All three of the “Marches Militaires (No. 1 being one of the composer’s most recognizable tunes) will be heard at various points in the program. And for a performance of “The Shepherd on the Rock” for soprano, clarinet and piano, we welcome guest clarinetist Elise Bonhiver, who will perform on a modern copy of an 1820s-era clarinet.

The program will be a showcase for the School of Music’s voice faculty: Sarah Brailey, Julia Rottmayer, Mimmi Fulmer, Jessica Schwefel, and Matthew Treviño, along with guest artist and School of Music alumnus Wesley Dunnagan, who currently serves on the voice faculty of St. Olaf College.  Each of them will present his or her group of lieder, based on a particular poetic theme.