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Kendal Schreiber and Josh Dieter Elective Percussion Recital

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Program

Palpitations     Cody Holmes (b. 1995)

Drift      Caleb Pickering (b. 1990)

Rotation II      Eric Sammut (b. 1968)

Fire       Donald Skoog (b. 1956)

Meditation no.1       Casey Cangelosi (b. 1982)

Meditation no. 2      Casey Cangelosi

Velocities      Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943)

As One      Gene Koshinski (b. 1980)

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Josh Dieter and Kendal Schreiber are both studying Percussion Performance at UW–Madison and are presenting a duo recital. This recital will have a mix of fun and challenging percussion duets and solo repertoire.

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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Ensemble Series

Conor Nelson, flute
Lindsay Flowers, oboe
Alicia Lee, clarinet
Trevor Healy, horn
Marc Vallon, bassoon

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Founded in 1965, the Wingra Wind Quintet at the Mead Witter School of Music is one of the longest running quintets in the nation. Known for artistic and pedagogical excellence, the ensemble has been featured in performance at national conferences such as The Fundación Universitaria Bellas Artes in Medellín, Colombia,

MENC (Miami), MTNA (Kansas City), and the International Double Reed Society (Minneapolis). The quintet also presented an invitational concert on the Dame Myra Hess series at the Chicago Public Library, broadcast live on WFMT. In addition to its extensive home state touring, the quintet has been invited to perform at numerous college campuses, including the universities of Alaska-Fairbanks, Chicago, Illinois, Nebraska, as well as Northwestern Western Michigan, Florida State, Cornell, the Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Paris Conservatoire, where quintet members offered master classes.

The Wingra Wind Quintet has recorded for Golden Crest, Spectrum, and the Mead Witter School of Music recording series and is featured on an educational video entitled Developing Woodwind Ensembles. Always on the lookout for new music of merit, Wingra has premiered new works of George Lewis, Hilmar Luckhardt, Vern Reynolds, Alec Wilder, Edith Boroff, James Christensen, and David Ott. The group gave the Midwest regional premiere of William Bolcom’s Five Fold Five, a sextet for woodwind quintet and piano, with pianist Christopher Taylor. New York Times critic Peter Davis, in reviewing the ensemble’s Carnegie Hall appearance, stated “The performances were consistently sophisticated, sensitive, and thoroughly vital.”

The Wingra Wind Quintet is one of three faculty chamber ensembles in-residence at the Mead Witter School of Music. Deeply committed to the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the group travels widely to offer its concerts and educational services to students and the public in all corners of the state.

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Timothy Mullins DMA Flute Recital

Timothy Mullins, flute
John Scoville, piano
Vivian Simpson and Sabrina Bonine, dancers

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Program 

Narcissus (1987)      Thea Musgrave (b. 1928)

Detroit Steel (2018)      David Biedenbender (b. 1984)

Bedtime Stories (2016)      Nina Shekhar (b. 1995)
Monster
Cheese Moon
Dream (or Nightmare) Waltz

Intermission

The Ice Queen Suite (2025)     Daria Tennikova (b. 1989)
Mirror
Kai
The Snow Queen
Gerda

Sonata ‘Undine’ Op. 167 (1882)    Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Allegro
Intermezzo. Allegro vivace
Andante tranquillo
Finale. Allegro molto agitato ed appassionato, quasi Presto

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Timothy Mullins is a flutist hailing from his hometown of Wyandotte, Michigan. He is a first-year Doctor of Musical Arts student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and serves as a teaching assistant in the Music Theory program. He received a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from Eastern Michigan University in 2018 and a Master of Music in Flute Performance from Ithaca College in 2020.

As a performer, Timothy was a select winner of the National Flute Association Convention Performers Competition and won third place in the Ervin Monroe Young Artist Competition. He has performed in masterclasses for notable flutists such as Suyeon Ko, Brandon Patrick George, Sharon Sparrow, and Katherine Hoover. Timothy has taught college flute courses as part of his flute Teaching Assistantship at Ithaca College and has been teaching privately to students from third grade to retired across three states for almost a decade. His primary teachers are Dr. Conor Nelson, Dr. Wendy Herbener Mehne, Dr. Julie Stone, Jeff Zook, Amanda Blaikie, and Brandon LePage.

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Mead Witter School of Music Changemaker Series
A celebration of individuals who help society challenge and expand the boundaries of music

Andrew Yee, cello

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Two time GRAMMY Award winning cellist and composer Andrew Yee (She/They) has been praised by Michael Kennedy of the London Telegraph as “spellbindingly virtuosic.” Trained at the Juilliard School, she is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet who have released several albums to critical acclaim including Andrew’s arrangement of Haydn’s “Seven Last Words” which Thewholenote.com praised as “ . . .easily the most satisfying string version of the work that I’ve heard.” Their recordings of the string quartets of Caroline Shaw; ‘Orange’ and ‘Evergreen’ have each won GRAMMY awards for best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble performance. The Attacca Quartet can also be heard on the score of the Alfonso Cuaron show ‘Disclaimer’ scored by Finneas O’Connell and on Billie Eilish’s album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’.

She co-composed a score to Wu Tsang’s film adaptation of Moby Dick; or, The Whale with Caroline that was premiered with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and then in New York at the Shed by the New York Philharmonic. She is writing works for Leilehua Lanzilotti, the Thalea Quartet and the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra this season, as well as a new version of the opera ‘Carmen’ for Schauspielhaus Zürich directed by Wu Tsang. She is also scoring an upcoming BBC show entitled ‘We Might Regret This” and has been commissioned by the LA Phil to write a piece for solo cello to be experienced solely through a haptic vest, to provide a shared musical experience for the hearing and Deaf/Hard of hearing communities.

As a soloist with orchestra Andrew has performed John Taverner’s The Protecting Veil, Strauss Don Quixote and the Strauss Four Last Songs in recent seasons. Her solo project “Halfie” draws on her experience as a bi-racial and trans person in having access to multiple communities at once, while not feeling at home in any of them. The works commissioned and on the concerts will feature a wide range of composers all for solo cello. She has been touring a duo show with Caroline Shaw since 2021.

She likes to draw apples, cook like an Italian Grandma and have developed coffee and cocktail programs for award-winning restaurants (Lilia, Risbobk, Atla) in New York City. Her son Otis is the love of her life. She plays on an 1884 Eugenio Degani cello on loan from the Five Partners Foundation.

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Trevor Healy DMA Horn Recital

Trevor Healy, horn
Vincent Fuh, piano
Carolyn Van De Velde, violin
Keslie Pharis, oboe
Jesse Wolf, trumpet
Anton Wachmann, cello
Alice Alford, flute
Kevin Koesser, horn
William Beimers, horn
Ella Scott, horn
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Program

Serenade in F Minor, Op 73 (1923)     Robert Kahn (1865-1951)

Mind Fields (2019)     James Stephenson (b. 1969)
I. Intersections
II. Secret Harbors
III. Strokesongs

Intermission

Nordestrio (2021)      Gilson Santos (b. 1977)

…y aún sigues dándole a la vida sueños (2023)    Ivette Herryman Rodríguez (b. 1982)

Fripperies    Lowell E. Shaw (b. 1930)
6. Medium Fast
8. Barbershop
14. Something in Two

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Trevor Healy is a graduate student pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA) in horn performance at University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying with Daniel Grabois. Trevor previously attended UW for his Master’s of Music in horn performance, graduating in 2024. Both degrees have been accompanied by a Project Assistantship with the Wingra Wind Quintet, one of the Mead Witter School of Music’s faculty ensembles in residence. Trevor is also a Graduate Teaching Assistant for a music production course.

Born and raised just south of Rochester, NY, Trevor earned a Certificate of Advanced Achievement in Performance from Eastman Community Music School in 2018. This program included wind quintet and brass ensemble memberships, as well as private studies with Byron Johns, Lauren Becker, and Maura McCune-Corvington. Trevor was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra from 2014 to 2018, winning their concerto competition in 2018.

Trevor attended Ohio State University, graduating with a Bachelor’s in Music Education in 2022 while studying with Bruce Henniss. At OSU, he performed in the Wind Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, and multiple chamber groups. While living in Columbus, Trevor was 2nd horn of the New Albany Symphony Orchestra and 4th horn of the Camarata Chamber Orchestra. He was also a performer in a wind quintet for the 2021 International Double Reed Symposium. Currently, Trevor is 2nd horn of the Fox Valley Symphony and Principal horn of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, as well as a teacher and freelancer in various settings around Madison

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Louis Vajda DMA Conducting Recital

Reflections of Home: Music of Identity and Belonging
Join us for a performance of works for chamber winds and choir that center the ideas of home, identity, and belonging. 

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Program

Octet Op. 34          Asger Lund Christiansen

in this house         Cristian Larios

and the swallow       Caroline Shaw/Fisher

Serenade Op. 43       Emil Hartmann

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the DMA in Wind Conducting for Louis Vajda. 

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Zou Zou Robidoux Master’s Cello Recital

Zou Zou Robidoux, cello
Anna Desfor, percussion
Eunsu Kim, piano
Carolyn Van de Velde, violin
Michael Wu, piano

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Program 

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 6       Samuel Barber
Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Allegro appassionato

Prelude from Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor BWV 1008       J.S. Bach

Varsha      Reema Esmail

Boris Kerner      Caroline Shaw

Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66      Felix Mendelssohn
Allegro energico e con fuoco
Andante espressivo
Scherzo: Molto allegro quasi presto
Finale: Allegro appassionato

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Zou Zou Robidoux is a Wisconsin-based cellist working across classical and contemporary genres. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying with Dr. James Waldo as a Paul Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. Prior to her graduate studies, Zou Zou lived in Montreal from 2016-2024. During this time, she performed throughout Canada in band, musical theater, and orchestral settings, including performances at the Montreal Jazz Festival, National Arts Centre, Theatre Calgary, and Vancouver Folk Festival. As a studio musician in the Montreal scene, Zou Zou collaborated with members of Arcade Fire, The Weather Station, and U.S. Girls, and was featured as a cellist and string arranger on two of Basia Bulat’s studio albums, The Garden and Are You In Love?

Zou Zou received her B.Mus. in Cello Performance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied with Uri Vardi. Following her degree, Zou Zou served as the cellist of the Nightingale String Quartet at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), where she also performed the Elgar Cello Concerto as a soloist with the UNR Symphony Orchestra. A passionate collaborator, Zou Zou has performed as a chamber musician with Bach Before Bedtime, Willy Street Chamber Players, among others. In 2022, Zou Zou founded ChamberFest at the Spring Green General Store (ChamberFest), a chamber music festival committed to bringing diverse and engaging programming to the Wisconsin River Valley Community. As an orchestral musician, Zou Zou has worked with the Reno Philharmonic, Pronto Musica, and Orchestre de la francophonie, with whom she toured South Korea.

An avid lover of musicals, Zou Zou has played in over 30 musical theater productions across the U.S. and Canada. In 2022, Zou Zou made her professional acting debut at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, originating the role of Music in the English adaptation of Keren Peles’ rock musical April Fools. Other highlights of her pit work include a Yiddish and English production of It Shoulda Been You with the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre at the Segal Centre, Sisters: The Belles Soeurs Musical with Theatre Calgary, and the world premiere of the French-language version of The Phantom of the Opera at le Monument-National.

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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series

Marc Vallon, bassoon
Sally Chisholm, viola
Eric Tran, piano

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In addition to his teaching responsibilities as Professor of Music, Bassoon, Marc Vallon is bassoonist for the Wingra Wind Quintet in residence at the School of Music. A native of France, Vallon studied at the Paris National Conservatory where he earned two Premier Prix, one for bassoon studies with Maurice Allard and the other for chamber music with Maurice Bourgue, Myron Bloom, and Christian Lardé. He started playing professionally at the age of 18 during his conservatory studies and joined the Paris-based Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, performing under many renowned conductors including Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Karl Boehm, and Lorin Maazel. Soon afterward Vallon’s interests led him to the numerous smaller Parisian groups specializing in contemporary music. He was a founding member of the Nielsen Quintet in 1975, with which he played hundreds of concerts devoted largely to 20th century repertoire. He also collaborated with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Pierre Boulez, and took part in the first performance of Boulez’s major work, Répons. Concurrently, he earned a degree in philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne (University of Paris).

Marc Vallon was one of the pioneers of the early music movement in the 1980s. He was principal bassoonist with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for more than 20 years and performed with other leading early music ensembles such as La Chapelle Royale, Les Arts Florissants, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Tafelmusik. His personal collection of early instruments includes originals and copies of instruments dating from 1670 to 1920.

Vallon has taught modern and baroque bassoon at the Paris Conservatory and the Lyon Conservatory and has given master classes worldwide. His name can be found on more than one hundred commercial recordings, among them his acclaimed rendering of the Mozart bassoon concerto with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

An avid composer and arranger, Vallon uses these skills in his pedagogical approach. Besides his bassoon and chamber music teaching responsibilities, he teaches classes in “Solfège, Conservatoire style” and bassoon pedagogy.

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Noah Joque Elective Trumpet Recital

Noah Joque, trumpet
Jules Dickey, alto saxophone & bass clarinet
Jack Johnson, piano
Alex Feucht, bass
Alex Cope, drums

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Program

Witness      Ron Miles (1963-2022)

Booker’s Waltz     Booker Little (1938-1961)

My One and Only Love     Guy Wood /Robert Mellin (1911-2021; 1902-1994)

Airegin      Sonny Rollins (b. 1930)

Cocktail Piece         Noah Joque (b. 2003)
Naïveté – 1 st variation
Action Potential
Chasing the Wind Indigo – 1 st var.
Voice of Reason – 2nd var
Indigo – 2 nd var.
Voice of Reason – 2 nd var.
Naïveté – 2 nd var.

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Caroline Miller Senior Clarinet Recital

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Program 

Sonata in Re for Clarinet and Piano       Nino Rota (1911-1979)

Quartet for The End of Time, III. Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the Birds)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano       Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Intermission

Hommage à J.S. Bach       Béla Kovács (1937-2021)

Immer Kleiner (“Always Smaller”)        Adolf Schreiner (1847-1921)

Registro de Pajarillo       Jorge Montilla (b. 1970)

Romance Op. 23       Amy Beach (1867-1944), transcribed by Rebecca Keller

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Live from the Mead Witter School of Music presents:
Beethoven Septet

David Perry, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Parry Karp, cello
Peter Dominguez, double bass
Alicia Lee, clarinet
Marc Vallon, bassoon
Trevor Healy, French horn

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“Live from the Mead Witter School of Music” is a chamber music series held the second Sunday of each month at the Hamel Music Center during the academic year.

The series is made available by the generosity of donors to the David and Kato Perlman Live from the Mead Witter School of Music Fund.

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Elena Paul Senior Voice Recital

Elena Paul, soprano
Lance Letellier, piano

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Elena Nirobo Paul plans to receive her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance after graduating in May and is under the tutelage of Dr. Julia Rottmayer. Over the summer, she spent three weeks in Oberaudorf, Germany as a young artist of Musiktheater Bavaria’s Opera Studio; traveled around Germany/Austria; and worked as a Camp Counselor for Summer Music Clinic. Recently, she has been featured in University Opera’s A Little Night Music (Anne), The Light in the Piazza (Ensemble), La Calisto (Linfea) and La traviata (Chorus) in addition to Middlebury College’s Die Welt auf dem Mond (Flaminia). Following graduation, Paul hopes to continue her studies at the graduate level to receive her Master of Music degree.

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Adam Nissenbaum DMA Trombone Recital

Adam Nissenbaum, bass trombone
Alex Fiedler, trombone
Sofia Stutesman, trombone
Maggie Cremers, trombone
Dan VanZeeland, piano
Alex Feucht, bass
Noah Brooks, drums

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Program

Stereograms, Vol. I and II: No. 7     David Brubeck (1920-2012)

3 Piano Preludes       George Gershwin (1898-1937)
1) Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
2) Andante con moto e poco rubato
3) Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

“subZERO” Concerto for Bass Trombone       Daniel Schnyder (b. 1961)
1) subZERO
2) Samā’ī Thaqīl
3) ZOOM OUT

Brief Intermission 

Stereograms, Vol. I and II: No.3    David Brubeck

In Our Darkest Hour      Vanessa Perica

The Year of Two Summers    Edward Perez

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Adam Nissenbaum is a bass trombonist currently living in Madison, Wisconsin. He had a late start on the trombone, not picking up the instrument until the end of high school, but his success started early. He was accepted immediately into the performance program at the University of Arizona where he studied under Moisés Paiewonsky and Michael Becker. In 2021, Adam moved across the country to get is Master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (where he is now in the final year of his D.M.A. degree) to work with Mark Hetzler with the goal of becoming more than a good instrumentalist, but a great musician, too.

In addition to having performed with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Adam is the bass trombonist of the Beltline Bones – a trombone quartet dedicated to the expansion of electro-acoustic repertoire. They have been touring since 2023 and currently have released one album (Audiogenica, 2024) and one EP (Carols from the Old World, 2024) for streaming with more on the way. Their next appearanace will be at the International Trombone Festival in London, Ontario in July 2025.

Adam’s mission is simple: to entertain and inspire.

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Anna Desfor DMA Percussion Recital

Anna Desfor, percussion
Zou Zou Robidoux, cello

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Program

Samsara      Fabian Otten (b. 1993)

Falling Embers     Ella Macens (b. 1991).

Boris Kerner     Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)

Zou Zou Robidoux, cello

Intermission

Asanga      Kevin Volans (b. 1949)

Pining for the Spring Breeze     Yu-Hsien Teng (1906-1944), arr. Robert Oetomo (b. 1988)

Aquatic        Russell Wharton (b. 1990)

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Anna Desfor is a Midwest percussionist currently earning her DMA in Percussion Performance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the guidance of Dr. Tony Di Sanza. Previously, she earned her MM in Percussion Performance from Stephen F. Austin State University under Dr. Brad Meyer and her BM from the University of Illinois at Chicago under Jordan Kamps.

Anna is an active performer and educator in the area and particularly enjoys collaborating with friends and fellow musicians in chamber music settings. When at home, Anna accompanies her mandolin-playing partner, Sam, in serenading their three guinea pigs.

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Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series

Carla Trynchuk, violin
Elena Braslavsky, piano

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Violinist Carla Trynchuk has performed internationally as soloist with orchestra and recitalist in the United States, Canada, Australia, England, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Croatia, Romania, Moldova, Brazil, and India, including solo performances with the Calgary Philharmonic (Alberta, Canada), the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra (Croatia), Orquestra Filarmônica da PUCRS (Brazil), IaÕi Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), Banatul Philharmonic Orchestra (Timisoara, Romania), the National Philharmonic Orchestra (Moldova), the Bacau Philharmonic (Romania), Bostani Philharmonic (Romania), and Oltenia Philharmonic (Craiova, Romania).  She performed the Brazilian premiere of the American Barber Violin Concerto, with the National Theater Symphony Orchestra of Brazil in a concert commemorating 200 years of friendship between the United States and Brazil and Astor Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons) at the Oregon Music Festival.

Ms. Trynchuk collaborated with Maestro Paul Freeman and the Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague for the world premiere recording of Tibor Serly Concerto for Violin.  The CD has been released on the Albany label.  She gave the premier performance of James Lee III’s Violin Concerto No. 2, commissioned by the Howard Performing Arts Center with the Andrews University Orchestra.  She gave the premiere recording of Kittyhawk by the American composer Randall Davidson.  She has performed Robert MacBride’s Violin Concerto (AVariety Day@), Hartmann’s Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra (Concerto funèbre) and Astor Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (The Four Seasons).

A graduate of The Juilliard School of Music in New York City, Ms. Trynchuk was granted the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees studying under the legendary pedagogue Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang.

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Pianist Elena Braslavsky has distinguished herself as both a soloist and chamber musician.  Her appearances include concerts at the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, Izumi Hall in Osaka, Melba Hall in Melbourne, Rudolfinum Hall in Prague, Tonhalle in Düsseldorf, Bologna festival, and La Fenici in Venice.  She has performed with musicians including Nobuko Imai, Steven Isserlis, and also appeared as a soloist in the German première of a composition “Alleluia” by Sofia Gubaidulina conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.

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Payam Pahlevanian DMA Piano Recital

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Program

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

• En rêve, S. 207
• Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
• Sonetto 123 del Petrarca
• Transcendental Étude No. 10 in F minor, “Appassionata”

Intermission

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

• Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)

• Étude in D minor, Op. 2, No. 1
• Selections from Visions fugitives, Op. 22
• Toccata in D minor, Op. 11

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Payam Pahlevanian is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the guidance of Prof. Jessica Johnson and Christopher Taylor, where he holds a Teaching Assistantship.

Born in Tehran, he began playing the piano at the age of 14 and gave his first solo recital at 18 under the tutelage of Tamar Dolidze. In 2009, Mr. Pahlevanian moved to Germany and commenced his musical education at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, studying with the renowned pianist Anatol Ugorski and becoming his assistant and final student. He further refined his skills under the guidance of Bob Versteegh and Peter Orth and in masterclasses with outstanding musicians such as András Schiff, Sergei Edelmann, Dina Ugorskaja, Ivan Klansky, Matti Raekallio, Gottlieb Wallisch, Martin Hughes, Wilhelm Schnurr, and Günter Ludwig.

Mr. Pahlevanian is a highly awarded pianist, earning prestigious prizes at various competitions. Notably, he received first prize and a special prize for the best interpretation of a work by Frédéric Chopin at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition in Düsseldorf. He has performed with the Hanover Medical School Orchestra, the Northwest German Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. In November 2015, he was featured on the West German Broadcasting radio station in Cologne. He has given solo recitals in Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Kassel, Freiburg, Bielefeld, Osnabruck, Detmold, Tehran, and Shiraz, among others.

From 2017 to 2023, Mr. Pahlevanian was a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany. He possesses an extensive and diverse solo and chamber music repertoire, encompassing works ranging from classical, romantic, and modern piano literature to Persian folk songs.

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Evelyn Joy Cappelli Elective Piano Recital

Evelyn Joy Cappelli, piano
Zoe Nickchen, voice
Tangled Up in Blue A Cappella

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Program

Sonata K. 380 in E Major      Giuseppe Scarlatti(1685-1757)

Liebestraum Notturno No. 3 (Love Dream)      Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Chaminade Theme Varie Op. 89      Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Etude Op. 25 No. 2   Frédéric Chopin(1810-1849)

“The Maiden and the Nightingale”     Enrique Granados (1867-1916)

“Danny Boy”     Arrangement by Keith Jarrett (b. 1945)

“Change in Me” from Beauty and the Beast      Alan Menken (b. 1949)

Vocal Performance with Tangled Up in Blue A Cappella

Over the Rainbow     Arrangement by Rupert Austin

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Evelyn Cappelli is a fifth-year undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying Piano Performance and Biology on the pre-dental track. She studies with Professor Martha Fischer and is the co-music director of Tangled Up in Blue. For her senior recital, Evelyn will perform a selection of classical numbers, jazz works, and one vocal number with her a cappella group.

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Matt Schneider DMA Percussion Recital

Matt Schneider, percussion
Matthew Driver, piano

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Program

Variations for Two Pianos and Percussion

Ballad No. 2 “Kumru”

Intermission

Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

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With more than a decade of experience playing percussion and a diverse teaching background, Matt Schneider enjoys performing and helping students pursue music and develop the skills to excel in the current musical setting. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Texas A&M University-Commerce, a master’s degree and performer’s certificate in Percussion Performance from Northern Illinois University, and is currently working on his Doctor of Music Arts in Percussion Performance from University of Wisconsin.

Alongside his studies in classical percussion, Schneider has studied numerous world musics, including Middle Eastern drumming, Javanese Gamelan, and Brazilian music. Additionally, he is studying engineering and instrument building, which is the focus of his doctoral minor.

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Adina Shaikh Elective Percussion Recital

Adina Shaikh
Alex Seitler
Ravlin Frantz
Kendal Schreiber
Trevor Maliborski
Van Maxwell
Tanner Day
Dylan Chapman
Todd Hammes
Timothy Mullins
Stephen Dubetz
Benjamin Davies Hudson
Alirio Chacin
Isabelle Kramer
Akbar Shaikh

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Program

The Woman in the Dunes       Akemi Naito (b. 1956)

Daf Solo     Adina Shaikh (b. 2003)

Anima of Tree     Norio Fukushi (b. 1945)

Le Jardin de Monet    Mark Goodenberger

A La Maniere de Chabrier      Maurice Ravel/arr. Adina Shaikh (1875–1937)

Dhak Dhak Se Dhadakna Sikha De      Muhammad Rafi/arr. Adina Shaikh (1924–1980)

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Adina Shaikh is a senior pursuing a B.S. in neurobiology and percussion performance with a certificate in science communication. She is also a member of the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Scholarship Program where she produces music and visual arts projects highlighting important social issues.

Inspired by the tabla from her Pakistani roots, Adina began playing percussion in middle school and has enjoyed learning music from various cultures. Outside of music, Adina is a researcher in a zebrafish lab and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Undergraduate Science and Technology.

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This event is co-hosted by the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and Mead Witter School of Music, and is presented as part of Earth Fest.

Earth Signals: El Niño is a science-inspired musical experience. This event is a transdisciplinary project led by Elizabeth Maroon, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, whose NSF CAREER Award, “Signals from the Deep” supports cross-campus education and public outreach.

The UW Bridge Ensemble, an eight-person group blending jazz and classical music, will perform a new composition by Ben Ferris, DMA candidate in the School of Music, inspired by El Niño forecasts. El Niño data will also be converted directly from numbers into sound, a process known as sonification. Alongside the performances, attendees will learn about the science behind El Niño and gain perspective on how this climate pattern can affect weather worldwide.

Chantel Davis, violin
Ben Campbell, violin
Melissa Snell, viola
Aaron Fried, cello
Noah Joque, trumpet
Jack Johnson, piano
Ben Ferris, bass
Alex Cope, drums
Elizabeth Maroon, lecturer
Hunter Glassford, sonification

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