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202402mar7:30 pmParry Karp & Jennifer Hayge
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(Saturday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series Parry Karp, cello Jennifer Hayge, piano …… Program Sonata in F Major for Piano and Cello, Op.
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Parry Karp, cello
Jennifer Hayge, piano
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Program
Sonata in F Major for Piano and Cello, Op. 6 (1882-83) Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Allegro con brio
Andante ma non troppo
Finale: Allegro vivo
Sonate No. 1 in C Minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 6 (1906) Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Allegro assai
Adagio
Allegro, ma non troppo
Intermission
Suite for Viola and Piano, B. 41 (1919) Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Transcribed for Cello and Piano by Gabor Rejto and Adolph Baller
Lento-Allegro
Allegro ironico
Lento
Molto vivo
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Cellist Parry Karp is Artist-in Residence, and the Robert and Linda Graebner Professor of Chamber Music and Cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is director of the string chamber music program. He has been cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet for the past 48 years, the longest tenure of any member in the quartet’s over 100 year history.
Parry Karp is an active solo artist, performing numerous recitals annually in the United States with pianists Howard and Frances Karp, and Eli Kalman. Mr. Karp has played concerti throughout the United States and gave the first performance in Romania of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo with the National Radio Orchestra in Bucharest in 2002. He is active as a performer of new music and has performed in the premieres of dozens of works, many of which were written for him, including concerti, sonatas and chamber music. As a solo recording artist, he has recorded the solo cello works of Ernest Bloch, and works of Frank Bridge, Nils Bultmann, Rebecca Clarke, Ernest Chausson, Edward Collins, Georges Enesco, Joel Hoffman, John Ireland, Alberic Magnard, Eric Nathan, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Miklos Rosza, and Richard Strauss. Unearthing and performing unjustly neglected repertoire for cello is a passion of Mr. Karp’s. In recent years he has transcribed for cello many masterpieces written for other instruments. This project has included performances of all of the Duo Sonatas of Brahms, as well as compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Hindemith, Strauss, Schumann, Stravinsky and Szymanowski. He is presently in the process of transcribing all of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas for Cello. Parry Karp performs annually in summer music festivals throughout the United States.
As cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet he has performed over 1000 concerts throughout North, Central and South America, Europe, and Japan. His discography with the group has been extensive and includes the complete string quartets of Ernest Bloch, Miklos Rosza, and Karol Szymanowski . Many of these recordings received awards from Fanfare and High Fidelity Magazines. Other composers whose string quartets or string quintets the Pro Arte Quartet has recorded during his tenure include: Beethoven, William Bolcom, Luís de Freitas Branco, Martin Boykan, Tamar Diesendruck, Dvorak, Brian Fennelly, John Harbison, Andrew Imbrie, Pierre Jalbert, Fred Lerdahl, Walter Mays, Benoit Mernier, Mendelssohn, Karol Rathaus, Samuel Rhodes, Roger Sessions, and Ralph Shapey. As a member of the Pro Arte Quartet he has recorded the Piano Quintets of Ernest Bloch, Johannes Brahms and Armando José Fernandes with pianist Howard Karp. Guest artists with the Pro Arte during his years have included: the Emerson Quartet, Denes Koromzay, Leon Fleischer, Sidney Harth, Nobuko Imai, Gunnar Johansen, Gilbert Kalish, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert Mann, Paul Schoenfield, Samuel Rhodes, Robert Silverman, Laszlo Varga and Tamas Vasary. Gunther Schuller conducted the group in the premiere of his String Quartet Concerto which he wrote for the Pro Arte Quartet. The Pro Arte Quartet was one of five finalists (the others were the Juilliard, Tokyo, and Emerson Quartets, and the Beaux Arts Trio) for the First Annual Arturo Toscanini Award in the Chamber Music Category
Parry Karp’s chamber music discography outside of the Pro Arte Quartet includes the three piano trios of Joel Hoffman, as well as works of Britten, Fauré, Martinu, Mozart and Pierné. Mr. Karp had a visiting professorship at the University of British Columbia, and has been a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Former students of Mr. Karp’s are members of professional string quartets, major orchestras, and teachers in the United States. In 2012 he was a recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In the spring of 2016, Parry Karp was named a fellow of the Wisconsin Academy.
Mr. Karp received early training in Vienna, Austria and studied cello with Lee Duckles, David Kadarauch, Peter Farrell, Gabriel Magyar and Gabor Rejto. Inspirational chamber music teachers included Gabriel Magyar, Howard Karp, Lorand Fenyves and Zoltan Szekely.
Pianist Jennifer Hayghe has performed in solo recitals and made orchestral appearances throughout the world, including the United States, Europe and Asia. Hayghe received her bachelors, masters degrees and doctorate degree in piano performance from The Juilliard School, where she was the last student of the legendary artist-teacher Adele Marcus. Hayghe won every award possible for a Juilliard pianist to receive, including the William Petschek Debut Award, resulting in her New York City recital debut at Alice Tully Hall.
Hayghe’s orchestral appearances include performances on numerous series with the National Symphony Orchestra, recent concerts with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and performances with various orchestras in the United States and abroad. She has performed in major chamber music series, including the Museum of Modern Art’s “Summergarden” series and Bargemusic in New York. She has also performed as a chamber musician in the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and has taught chamber music throughout the United States and Central America. In addition, Hayghe has been frequently featured in radio broadcasts, including National Public Radio’s Performance Today series, and on live broadcasts on the major classical radio stations of Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York City. Her first solo recording, Paintings From the Piano, featuring works by Debussy, Schumann and Mussorgksy, was recently released by Centaur Records.
Formerly an Associate Professor of Piano at Ithaca College, Hayghe has served as a featured artist at music teachers’ conventions in New York, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Virginia. Most recently, Hayghe has given master classes at the Manhattan School of Music and as part of the New York University Piano Master Class Series. She has performed and taught as a soloist and chamber musician at universities and colleges throughout the country and was previously the Barineau Endowed Professor of Piano and Keyboard Area Coordinator at Louisiana State University. She lives with her husband, Robert McGaha, and son William in Erie, Colorado.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202403mar2:00 pmUniversity Bands
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(Sunday) 2:00 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Also streaming live Alexander Gonzalez, Emilie Bertram, and Jake Walker, conductors Turner Gray, guest conductor …… Program
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Alexander Gonzalez, Emilie Bertram, and Jake Walker, conductors
Turner Gray, guest conductor
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202405mar12:00 pm1:00 pmCurtis Stewart Studio Class
Time
(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Mead Witter School of Music Changemaker Series Curtis Stewart leads a chamber music/violin studio class with School of Music students. …… Praised for “combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New
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Mead Witter School of Music Changemaker Series
Curtis Stewart leads a chamber music/violin studio class with School of Music students.
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Praised for “combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New York Times), four-time GRAMMY Award-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart translates stories of American self determination to the concert stage. As a solo violinist, composer, Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, professor at The Juilliard School, and member of award-winning ensembles PUBLIQuartet and The Mighty Third Rail, he realizes a vision to find personal and powerful connections between styles, cultures and musics. Stewart’s 2023 album of Love., a tribute to his late mother Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, has been nominated under Best Instrumental Solo in the 2024 GRAMMY Awards.
As a soloist, Curtis Stewart has been presented by Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Cal Performances, Washington Performing Arts, Virginia Arts Festival, and the 2022 GRAMMY Awards, among many others. His 2021 album Of Power (Bright Shiny Things) was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo.
Stewart has been commissioned to compose new works by the Seattle Symphony, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall’s Play/USA, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and members of the New York Philharmonic, The Knights, La Jolla Music Society, Sybarite5, the New York Festival of Song, Newport Classical Festival, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the Eastman Cello Institute, among others. Among his recent commissions, he composed The Famous People, five recompositions of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, for a premiere by violinist Gil Shaham with the Virginia Symphony in March 2023.
An avid teacher, Curtis Stewart currently teaches at The Juilliard School and the Perlman Music Program, and for 10 years led all levels of music theory and orchestra at the Laguardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts in NYC. Learn more at www.curtisjstewart.com.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202405mar6:15 pm7:15 pmConversation with Curtis Stewart
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(Tuesday) 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Mead Witter School of Music Changemaker Series Curtis Stewart leads a conversation centered around changemaking in the music world. …… Praised for “combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New York
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Free | No ticket required
Mead Witter School of Music Changemaker Series
Curtis Stewart leads a conversation centered around changemaking in the music world.
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Praised for “combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New York Times), four-time GRAMMY Award-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart translates stories of American self determination to the concert stage. As a solo violinist, composer, Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, professor at The Juilliard School, and member of award-winning ensembles PUBLIQuartet and The Mighty Third Rail, he realizes a vision to find personal and powerful connections between styles, cultures and musics. Stewart’s 2023 album of Love., a tribute to his late mother Elektra Kurtis-Stewart, has been nominated under Best Instrumental Solo in the 2024 GRAMMY Awards.
As a soloist, Curtis Stewart has been presented by Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Cal Performances, Washington Performing Arts, Virginia Arts Festival, and the 2022 GRAMMY Awards, among many others. His 2021 album Of Power (Bright Shiny Things) was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo.
Stewart has been commissioned to compose new works by the Seattle Symphony, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall’s Play/USA, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and members of the New York Philharmonic, The Knights, La Jolla Music Society, Sybarite5, the New York Festival of Song, Newport Classical Festival, the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the Eastman Cello Institute, among others. Among his recent commissions, he composed The Famous People, five recompositions of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, for a premiere by violinist Gil Shaham with the Virginia Symphony in March 2023.
An avid teacher, Curtis Stewart currently teaches at The Juilliard School and the Perlman Music Program, and for 10 years led all levels of music theory and orchestra at the Laguardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts in NYC. Learn more at www.curtisjstewart.com.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202408mar7:30 pmSpring Choral Collage
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(Friday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Also streaming live “On the Common Ground” Featuring Chorale, University Chorus, Treble Choir, Concert Choir, and Combined Choirs Mariana Farah, Liz Olson, Mary Brandenstein, Kuo-Chen Yu,
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“On the Common Ground”
Featuring Chorale, University Chorus, Treble Choir, Concert Choir, and Combined Choirs
Mariana Farah, Liz Olson, Mary Brandenstein, Kuo-Chen Yu, and Samuel Speer, conductors
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202409mar7:30 pmChristopher Taylor
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series …… Program …… Hailed by critics as “frighteningly talented” (The
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Hailed by critics as “frighteningly talented” (The New York Times) and “a great pianist” (The Los Angeles Times), Christopher Taylor has distinguished himself throughout his career as an innovative musician with a diverse array of talents and interests. He is known for a passionate advocacy of music written in the past 100 years — Messiaen, Ligeti, and Bolcom figure prominently in his performances — but his repertoire spans four centuries and includes the complete Beethoven sonatas, the Liszt Transcendental Etudes, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and a multitude of other familiar masterworks. Whatever the genre or era of the composition, Mr. Taylor brings to it an active imagination and intellect coupled with heartfelt intensity and grace.
Mr. Taylor has concertized around the globe, with international tours taking him to Russia, Western Europe, East Asia, and the Carribean. At home in the U.S. he has appeared with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, and the Milwaukee Symphony. As a soloist he has performed in New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls, in Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Ravinia and Aspen festivals, and dozens of other venues. In chamber settings, he has collaborated with many eminent musicians, including Robert McDuffie and the Borromeo, Shanghai, Pro Arte, and Ying Quartets. His recordings have featured works by Liszt, Messiaen, and present-day Americans William Bolcom and Derek Bermel. Throughout his career Mr. Taylor has become known for undertaking memorable and unusual projects. Examples include: an upcoming tour in which he will perform, from memory, the complete transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies by Liszt; performances and lectures on the complete etudes of György Ligeti; and a series of performances of the Goldberg Variations on the unique double-manual Steinway piano in the collection of the University of Wisconsin. He has actively promoted the rediscovery and refurbishment of the latter instrument; in recent years he has also been building a reinvented and modernized version of it, a project that relies on his computer and engineering skills and was unveiled in a demonstration recital in 2016.
Numerous awards have confirmed Mr. Taylor’s high standing in the musical world. He was named an American Pianists’ Association Fellow for 2000, before which he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1996 and the Bronze Medal in the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In 1990 he took first prize in the William Kapell International Piano Competition, and also became one of the first recipients of the Irving Gilmore Young Artists’ Award.
Mr. Taylor owes much of his success to several outstanding teachers, including Russell Sherman, Maria Curcio-Diamand, Francisco Aybar, and Julie Bees. In addition to his busy concert schedule, he currently serves as Paul Collins Associate Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He pursues a variety of other interests, including: mathematics (he received a summa cum laude degree from Harvard University in this field in 1992); philosophy (an article he coauthored with the leading scholar Daniel Dennett appears in the Oxford Free Will Handbook); computing; linguistics; and biking, which is his primary means of commuting. Mr. Taylor lives in Middleton, Wisconsin, with his wife and two daughters. Christopher Taylor is a Steinway artist.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
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(Tuesday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Also streaming live Corey Pompey, conductor Alexander Gonzalez, guest conductor Performing works by Nicole Piunno, Brian Balmages, Norman Dello Joio,
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Corey Pompey, conductor
Alexander Gonzalez, guest conductor
Performing works by Nicole Piunno, Brian Balmages, Norman Dello Joio, Michael Markowski, and Frank Ticheli.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
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(Thursday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Also streaming live Scott Teeple, conductor Corey Pompey, guest conductor Liz Sexe, choreographer Dancers: Abbi Stickels Abby Frank-Taylor Caitlyn Lamdin Lily Edgar Miye Bishop Victoria Kemnetz-West
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Scott Teeple, conductor
Corey Pompey, guest conductor
Liz Sexe, choreographer
Dancers:
Abbi Stickels
Abby Frank-Taylor
Caitlyn Lamdin
Lily Edgar
Miye Bishop
Victoria Kemnetz-West
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
april
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Also streaming live Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series Duo Cortona Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano Ari Streisfeld, violin Duo
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Students: Free (ticket required)
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Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Duo Cortona
Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano
Ari Streisfeld, violin
Duo Cortona is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation of works for its unique instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and violin. This ensemble explores new sounds and possibilities for its intimate, expressive, and vital combination. Duo Cortona works to establish a new and thus far unexplored repertoire, pursuing the endless possibilities of this union. They create opportunities for both established and emerging composers through commissions, competitions, educational workshops, university residencies, and major concert performances. Duo Cortona was founded at the Cortona Sessions for New Music by husband and wife team Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway.
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Rachel Calloway brings versatility and compelling insight to stages worldwide. Her work has been praised by the New York Times for “penetrating clarity” and “considerable depth of expression” and by Opera News for her “adept musicianship and dramatic flair.”
This season’s highlights include Janacek’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared at the University of Binghamton, The Castleton Festival, and the University of South Carolina, the music of John Zorn at the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), a world premiere by Robert Xavier Rodriguez with the Amernet Quartet, The Messiah with the Charleston Symphony and the Aiken Symphony, new works with the vocal ensemble Ekmeles in Chicago, Duo Cortona in residence at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and concerts of Jewish art music with Shir Ami in Charleston and Columbia, SC.
She has appeared in concert with the Orlando Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Series, the New York Philharmonic, Berkeley Symphony, Ojai Festival, San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, BAM Next Wave Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Cal Performances, and Lincoln Center Festival. Ms. Calloway made her European operatic debut as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw at Opéra de Reims, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jovet (Paris) and Opéra de Lille. She has performed with Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival in Virginia, Opera Philadelphia, Tulsa Opera, Central City Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, The PROTOTYPE Festival, and the Glimmerglass Festival.
Ms. Calloway serves on the faculty of the University of South Carolina as Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Spark: Music Leadership at Carolina. She joined the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy) in 2014 and Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard (Switzerland) in 2016. Ms. Calloway holds degrees from The Juilliard School (BM) and Manhattan School of Music (MM) and can be heard on Albany Records, Tzadik Records, BCMF Records, and Toccata Classics.
Violinist Ari Streisfeld has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his performances of diverse repertoire and has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music. Praised for his “dazzling performance” by the New York Times and “scintillating playing” by New York Classical Review, Mr. Streisfeld is a founding member of the world renowned JACK Quartet. Recent season highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall (London), La Salle Pleyel (Paris), Teatro Colon (Argentina), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Carriage Works (Sydney, Australia), Venice Biennale (Italy), Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress, The Morgan Library (New York), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), and the Salzburg Festival (Austria). He has collaborated with many of today’s most prominent composers including John Luther Adams, Caroline Shaw, Julia Wolfe, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas, Steve Reich, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
Together with his wife, mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, Mr. Streisfeld formed Duo Cortona, a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation of new works for the unique instrumentation of mezzo-soprano and violin. Recent and upcoming performances include the Resonant Bodies Festival, SONiC Festival, The Stone (NY), Contemporary Undercurrents of Song Project (Princeton, NJ), New Music on the Point (VT), and The Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). He is also a member of Shir Ami, an ensemble dedicated to the performance and preservation of Jewish art music. Mr. Streisfeld frequently collaborates with some of today’s leading ensembles, including Ensemble Signal, Worldless Music Orchestra, Weekend of Chamber Music, and the Cortona Collective.
Hailed as “imaginative” by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Streisfeld’s arrangements of madrigals and motets for string quartet by Machaut and Gesualdo have been performed to acclaim both at home and abroad. A recipient of the Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Mr. Streisfeld most recently premiered his Machaut arrangements for voice and violin at The Stone (New York).
A passionate and committed music educator, Mr. Streisfeld serves on the faculty of New York’s Special Music School, Face the Music, New Music on the Point and the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). He will join the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Music as Assistant Professor of Violin Pedagogy this fall.
Mr. Streisfeld attended the Eastman School of Music (Bachelor of Music), Northwestern University (Master of Music), and Boston University (Doctor of Musical Arts). He has recorded for Mode, Albany, Carrier, Innova, Canteloupe, and New World Records.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202407apr5:00 pmSymphony Orchestra with Concert Choir and Chorale
Time
(Sunday) 5:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required Also streaming live Oriol Sans and Mariana Farah, conductors Elijah Schuh, graduate student conductor Program: Austin: Incatenatura; Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Mozart: Requiem Jean Sibelius’s gorgeous and
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Oriol Sans and Mariana Farah, conductors
Elijah Schuh, graduate student conductor
Program: Austin: Incatenatura; Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Mozart: Requiem
Jean Sibelius’s gorgeous and enigmatic Fifth Symphony was commissioned to celebrate both Finland’s anniversary and his own 50th birthday. While tackling the emotional and compositional complexities of this work, Sibelius famously said, “As if God the Father had thrown down the shards of a mosaic from the floor of heaven and asked me to find out what it had looked like.” Special autobiographical circumstances also surrounded the composition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, the piece in the second half of this concert. Following an ambiguous and mysterious commission, and suffering through the final stages of the sickness that would take his life, Mozart believed he was writing music for his own funeral.
The performance of this incredible work will feature the Concert and Chorale Choirs and several soloists from the Mead Witter School of Music. The concert will open with the premiere of two movements of Incatenatura by Joachim Austin, winner of the 2023 Symphony Orchestra Composition Competition.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202414apr3:00 pmComposition Area
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(Sunday) 3:00 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required A recital featuring original works by composition students
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A recital featuring original works by composition students
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202420apr4:00 pmLow Brass Ensemble
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(Saturday) 4:00 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Free | No ticket required …… Danse Macabre Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. Kevin Friermood Kevin Friermood, conductor Barbie Medley Various, arr. Sturgeon Moritz Sturgeon Moritz, conductor Let’s Have a
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Danse Macabre Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. Kevin Friermood
Kevin Friermood, conductor
Barbie Medley Various, arr. Sturgeon Moritz
Sturgeon Moritz, conductor
Let’s Have a Party Walter Ostanek, arr. Ryan Christianson
Ryan Christianson, conductor
Allegretto from Symphony no. 7 Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Jesse Wolf
Turner Gray, conductor
A Change is Gonna Come Sam Cook, arr. Avi Vanhooreweghe
Avi Vanhooreweghe, conductor
Skyrim Medley Jeremy Soule, arr. Keegan Brown
The River King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard arr. Sofia Stutesman
Sofia Stutesman, conductor
Finlandia Jean Sibelius, arr. John Stevens
Nick Lehman, conductor
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Tenor Trombone
Vali Martinez Cavazos
Ryan Christianson
Matthew Daley
Alli Dotson
Colin Dugan
Nolan Heath
Nick Lehman
Logan Lemmens
Calvin Lisser
Philip Machkovech
Sofia Stutesman
Nicholas Symons
Avi Vanhooreweghe
Maliq Veal
Bass Trombone
Adam Nissenbaum
Euphonium
Andrew Blum
Keegan Brown
Sam Dobson
Kevin Friermood
Sturgeon Moritz
Mark Stanley
Jesse Wolf
Tuba
Emily Behnke
Sam Cai
Jackson Cramer
Andy Goetz
Turner Gray
Adrian Izquierdo Ayala
Eireann Murphy
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202420apr7:30 pmPro Arte Quartet
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
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Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Ensemble Series David Perry, violin Suzanne Beia, violin Sally Chisholm, viola Parry Karp, violoncello …… The Pro Arte
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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Ensemble Series
David Perry, violin
Suzanne Beia, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Parry Karp, violoncello
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The Pro Arte Quartet (PAQ) is one of the world’s most distinguished string quartets. Founded by conservatory students in Brussels in 1912, it became one of the most celebrated ensembles in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and was named Court Quartet to the Queen of Belgium. Its world reputation blossomed in 1919 when the quartet began the first of many tours that enticed notable composers such as Milhaud, Honegger, Martin, and Casella to write new works for the ensemble. In addition, Bartók dedicated his fourth quartet to the PAQ (1927), and in 1936 PAQ premiered Barber’s Op. 11 quartet, with the now-famous “Adagio for Strings” as its slow movement.
The Pro Arte made its New York debut in 1926 and toured the United States frequently under the auspices of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The quartet was performing in Madison, Wisconsin in May 1940 when Nazi forces invaded Belgium. The University of Wisconsin responded to the emergency by offering the quartet a permanent campus home, the first such arrangement at a major American university. The UW Pro Arte residency became a model of artist residencies that is now widely emulated throughout the country.
As the first and only quartet ever to reach its centennial anniversary (2012), the Pro Arte’s 100th birthday was the occasion for a grand multi-year celebration. At its center was the commission of six new works by some of today’s most important composers: William Bolcom, Paul Schoenfield, John Harbison, Walter Mays, and Pierre Jalbert (United States), along with Benoît Mernier from Belgium. Other initiatives included a lecture series, museum exhibits, recordings on the Albany label, a video documentary broadcast on Wisconsin Public Television and available on DVD, a concert tour to Belgium, and an upcoming book on the storied history of this illustrious quartet.
The Pro Arte Quartet performs throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia and continues to champion equally both standard repertoire and new music. The group is an ensemble in residence at the Mead Witter School of Music and resident quartet of the Chazen Museum of Art, performing regularly on the concert series of both institutions. The quartet has performed at the White House and, during the centennial celebration, played for the King’s Counselor in Belgium. Recent projects include the complete quartets of Bartók and Shostakovich and, in collaboration with the Orion and Emerson String Quartets, the complete quartets of Beethoven. Regular chamber music collaborators that perform with Pro Arte include Samuel Rhodes, viola; Bonnie Hampton, cello; and Leon Fleischer and Christopher Taylor, piano.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202421apr5:00 pmAll-University Strings
Time
(Sunday) 5:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Daewon Kang & Kelby Schnepel, conductors Note: There are two All-University Strings concerts on April 21, representing two different ensembles:
Event Details
Free | No ticket required
Daewon Kang & Kelby Schnepel, conductors
Note: There are two All-University Strings concerts on April 21, representing two different ensembles:
All-University Strings #1: 5 pm
All-University Strings #2: 6:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202421apr6:30 pmAll-University Strings
Time
(Sunday) 6:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Daewon Kang & Kelby Schnepel, conductors Note: There are two All-University Strings concerts on April 21, representing two different ensembles:
Event Details
Free | No ticket required
Daewon Kang & Kelby Schnepel, conductors
Note: There are two All-University Strings concerts on April 21, representing two different ensembles:
All-University Strings #1: 5 pm
All-University Strings #2: 6:30 pm
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202423apr7:30 pmChamber Percussion Ensemble
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required The Chamber Percussion Ensemble is dedicated to the performance of significant and engaging works for the Western percussion ensemble tradition. Repertoire from diverse trends in 20th
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Free | No ticket required
The Chamber Percussion Ensemble is dedicated to the performance of significant and engaging works for the Western percussion ensemble tradition. Repertoire from diverse trends in 20th and 21st century chamber composition is explored with an emphasis on new compositions for percussion. The group has been part of numerous composition commissions and premieres.
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202425apr7:30 pmConcert Band and Wind Ensemble
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 Scott Teeple, conductor
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Free | No ticket required
Corey Pompey, conductor
Scott Teeple, conductor
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Mariana Farah, conductor
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Free | No ticket required
Mariana Farah, conductor
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202427apr1:00 pmUniversity Bands
Time
(Saturday) 1:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Alexander Gonzalez, conductor
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Free | No ticket required
Alexander Gonzalez, conductor
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202428apr7:30 pmSymphony Orchestra
Time
(Sunday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Oriol Sans, conductor Pre-concert talk starts at 7 pm Program: Debussy: Clair de lune; Bates: The B-Sides; Holst: The Planets Mars and Jupiter from Gustav Holsts’s titanic symphonic composition
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Free | No ticket required
Oriol Sans, conductor
Pre-concert talk starts at 7 pm
Program: Debussy: Clair de lune; Bates: The B-Sides; Holst: The Planets
Mars and Jupiter from Gustav Holsts’s titanic symphonic composition The Planets reign among the most recognizable orchestral works ever written. Inspired by astrology, rather than astronomy, each movement is a colorful orchestral miniature that identifies and heralds our deep human behaviors related to each of the planets. In the first half of the concert, the Symphony Orchestra will perform two pieces that also have cosmological connections, even if only in titles. The first one is an orchestral arrangement of Claude Debussy’s infamous and delicate Clair de lune. It was originally a movement from his Suite Bergamasque for piano, inspired by Paul Verlain’s poem of the same title. The second one is The B-Sides, a suite of five movements by Mason Bates that he describes as “brief landings on a variety of peculiar planets.” One of the movements titled Gemini in the Solar Wind is a re-imagination of the first American spacewalk. Among the orchestral textures, audiences can hear NASA communication samples from the 1965 Gemini IV voyage.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
may
202410may2:00 pm4:30 pmGraduation, Hooding, and Awards Recognition Ceremony
Time
(Friday) 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Reception to follow in Hamel Music Center lobby
Event Details
Reception to follow in Hamel Music Center lobby
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue