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SUMMARY:Matthew Treviño - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Free | No ticket required \nMorphy Recital Hall \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nMatthew Treviño\, bass\nScott Gendel\, piano \nPresent “The Modern Bass: New Music and New Perspectives” \nMatthew Treviño\, bass\, presents a recital of new music featuring a selection of newly commissioned works from his upcoming album The Farther Shore. The program debuts these pieces and discusses the role new music can play in redefining archetypes for the bass voice. \n…… \nProgram
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/matthew-trevino/
LOCATION:Humanities Building\, 455 N. Park Street\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:CANCELED Eleni Katz - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:3/18/26 update: This recital has been canceled.  \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nEleni Katz\, bassoon\nChristopher Taylor\, piano\nGabrielle Herbst\, composer\nRichard Brasseale\, composer & saxophone\nMarc Vallon\, composer\nAlicia Lee\, clarinet\nJean Laurenz\, trumpet\nDawn Wohn\, violin\nMatthew Zalkind\, cello \n…… \nProgram \n\n…… \nHailed for her virtuosity and vibrant musical spirit\, bassoonist Eleni Katz has established herself as a prominent soloist\, chamber musician\, and orchestral player. Her “thoughtful and expressive” approach to music making has led her to performances by the bright blue waters of Bermuda to the lights of Carnegie Hall (San Diego Union Tribune).  Eleni is a winner of the 2022 Concert Artist Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and has performed with the likes of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest\, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Currently\, Eleni is bassoon teaching faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music. \nAs a classically trained singer from Iowa City\, Katz has always believed that the bassoon should emulate the organic nature of the human voice and her approach to playing the bassoon has been described as “uncannily human” (The Royal Gazette). In 2021\, she commissioned and premiered “Sea Glass Partita for Singing Bassoonist” with composer Lila Meretzky. Drawing its lyrics from a poem that Eleni composed\, the piece intersperses bassoon performance with singing and visual projections. Since the performance of this work\, Eleni has commissioned several other works for bassoon that are multidisciplinary experiences by Tanner Porter\, Harry Castle\, and Richard Brasseale. In May 2024\, Eleni Katz co-released an album featuring Richard Brasseale’s composition Enlaced Friendship\, a work based on her original poetry that premiered at the New World Symphony in April 2023. \nA few of Eleni’s 25-26 season highlights include performances with Camerata Pacifica\, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival\, Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota\, and a return to Phoenix Chamber Music Society. Other recent appearances include Tallgrass Chamber Music Festival\, Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival\, Newport Classical\, Ibagué Festival in Colombia\, a California tour with the Concert Truck\, Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth\, and the Lake George Music Festival. As an orchestral performer\, Eleni has appeared with several groups across the country\, including the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra\, The Orchestra San Antonio\, the Fort Worth Symphony\, the Sarasota Orchestra\, the Nu Deco Ensemble\, and as a member of the New World Symphony. \nEleni received her B.M. at the University of Wisconsin’s Mead Witter School of Music under Marc Vallon. She earned her M.M and M.M.A degrees at the Yale School of Music\, studying with Frank Morelli.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/eleni-katz/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Christopher Taylor - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required) \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nChristopher Taylor\, piano \n…… \nProgram \n\n…… \nHailed 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. \nMr. 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. \nNumerous 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. \nMr. 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.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/christopher-taylor/
LOCATION:Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Laura Schwendinger - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nWorks by Laura Schwendinger with \nChristopher Taylor and Eric Tran\, piano\nSarah Brailey\, soprano\nSally Chisholm\, viola\nDawn Dongeun Wohn\, violin\nTrace Johnson\, cello\nTimothy Mullins\, flute \n…… \nLaura Schwendinger\, composer of Artemisia\, winner of the 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Opera award\, was the first composer to win the Berlin Prize. A Professor of music composition at UW–Madison\, her works have been championed by Dawn Upshaw\, Jennifer Koh\, Janine Jansen\, Matt Haimovitz\, the Arditti\, JACK and Spektral Quartets\, International Contemporary Ensemble\, Eighth-Blackbird\, Juilliard\, American Composers Orchestra\, and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Hungary. \nHer music has been performed at the Kennedy & Lincoln Centers\, Berlin Philharmonic\, Wigmore & Carnegie Halls\, Miller Theater & Théâtre Châtelet\, Tanglewood\, Aspen\, Ojai\, Talis\, & Bennington Music Festivals. She has received further fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard\, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center\, First Prize of the 1995 ALEA III International Competition\, as well as multiple fellowships from the American Academy Arts Letters\, Copland House\, Fromm\, Koussevitzky and Bogliasco Foundations\, MacDowell and Yaddo Colonies. \nHer music has been called “captivating\, artful and moving”\, “music of infinite beauty” in the New York Times\, as well as “the genuine article..onto the ’season’s best list “ in the Boston Globe. Recent premieres include her second opera\, Cabaret of Shadows\, a Fromm Commission produced by Musiqa in Houston\, Nightingales for Eleanor Bartsch and Ariana Kim\, a consortium commission with the Dubuque & UW Symphony Orchestras\, and a harp concerto\, Second Sight for Atlanta Symphony Principal Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson\, commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Emory University Orchestra program\, a solo cello work\, commissioned as part of Matt Haimovitz’s Primavera Project and Silent Springs for Cantori’s 40th anniversary concert. A San Francisco Classical Voice review of her opera read “Artemisia is sumptuous on every level” and Colin Clarke wrote of her JACK CD QUARTETS\, “the sheer intensity of the music is spellbinding…the passion shines through like..light.”
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/laura-schwendinger/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Daniel Grabois - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required) \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nDaniel Grabois\, horn\, melodica\, Continuum Fingerboard\nChristopher Taylor\, piano\nMeg Lamm\, violin\nMichael Bell\, guitar\nEleni Katz\, bassoon\nTom Curry\, tuba\nMatthew Onstad\, trumpet\nTodd Hammes\, percussion \n…… \nProgram \n\n…… \nDaniel Grabois is Professor of Horn at the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where he performs in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and serves as the Curator of SoundWaves\, a series he created that combines science lectures with music performances. The former Chair of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music\, Grabois now serves as Director of the Electro-Acoustic Research Space (EARS)\, a facility which he founded with funding from a UW2020 large-equipment grant. Grabois is also the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble\, a New York City based brass quintet founded in 1987. With Meridian\, he has performed over seventy world premieres\, released twelve CDs\, received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards\, and toured worldwide\, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself. Grabois has also created numerous arrangements and compositions for Meridian. \nA freelance musician from 1989 to 2011\, Grabois performed with most of the classical music ensembles in New York City\, including the Metropolitan Opera\, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, New York City Opera\, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, and St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. He appeared on numerous recordings of classical music\, rock\, and jazz\, and played in Broadway pits (some 36 shows\, in thousands of performances). \nIn 2022\, Grabois released his second solo album\, Fire Names\, for horn and tape. He composed the music for that CD as well as for his previous CD\, Air Names. The next recording in the series\, Earth Names\, will be released in 2025\, and Water Names will be released in 2026. Grabois’ compositions\, including four etude books and numerous chamber and solo works\, are published by Wave Front Music. \nIn addition to his work as a horn player\, composer\, arranger\, and electronic musician\, Grabois is also an avid woodworker and practitioner of martial arts. \nDaniel Grabois is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/daniel-grabois/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Alicia Lee - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nAlicia Lee\, clarinet\nDeirdre Brenner\, piano\nVincent Fuh\, piano\nEleni Katz\, bassoon \n…… \nProgram \n \n…… \nClarinetist Alicia Lee enjoys a diverse musical life performing old and new works in solo\, chamber\, and orchestral settings. \nAs a resident of New York City for over a decade\, Alicia performed and toured regularly with a variety of groups including The Knights\, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, Alarm Will Sound\, and NOVUS NY. Since 2015\, she has been a member of NOW Ensemble\, with whom she has premiered dozens of new works written for the ensemble. \nShe is a founding member of Decoda\, the Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall. Founded on the principles established during their time as fellows in Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program\, Decoda artists are committed equally to virtuosic performance and audience engagement across the globe. She also serves as co-director of the Decoda Chamber Music Festival\, one of the ensemble’s flagship educational programs. \nHer festival appearances include Marlboro\, Lucerne\, Spoleto USA\, Yellow Barn\, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern\, and Bay Chamber Concerts. \nAlicia was formerly the associate principal and E-flat clarinet player of the Santa Barbara Symphony\, a position she held for seven seasons. She also performed as solo bass clarinetist of the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway during the 2013-14 season. She holds a bachelor’s degree in French Language and Literature from Columbia University\, and pursued musical studies at The Juilliard School Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima as a part of the Columbia-Juilliard exchange program. She earned additional degrees from the University of Southern California and The Colburn School\, where she was a student of Yehuda Gilad. \nBorn into a musical family\, Alicia grew up in Michigan\, where she began her early studies on violin and piano and eventually made the switch to clarinet by age 12. \nShe currently resides in Madison\, Wisconsin with her husband\, bass player and composer\, Kris Saebo\, their son Jack\, and Bonnie the sheepadoodle. She is Associate Professor of clarinet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she also performs with the Wingra Wind Quintet.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/alicia-lee/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zalkind and Alice Yoo - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nMatthew Zalkind and Alice Yoo\, cello \n…… \nProgram \n\n…… \nPraised for his “impressive refinement\, eloquent phrasing\, and singing tone” by The New York Times\, American cellist Matthew Zalkind regularly performs throughout the United States and abroad as a recitalist\, soloist\, and chamber musician. He was awarded First Prize in the Washington International Competition\, as well as top prizes in the Beijing International Cello Competition and Korea’s Isang Yun Gyeongnam International Competition. \nAs a soloist\, Matt has performed recitals at the Phillips Collection in Washington\, DC\, the Moscow Conservatory in Russia\, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in Washington\, DC\, and the Beijing Concert Hall in China. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Utah Symphony\, Albany Symphony\, Hongzhou Philharmonic\, Musica Viva Moscow Chamber Orchestra\, Tongyeong International Music Festival Orchestra\, Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestra\, Juilliard Symphony Orchestra\, and numerous other North American orchestras. He has performed under the baton of celebrated conductors including Ludovic Morlot\, Thierry Fischer\, Giancarlo Guerrero\, and David Alan Miller. \nAn active chamber musician\, Matt has appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall\, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater\, New York’s Alice Tully Hall\, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As a former member of the acclaimed Harlem String Quartet\, he toured internationally with jazz legends Stanley Clarke\, Chick Corea\, and Gary Burton. He regularly participates in prominent chamber music festivals\, including Marlboro and Musicians from Marlboro tours. Alongside his wife\, cellist Alice Yoo\, Matt is the Co-Artistic Director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival\, a premier destination for world-class chamber music in Colorado. More information is available at denverchambermusicfestival.org. \nMatt is a dedicated teacher and currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His students have been recognized on national and international concert stages. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School\, as well as a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan. A native of Salt Lake City\, his primary mentors included Richard Hoyt\, Pegsoon Whang\, Hans Jørgen Jensen\, Timothy Eddy\, and Richard Aaron. Matt performs on a rare Italian cello made by Florentine maker Luigi Piatellini in 1760. \n…… \nCellist Alice Yoo has been warmly hailed for her sensitive musicianship\, expressive nuance\, and passionate commitment to teaching. She has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad as a soloist\, recitalist\, and chamber musician. \nCo-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival\, she and cellist Matthew Zalkind have created a new chamber music festival in Denver\, Colorado that features the world’s most sought-after chamber musicians in world-class chamber music summer concerts all around the city of Denver. \nA sought after chamber musician\, Yoo has performed with distinguished artists including James Ehnes\, Itzhak Perlman\, Mitsuko Uchida\, Dénes Varjon\, Pamela Frank\, Miriam Fried\, Midori Goto\, Kim Kashkashian\, Jonathan Biss\, and members of the Cleveland\, Guarneri\, Takacs\, and Juilliard Quartets. Festival appearances include the Marlboro Music Festival\, Moab Music Festival\, Ravinia Festival\, Music@Menlo\, Yellow Barn\, Caramoor Evnin Rising Stars\, Perlman Music Program\, VIVO Music Festival\, Olympic Music Festival\, and IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. Yoo regularly appears on tour with Musicians from Marlboro and performs with premiere ensembles including the New York Classical Players\, East Coast Chamber Orchestra\, Colorado Symphony Orchestra\, Hallé Orchestra\, and The Knights. \nYoo is currently on the string and chamber music faculty at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. She previously held the post of guest cello professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder during the 2018-2019\, 2022\, and 2024 school years. She currently holds teaching posts at the Green Mountain Music Festival\, Lamont Summer Academy\, and Boulder Cello Festival. Previous teaching posts include Guest Artist at the 2019 and 2021 Intermountain Suzuki String Institute\, faculty of cello and chamber music at Bard College’s Preparatory Division\, Colorado State University\, and masterclasses and residencies across the United States including Skidmore College\, North Dakota State University\, and more. From 2012-2014\, Yoo was a member of Ensemble Connect (ACJW)\, a program of Carnegie Hall\, the Juilliard School of Music\, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. \nYoo is a top prize winner in several competitions\, including the Holland-America Music Society Competition\, Schadt International String Competition\, National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition\, and Klein International String Competition. Solo appearances with orchestra include the USC Chamber Orchestra\, Longmont Symphony\, Cleveland Philharmonic\, New York Classical Players\, Billings Symphony\, and the Bozeman Symphony. Her performances have been featured and broadcasted on Colorado Public Radio\, Chicago’s WFMT\, and Boston’s WGBH. \nPassionate for new music\, Yoo has worked closely with the esteemed composers Sophia Gubaidulina\, Jennifer Hidgon\, György Kurtág\, Paul Wiankco\, and John Harbison. She has given world premieres of acclaimed composers Samuel Carl Adams and Andy Akiho at Carnegie Hall. Recent recordings include Pierre Jalbert’s String Trio for Music at Copland House\, music of the Tonight Show band The Roots\, and works by Andy Akiho and Derek Bermel with Grammy award-winning producer Judith Sherman. \nA native of Bozeman\, Montana\, Yoo’s teachers include Ralph Kirshbaum\, Dr. Ilse-Mari Lee\, Richard Aaron\, and Paul Katz. She holds degrees from the New England Conservatory\, Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester\, England\, and the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. \nYoo currently resides in Denver\, Colorado with her husband\, cellist Matthew Zalkind\, and plays on a cello made for her in 2018 by Ryan Soltis. \nMore information can be found at Aliceyoocello.com and Denverchambermusicfestival.org
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/zalkind-yoo/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Sole Nero - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nSole Nero\nJess Johnson\, piano\nAnthony Di Sanza\, percussion \nWith guest artists\nAlissa Freeman\, piano\nAnthony DeMartinis\, percussion \n…… \nProgram \n\n…… \nBased in Madison\, Sole Nero is committed to exploring and programming new and existing works for piano and percussion duo. In an effort to contribute to the repertoire of this diverse medium\, the duo has engaged in an extensive commissioning/premiering project resulting in many new works since 2002. Sole Nero has performed extensively in the United States and has appeared in Shenyang and Beijing\, China. In addition\, the duo has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention\, the Society of Composers National Conference\, and the MTNA National Conference. \nSole Nero’s repertoire has explored works involving multi-media\, including Across a Distance\, a theatre production for soprano\, deaf actor\, and video images with piano and percussion duo. The music for this production was composed for Sole Nero by Scott Gendel. In 2004 the duo released its first compact disc recording on the Equilibrium label titled Music per Due.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/sole-nero/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Johannes Wallmann - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nJohannes Wallmann\, piano\nNick Moran\, bass\nRuss Johnson\, trumpet\nAruṇ Lūthrā\, tenor saxophone\nMatt Endres\, drums\nMitch Shiner\, glockenspiel/vibraphone \nJohannes Wallmann and friends celebrate the release of his quintet’s new album Not Tired\, to be released on December 5. \nWallmann’s twelfth album as a leader or co-leader\, Not Tired\, reunites the Wisconsin-based pianist and composer with long-time friends and collaborators: Madison bassist Nick Moran\, and New York veterans Ingrid Jensen (trumpet)\, Dayna Stephens (tenor saxophone)\, and Adam Nussbaum (drums). The lullaby of the album’s title track launches the quintet into a contemporary jazz exploration of musical dreamscapes—of places and people\, both real and imagined. \n \n…… \nProgram
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/johannes-wallmann/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Dan Cavanagh - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \n“An Evening of Jazz Standards” \nDan Cavanagh\, piano \nwith \nPeter Dominguez\, bass\nDave Bayles\, drums \n……\nProgram \n\n…… \nDan Cavanagh is a composer and pianist who has garnered numerous awards in both areas. In 2023 he was awarded the Social Justice Prize in Wind Ensemble Composition as well as 2nd Prize in the American Prize for Composition in the Wind Symphony/Band Category. He received a 2009 gold medal prize from the International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition\, and in 2017 he was awarded a Special Judges’ Citation in the American Prize for Chamber Music Composition. As a composer Cavanagh has been commissioned to write for Latin Grammy-winning AfroBop Alliance\, the legendary Patti LaBelle\, and a wide range of classical and jazz performers across North America and Europe. He has released five jazz recordings as a leader\, including Pulse and Heart of the Geyser on Seattle’s OA2 Records\, and two recordings with Minnesota-based vibraphonist Dave Hagedorn\, Horizon and 20 Years. His most recent recording with James Miley and John Hollenbeck was released on Japan’s S/N Alliance Records in November 2022 to critical acclaim. His music can be heard on many other recordings both classical and jazz. His film scoring work can be heard in the documentary The Beat Hotel\, a film exploring the hotel in Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s where the beat poets\, led by Allen Ginsberg\, lived and created much of their famous work. \nCavanagh continues to be commissioned and programmed around the world. His compositions for wind symphony and saxophone/piano are published by Murphy Music Press\, and his works for jazz big band are published by UNC Jazz Press\, Sierra Music Publications\, and E-Jazz Lines. \nCavanagh has performed extensively in North America and Europe as a pianist\, and he has also performed in Asia and Central America. He has appeared in concert with Grammy-winners Irma Thomas\, Adonis Rose\, and Joe McCarthy and a wide number of jazz artists across the world. He has been a finalist in the EuropaFest Jazz Contest in Bucharest\, Romania\, and in the Jacksonville Jazz Festival Piano Competition. Cavanagh is the Pamela O. Hamel/Board of Advisors Director of the Mead Witter School of Music and Professor of Composition and Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to his time at UW-Madison he held numerous appointments at the University of Texas at Arlington\, where he served for eighteen years. From 2015-2020\, he served as the Co-Chair of Region VI for the Society of Composers\, Inc.\, an international organization dedicated to new and contemporary music and composers. In Texas\, Cavanagh served as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Dallas Winds\, a five-time Grammy nominated professional Wind Symphony\, and now serves on the boards of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra. \nCavanagh received his Ph.D. in Creative Arts from the University of Tasmania (Australia)\, where he studied with composer Maria Grenfell and gospel pianist Andrew Legg\, and additional studies with jazz composer and guitarist Glen Hodges. He received a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon (studies with Steve Owen\, Randy Porter\, Toby Koenigsberg\, and Robert Kyr) and a Bachelor of Music from St. Olaf College in Northfield\, MN\, (primary studies with Dave Hagedorn\, Peter Hamlin\, Timothy Mahr\, and Mary Ellen Childs).
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/cavanagh/
LOCATION:Collins Recital Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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SUMMARY:Parry Karp & Eli Kalman - Faculty Artist Series
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets\n$20 general admission\nStudents free (ticket required)\nAlso streaming live \nMead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series \nParry Karp\, violoncello\nEli Kalman\, piano \n…… \nProgram \n \n……\nCellist 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 49 years\, the longest tenure of any member in the quartet’s over 100 year history. \nParry 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\, all but one of the Duo Sonatas of Beethoven\, as well as compositions of Bach\, Dvorak\, Hindemith\, Schumann\, Strauss\, Stravinsky and Szymanowski. In July of 2024 he recorded a Concerto CD with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) which included both Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo and his Suite for Viola and Orchestra of 1919. It will be released by Signum Records in 2025. Parry Karp performs annually in summer music festivals throughout the United States. \nAs cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet he has performed over 1\,000 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\, Christopher Taylor\, 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 \nParry 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. \nMr. 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.\n……\nPianist Eli Kalman has captivated audiences with his exceptional performances. His musical journey has taken him through Romania\, Israel\, Germany\, Hungary\, Japan\, the United States\, and Canada. With an unwavering devotion to chamber music\, his artistry has been presented on prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in New York\, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington\, and renowned series like “San Francisco Performances\,” the “Tuesday Evening Concert Series” in Virginia\, the Sylvia Adalman Artist Recital Series at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore\, the Emmanuel Music-Schumann Chamber Series in Boston\, and the Connoisseur Series at Wichita State University\, among others. \nEli Kalman’s presence extended within his repertoire\, as he has also shone as a soloist with the Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra\, Water City Chamber Orchestra and in numerous live broadcast recitals\, including “Sunday Afternoon Live from the Chazen” on WPR and WFMT Chicago. As a recording artist\, he has contributed to the world of classical music with notable albums. These include collaborations such as “Erwin Junger: Works for Solo Piano and Cello” (2001)\, Schumann’s expressive “Sonatas for Violin and Piano” with violinist Rose Mary Harbison (2006)\, and the evocative “The Jewish Soul” alongside cellist Amit Peled from the Peabody Institute (Centaur 2009). His solo endeavors feature “Homo Ludens” (Centaur 2016)\, which celebrates the contemporary piano compositions of Russian-American composer-pianist Lera Auerbach. Moreover\, his exploration of Italian chamber music culminated in the resonant “Nebbie” album (Centaur 2018) alongside violinist Jameson Cooper\, showcasing his profound insights. \nIn 2020\, Eli embarked on a visionary project centered around new music for horn\, violin\, and piano. This creative endeavor reached its zenith with the release of the album “Advenio” (Centaur 2020)\, featuring the Advenio Trio—a collaboration with hornist Bruce Atwell and violinist Yuliya Smead. The trio served as the resident ensemble at UW Oshkosh.\nBeyond his performances\, Dr. Kalman stands as a scholar with an enduring commitment to uncovering hidden treasures within the musical realm. His scholarly pursuits encompass a fascination with overlooked compositions for strings and piano\, the works of Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti\, the compositions of Romanian-Israeli composer Erwin Junger\, and previously unpublished chamber pieces by Ottorino Respighi. His groundbreaking research resulted in the world premiere publication of Respighi’s inaugural Sonata for violin and piano (1897)\, made available through AR Editions/Special Publications in 2011. In recognition of his contributions to Respighi’s chamber music’s research\, recording\, and performance\, Dr. Kalman was honored with an invitation to perform in Bologna\, Italy\, by the International Museum and Library of Music.\nPrior to his tenure at UW-Oshkosh\, which began in 2006\, he had imparted his musical wisdom as a member of the piano faculty at the Center of Arts\, Mizra in Israel\, and the Lyceum of Arts\, Baia Mare in Romania. Through his profound artistry\, scholarship\, and pedagogical endeavors\, Eli Kalman continues to shape his corner in the world of classical music and inspire audiences and musicians alike.
URL:https://music.wisc.edu/event/karp-kalman/
LOCATION:Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall\, Hamel Music Center\, 740 University Avenue\, Madison\, WI\, 53706\, United States
CATEGORIES:Faculty Artist Series
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