Wind Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2025-11-04 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Scott Teeple, conductor
With special guests
Mariana Farah, guest conductor
Director of Choral Activities

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Daniel Grabois, horn
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Low Brass Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2025-11-16 14:00 - 15:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Tom Curry and Mark Hetzler, directors
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Concert Band - Student Ensemble Series
2025-11-20 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Corey Pompey, conductor
Benjamin Grochowsky, guest conductor
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All-University Philharmonia Orchestra - Student Ensemble Series
2025-11-21 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Katie Crim and Joseph Mahin, conductors
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Rabin String Quartet - Student Ensemble Series
2025-11-21 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Rabin String Quartet
Chantel Charis Davis, violin
Ben Campbell, violin
Heejo Yang, viola
Jun Lee, cello
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University Bands - Student Ensemble Series
2025-11-23 14:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Herb Payung, R. Louis Vadja, Tyler Schuster, conductors
Ben Grochowsky, guest conductor

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Graduate Percussion Group - Student Ensemble Series
2025-11-23 17:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Jaime Cárdenas
Dylan Chapman
Tanner Day
Anna Desfor
Adina Shaikh
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Wind Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-02 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Scott Teeple, conductor
With Verona Area Concert Band Wind Symphony
Eric Anderson, conductor
Louis Vajda, guest conductor
Sarah Brailey, soprano
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Contemporary Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Composers' Group - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-03 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Aruṇ Lūthrā and Dan VanZeeland, directors
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University Symphony Orchestra - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-04 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Oriol Sans, conductor
Pre-concert talk begins at 7 pm
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World Percussion Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-06 12:00 | Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI, United States
Free | No ticket required
The World Percussion Ensemble is a chamber group dedicated to the performance of significant percussive styles from around the globe. Percussion traditions from various cultures, including Cuba, Brazil, India, West Africa and the Middle East are explored through performance and cultural research. In addition, the World Percussion Ensemble occasionally collaborates with faculty and students from the UW dance program.

Jazz Invitational - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-06 14:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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All-University String Orchestra #1 - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-06 17:00 | Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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All-University String Orchestra #1 is at 5 pm
All-University String Orchestra #2 is at 6:30 pm
Jared Sierra, conductor
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All-University String Orchestra #2 - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-06 18:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Winter Choir Concert #1 - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-07 14:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Winter Choir Concert #1 is at 2 pm
Winter Choir Concert #2 is at 5 pm
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Winter Choir Concert #2 - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-07 17:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Winter Choir Concert #1 is at 2 pm
Winter Choir Concert #2 is at 5 pm
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Blue Note Ensemble & Creative Music Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-08 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Johannes Wallmann, Mitchell Shiner, and Anders Svanoe, directors
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Chamber Percussion Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-08 19:30, 2026-02-23 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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The Chamber Percussion Ensemble is a chamber group dedicated to the performance of significant and interesting works from diverse compositional trends of the 20th and 21st centuries. While an emphasis is placed on unconducted works, the group also regularly performs conducted pieces for up to 15 percussionists. Professors Anthony Di Sanza, Todd Hammes and Tom Ross coache the ensemble with assistance from graduate students in the percussion program. Guest artists regularly perform with the ensemble and guest composers are often featured.

Resistance Music Ensemble & Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-09 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Collegium Musicum - Student Ensemble Series
2025-12-09 19:30 | Morphy Recital Hall, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Taya König-Tarasevich, Jacob Reed, and llana Schroeder, directors
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The Bridge Project
2026-01-21 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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The Bridge Project
Ben Ferris
Thomas Weiland
Dan Van ZeeLand
Noah Brooks
Heejo Yang
Chantel Davis
Jun Lee
Ben Campbell
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The Bridge Project started in 2021 and brought together a School of Music jazz quartet and string quartet. The ensemble works with high school and junior high school students to share performances and show the “bridging” of improvised music with written music to demonstrate that there’s room for expansion in the curriculum.

Panorama Concert - Student Ensemble Series
2026-01-31 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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In addition to featuring Symphony Orchestra, Chorale, Concert Choir, Wind Ensemble, and other School of Music students, the 2026 Panorama Concert will celebrate the School of Music’s 130th anniversary as a department on campus.
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University Symphony Orchestra - Student Ensemble Series
2026-02-13 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Pre-concert talk begins at 7 pm
Oriol Sans, conductor
Joseph Mahin, graduate student conductor
Featuring Timothy Sachtleben, cello
Winner of the 2025 Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition
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A journey through lights and shadows, this program brings together four striking orchestral voices. The radiant exploration of motion and brightness of Jennifer Higdon’s Light will turn inward with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto, a work of haunting intensity that offers a stark, searching meditation marked by irony and grit. Timothy Sachtleben, 2025 Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition winner, will be the soloist.
In Elysium, Samy Moussa creates a luminous sound world suspended between stillness and awe; it is orchestral music that seems to breathe in slow, glowing arcs, just like the space where is was premiered, La Sagrada Família in Barcelona. The concert will conclude with Leonard Bernstein’s electrifying Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, where jazz, Latin rhythms, and symphonic sweep collide in a thrilling celebration of love, passion, and drama, all with an unmistakable Broadway flair.

Wind Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-02-17 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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With Rolling Meadows High School Symphonic Band
Scott Teeple, conductor
Elliott Hile, conductor
Otto Hommons, soprano saxophone
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Concert Band - Student Ensemble Series
2026-02-19 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Corey Pompey, conductor
Tyler Shuster, guest conductor
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University Bands - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-01 14:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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$10 general admission
Students free (ticket required)

Blue Note Ensemble & Contemporary Jazz Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-04 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required

Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-05 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Treble Choir, University Chorus, & Chorale - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-06 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Students free (ticket required)
