The Bridge Project
2026-01-21 19:30 (America/Chicago) | 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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Students free (ticket required)
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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Program

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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Program
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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Students free (ticket required)
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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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Chamber Percussion Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-02-23 19:30, 2026-04-29 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.

University Bands - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-01 14:00, 2026-04-19 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
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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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$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)

Jazz Composers' Group & Creative Music Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-09 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Wind Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-16 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)
Scott Teeple, conductor

University Symphony Orchestra - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-25 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)
Oriol Sans, conductor
With guest
Dawn Wohn, violin
This program traces a powerful arc from explosive modern energy to timeless symphonic exhilaration. Inspired by Beethoven’s music, Unsuk Chin’s Subito con forza bursts onto the stage with razor-sharp rhythms and volatile color. The concert will continue with the lyrical warmth of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, featuring Mead Witter School of Music Assistant Professor of Violin Dawn Wohn. Its emotional candor takes the listener from rhapsodic intimacy to a finale of dazzling propulsion that will culminate in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, an incredible work of unstoppable momentum whose driving rhythms and ecstatic vitality have made it one of the most electrifying celebrations in the orchestral repertoire.

Concert Band - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-26 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
Corey Pompey, conductor

Concert Choir - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-07 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Low Brass Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-19 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Jazz Composers' Group - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-21 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Jazz Standards Ensemble & Creative Music Collective - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-22 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Wind Ensemble & Concert Band - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-23 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
Scott Teeple, conductor
Col. Kenneth Collins, U.S. Navy Band (ret.), guest conductor
Featuring Jesse Wolf, trumpet
Winner of the 2025 Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition

Collegium Musicum - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-23 19:30 | Morphy Recital Hall, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Taya König-Tarasevich, Jacob Reed, and llana Schroeder, directors

All-University String Orchestra #1 - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-25 17:00 | 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)
All-University Strings #1 is at 5 pm
All-University Strings #2 is at 6:30 pm

All-University String Orchestra #2 - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-25 18:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

University Symphony Orchestra with Concert Choir & Chorale - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-26 17:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Students free (ticket required)
This concert offers a striking contrast of styles and scale. Franz Joseph Haydn’s Nelson Mass combines dramatic intensity with radiant choral writing, music of urgency and faith shaped by turbulent times. For this performance, the Mead Witter School of Music Concert Choir and Chorale will join the University Symphony Orchestra, all under the baton of Dr. Mariana Farah. The evening will conclude with Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, a vast and awe-inspiring tone poem that journeys from primordial darkness to blazing transcendence, crowned by one of the most iconic openings in all of orchestral music.

Resistance Music Ensemble & Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-27 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

All-University Philharmonia Orchestra - Student Ensemble Series
2026-04-27 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

World Percussion Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-05-01 19:30 | 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.

Spring Choir Concert - Student Ensemble Series
2026-05-01 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)
Featuring Treble Choir and University Chorus
