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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series

Dan Cavanagh Faculty Composition Recital

Benjamin Davies Hudson, violin
Christopher Bolduc, violin
Sage Eckard-Lee, viola
Timothy Mullins, flute
Deirdre Brenner, piano
Sarah Brailey, soprano
David Perry, violin
Suzanne Beia, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Parry Karp, cello
James Waldo, cello
Martha Fischer, piano
Eleni Katz, bassoon
Dan Cavanagh, piano

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Program

Navidson Record (2025)                   Chris Cobley (b. 1995)
World Premiere

Benjamin Davies Hudson, violin
Christopher Bolduc, violin
Sage Eckard-Lee, viola

Borderlands (2023)           Dan Cavanagh (b. 1978)
I. Blue Steel
II. Inner Walls
III. Soul Windows

Timothy Mullins, flute
Deirdre Brenner, piano

Nice Men (2025)          Dan Cavanagh/Text Dorothy Byrne
World Premiere

Sarah Brailey, soprano
The Pro Arte String Quartet
David Perry, violin
Suzanne Beia, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Parry Karp, cello

Building God (2024)            Dan Cavanagh
World Premiere of this transcription

David Perry, violin
James Waldo, cello
Martha Fischer, piano

American Story [neé Melting Pot] (2015)           Dan Cavanagh
I. Booze Blues
II. Ballade-Cinquain
III. Swamp Funk

Eleni Katz, bassoon
Dan Cavanagh, piano

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Dr. Dan Cavanagh is a composer and pianist who has garnered numerous awards in both areas. He has been commissioned by a wide range of jazz and classical artists throughout North America and Europe, and his music continues to be performed across the globe. Cavanagh has released five jazz CDs as a leader. His music can be heard on many other recordings both classical and jazz.

Cavanagh has performed extensively in North America and internationally. He has been a finalist in the EuropaFest Jazz Contest in Bucharest, and in the Jacksonville Jazz Festival Piano Competition.

He is Professor of Composition and Jazz Studies and the Pamela O. Hamel/Board of Advisors of the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to his time at UW–Madison, he held appointments at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he served for 18 years.