Contemporary Jazz Ensemble & Creative Music Collective - Student Ensemble Series
2025-10-29 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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School of Music Alumni Reception
2025-10-30 17:00 - 19:00 | WI
A reception for all School of Music alumni, friends, faculty, and staff
Monona Terrace Convention Center
Main Floor (Salon G)
1 John Nolen Drive, Madison, WI
Parking in the ramp at Monona Terrace
Enjoy networking, food, and beverages with Dan Cavanagh, Director of the School of Music, and Garry Owens, President of the School of Music Alumni Association, plus renew connections with School of Music alumni, faculty, and friends, and staff.
Registration to the Wisconsin State Music Conference is not required to attend the reception.

Jazz Standards Ensemble & Jazz Composers' Group - Student Ensemble Series
2025-10-30 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Chayse Hoefler - Senior Recital
2025-11-01 17:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Chayse Hoefler Senior Voice Recital
Chayse Hoefler, voice
Sarah Williams, piano
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Program
Girl in 14G Jeanine Tesori (b.1961), Lyrics by Dick Scanlan (b.1960)
from Myrthen, Op. 25 Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
No. 1 Widmung
No. 3 Der Nussbaum
No. 9 Lied der Suleika
No. 11 Lieder der Braut
No. 25 Aus den östlichen Rosen
Aurore Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Intermission
Kommt ein schlanker Bursch gengangen from Der Freischutz Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Poème d’un jour, Op. 21 Gabriel Faure
I. Rencontre
II. Toujours
III. Adieu
Quando men vo from La Boheme Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Laurie’s Song Aaron Copeland, Lyrics by Richard Wilbur
from the Tenderland

Michael Kelley - Elective Recital
2025-11-01 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Michael Kelley Elective Voice Recital
Michael Kelley, voice
Thomas Kasdorf, piano
Michael Kelley performs Robert Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” in collaboration with Dr. Thomas Kasdorf. In 2020, Michael’s senior recital with Dr. Kasdorf was cancelled due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. After five years, Michael returns to the material he fell in love with so long ago to tie up some loose ends, and to begin a new chapter in his musical journey, this time under the guidance of Dr. Julia Rottmayer.
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Program
“Dichterliebe”
1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
2. Aus meinen Tränen sprießen
3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’
5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
7. Ich grolle nicht
8. Und wüßten’s die Blumen, die kleinen
9. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
10. Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen
11. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
13. Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet
14. Allnächtlich im Traume seh’ ich dich
15. Aus alten Märchen
16. Die alten, bösen Lieder
Composer: Robert Schumann
Poet: Heinrich Heine

Parry Karp & Eli Kalman - Faculty Artist Series
2025-11-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series
Parry Karp, violoncello
Eli Kalman, piano
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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 49 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, 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.
As 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
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.
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Pianist 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.
Eli 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.
In 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.
Beyond 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.
Prior 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.

Ben Campbell - Master's Recital
2025-11-02 17:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Ben Campbell Master’s Violin Recital
Ben Campbell, violin
Fiona Hunt, harp
Isla Coronado, flute
Frankie Bones, piano
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Program
O Wast Wind Sarah Rimkus (b. 1990)
Fantasy for Violin and Harp Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Fiona Hunt, harp
Intermission
Light Sky Ben Campbell (b. 2002)
Stir Crazy Carlos Simon (b. 1986)
Isla Coronado, flute
Polish Caprice Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Suite for Violin and Piano Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Frankie Bones, piano
Introduction
I. March
II. Moto Perpetuo
III. Lullaby
IV. Waltz
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Born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Ben Campbell is a violinist, teacher, and composer whose work spans Wisconsin and northern Michigan. Ben is in his final year of a master’s degree in violin performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the position of Graduate Teaching Assistant as well as violinist in the Rabin String Quartet. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in violin as well as a minor in music theory from the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, in Appleton WI. Ben can often be found performing with the Marquette Symphony Orchestra and Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra in Michigan, the Fox Valley Symphony in Wisconsin, and the Superior String Alliance Chamber Players. He also is a teacher of violin, viola, and chamber music at Superior String Alliance summer camps, held annually in the Upper Peninsula.

Noah Brooks - DMA Recital
2025-11-04 19:30 | Morphy Recital Hall, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Noah Brooks DMA Drum Recital
Noah Brooks, drums & compositions
Thomas Wieland, saxophone
Dan VanZeeland, piano
Jeff Weiss, bass
Featuring all original compositions

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

and
Daniel Grabois, horn
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Program

Mimmi Fulmer Studio Recital
2025-11-05 17:00 | Morphy Recital Hall, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Featuring performances by students in Prof. Mimmi Fulmer’s Voice Studio
Katie Eggers, Hannah Ray, Eric Luebke, Chayse Hoefler, Lily Garbelman, Benjamin Hanson, Lana Fabish, Austin Demerath, Amelia Eichmeier, Ruby Montgomery, Aleannah Hancock-Jammeh, Isabella Krynicka, Frankie Bones, Eunsu Kim, Sarah Williams, Joe Kaiser, Vincent Fuh, Jackson Vangoethem, Max Letellier, and Ryan Logan

Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition
2025-11-05 18:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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The biennial Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition features School of Music students competing in a single round competition recital. One winner is selected to perform a concerto with the Wind Ensemble in the spring.
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Program

Dan Cavanagh - Faculty Artist Series
2025-11-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Students free (ticket required)
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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series
“An Evening of Jazz Standards”
Dan Cavanagh, piano
with
Peter Dominguez, bass
Dave Bayles, drums
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Dan 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.
Cavanagh 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.
Cavanagh 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.
Cavanagh 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).

Hank Dutt Performance Class
2025-11-07 14:30 - 16:30 | Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Open to the public
Guest artist Hank Dutt leads a performance class with School of Music students.
Hank Dutt, viola, longtime violist of the Kronos Quartet, has been a major figure in expanding the role of chamber music of the 20th and 21st centuries. With Kronos, he was part of a major commissioning project, with many works written to showcase Dutt in particular.

Benjamin Davies Hudson - Senior Recital
2025-11-07 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Benjamin Davies Hudson Senior Recital
Benjamin Davies Hudson, violin
Sung-Eun Ryu, piano
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Program
Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2 in D minor, Op. 121 Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Tzigane Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Rhapsody for Solo Violin No. 2 Jesse Montgomery (b. 1981)

Sebastian Jimenez - DMA Recital
2025-11-08 14:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Sebastian Jimenez DMA Conducting Recital
Sebastián Jiménez is a Colombian conductor from Bogotá and a third-year Doctoral student in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He previously served as Associate Conductor of the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra and held positions as Assistant and Principal Conductor of the FSU Philharmonia.
Jiménez collaborates closely with renowned conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, having assisted him in rehearsals with leading ensembles, including the Houston Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, National Symphony of Colombia, and Chicago Symphony.
As a guest conductor, he has led orchestras across Europe, the United States, and Colombia, among them the National Symphony of Colombia, Cali Philharmonic, Dubrovnik Symphony, Cyprus Symphony, and Vratsa Symphony. A prizewinner at the First National Conducting Competition with the National Symphony of Colombia in 2023, he was appointed Conducting Fellow with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in 2024. In addition, he has served as an Italian Language Instructor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 2024.

U.S. Navy Band Commodores - CANCELED
2025-11-08 17:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
October 28, 2025 update: This event has been canceled, and will not be rescheduled at this time.

Hank Dutt - Guest Artist Series
2025-11-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Students free (ticket required)
Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Hank Dutt, viola
Kate Campbell, piano
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The longtime violist of the Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt has been a major figure in expanding the role of chamber music of the 20th and 21st centuries. With Kronos, he was part of a major commissioning project, with many works written to showcase Dutt in particular.
Dutt graduated from Indiana University, where he studied with violists David Dawson, and Georges Janzer, earning his BM and MM degrees. Mentors at the university included János Starker and Josef Gingold, and among his collaborators at school was future Kronos Quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud.
In 1977, Dutt joined the Kronos Quartet. With over 40 albums to its credit and having performed worldwide, the Kronos Quartet has been called “probably the most famous ‘new music’ group in the world” and been praised in philosophical studies of music for the inclusiveness of its repertoire.
Kronos has performed live with the poet Allen Ginsberg, Astor Piazzolla, The National, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Paul McCartney and Björk, and has recorded with Nelly Furtado, Rokia Traoré, Joan Armatrading, Brazilian electronica artist Amon Tobin, Texas yodeler Don Walser, Faith No More, Tiger Lillies. It has worked with many minimalist composers, including John Adams, Arvo Pärt, George Crumb, Henryk Górecki, Steve Reich, John Luther Adams, Roberto Paci Dalò, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Peter Sculthorpe and Kevin Volans; collaborators hail from a diversity of countries—Kaija Saariaho from Finland, Pēteris Vasks from Latvia, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan, Homayun Sakhi from Afghanistan, Hamza El Din from Egypt, Victoria Vita Polevá from Ukraine and Fernando Otero, Astor Piazzolla, and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina. Many of Kronos’s string-quartet arrangements were published in 2007.
The 2023-2024 season marked the 50th anniversary of the Kronos Quartet, which featured celebratory concerts, premieres, and events at Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium. Culminating this season was the Kronos Quartet “50 for the Future” project of a free library of 50 new works for string quartet.
In July 2024, Dutt retired from the Kronos Quartet and was succeeded by Ayane Kozasa. In October 2024, Hank was one of four featured violists performing and coaching for the Nobuko Imai Celebration in Cincinnati.

Live from the Mead Witter School of Music - Aspen String Trio
2025-11-09 12:30 - 14:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Live from the Mead Witter School of Music presents:
Aspen String Trio
David Perry, violin
Victoria Chiang, viola
Michael Mermagen, cello
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The Aspen String Trio is one of the rare professional string trios performing and touring today. Celebrated for visionary programming and virtuoso performances offered with humor and insight, AST performs the complete trios of Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert, as well as lesser known blockbuster works by Dohnanyi, Hindemith, Martinů, Rozsa, Klein, Veress, Villa-Lobos and Ysaÿe, among others. Their many “themed” concert programs are in high demand, including a Goldberg Variations lecture recital, Recovering “Degenerate” Music, offering works of heartstopping beauty by composers tragically suppressed by the Nazi regime, and a new program that imaginatively explores John Harbison’s brilliant new trio, “a major addition to the tiny string trio repertory,” paired with the work that inspired it, Mozart’s K563 “Divertimento,” an extraordinary masterpiece that hides under its title. During his recent centennial year, AST introduced MieczysławWeinberg’s ravishing String Trio, only recently re-discovered.
Consistently praised for their masterful sensitivity and nuance, their ultra-refined musicianship, tight ensemble work and musical intelligence, AST formed as summer artist teaching colleagues at Aspen Music Festival and School more than twenty years ago. Violinist David Perry, formerly a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, now leads the Pro Arte Quartet, in residence at University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he holds a Collins Endowed Professorship; he is also concertmaster of the Chicago Philharmonic. Violist Victoria Chiang is a member of the artist faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, was formerly on the faculty of The Juilliard School and the Hartt School of Music, and previously served on the board of the American Viola Society. Cellist Michael Mermagen is Associate Professor of Cello at UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance; formerly Associate Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at The Catholic University of America, and he has served as Chamber Symphony Principal Cellist of the Aspen Music Festival and School for more than 25 years.
Returning to live performance after the pandemic, the Trio’s engagements this season include performances and outreach for the Omaha Chamber Music Society, the Omaha Conservatory of Music, University of Nebraska-Omaha, the National Music Museum, the Bach Festival Society, Rollins College, and the Rutenberg Series (USF, Tampa). Recent engagements have included performances paired with educational engagement at the Chamber Music Society of Logan, Lousiana State University in Baton Rouge, and on series the Artists’ Series (Tallahassee), Beaux Arts Chamber Music Series (Naples), Ashville Chamber Music Series, Chamber Music Kelowna (BC), Los Angeles Music Guild, Barge Music (New York), and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). The trio has held residencies in Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas, Iowa, Alabama, Delaware, Washington, and Colorado. For six seasons AST was Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Baltimore.
The trio offers extensive outreach as an integral part of all residencies. As teaching faculty at distinguished universities and conservatories, trio members are all master teachers, offering inspiring classes, lessons and chamber music coachings for all ages, children through adult, and all experience levels. While on the road they perform in community centers, senior residences, and in health care facilities. They also offer a variety of professional development workshops focusing on career-oriented topics such as: The business of music, The successful chamber ensemble, Teamwork and leadership, Effective rehearsal strategies, and Teaching as a profession.
The Aspen String Trio has recorded music of Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss, and is currently preparing the complete string trios and other music of Martinů for release on the Naxos label.
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“Live from the Mead Witter School of Music” is a chamber music series held the second Sunday of each month at the Hamel Music Center during the academic year.
The series is made available by the generosity of donors to the David and Kato Perlman Live from the Mead Witter School of Music Fund.

Memorial Carillon
2025-11-09 15:00 | Carillon Tower, 1160 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Lyle Anderson, University Carillonneur Emeritus
I. UW school songs
The University Hymn
On Wisconsin
Songs to Thee, Wisconsin
Preludio II – Homage to M.v.d.G. (Neil Thornock, 2018)
“Lascia ch’io pianga,” from the opera Rinaldo
(George Frideric Handel, 1711; arranged for carillon by Leen ’t Hart)
II. Theme and variations (Jos. Lerinckx, 1984)
Variations on “Let all mortal flesh keep silence” (John W. Harvey, 1976)
III. “Soleil couchant,” from Suite d’Ukraine pour le monde (Stéfano Colletti, 1996)
Lullaby (Leen ’t Hart, 1971)
It’s dark on Observatory Hill (Harold Spina, 1934; arr. Lyle Anderson, 1986)
IV. Candle in the Darkness (Frances Newell, 2009)
An evening hymn on a ground, “Now that the sun hath veil’d his light,” Z.193
(Henry Purcell, 1688; arr. Ronald Barnes, 1972)
Varsity

Composition Studio Recital
2025-11-09 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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The Composition Studio presents the works of composers who are students of award winning composer Professor Laura Elise Schwendinger.

Daria Tennikova - DMA Recital
2025-11-10 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Daria Tennikova DMA Composition Lecture Recital
Daria Tennikova
Boris Krivoshein
Stephen Dubetz
Timothy Mullen
Trevor Maliborski
Ilana Schroeder
Kayla Patrick
Sage Eckard-Lee
Zachary Preucil
Laura Perry
Thomas Holten
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Program
Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (2025) Daria Tennikova (b. 1989)

Trevor Maliborski - Senior Recital
2025-11-11 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Trevor Maliborski Senior Percussion Recital
Dylan Chapman
Anna Desfor
Josh Dieter
Ravlin Frantz
Ellis Goeden
Trygve Lebakken
Cooper Martinson
Van Maxwell
Camden Powell
Adina Shaikh
Dan VanZeeland
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Program
Bongo-0 Roberto Sierra (b. 1953)
Corporel Vinko Globokar (b. 1934)
I Ching Per Nørgård (1932-2025]
IV. Towards Completion: Fire Over Water
Intermission
Hurricane’s Eye Leander Kaiser (b. 1961))
Two South Indian-American Rudimental Solos: II Malcolm Lim
Used Car Salesman Michael Daugherty (b. 1954)
Tombo in 7/4 Airto Moreira & Hugo Fattoruso

The Meditation Series
2025-11-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Tom Curry, tuba
Mark Hetzler, trombone
Low Brass Ensemble
The Meditation Series
Is it a concert? A space? A sound?
The Meditation Series is less a performance than an environment—an atmosphere where listeners can slow down, regather, and reset. We invite you to listen, or meditate, or read, or even sleep. You can breathe with the sound, and just be.
Professors Tom Curry and Mark Hetzler will transform Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall into a refuge of tranquility and deep listening. The program includes music by Kojiro Umezaki and James Fulkerson, as well as premieres by Curry and Hetzler.

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Program
For Zero Kojiro Umezaki
Wood/Stone James Fulkerson
Present Mark Hetzler
There is no time without change Tom Curry
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Tom Curry has served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music since 2014. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree as well as a Master of Music degree in tuba performance from Northwestern University. He also holds degrees in tuba performance and communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Curry is currently the tubist in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, a faculty ensemble-in-residence at the Mead Witter School of Music, and has performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Philharmonic and many other orchestras. Since 2022, he has performed with the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a brass ensemble specializing in new music. He is a Miraphone performing artist.
As a soloist and composer, Curry’s interests include the application of electronics and fixed media, immersive sonic environments, protracted musical processes, and improvisation. He has commissioned, premiered, and composed works for tuba in a wide variety of contexts and has been invited to perform at numerous conferences, festivals and universities, including recent appearances at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Conference, the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, the Jihlava Tuba Workshop (Czech Republic), the Midwest Tuba Trombone and Euphonium Conference, the New Music Gathering, Northwestern University, Michigan State University, Indiana University and many others.
Curry has released several solo and chamber recordings in recent years, including: Credo (2024), a recording with the Meridian Arts Ensemble; Two Impromptus (2024), a recording of improvised electroacoustic music with Madison-based trio Wonderporium; water_wind (2021), a solo EP featuring the premiere recording of Bryn Davis’ ☞□❒ □❍ ◆❒❒⍓ for microtonal tuba septet; Don’t Look Down (2020), a collaboration with trombonist Mark Hetzler and percussionist Anthony Di Sanza; s.i.p_1 (2020), an improvised electroacoustic collaboration with euphoniumist Brett Keating; and Alight (2018), his first solo recording comprised of modern works for tuba, including Sofia Gubaidulina’s Lamento, Galina Ustvolskaya’s Composition No. 1 “Dona Nobis Pacem,” and Giacinto Scelsi’s Maknongan.
In his position at the Mead Witter School of Music, Curry teaches applied tuba and euphonium, coaches brass chamber ensembles and co-conducts the University of Wisconsin Low Brass Ensemble. He regularly presents master classes and clinics throughout the country and teaches tuba and euphonium at the University of Wisconsin Summer Music Clinic.
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Born in Sarasota, Florida in 1968, Mark Hetzler began playing his father’s trombone at the age of twelve. He went on to receive a B.M. from Boston University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory of Music. Mark was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and completed a three-year fellowship with the New World Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
As a member of the Empire Brass Quintet from 1996-2012, Mark performed in recital and as a soloist with symphony orchestras in Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Venezuela, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, Italy, Austria, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland, Bermuda, St. Bartholomew and across the United States. He appeared with the group on live television and radio broadcasts in Asia and the United States, as well as Empire Brass recordings on the Telarc label.
Mark has released twelve solo recordings on the Summit Records label with programming that features music in a wide variety of genres. In addition to recording and performing, Mark is active as a composer, orchestrator and arranger, fusing classical styles with many non-classical influences. He has composed a trombone concerto, Three Views of Infinity, as well as numerous works in solo, chamber and large ensemble settings, including wind ensemble, orchestra, big band, brass quintet and jazz/rock combos.
In addition to his solo recordings, he has recently released three ensemble recordings. Don’t Look Down (2020), which he co-produced with UW-Madison colleagues Tom Curry and Anthony Di Sanza, features their collaborative concert-length original composition Don’t Look Down, exploring the impact of social media and technology on society. Mark can also be heard performing his own music on the recordings of the adventurous new music group Mr. Chair. This versatile quartet released their debut recording Nebulebula in 2019, and followed it up with their second album Better Days in 2022.
Former Principal Trombone of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Mark has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops and the Florida Orchestra. He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, and is currently the Professor of Trombone at UW-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music. As a faculty member in the School of Music, he teaches the Trombone Studio, coaches Chamber Music, teaches Brass Fundamentals courses to Music Education students, co-directs the Low Brass Ensemble and performs as a member of the Wisconsin Brass Quintet (faculty ensemble-in-residence). Mark is a Getzen Performing Artist who plays the 4147-IB Custom Reserve tenor trombone. Learn more about Mark at his website: www.markhetzler.com

Nick Laham - DMA Recital
2025-11-12 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
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Nick Laham DMA Viola Recital
Nick Laham, viola
Micah Behr, piano
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Program
Cadenza for Solo Viola Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Largo
Allegro
Andante
Presto
Sonata No.1 in G Minor J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
Fuga
“Der Schwanendreher” Concerto for Viola and Small Orchestra Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
“Zwischen Berg und tiefem Tal”: Langsam – Mäßig bewegt, mit Kraft
“Nun laube, Lindlein laube”: Sehr ruhig – Fugato: “Der Gutzgauch auf dem Zaune sass
“Seid ihr nicht der Schwanendreher”: Mäßig schnell
Lascia ch’io pianga George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
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Violist Nick Laham aims to create music filled with earnesty and contemplation. Nick is currently a third year doctoral student in Viola Performance at University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Teaching Assistant for the Music Theory Department. A former alumnus of Meadows School of the Arts and Texas Tech University, Nick left a mark on the classical music scenes in Dallas and Lubbock, Texas. Nick performed as a substitute violist with the Allen Philharmonic and Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and presented concerts at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, the Winspear Opera House, Dallas City Performance Hall, the Lubbock Civic Center, and the Festival Concert Hall in Round Top, Texas.
As a former Teaching Assistant and J.T. and Margaret Talkington Fellow at Texas Tech, he performed as the Violist for LSO’s Educational String Quartet—the Kimikala Quartet—which performed locally to students in Lubbock ISD and senior citizens across the city of Lubbock. Prior to his Masters degree, Nick taught Viola students privately in the Dallas and Houston areas. Nick’s students were admitted to local region and youth orchestras and achieved superior ratings in their local solo and ensemble contests. Nick was also a fellow at the Round Top Festival Institute in 2013 where his performance of the Shostakovich Piano Quintet streamed on WQXR’s McGraw Hill Financial Young Artists Showcase. Nick performed with violist Nadia Sirota and the Grammy-award winning ensemble eighth blackbird while an undergraduate student. Nick proudly performed Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 3 with Aaron Boyd, a violinist with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as part of his Performers Diploma program at Meadows School of the Arts.
Nick has also been fortunate enough to participate in masterclasses and take lessons with Roberto Diaz, Nadia Sirota, Paul Neubauer, Donald McInnes, Susan Dubois, and Caroline Coade. Nick’s chamber music coaches include the Marmen Quartet, Parry Karp, Aaron Boyd, James Dunham, Gloria Chang, Mike Block, the Shanghai Quartet, eighth blackbird, Chee-Yun Kim, Andres Diaz, Emmanuel Borok, John Owings, Eteri Andjaparidze, Brian Connelly, Erin Hannigan, and Matt Albert.
Outside of Music, Nick loves exploring coffee shops, hiking, cooking, petting dogs and cats, and reading. Nick plans to teach Viola and Chamber Music at an established university and continue passing down the legacies he inherited from his mentors. Nick’s primary teachers include Barbara Sudweeks, former Assistant Principal Violist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Sally Chisholm, Violist of the Pro Arte Quartet.

Alexander Ferkey - DMA Recital
2025-11-13 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
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Alexander Ferkey DMA Double Bass Recital
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Program
Sonata for Double Bass C.F. Abel
I. Largo
II. Allegro
III. Minuetto
Serenade Hans Werner Henze
I. Adagio
II. Un poco allegretto
III. Pastorale
IV. Andante con moto
V. Vivace
VI. Tango
VII. Allegro marciale
VIII. Allegretto
IX. Menuett
Alisei Stefano Scodanibbio
If I Cross My Eyes the Trees Turn Blue Cori Smith
European Memories Arni Egilsson
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III
Motivy Emil Tabakov

SoundWaves
2025-11-14 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
This academic year, SoundWaves is exploring scales. In this second edition, we will be zooming in on the micro scale!
Our second SoundWaves event of the season explores the Micro Scale, looking at things that are very small in size. What is a microbiome? What’s going on in the Earth’s water? What is microeconomics? What happens when you look at rhythm and pitch on a micro scale? Find out at SoundWaves.

Concert Choir & Chorale with Jocelyn Hagen - Changemaker Series
2025-11-14 19:30 - 21:00 | 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)
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Mead Witter School of Music Changemaker Series
With Jocelyn Hagen, composer and vocalist
Pre-concert talk with Jocelyn Hagen begins at 7 pm
Dr. Mariana Farah and Dr. Bert Pinsonneault, conductors
Jocelyn Hagen, composer
Monica Bertrand and Benjamin Hanson, assistant conductors
Boris Krivoshein and Hyeyeon Seok, piano
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Program

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Jocelyn Hagen composes music that has been described as “simply magical” (Fanfare Magazine) and “dramatic and deeply moving” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul). She is a pioneer in the field of composition, pushing the expectations of musicians and audiences with large-scale multimedia works, electro-acoustic music, dance, opera, and publishing. Her first forays into composition were via songwriting, still very evident in her work. The majority of her compositions are for the voice: solo, chamber and choral. Her melodic music is rhythmically driven and texturally complex, rich in color and deeply heartfelt.
In 2019 and 2020, choirs and orchestras across the country are premiering her multimedia symphony The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci that includes video projections created by a team of visual artists, highlighting da Vinci’s spectacular drawings, inventions, and texts. Hagen describes her process of composing for choir, orchestra and film simultaneously in a Tedx Talk given at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, now available on YouTube. Her dance opera collaboration with choreographer Penelope Freeh, Test Pilot, received the 2017 American Prize in the musical theater/opera division as well as a Sage Award for “Outstanding Design.” The panel declared the work “a tour de force of originality.”
As a fierce advocate for gender equality and inclusivity, Hagen’s Compose Like A Girl initiative amplifies female-identifying composers, helps conductors diversify their concerts, and works toward more equality in music programming and commissioning. Through her podcasts, she engages in discussions with renowned composers like Reena Esmail, Chen Yi, and Rosephanye Powell. These conversations delve into the dynamics of opportunity, power, and privilege within the arts, advocating for female-identifying composers to embrace their unique artistic expression with confidence. The initiative also provides mentorship to emerging women composers, and highlights excellent work through her newly developed Compose Like A Girl Choral Series.
In 2013 Hagen released an EP entitled MASHUP, in which she performs Debussy’s “Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum” while singing Ed Sheeran’s “The A Team.” She is also one half of the band Nation, an a cappella duo with composer/performer Timothy C. Takach, and together they perform and serve as clinicians for choirs from all over the world.
Hagen’s commissions include Conspirare, the Minnesota Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, the International Federation of Choral Music, the American Choral Directors Association of Minnesota, Georgia, Connecticut and Texas, the North Dakota Music Teachers Association, Cantus, the Boston Brass, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the St. Olaf Band, among many others. Her work is independently published through JH Music, as well as through Graphite Publishing, G. Schirmer, ECS Publishing, Fred Bock Music Publishing, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, and Boosey and Hawkes.

Mini Band Clinic Concert with Wind Ensemble
2025-11-15 19:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Featuring the Mini Band Clinic Ensemble and Wind Ensemble
Scott Teeple, conductor
Dr. Erica Neidlinger, guest conductor
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Program
Wind Ensemble
Dancing Fire Kevin Day (b. 1996)
Prelude, Op. 34 Dimitri Shostakovich (1906–1975 )/trans. H. Robert Reynolds
Dr. Erica Neidlinger, guest conductor
J’ai été au bal Donald Grantham (b. 1947)
Mini Band Clinic Ensemble
Music to be selected from:
Fanfare – The Benefaction from Sky and Mother Earth Satoshi Yagisawa
Adoration Florence Price
I Am Andrew Boysen, Jr.
Combined Ensembles
Zia Zia Claude T. Smith
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Designed to supplement students’ school, community or individual music experience, Mini Music Clinics serve to enhance music education through large and small group learning from UW–Madison faculty and graduate students and renowned educators from across the country. High schoolers build connections with the UW–Madison campus and their fellow musicians and perform in a final concert at the end of the day in collaboration with a UW–Madison ensemble.

Tom Lacy - DMA Recital
2025-11-16 11:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
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Tom Lacy DMA Oboe Recital
Nick Laham
Megan Angriawan
Brian Jaap
Stephen Dubetz
Sarah Ellenbecker
Josh Baker
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Program
Sonata Op. 5, Nr. 12: “La Folia” (1700, arr. 2018) Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)/arr. Raaf Hekkema (b. 1968)
Variations on a Reverse Entropy (2012) Roger Zare (b. 1985)
Aftershock (2022, rev. 2025) Aaryn Ricucci-Hill (b. 1992)
World Premiere
Intermission
Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola, and Piano (1901) Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935)

Kara Cantele - DMA Recital
2025-11-16 14:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Kara Cantele DMA Violin Lecture Recital
