Mead Witter School of Music

Live from the Mead Witter School of Music - Aspen String Trio
2025-11-09 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | 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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Program

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Motivy Emil Tabakov

SoundWaves
2025-11-14 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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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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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
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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
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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
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Kara Cantele DMA Violin Lecture Recital

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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Dani Ewing - Senior Recital
2025-11-16 17:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Dani Ewing Senior Voice Recital
Dani Ewing, mezzo-soprano
Sarah Williams, piano
Pitches & Notes (UW–Madison’s competitive treble a cappella group)
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Program
Banalités Francis Poulenc
1. Chansons d’Orkenise
2. Hôtel
3. Fagnes de Wallonie
4. Voyage à Paris
5. Sanglots
An den kleinen Radioapparat Hanns Eisler
Der Tod und das Mädchen Franz Schubert
Wie lange noch? Kurt Weill
Pitches & Notes 2025 ICCA Set
Poker Face – Lady Gaga
Goddess – Laufey
my mind (now) – Paris Paloma
Miserable – Aiyana-Lee
Intermission
Tre liriche Ottorino Respighi
1. Notte (Night)
2. Nebbie (Fog)
3. Pioggia (Rain)
Goodnight Moon Eric Whitacre
Someone to Watch Over Me George Gershwin
Crazy Willie Nelson
The Winner Takes It All Benny Andersson

Madison Chamber Players
2025-11-16 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Join the Madison Chamber Players for their Fall 2025 performance Wind from the Mountain.
Madison Chamber Players
R. Louis Vajda, conductor
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Program
Dixtuor Jean Francaix

Blue Glacier Decoy Jennifer Jolley

Wind from the Mountain Conni Ellisor

Jeff Weiss - DMA Recital
2025-11-17 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Jeff Weiss DMA Bass Recital
Jeff Weiss
Sims Delaney-Potthoff
Maggie Delaney-Potthoff
Scott Hlavenka
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Jeff Weiss is a versatile bassist and educator based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jeff started learning bass with Rob Junceau III, building a foundation of various bass performance styles. He went on to receive a bachelor’s degree in Bass Performance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying with Richard Davis, and a Master of Music degree with Peter Dominguez.
Since 2013, Jeff has served as a bass instructor at Heid Music in Madison and has maintained a private teaching studio. He has also served as Jazz Director at Madison West High School in 2022-2023, a vendor for Children’s Long-Term Support, and as a clinician for the Richard Davis Bass Conference. He has taught at UW–Madison as a jazz history teaching assistant and joined the faculty of the UW–Madison Summer Music Clinic in 2025.
In addition to teaching, Jeff has performed with a wide array of local Madison ensembles, including Harmonious Wail, The Big Payback, No Name String Band, Black Star Drum Line, Ted Keys Trio, Lonelyproof, Charlie Painter Trio, Marisa Balistreri Trio, Killarney Blarney and Panchromatic. Jeff has also had the pleasure of sharing the stage with national and international artists such as John Jorgenson, Joscho Stephan, Terell Stafford, Frank Vignola, Robin Nolan, Gonzalo Bergara, Peter Bernstein, Fred Wesley, Clyde Stubblefield and Stephane Wrembel.
Jeff’s contributions have been recognized with multiple honors, including several Madison Area Music Awards: Bassist of the Year (2012), Classical Performer of the Year (2016), and Bass Guitar Player of the Year (2022). He was also named Heid Music’s Teacher of the Year in 2022.
Jeff is honored to be bringing in members of Harmonious Wail for this performance.

Justin Weis - Guest Artist Series
2025-11-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Justin Weis, euphonium
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With performances in three continents and 10 U.S. states, Justin Weis is making a name for himself as a soloist and innovator for low brass. Originally from Milwaukee, WI, Justin continues to travel around the United States and abroad to share both beautiful and unconventional sounds of the euphonium and tuba.
Among other accolades, Justin was the artist division winner at the 2024 Leonard Falcone Euphonium and Tuba Festival, the electronics solo competition winner at the 50th International Tuba Euphonium Conference (ITEC), and the euphonium artist division winner at the 2022 International Women’s Brass Conference (IWBC).
Justin has been selected as a guest recitalist at several regional conferences including the South Central, South East, and Great Plains. He has additionally been invited as a guest artist to teach and perform at schools including the Universities of Memphis and Wisconsin. During his time as a recitalist, Justin has been involved in the commissioning of multiple works. Some commissions and consortium involvements include solo works with live electronics from Lucy Pankhurst and Andrew May, a multimedia solo piece by Brandon Warner, a concertino by Jazzy Pigott, and consortium works by Fernando Deddos, Maria Thompson Corley, and Ian Lester. Though he performs a wide variety of repertoire spanning the 18th century to the present, he takes a special interest in the use of innovative electronic technologies to advance the repertoire.
In addition to performing, Justin actively composes works for solo euphonium and electronics, and arranges for his euphonium quartet, Euphonium Camerata. His works and arrangements have been performed at festivals, galas, conferences, and competitions. His recent euphonium edition of the Cyrille Rose 32 Etudes for Clarinet is published by KDP, and other arrangements can be found through the euphonium.com store. Additional compositions and arrangements are available upon request and include quartet arrangements of Bruckner, Dvorak, and Verdi, which range in difficulty from music for young players to works that will challenge even professional ensembles.
As an educator, Justin’s most recent positions were as Adjunct Instructor of Euphonium at the University of North Texas and Adjunct Professor of Low Brass at Collin College, where he coached undergraduate students in weekly lessons. He served as a teaching fellow at the University of North Texas while completing his doctoral studies, where he was additionally responsible for coaching a chamber ensemble and leading the 7 O’Clock Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. He has previously taught as a private lesson instructor for multiple schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a graduate assistant at the University of Memphis, and as a summer sectional coach for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater summer band program.
Justin received a BM in music education from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, an MM in euphonium performance with a conducting related field from the University of North Texas, and a DMA in euphonium performance from UNT. He currently lives in Long Island, New York, where he is advocating for the euphonium as an instrument of expression outside the traditional classical settings. He continues to present recitals at conferences, universities, and nontraditional venues, and is actively engaged in pushing the boundaries of the art form to draw in new listeners and challenge traditional norms.

Minha Jeon - DMA Recital
2025-11-19 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Minha Jeon DMA Piano Recital
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Program
Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (1837) Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Des Abends
Aufschwung
Warum?
Grillen
In der Nacht
Fabel
Traumes Wirren
Ende vom Lied
Images, Book II (1907) Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Cloches à travers les feuilles
Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
Poissons d’or
Variations, Op. 41 (1984) Nikolai Kapustin (1937–2020)

Saxophone Studio Recital
2025-11-19 19:30 | Morphy Recital Hall, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Josh Baker
Matteo Pasillas
Meghan Flook
Rebekah Stine
Ryan Slattery
Damien Hintz
Wei Han
Noah Schmedding
Andrew Scott
Samantha Davis
Caleb Monge
Tristan Maxwell
Thomas Wieland
Hannah Gardner
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Program
Deep Flowers Evan Chambers (b. 1963)
Josh Baker, alto saxophone
Concertino J.B. Singelee (1812-1875)
Ryan Slattery, alto saxophone
Sarah Stine, piano
Fantaisie sur un Thème Original Jules Demersseman (1833-1866)
Tyler Schuster, alto saxophone
Sarah Stine, piano
A Purcell Suite Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
1. The Sailors Dance
2. Hornpipe
3. Rondeau
Ryan Slattery, alto saxophone
Rebekah Stine, alto saxophone
Damien Hintz, tenor saxophone
Andrew Scott, baritone saxophone
Songs for the Coming Day David Maslanka (1943-2017)
III. Awakening
IX. Songs for the Coming Day
Matteo Pasillas, soprano saxophone
Meghan Flook, alto saxophone
Samantha Davis, tenor saxophone
Tristan Maxwell, baritone Saxophone
Introduction et Variations sur une Ronde Populaire Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937)
Cardinal Quartet
Josh Baker, soprano saxophone
Noah Schmedding, alto saxophone
Hannah Gardner, tenor saxophone
Wei Han, baritone saxophone
Thrift It Jenni Watson (b. 1985)
Golden Hour Joel Love (b. 1982)
The Melody Shop Karl L. King (1891-1971)/arr. Kevin Kastens (3:30)
Josh Baker, soprano saxophone
Matteo Pasillas, soprano saxophone
Noah Schmedding, alto saxophone
Thomas Wieland, alto saxophone
Meghan Flook, alto saxophone
Caleb Monge, alto saxophone
Rebekah Stine, alto saxophone
Ryan Slattery, alto saxophone
Hannah Gardner, tenor saxophone
Samantha Davis, tenor saxophone
Damien Hintz, tenor saxophone
Wei Han, baritone saxophone
Tristan Maxwell, baritone saxophone
Andrew Scott, baritone saxophone

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
Purchase tickets
$20 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
Also streaming live
Corey Pompey, conductor
Benjamin Grochowsky, guest conductor
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Program

Hyeyeon Seok - DMA Recital
2025-11-20 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Hyeyeon Seok DMA Piano Recital
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Program
Sonatine, M.40 Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
1. Modéré
2. Mouvement de menuet
3. Animé
Piano Sonata No.7, Op.83 Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
1. Allegro inquieto
2. Andante caloroso
3. Precipitato
Rhapsodie espagnole, S.254. Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208 (arr. Petri) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
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Hyeyeon Seok is a pianist with extensive experience in solo, chamber, and collaborative performance, as well as teaching.
Her educational background includes a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, which she earned in 2023. There, she studied with Dr. Dror Biran. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at Seoul National University in 2020, where her principal teachers were Prof. Hyoung Joon Chang, Dasul Jung, and Dr. Sae Kyung Park.
Throughout her career, Seok has earned several awards and competition prizes. In 2025, she was the recipient of the Edda Valborg Ofstie Memorial Award from UW–Madison. She won first prize at the Charleston Piano Competition in 2024 and the Sagye Piano Competition in 2019. Her other notable achievements include an honorable mention at the UW–Madison Concerto Competition and a second prize at the Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition, both in 2024. She also holds a third prize from the Korea Piano Duo Competition in 2017.
Her extensive performance experience includes numerous solo, chamber, and collaboration recitals. Her recent performances include Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as a solo recital featuring works by Chopin and Beethoven. As a collaborator, she has performed in recitals with clarinet, trumpet, and violin players, and has also participated in a Wind Ensemble Concert and with the Madison Chamber Players.
In addition to her performance career, Seok is an experienced educator. She has been a teaching assistant for a choir accompanist course and group piano classes since 2025 and 2023, respectively. She has also taught individual lessons and has been a private lesson instructor since 2016. Seok has participated in the MUSICALTA Academy & Festival in France and has attended masterclasses with notable pianists including Simone Dinnerstein, Norman Krieger, and Aviram Reichert.
Seok is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studies with Professor Christopher Taylor and serves as a teaching assistant.

Alban Gerhardt - Performance Class
2025-11-21 13:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Open to the public
Alban Gerhardt leads a performance class with School of Music students.
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Alban Gerhardt has gained recognition as one of the world’s most versatile cellists, highly regarded for his technical mastery, profound musicality, and insatiable artistic curiosity. Notable orchestral collaborators include Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, all the British and German radio orchestras, Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Orchestre National de France, Orquesta Nacional de España as well as The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia, Chicago symphony orchestras and New York Philharmonic, under conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, Klaus Mäkelä, Christian Thielemann, Simone Young, Susanna Mälkki, Vladimir Jurowski and Andris Nelsons.
Gerhardt’s wide repertoire includes all core concertos, as well as being the go-to soloist for contemporary composers. The upcoming season sees Alban Gerhardt collaborating with Boston Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Munich Philharmonic, the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife amongst others.
A keen chamber musician, Gerhardt regularly performs with pianists Steven Osborne and Alexei Volodin, the Alliage Saxophone Quintet and new collaboration partner, accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. The upcoming season brings Gerhardt to the Santa Catalina Festival, on tour around the UK with Steven Osborne, to Seoul Philharmonic, Shanghai Concert Hall and to 92NY for a solo Bach recital.
The 24/25 season also see Gerhardt appear as artistic curator of the Schumann Festival in Dusseldorf, in June 2025.
Having recorded extensively for Hyperion, Gerhardt’s album of the complete Bach suites was one of The Sunday Times’s top 100 recordings of 2019. His album of Shostakovich cello concertos with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Jukka-Pekka Saraste was awarded an ICMA in 2021. Gerhardt has won several awards, and his recording of Unsuk Chin’s cello concerto, released by Deutsche Grammophon, won a BBC Music Magazine Award and was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2015.
The 23/24 season saw Gerhardt appearing as Artist in Focus at Aldeburgh Festival in June and as Duisburger Philharmoniker’s Artist in Residence for the season. Highlights in the 2023/24 season included Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/ Alsop, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln/ Mälkki, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/ Manze, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra/ Inkinen.
Gerhardt is passionate about outreach, and shares his experience and gift with audiences in schools, hospitals and young offender institutions. Alban Gerhardt plays a Matteo Gofriller cello dating from 1710

Career Chat - Leilehua Lanzilotti
2025-11-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
The School of Music Career Chat Series presents:
Leilehua Lanzilotti
Humanities Building
Room 1321
Leilehua Lanzilotti is a composer, multimedia artist, and curator who is a 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Music, a 2025 USA Fellow, and a Creative Capital Awardee.
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The School of Music Career Chat Series introduces students to professionals who have taken multifaceted routes to success in the music industry. Each session features a candid conversation with a guest artist, where students will get the chance to ask questions directly, hear behind-the-scenes stories, and gain insight into the many ways a music career can unfold.
All students are invited to attend.

University Opera - Le nozze di Figaro
2025-11-21 19:30, 2025-11-22 19:30 | Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI, United States
Purchase tickets
General Public: $32
Seniors: $27
UW–Madison Students: $10
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Music by W. A. Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
David Ronis, Director
Oriol Sans, Conductor
Friday, November 21, 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 22, 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 23, 2 pm
Tuesday, November 25, 7:30 pm
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is not only one of Mozart’s most famous masterpieces, but it is arguably one of the great works of western culture. With a sublime score, hilarious comedy, and deeply human characterizations, it never fails to please. Based on Pierre Beaumarchais’ paradigm-changing play, Figaro features realistic portraits of 18th century aristocrats and servants and mirrors the burgeoning revolutionary spirit in France in the 1780s. But it’s the story and the score that really hook us.
Count Almaviva wants to revive the “droit du Seigneur,” the right of a lord to bed a servant’s bride on her wedding night and Susanna, his wife’s maid and confidant, is his current target. Figaro and Susanna, along with the Countess, devise a plan to thwart the Count’s advances and expose his inappropriate behavior. Add Mozart’s score, a group of colorful supporting characters, plus additional plot twists and turns into the mix and you have the ingredients for a wonderful, enlightening, and moving theatrical experience.

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
Purchase tickets
$10 general admission
Students free (ticket required)
Katie Crim and Joseph Mahin, conductors
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Program

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
Free | No ticket required
Also streaming live
Rabin String Quartet
Chantel Charis Davis, violin
Ben Campbell, violin
Heejo Yang, viola
Jun Lee, cello
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Program

Medical Sciences Orchestra
2025-11-22 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Joseph Mahin and Jared Sierra, conductors
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Program
In Autumn Edvard Grieg
Schatz-Walzer Johann Strauss II
Egmont Overture Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

Erin Krasovich - Senior Violin Recital
2025-11-22 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Also streaming live
Erin Krasovich Senior Violin Recital
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Program
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K.219 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
I. Allegro aperto
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWC 1003 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
I. Grave
II. Fuga
24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1 Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Caprice No. 9 in E Major
Intermission
Violin Concerto, Op. 77 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
I. Allegro non troppo
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Erin Krasovich is a violinist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who started playing in the Suzuki program at five years old. She is currently studying for her Bachelors of Music degree with Dr. Dawn Dongeun Wohn. In addition to her studies, she enjoys playing with the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and various chamber ensembles. Of these ensembles, she especially enjoys working on violin duo repertoire with her sister, Jane. She is also an Orchestral Librarian for the USO and other orchestral ensembles across campus.
In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her cats, Sonata and Rondo, and her family. She gives special thanks to her professor, Dawn Wohn, for helping her prepare for her senior recital.
