Mead Witter School of Music

Laura Schwendinger - Faculty Artist Series
2026-02-20 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series
Works by Laura Schwendinger with Christopher Taylor, Sarah Brailey, Sally Chisholm, Dawn Dongeun Wohn, Conor Nelson, Alicia Lee, Trace Johnson, Matthew, and Matthew Schneider
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Laura Schwendinger, composer of Artemisia, winner of the 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Opera award, was the first composer to win the Berlin Prize. A Professor of music composition at UW–Madison, her works have been championed by Dawn Upshaw, Jennifer Koh, Janine Jansen, Matt Haimovitz, the Arditti, JACK and Spektral Quartets, International Contemporary Ensemble, Eighth-Blackbird, Juilliard, American Composers Orchestra, and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Hungary.
Her music has been performed at the Kennedy & Lincoln Centers, Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore & Carnegie Halls, Miller Theater & Théâtre Châtelet, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ojai, Talis, & Bennington Music Festivals. She has received further fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, First Prize of the 1995 ALEA III International Competition, as well as multiple fellowships from the American Academy Arts Letters, Copland House, Fromm, Koussevitzky and Bogliasco Foundations, MacDowell and Yaddo Colonies.
Her music has been called “captivating, artful and moving”, “music of infinite beauty” in the New York Times, as well as “the genuine article..onto the ’season’s best list “ in the Boston Globe. Recent premieres include her second opera, Cabaret of Shadows, a Fromm Commission produced by Musiqa in Houston, Nightingales for Eleanor Bartsch and Ariana Kim, a consortium commission with the Dubuque & UW Symphony Orchestras, and a harp concerto, Second Sight for Atlanta Symphony Principal Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson, commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Emory University Orchestra program, a solo cello work, commissioned as part of Matt Haimovitz’s Primavera Project and Silent Springs for Cantori’s 40th anniversary concert. A San Francisco Classical Voice review of her opera read “Artemisia is sumptuous on every level” and Colin Clarke wrote of her JACK CD QUARTETS, “the sheer intensity of the music is spellbinding…the passion shines through like..light.”

Kelby Schnepel - DMA Lecture Recital
2026-02-21 17:00 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Kelby Schnepel DMA Conducting Lecture Recital
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Program
El Condor Pasa Daniel Alomía Robles, arr. Buchanan
Suite peruana Celso Garrido-Lecca
I. Juego de terceras
II. Negrito de Malambo
III. Sicuri
IV. Quena y antara
V. Torito de Pucará
VI. Tondero
Danzas populares Andinas Celso Garrido-Lecca
I. Alegre
II. Lento
III. Rítmico
IV. Andante
V. Alegre

Keegan Kainz - Elective Recital
2026-02-21 19:30 | Morphy Recital Hall, 455 N. Park St., Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Keegan Kainz Elective Violin Recital
Keegan Kainz, violin
Eric Tran, piano
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Program
Partita No. 1 in B minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1002 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
I. Allemande – Double
II. Courante – Double
III. Sarabande – Double
IV. Tempo di Bourrée – Double
Memory for Solo Violin Chen Yi (b. 1953)
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
I. Allegro molto appassionato
II. Andante
III. Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace

Chamber Percussion Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-02-23 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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The Chamber Percussion Ensemble is a chamber group dedicated to the performance of significant and interesting works from diverse compositional trends of the 20th and 21st centuries. While an emphasis is placed on unconducted works, the group also regularly performs conducted pieces for up to 15 percussionists. Professors Anthony Di Sanza, Todd Hammes and Tom Ross coache the ensemble with assistance from graduate students in the percussion program. Guest artists regularly perform with the ensemble and guest composers are often featured.

Carmen J. Lemos Gonzalez - Master's Recital
2026-02-23 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Carmen J. Lemos Gonzalez Master’s Piano Recital
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Program
The Well-Tempered Clavier Vol. II, Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 885, No. 16 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
I. Vivace ma non troppo, sempre legato – Adagio espressivo
II. Prestissimo
III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo
Ballade Op. 6 Amy Marcy Beach (1867-1944)
Etude No. 1 in G minor Harrison Leslie Adams (1932-2024)
En la Sierra Op. 32 Alberto Williams (1862-1952)
I En la colina sombreada
Levante Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)
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Carmen J. Lemos Gonzalez is a pianist from Córdoba, Argentina. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Piano Performance at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studies under the guidance of Dr. Jessica Johnson. She is also completing a Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning.
Carmen earned her Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance at the University of Memphis, studying with Dr. Artina McCain, and completed the Trayecto Artístico Profesional in Piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Félix T. Garzón, where her principal teachers were Prof. Victoria Asurmendi and Prof. Gustavo Zaka.
In addition to her formal studies, she has participated in masterclasses with esteemed artists including Anton Nel (University of Texas), Mirian Conti (Juilliard School), Inna Faliks (UCLA), Luis Ascot (Conservatory of Geneva), Gabriel Kwok (Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts), and José Ramos Santana (NYU).
Passionate about both solo and collaborative performance, Carmen has appeared on the television program Banca el Arte at the Theatre of Río Cuarto, at the Museum Manuel de Falla, in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition, and as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Alberto Ginastera.
She currently teaches group piano classes at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has previously taught private piano and music theory to students of all ages and levels. Most recently, she was awarded the Gold Award at the 2025 Brahms International Online Competition.

Kwanho Song - DMA Recital
2026-02-24 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Kwanho Song DMA Piano Recital
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Program
Prelude and Fugue in A Minor in Book 2, BWV889 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Piano Sonata Op.78 No.24 in F# Major Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Préludes / Book 1, L.117: 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

SoundWaves
2026-02-27 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert 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 out to the macro scale!
SoundWaves combines scientific lectures about the world with live classical music performances. Each event revolves around a theme, exploring it first from many scientific angles and then through the lens of music. The program concludes with a live performance of music related to the evening’s theme.
The science lectures are delivered using language that the curious layman can understand, with a minimum of jargon and formulas. The music lectures, while demanding careful listening, are likewise designed for the layman and not the specialist.
Every SoundWaves event brings UW–Madison scientists from several departments together with Mead Witter School of Music faculty performers to explore a topic that is relevant to our world and our lives.

Braedon Krisko and Laura Perry - Junior Recital
2026-02-28 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Braedon Krisko and Laura Perry Junior Double Bass Recital
Braedon Krisko, double bass
Laura Perry, double bass
Colette Mouton, piano
Thomas Holten, piano
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Program
Adagio and Allegro George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto for Double Bass Sergei Koussevitzky (1874-1951)
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Allegro
Sonata in E Minor Vilmos Montag (1908-1991)
I. Allegro Moderato
II. Andante
III. Allegro
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Braedon Krisko is a junior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison studying Double Bass Performance and Molecular and Cellular Biology. He currently performs with the UW Symphony Orchestra and the Madison Gamer Symphony Orchestra and has previously played with the UW Wind Ensemble. Originally from the Twin Cities area, he enjoys cross country skiing every winter. He would like to thank his teachers Val Buchmeir and Peter J. Dominguez as well as all of the Badger Basses for their support and guidance. Braedon hopes to continue playing bass as he pursues a career in research.
Laura Perry is a junior studying Double Bass Performance & Political Science. She frequently plays principal bass with the UW Symphony Orchestra, and enjoys singing in the UW-Madison Concert Choir and Chorale. Her chamber music credits include performances with Midsummer’s Music Festival and Samtala: Musicians in Dialogue. Laura is grateful for Will Preston for being the most wonderful pianist, as well as for her teachers Dave School and Peter Dominguez and all of his guidance. Huge thanks to Braedon, Colette, Tommy, and all the Badger Basses for being so awesome!

University Bands - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-01 14:00 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Blue Note Ensemble & Contemporary Jazz Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-04 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-05 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States

Treble Choir, University Chorus, & Chorale - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-06 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Interwoven Ensemble - Guest Artist Series
2026-03-06 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Interwoven Ensemble
Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto/shamisen/voice
Keiko Tokunaga, violin
Hikaru Tamaki, cello
Andy Lin, erhu/viola
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Pioneers of intercultural music that interlaces historic sonorities of Eastern Asia and Western Europe, INTERWOVEN is currently in its fourth season as a chamber ensemble. Taking inspiration from its birthplace, New York City, where countless cultures coexist and thrive, INTERWOVEN celebrates and integrates traditions, aesthetics and communities from various heritages through performing, commissioning, and recording contemporary music.
The ensemble made its debut in October 2021 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City, with the funding from the City Artist Corps Grant. The group has since appeared in venues such as Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum in New York City, Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn and Vancouver Civic Centre Annex, among others.
INTERWOVEN’s artistic goal is to see evidence of traditional Asian instruments or their sonority included in classical contemporary compositions and an increase in commissioning and performance of multicultural works written by diverse composers. The ensemble promotes the creation of new intercultural music by educating the young composers in universities and by commissioning from established composers who resonate with our beliefs. INTERWOVEN served as a guest artist-in-residence at the University of California Los Angeles, Toronto University, Longy School of Music in Massachusetts, University of Kansas and Colby College in Maine, working closely with composition and instrumental departments of the school.
The group is committed to introducing the sonority of traditional Asian music, instruments, history and culture to various American communities of non-Asian heritages. The ensemble received two major fundings for its original community project, FantAsia!, from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York City and Canada Council for the Arts in 2023; FantAsia! is a musical event of an Asian folklore-inspired program that takes place in neighborhoods with the smallest Asian population in all boroughs of New York City and Vancouver, BC.
Founder and GRAMMY Award winning violinist, Keiko Tokunaga, brings together seasoned musicians who have been heard in major halls, such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Radio City Music Hall, and their equivalents in Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia. Members of INTERWOVEN are passionate advocates for the importance of music in social, personal, and political developments, and devote much of their time to teaching and educational outreach. The ensemble collaborates with educational institutions to promote the creations of multicultural musical compositions, and to encourage active dialogues between students, faculty and the community on socially crucial topics such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the music field and beyond.

Live from the Mead Witter School of Music - Matthew Zalkind and Christopher Taylor
2026-03-08 12:30 - 17:00 | 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:
Matthew Zalkind, cello
Christopher Taylor, piano
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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.

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

Jazz Badgers & Jazz Faculty Group with Dennis Mackrel
2026-03-12 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Dennis Mackrel, drums
With Jazz Badgers & Jazz Faculty Group
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Jazz drummer Dennis Mackrel is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Chair of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in Flushing, NY. He is a former member of the Count Basie Orchestra from 1983-1987, as the last drummer to be hired by Count Basie himself, and later as the orchestra’s leader from 2010-2013, and of leading big bands such as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the American Jazz Orchestra, the Carla Bley Big Band, Buck Clayton’s Swing Band, and the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, as well as small groups, including the George Shearing Quintet and the Hank Jones Trio. He has also recorded with Maria Schneider, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Scott Robinson, Frank Wess, Bill Charlap, Bucky Pizzarelli, Joe Williams, and many others.
Mackrel has also served as conductor and/or arranger for the McCoy Tyner Big Band (including two GRAMMY-winning album releases, The Turning Point and Journey), the Danish Radio Big Band (Copenhagen, DK), the WDR Big Band (Cologne, DE), and the Kluvers Big Band (Aarhus, DK). He served as chief conductor of the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, NL), which in 2019 was awarded the prestigious Edison Award for their double- CD Crossroads, and toured extensively in Europe, China, Russia, Indonesia, and the United States until the global pandemic of 2020. His compositions and arrangements have also been recorded by the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Jazz Knights Big Band, the Temple University Jazz Ensemble, the RIAS Big Band (Berlin, DE), the University of North Texas “One O’clock” Big Band, and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra.
Mackrel is an experienced jazz educator who conducts master classes, seminars, and workshops internationally. He has taught as guest professor at the Royal Conservatory in Aarhus (DK), as Visiting Artist in Jazz Studies at the Eastman School of Music and serves on the jazz faculties at the Birch Creek Summer Music Academy in Egg Harbor, WI and the Skidmore Jazz Institute in Saratoga Springs, NY. He has performed with the jazz ensembles of numerous colleges and high schools including the Eastman School of Music, Slippery Rock University, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Northern Illinois University, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the University of Minnesota-Morris, New Trier High School, Sun Prairie High School, Western Illinois University, Southern Utah University, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Aarhus (DK), the University of Florida, Miami, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Elmhurst College, Michigan State University and many others.

Christopher Taylor - Faculty Artist Series
2026-03-13 19:30 | 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
Christopher Taylor, piano
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Hailed by critics as “frighteningly talented” (The New York Times) and “a great pianist” (The Los Angeles Times), Christopher Taylor has distinguished himself throughout his career as an innovative musician with a diverse array of talents and interests. He is known for a passionate advocacy of music written in the past 100 years — Messiaen, Ligeti, and Bolcom figure prominently in his performances — but his repertoire spans four centuries and includes the complete Beethoven sonatas, the Liszt Transcendental Etudes, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and a multitude of other familiar masterworks. Whatever the genre or era of the composition, Mr. Taylor brings to it an active imagination and intellect coupled with heartfelt intensity and grace.
Mr. Taylor has concertized around the globe, with international tours taking him to Russia, Western Europe, East Asia, and the Carribean. At home in the U.S. he has appeared with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, and the Milwaukee Symphony. As a soloist he has performed in New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls, in Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Ravinia and Aspen festivals, and dozens of other venues. In chamber settings, he has collaborated with many eminent musicians, including Robert McDuffie and the Borromeo, Shanghai, Pro Arte, and Ying Quartets. His recordings have featured works by Liszt, Messiaen, and present-day Americans William Bolcom and Derek Bermel. Throughout his career Mr. Taylor has become known for undertaking memorable and unusual projects. Examples include: an upcoming tour in which he will perform, from memory, the complete transcriptions of Beethoven symphonies by Liszt; performances and lectures on the complete etudes of György Ligeti; and a series of performances of the Goldberg Variations on the unique double-manual Steinway piano in the collection of the University of Wisconsin. He has actively promoted the rediscovery and refurbishment of the latter instrument; in recent years he has also been building a reinvented and modernized version of it, a project that relies on his computer and engineering skills and was unveiled in a demonstration recital in 2016.
Numerous awards have confirmed Mr. Taylor’s high standing in the musical world. He was named an American Pianists’ Association Fellow for 2000, before which he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1996 and the Bronze Medal in the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. In 1990 he took first prize in the William Kapell International Piano Competition, and also became one of the first recipients of the Irving Gilmore Young Artists’ Award.
Mr. Taylor owes much of his success to several outstanding teachers, including Russell Sherman, Maria Curcio-Diamand, Francisco Aybar, and Julie Bees. In addition to his busy concert schedule, he currently serves as Paul Collins Associate Professor of Piano Performance at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He pursues a variety of other interests, including: mathematics (he received a summa cum laude degree from Harvard University in this field in 1992); philosophy (an article he coauthored with the leading scholar Daniel Dennett appears in the Oxford Free Will Handbook); computing; linguistics; and biking, which is his primary means of commuting. Mr. Taylor lives in Middleton, Wisconsin, with his wife and two daughters. Christopher Taylor is a Steinway artist.

Jazz Standards Ensemble & UW Jazz Orchestra with Dennis Mackrel
2026-03-13 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Dennis Mackrel, drums
With Jazz Standards Ensemble & UW Jazz Orchestra
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Jazz drummer Dennis Mackrel is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Chair of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in Flushing, NY. He is a former member of the Count Basie Orchestra from 1983-1987, as the last drummer to be hired by Count Basie himself, and later as the orchestra’s leader from 2010-2013, and of leading big bands such as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the American Jazz Orchestra, the Carla Bley Big Band, Buck Clayton’s Swing Band, and the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, as well as small groups, including the George Shearing Quintet and the Hank Jones Trio. He has also recorded with Maria Schneider, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Scott Robinson, Frank Wess, Bill Charlap, Bucky Pizzarelli, Joe Williams, and many others.
Mackrel has also served as conductor and/or arranger for the McCoy Tyner Big Band (including two GRAMMY-winning album releases, The Turning Point and Journey), the Danish Radio Big Band (Copenhagen, DK), the WDR Big Band (Cologne, DE), and the Kluvers Big Band (Aarhus, DK). He served as chief conductor of the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, NL), which in 2019 was awarded the prestigious Edison Award for their double- CD Crossroads, and toured extensively in Europe, China, Russia, Indonesia, and the United States until the global pandemic of 2020. His compositions and arrangements have also been recorded by the United States Military Academy at West Point’s Jazz Knights Big Band, the Temple University Jazz Ensemble, the RIAS Big Band (Berlin, DE), the University of North Texas “One O’clock” Big Band, and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra.
Mackrel is an experienced jazz educator who conducts master classes, seminars, and workshops internationally. He has taught as guest professor at the Royal Conservatory in Aarhus (DK), as Visiting Artist in Jazz Studies at the Eastman School of Music and serves on the jazz faculties at the Birch Creek Summer Music Academy in Egg Harbor, WI and the Skidmore Jazz Institute in Saratoga Springs, NY. He has performed with the jazz ensembles of numerous colleges and high schools including the Eastman School of Music, Slippery Rock University, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Northern Illinois University, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the University of Minnesota-Morris, New Trier High School, Sun Prairie High School, Western Illinois University, Southern Utah University, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Aarhus (DK), the University of Florida, Miami, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Elmhurst College, Michigan State University and many others.

Pro Arte Quartet - Faculty Ensemble Series
2026-03-14 19:30 | 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 Ensemble Series
David Perry, violin
Suzanne Beia, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Parry Karp, violoncello
With guest
Conor Nelson, flute

Wind Ensemble - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-16 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Scott Teeple, conductor

Klez Fest - Laura Elkeslassy
2026-03-19 19:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Laura Elkeslassy & Band – Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile
In Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile, singer Laura Elkeslassy unearths the music and stories of Judeo-Arab divas from midcentury North Africa, weaving North African folk and sacred music, spanning from traditional Andalusi style, to popular Chaabi, to Francarabe cabaret. A retro-futurist musical experience, Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile summons the Arab Jewish cultures of a lost millennial world, offering a living testimony of what once was and of what could be.

University Opera presents: Our Town
2026-03-20 19:30, 2026-03-21 19:30, 2026-03-22 14:00, 2026-03-24 19:30 | Music Hall, 925 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI, United States
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General Public: $32
Senior: $27
Student (UW–Madison and all other): $10
Friday, March 20, 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 21, 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 22, 2 pm
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 pm
Ned Rorem beautifully captures the atmosphere of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire at the turn of the 20th century in his operatic treatment of Thornton Wilder’s seminal play. His harmonic language juxtaposes an open feeling of Americana with dissonance, an apt setting for this tale. The Stage Manager character narrates the familiar story following young George Gibbs and Emily Webb and their parents as they fall in love and get married. And the last act’s poignant denouement occurs in the same way as it does in the play, as the dead remind us that life is short and we need to cherish it.

University Symphony Orchestra - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-25 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Oriol Sans, conductor
With guest
Dawn Wohn, violin

Concert Band - Student Ensemble Series
2026-03-26 19:30 | Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
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Corey Pompey, conductor

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

Wingra Wind Quintet - Faculty Ensemble Series
2026-04-11 14:00 | 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 Faculty Ensemble Series
Conor Nelson, flute
Lindsay Flowers, oboe
Alica Lee, clarinet
Trevor Healy, horn
Eleni Katz, bassoon

Live from the Mead Witter School of Music - Pro Arte Quartet
2026-04-12 12:30 | Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center, 740 University Avenue, Madison, WI, 53706, United States
Free | No ticket required
Live from the Mead Witter School of Music presents:
Pro Arte Quartet
David Perry, violin
Suzanne Beia, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Parry Karp, violoncello
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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.
