Ben Campbell - Master's Recital
2025-11-02 17:00 (America/Chicago) | 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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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
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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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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.
