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Watch our concerto winners on video; "Delta Blues" online this summer; "Just Bach" concerts in Madison; Vinyl records stage a comeback
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News and Events from the Mead Witter School of Music
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Watch our concerto winners talk about the works they'll play this Sunday at our annual Symphony Showcase
Musically, UW-Madison's annual concerto competition ranges far and wide. This year, winners included a vocalist (Cayla Rosché, soprano, singing Strauss's Vier Letzte Lieder, TrV 296); a violinist (Richard Silvers, performing Dvorak's Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 53); a piano duo (Adalia Hernandez Abrego and Jiawen Zhang, playing Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor); a composer (Anne McAninch, with the UW-Symphony Orchestra performing her new work, Fanfare for Orchestra); and a bassoonist (Chia-Yu Hsu, who will play Bitsch's Concertino for Bassoon and Orchestra).
Watch here and join the fun, Sunday, March 10, 7:30 PM, Mills Hall. Tickets: $12 adults, children and students free, available at the Memorial Union, online and at the door. Learn more here.
New summer offering: "Delta Blues," with Professor Charles Dill. Now offered online!
Registration begins April 1; check back soon for precise course number.
See course guide here.
This class, first offered by Professor Dill in spring 2017, will now be available online as a four-week summer course. In the class, Dill traces the history of the blues within America's racial history, beginning with the living conditions that produced the blues in rural Mississippi, and detailing the emergence of blues in the early recording industry (Paramount, OKeh), including the earliest examples (W.C. Handy, Mamie Smith), as well as the singers emerging in the 1920s (Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson). The class then follows migrations northward to Memphis (jug bands) and Chicago (electric blues), traces the emerging importance of radio and live performance (King Biscuit Time, WDIA, the Chittlin' Circuit) as well as living conditions in Chicago (Maxwell Street). It will track early marketing of blues to white audiences (Josh White, Lead Belly) and end with the reemergence of the blues as '60s folk music. The course is supplemented with extensive musical selections and documentary footage of interviews and performances.
Mississippi Fred McDowell, 1960. Courtesy WikiCommons.
Musicians travel to Cuban sister city, Camaguey
A group of Madison musicians, including UW-Madison bass instructor Nick Moran, jazz studies director Johannes Wallmann and cellist Meredith Nesbitt traveled to Cuba in January. The American musicians played four concerts with Cuban musicians in addition to workshops and other opportunities.
Read story on Channel 3000.
"Just Bach" in Madison
Sarah Brailey
Doctoral voice candidate Sarah Brailey returned to Wisconsin last fall after ten years in New York City. "One of my favorite parts of my musical life in New York City was how much Bach I had the chance to sing. I regularly sang with the two big liturgical Bach series: Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Lutheran and Bach at One at Trinity Wall Street. Last spring, just after I had decided I would return to Madison for my doctorate (I got my master's here in '07) I ran into Madison violist, Marika Fischer Hoyt, who was in NYC and was attending a Bach at One concert in which I was soloing. We chatted after the concert about how I was coming back to Madison and wouldn't it be great if there were a similar free, afternoon Bach series that regularly featured Bach's wonderful and vast cantata repertoire. She got Paul Rowe and Cheryl Bensman-Rowe on board and the rest is history!"
Other Just Bach artistic staff include Cheryl Bensman-Rowe and Paul Rowe, founders of the Madison Early Music Festival; violist Marika Fischer Hoyt; organist Mark Brampton Smith; violinist and SOM alumna Kangwon Lee Kim; cellist and viola da gamba player James Waldo, a doctoral student at UW-Madison; UW-Madison doctoral tenor Wesley Dunnagan; cellist Anton TenWolde; and violinist Nathan Giglierano, a UW-Madison SOM alumnus.
Next "Just Bach" concert: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 1 PM
On the program:
BWV 4: Christ lag in Todesbanden
JM Bach: Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil
Luther Memorial Church, 1021 University Avenue, Madison
https://justbach.org/
Vinyl Grows in Popularity
From On Wisconsin magazine
"Staff members at Mills Music Library have noticed students' growing interest in vinyl in recent years. Tom Caw, the music public services librarian, says staff and librarians across the country have reported an increase in people requesting, listening to, or checking out long-playing vinyl.
" 'I think part of the allure for the vinyl listening experience is that it's a physical interaction with a device, and I think people are used to having access online to streaming media,' " Caw says. " 'The interactive physical experience is something you can't replicate online.' "
In case you had not heard, "Record Store Day" is April 13.
Upcoming events-Click links for details
Student-run opera: "The Old Maid and the Thief"
Two performances – Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9, 6:30 PM, Music Hall. Free.
Faculty Recital: Jessica Johnson, solo piano – Works of Female Composers
Friday, March 8 @ 8:00 pm PM, Mills Hall. Free.
Wind Fest with Milwaukee Symphony Guests
Saturday, March 9, Humanities. Free event. Beginning at 1:30 PM, the afternoon will include master classes in flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon with MSO guests, followed by instrumental choir readings and chamber music master classes with members of the Wingra Wind Quintet, UW's faculty quintet.
Final concert:
8:00 PM, Mills Hall. David Gillingham's rarely performed Concerto for Wind Quintet and Wind Ensemble.
Heather Zinninger Yarmel, assistant principal flute, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Katherine Young Steele, principal oboe, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
William Helmers, clarinet, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Catherine Chen, principal bassoon, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
The Journey of African-American Song with John Wesley Wright
Saturday, March 9 @ 8:00 PM, Morphy Hall. Free.
For this special event, John Wesley Wright will present a recital of a variety of African-American music including examples of calls and chants, children's game songs, spirituals and ring shouts, hymns and gospels, civil rights era songs, and contemporary songs. During his three-day residency, he will also present a master class and workshop.
Monday, March 11, 7:30 PM, Memorial Union Play Circle. Free.
Faculty Recital: Julia Rottmayer, soprano and Martha Fischer, piano
March 12 @ 7:30 PM, Mills Hall. Free.
Soprano Julia Rottmayer and pianist Martha Fischer present a concert featuring art songs from a mother and child's perspective.
Wisconsin Brass Quintet
Thursday, March 14 @ 7:30 PM, Mills Hall. Free.
Featuring student trumpeter Brighin Kane-Grade performing Simple (Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, arranged by Daniel Schlosberg.
Other works include music of Bernstein, Isaac Albenez, and David Sampson.
Le Domaine Musical with Marc Vallon and friends
Friday, March 15 @ 7:30 PM, Mills Hall. Free.
A concert of rarely performed music, including a deeply moving piece by Luciano Berio, O King, written in 1968 after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Coming up soon: Harbison Viola Sonata; Music of Frigyes Hidas; Percussion Concert with Film, Flowerpots and Drums
February 12, 2019 uwmadisonsom	Leave a comment
A very busy two weeks for the Mead Witter School of Music!
https://www.music.wisc.edu/
This weekend: World Premiere of John Harbison's Viola Sonata with Sally Chisholm and pianist Timothy Lovelace
Sunday, February 17, 7:30 PM, Mills Hall. $25. Buy tickets here.
Learn about the event here.
The concert includes solo performances by Chisholm and Lovelace and the full Pro Arte Quartet.
Read a recent Isthmus review of the Pro Arte Quartet.
On Sunday, Feb. 10, the Wisconsin State Journal published a story about the upcoming John Harbison events in Madison. Read the story here.
UW Wind Ensemble with soloist Midori Samson
Sunday, Feb. 17, 2:00 PM, Mills Hall.
With Scott Teeple, conductor and Cole Hairston and Ross Wolf, graduate conductors. This concert will be livestreamed. Check this page for updates: https://www.music.wisc.edu/video/
Midori Samson
Presenting doctoral bassoonist Midori Samson, winner of the inaugural Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition. Midori, student of Professor Marc Vallon and recipient of a Collins Fellowship at the school of music, has a secondary focus in social work. She holds roles as second bassoon in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and principal bassoon in the Beloit-Janesville Symphony. She previously was a fellow in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and has performed in several Chicago Symphony Orchestra family concerts, as well as with the Austin, Charleston, and New World Symphonies, the National Orchestral Institute, and the Pacific Music Festival. Midori holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the University of Texas at Austin. Midori will perform the Concerto for Bassoon (1999) of Frigyes Hidas . Click to see full program.
UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra, featuring works of composer Augusta Read Thomas
Thursday, February 14, 7:30 PM, Mills Hall – Free
With Chad Hutchinson, conductor, and graduate conductors Michael Dolan and Ji Hyun Yim. Click to see full program.
Augusta Read Thomas will be in residence at UW-Madison for this concert. Join us for a master class with Ms. Thomas, Feb. 14, 2:00 to 5:00 PM, Morphy Hall.
Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Thomas founded the University of Chicago's Center for Contemporary Composition: "a dynamic, collaborative, and interdisciplinary environment for the creation, performance and study of new music and for the advancement of the careers of emerging and established composers, performers, and scholars." An influential teacher at Eastman, Northwestern, Tanglewood, and Aspen Music Festival, she is only the 16th person to be designated University Professor at the University of Chicago. From 1997 through 2006, Thomas was Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony, working with conductors Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez.
UW-Western Percussion Ensemble with guest composer Elliot Cole and percussionist Peter Ferry
Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 PM, Mills Hall
Ticketed – Children $7 – Adults $17. Buy tickets here; also sold at door.
Presenting a three-day residency by composer Elliot Cole and percussionist Peter Ferry, who will perform with the UW-Western Percussion Ensemble. Works on the program will include "The Future is Bright" for soloist, film, and percussion ensemble and "Hanuman's Leap" for percussion group, digital playback, and voice. Learn more here.
Elliot Cole is a composer and "charismatic contemporary bard" (NY Times). He has performed his music with Grammy winners Roomful of Teeth, Grammy nominees A Far Cry and Metropolis Ensemble, as well as the Chicago Composers Orchestra, New Vintage Baroque, the Lucerne Festival Academy, and as a member of the book-club-band Oracle Hysterical. His percussion music has been performed by over 250 percussion ensembles all over the world. In 2017 he was invited by Talks at Google to share his unique approach to music through computer programming. He is on faculty at New York's The New School and Juilliard's Evening Division, and is program director of Musicambia at Sing Sing prison, where he works with a music school for incarcerated men.
University Opera and University Theatre: Sondheim's Into the Woods
From February 21 through 24, University Theatre and University Opera, in partnership with the Wisconsin Union Theater, will co-present Into the Woods at Shannon Hall in the Memorial Union, marking the first time in twelve years that the Mead Witter School of Music and the Department of Theatre and Drama have collaborated on a production. David Ronis, Karen K. Bishop director of opera, will direct, and Chad Hutchinson, orchestra director, will conduct.
Five performances are planned: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 7:30 PM, and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM.
Read about the show.
Guest Artist: Rhea Olivaccé, soprano, with Martha Fischer, piano
The Black Voice – A Collection of African American Art Songs and Spirituals
Recital: Saturday, February 23, 6:30 PM, Morphy Hall
Master class: February 22, 5:00 PM, Morphy Hall
In New York: Laura Schwendinger's Artemisia
Trinity Church Wall Street
St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Street, New York City
The Time's Arrow Festival continues its commitment to amplifying the voices of female artists across multiple mediums. The festival includes the fully staged world premiere of the new opera Artemisia by UW-Madison faculty composer Laura Schwendinger. Artemisia tells the story of the Baroque artist who portrayed herself as Susanna in her famous painting Susanna and the Elders.
Schwendinger's "High Wire Act" praised in Boston
From the Boston Classical Review: "If one needed to be reminded that a program of contemporary music can be engaging – even riveting – on its own terms, Collage New Music's concert's Sunday night at Pickman Hall was the place to be. CNM music director David Hoose led a reading of High Wire Act that brimmed with personality. Sarah Brady's realization of Schwendinger's brilliant flute writing was particularly compelling: precise, nimble, and fiery." Read the review here.
Our Full Concert Calendar
The School of Music offers a smorgasbord of performances each year; we invite you to visit our website and click on our events calendar. We also publish a season brochure that is mailed every August. To receive the brochure, please send your postal address to the School of Music.
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UW alumni help launch strings education in Door County; pro arte in mills hall tomorrow; Christopher Taylor next weekend
February 1, 2019 uwmadisonsom	Leave a comment
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UW-Madison alumni form 3/4 of new strings education quartet in Door County
Executive director also an alumna
The first time UW-Madison's Hunt Quartet played in Door County for Midsummer's Music, a Door County summer chamber music festival, it was in response to an emergency.
The renowned Pro Arte Quartet had long been booked to play, but the quartet had to cancel. Midsummer's artistic director James Berkenstock scrambled to fill the void.
The Griffon String Quartet. L-R: Roy Meyer, Ryan Louie, "Vini" Sant'Ana, and Blakeley Menghini. Photograph by Ben Menghini.
David Perry, violinist with the Pro Arte, had a solution: Hire the Hunt, the graduate string quartet at UW-Madison. "David said that this particular configuration of the Hunt Quartet was superb," says Berkenstock. "He said they already had a program and would do a great job."
Classical pianist Christopher Taylor continues his Liszt/Beethoven cycle
Franz Liszt was a superstar pianist. He was a virtuoso who invented the orchestral tone poem, taught 400 students for free, conducted and composed. Musicologist Alan Walker wrote three volumes about Liszt, shedding light on all of Liszt's work but especially his genius for transcription. Writes Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times, "The best of these works are much more than virtuosic stunts. Liszt's piano transcriptions of the nine Beethoven symphonies are works of genius. Vladimir Horowitz, in a 1988 interview, told me that he deeply regretted never having played Liszt's arrangements of the Beethoven symphonies in public."
Few pianists have tackled all nine Beethoven transcriptions. Christopher Taylor is one. On Saturday, February 9, at 8:00 PM in Mills Hall, Taylor will perform his sixth transcription – Beethoven's 8th Symphony. Saturday's concert will also include six preludes by Nikolai Kapustin, a whose works span both classical and jazz, and the Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 ("Der Wanderer") of Franz Schubert.
Christopher Taylor. Photograph by Michael R. Anderson.
In 2020, Christopher Taylor will celebrate Beethoven's 250th anniversary with performances of the Franz Liszt transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies, in Madison and beyond. In Boston, Taylor will perform the entire set in five concerts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Tickets for Taylor's Feb. 9 concert ($17 adults, $7 children) may be purchased online or in person.
Purchase options here:
https://www.music.wisc.edu/about-us/tickets/
Or, purchase online directly at this link.
Pro Arte Quartet this Saturday
February 2 @ 8:00 pm, Mills Concert Hall, 455 N. Park St.
Program: String Quartet D Major, Op. 50 No. 6 "The Frog"(1796) – Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Major, Op. 117 (1964) – Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3 (1842) – Robert Schumann
"Schubertiade" charms audience once again
Isthmus's John Barker wrote, "A carefully prepared program and a multi-page handout with the full German song texts, with English translations, allowed the audience to become fully immersed in the music.
"And what absolutely wonderful music!"
Check our Facebook page for images from the January 27 concert.
The Perlman Trio following their performance of Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2, second movement: Mercedes Cullen, Kanwoo Jin, and Micah Cheng. With Bill Lutes at piano. Photograph by Michael R. Anderson.
Jazz Composers Group and Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble  February 1 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Tandem Press, 1743 Commercial Avenue
Wingra Wind Quintet in Richland Center February 3 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 26625 Crestview Dr Richland Center, WI  Members of the Wingra Wind Quintet in concert, presented by the Richland Concert Association at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Richland Center.
UW Jazz Orchestra & the Billy Childs Quartet February 9 @ 8:00 pm Memorial Union-Shannon Hall, 800 Langdon Street WI  Jazz pianist Billy Childs, the 2018 Grammy Award winner for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, will join the UW Jazz Orchestra on stage for an exciting opening act prior to his appearance with the Billy Childs Quartet.
UW-Madison Symphony Orchestra, with composer Augusta Read Thomas February 14 @ 7:30 pm Mills Concert Hall. With Chad Hutchinson, conductor, and graduate conductors Michael Dolan and Ji Hyun Yim.  Program: Jean Sibelius- Valse Triste; Augusta Read Thomas- Of Paradise and Light; Augusta Read Thomas- Prayer and Celebration; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Symphony No. 39 in Eb. Major, K. 543. Augusta Read Thomas will be in residence at UW-Madison for this concert. Join us for a master class with Ms. Thomas, Feb. 14, 2:00 to 5:00 PM, Music Hall.
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Famed scholar to illumine Schubert history; New strings scholarship created; Medical Orchestra offers musical balm
January 14, 2019 uwmadisonsom	Leave a comment
Welcome to a New Year!
We hope that everyone enjoyed a safe and pleasant holiday season!
Note to Alumni: The Hamel Music Center will open this fall, and we'd like to round up as many alumni stories as possible to include in various formats. Stories may include current occupations, research projects, performances and family information! Please send your updates to this email address.
Medical Orchestra soothes performers as much as patrons
On December 3, the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health presented an inaugural concert of the Medical Orchestra of Wisconsin, performing works by Dvorak, Sibelius, and Schubert. The orchestra is composed of the school's medical students, graduate students, faculty, and staff, and was conducted by School of Music graduate conducting assistants Jenny Yim and Michael Dolan (pictured, at the podium). The orchestra's next concert is planned for April 14 in Mills Hall.
Renowned Schubert scholar Susan Youens to present at annual Schubertiade
Susan Youens, recently retired from the University of Notre Dame, has one of the most impressive musicology resumes in the world, and she'll visit on January 27 to tell us a story or two about Franz Schubert. Youens has won four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She's written eight books, hundreds of articles, essays and chapters, and lectured all over the world.
"Dr. Youens will explore the rich relationship of Schubert's music to the poems he chose to set and the emergence of new directions in Schubert's style," says co-organizer William Lutes. "The influence of Beethoven had loomed large throughout Schubert's music, and in the year following Beethoven's death, the 31-year-old composer wrote works of homage to this great master, as he saw his own music becoming more widely recognized, published and performed."
Highlights of our Schubertiade will be a complete performance of Schubert's 14 final songs, published after his death as Schwanengesang, or "Swan Songs" – among the composer's richest and most forward looking works; the humorous and risqué Refrain-Lieder, the slow movement of the great Piano Trio in E-flat major, the enchanting Rondo in A major for piano four-hands; and the beautiful song Auf den Strom for voice, horn and piano, composed for a concert commemorating the first anniversary of Beethoven's death, and filled with subtly haunting references to Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
Our Mills Hall living room, Schubertiade 2014. Image by Michael R. Anderson.
In addition to pianists Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes, our guests will include voice faculty members Mimmi Fulmer, Julia Rottmayer and Paul Rowe, voice students Sarah Brailey, Wesley Dunnagan, and Benjamin Hopkins, graduate hornist Joanna Schultz, and guest singer Cheryl Bensman-Rowe. We are also pleased to present the Perlman Trio (Mercedes Cullen, violin; Micah Cheng, cello; Kangwoo Jin, piano).
We thank our generous donors Ann Boyer and Kato Perlman for their longtime support of our Schubertiades, the Perlman Trio, and other musicians and events.
2019 SCHUBERTIADE SCHEDULE:
Master class with Susan Youens. Thursday, January 24, 4:30 PM, Morphy Hall. (Free)
Pre-concert lecture: 2:00 PM, Sunday, January 27, Morphy Hall. (Free.)
Concert: 3:00 PM, Sunday, January 27, Mills Hall. (Buy tickets here.)
Post-concert reception, included with ticket purchase: Sunday, January 27, University Club, 5:30 PM.
TICKETS: $17 adults, $7 all age students/children. Free to music majors, faculty and staff. To avoid long lines, we suggest arriving 30 minutes early or buying tickets ahead of time, either in person or online. Please see link below.
Purchase options (online, by telephone and in person) here:
To buy tickets directly online, click here.
Announcing The Dr. Stanley and Shirley Inhorn Strings Scholarship Fund
This new scholarship was created with a generous gift from Dr. Stanley and Mrs. Shirley Inhorn. The fund supports graduate and undergraduate students who study string performance at the Mead Witter School of Music at UW-Madison. Susan C. Cook, director of the School of Music, expressed her thanks to the Inhorns. "Stan and Shirley Inhorn have been great and generous friends to the Madison music community. Their ongoing support of the Mead Witter School of Music will ensure that our wonderful students can realize their musical dreams."
To make an online gift to the Dr. Stanley and Shirley Inhorn Strings Scholarship Fund, visit supportuw.org/giveto/StringsScholarship (or click the image above).
To make a gift by mail, please make your check payable to the University of Wisconsin Foundation and note the fund name in the memo line. Send your check to University of Wisconsin Foundation, US Bank Lockbox, Box 78808, Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807.
The Inhorns will be formally recognized at a concert on February 17, featuring the world premiere of John Harbison's Viola Sonata, performed by the Pro Arte Quartet's Sally Chisholm and Minneapolis pianist Timothy Lovelace. The full Pro Arte Quartet will also perform.
Sally Chisholm
Read about the Inhorns and this concert.
TICKETS: Buy tickets ($25) to the world premiere of John Harbison's Viola Sonata, with Pro Arte violist Sally Chisholm and Minneapolis pianist Timothy Lovelace. The full Pro Arte Quartet will also perform.
In person: Memorial Union Box Office, 800 Langdon Street.
Online: https://artsticketing.wisc.edu
Christopher Taylor to perform Liszt, Schubert and Kapustin on February 9
Christopher Taylor. Image by Michael R. Anderson.
Faculty pianist Christopher Taylor, a 1993 bronze medal winner in the Van Cliburn competition, will perform Franz Liszt's transcription of Beethoven's Symphony no. 8 in F Major, op. 93. This will be the sixth Lizst transcription of Beethoven's symphonies that Taylor has performed. Also on the program: Six of Nikolai Kapustin's 24 Preludes and the Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 ("Der Wanderer") of Franz Schubert.
Following Taylor's 2017 performance of Liszt's arrangement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony plus two other works, musicologist Mark DeVoto wrote this in the Boston Musical Intelligencer: "No other piano recital I've heard in the past three years has equaled this one for it combination of excitement, interest, and emotion. I hope Taylor will return early and often with whatever conventional or unconventional repertoire he wishes."
DeVoto's wish has come true: Later this year, Taylor will perform the entire Liszt-Beethoven cycle at the Isabella Gardiner Museum in Boston.
Taylor also recently performed in Madison Symphony Orchestra's "Remembering Lenny" program of mid-November.
Award Announcements: Jazz Studies Professor Johannes Wallmann and graduate pianist Anna Siampani
UW-Madison's Division of the Arts provides annual awards for arts achievements and future endeavors. This year, the School of Music is represented twice. Johannes Wallmann, director of jazz studies & associate professor of music, received the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts. Anna Siampani, graduate pianist studying with Professor Jessica Johnson, received the David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts.
Pianist Anna Siampani
Siampani, a native of Veria, Greece, will use the project award to finance her dissertation research. That project includes first-ever primary source research into the solo piano works of Manolis Kalomiris, a composer born in Smyrna, Greece in 1883, who died in 1962. Kalomiris is seen as the father of modern Greek music. This April, Anna will present two events, a lecture and a recital delving into these works, "demonstrating the characteristic Greek idiom with the complexity and inflection of the folk rhythms, the varying touches of articulation and the flowing pacing of the performance practices. She'll follow up with a CD recording and accompanying booklet containing analysis of the works.
Over the holiday break, Anna returned to Greece to dig into the libraries at the Manolis Kalomiris Society, The National Conservatory, National Library of Greece, and the Lilian Voudouri Music Library of Greece.
Upcoming concert highlights at the School of Music
Double Reed Fest
Saturday, January 19, beginning 1:30 PM in Mills Hall. Hosted by UW-Madison faculty Andreas Oeste, oboe and Marc Vallon, bassoon, the Double Reed Fest brings together oboists and bassoonists of all ages and abilities in a festive celebration of their instruments.
The Panama Papers: Tom Curry, tuba; Mark Hetzler, trombone; and Anthony DiSanza, percussion
Saturday, January 26, 8:00 PM, Mills Hall. Free.
Schubertiade with Martha Fischer, Bill Lutes and Schubert scholar Susan Youens (See above.)
Sunday, January 27, 2:00 PM (lecture), 3:00 PM (concert). $7 – $17.
Spring 2019 Carillon Concerts with Lyle Anderson. Observatory Drive.
All concerts are Sundays at 3:00 PM.
January 13 & 27; February 10 & 24; March 10 & 24; April 14 & 28; May 12 & 26.
Decoda Interactive Performance Residency
Final concert: Thursday, January 31, 7:30 PM, Mills Hall.
Decoda is a collective of versatile artists dedicated to creating dynamic performances and creative programs designed for social impact. Decoda's pursuits place equal emphasis on artistry and engagement to create meaningful musical experiences around the globe through concerts in major international venues and neighborhood projects with vibrant community partners.
7th Wisconsin Summit for Band Conductors
Friday, February 1 @ 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
A workshop featuring internationally renowned clinicians focused on self-improvement for the middle and high school band directors. Hosted by Scott Teeple, professor, conductor of Wind Ensemble.
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Announcing the World Premiere of John Harbison's Viola Sonata
December 17, 2018 uwmadisonsom	Leave a comment
ANNOUNCING A WORLD PREMIERE:
Composer John Harbison pens new composition for Pro Arte Quartet violist Sally Chisholm
New strings scholarship also created
Composer and music educator John Harbison, winner of both a MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant and a Pulitzer Prize in composition, has created a new work for Sally Chisholm, violist with the University of Wisconsin's Pro Arte Quartet.
John Harbison
The composition, tentatively entitled "Sonata for Viola and Piano," will receive its world premiere with Chisholm and Minnesota pianist Timothy Lovelace at a special concert on the UW-Madison campus February 17, 2019, 7:30 PM, as part of a yearlong celebration of the composer's 80th birthday. Across the world in 2018 and 2019, the celebration includes two other world premieres, over a dozen new recordings, a first book and many performances.
In tandem with the concert, the Mead Witter School of Music announces the Dr. Stanley and Shirley Inhorn Strings Scholarship, initiated with a $10,000 gift from the Inhorns, to be augmented with ticket proceeds from the concert. The scholarship will be awarded in the fall of 2019, and is available to both graduate and undergraduate strings students.
"As the cost of higher education increases dramatically, we recognize that the availability of more scholarships will greatly enhance the ability of the Mead Witter School of Music to attract both in-state and out-of-state strings students," said Stanley Inhorn.
Susan C. Cook, director of the School of Music, expressed her thanks to the Inhorns. "Stan and Shirley Inhorn have been great and generous friends to the Madison music community. Their ongoing support of the Mead Witter School of Music will ensure that our wonderful students can realize their musical dreams."
Harbison has known Chisholm for many years. "I have been aware of Sally's extraordinary playing for quite some time," says Harbison, whose actual 80th birthday is December 20, 2018. "She performed my composition called 'The Nine Rasas,' about an ancient Indian theory of states of being that were both interesting and refined. Sally was quite remarkable."
The first half of the School of Music concert will feature the Pro Arte Quartet (with Chisholm, violinists David Perry and Suzanne Beia, and cellist Parry Karp) performing Haydn's String Quartet Op. 76, No. 4, known as "Sunrise," and Harbison's "Four Encores for Stan," an homage for string quartet and narration to Polish composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, former director of the Minnesota Orchestra.
The program's second half will include solo performances by Lovelace, followed by Chisholm, who will play selections from Harbison's "The Violist's Notebook," dedicated to fellow violists Kim Kashkashian, Marcus Thompson and James Dunham. Harbison's new composition, written specifically for Chisholm, will close the program.
Harbison will be present for the premiere.
The performance will take place at 7:30 PM in Mills Concert Hall in the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park St., on the UW-Madison campus. Tickets are priced at $25 and are available online.
Harbison currently teaches musical composition and arrangement in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's jazz division. He has composed for the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as scores of other large and small ensembles. His catalog includes three operas, six symphonies, twelve concerti, a ballet, five string quartets, numerous song cycles and chamber works, and a large body of sacred music that includes cantatas, motets, and the orchestral-choral works Four Psalms, Requiem and Abraham. His music is widely recorded on leading labels.
He also is a part-time Madison resident who, with his wife Rose Mary Harbison, each summer over Labor Day weekend hosts the weeklong Token Creek Music Festival, which features classical chamber pieces and jazz.
In 2014, Harbison was one of five composers commissioned by the Pro Arte Quartet to compose a piece commemorating the quartet's 100th anniversary. His String Quartet No. 5 joined compositions by William Bolcom, Walter Mays, Paul Schoenfield and Benoit Mernier, both in performance and on a Pro Arte Quartet Albany Records recording.
Besides serving as violist for the Pro Arte Quartet, Chisholm was a founder of the Thouvenel String Quartet and the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota. She was a finalist at the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and first prize winner in the Weiner International Chamber Music Competition.
Timothy Lovelace chairs the collaborative piano program at the University of Minnesota and performs all over the world. He and Chisholm have previously premiered works by Andrew Imbrie for the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, and have performed frequently with many of this Society's guest artists such as Nobuko Imai, Pete Wiley, and Robert Mann. "His musicianship gives freedom, imagination, and a purity that is beloved. When I see Tim's name in concert programs at the Kennedy Center and throughout New York City, I think, 'They are so lucky!' " says Chisholm.
Chisholm believes the new sonata will become an "instant classic."
"After glimpsing just the first two movements, I recognize how wonderfully he writes for viola," says Chisholm. "The opening measures are the heart of the viola sound, with brilliant expression and interplay with the pianist."
The new composition departs from the standard sonata structure of three to four movements to include five and perhaps six shorter movements in its initial draft, Chishom says. The same style follows in many of Harbison's other compositions, although not necessarily that of his prior viola sonata.
"Compared to Mr. Harbison's Solo Sonata for Viola, written in 1961, the new Sonata for Viola and Piano is centered in the heart of the viola sonority and soulfulness," Chisholm explains. "The composer comes through so clearly in both, but the geography in the first few movements of his latest work is more compact. We have not yet seen all movements, and are expecting surprises."
Harbison is still putting the finishing touches on Chisholm's sonata which he sees as more of collaborative piece and less of a virtuosic work, if only due to the nature of the instrument and its performers.
"Violists form a close community with a special temperament, which influences what I write for viola," Harbison says. "Violists understand what they play, and that they share the musical texture with other performers.
"I am hoping for a certain type of musical character," he adds. "Schuman wrote music for cello and violas called 'fantasy pieces' that have more informal characters," he adds. "I believe my approach is more like that."
In 2016, Chisholm was appointed to a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation professorship which she named to honor Germain Prévost, violist with the Pro Arte Quartet from its inception in 1912 through 1947. The appointment included $75,000 in research support from WARF over five years. That, plus an unspecified amount from an anonymous admirer of John Harbison, will fund the commission and additional expenses.
Provisions of the commission required that the work be premiered during the composer's 80th birth anniversary year and that those performances include premieres on either coast. According to Chisholm, former Juilliard String Quartet violist Samuel Rhodes and pianist Robert McDonald will perform the work's New York premiere March 19 at The Juilliard School. Subsequent performances will include those by Kronos Quartet violist Hank Dutt in San Francisco, Rice University violist James Dunham at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado, as well as violists Richard O'Neill, Marcus Thompson, and Kim Kashkashian.
The anonymous benefactor also has requested premiere performances in London and Berlin, both of which have yet to be arranged.
Says Chisholm: "We are all so grateful to the WARF Professorship that enabled this commission to be seriously pursued. Funding enables the premiere to be performed at UW-Madison, for the consortium to be formed with world famous violists, the underwriting of our guest pianist Timothy Lovelace, the composer John Harbison in attendance, and a great new work to be added to the viola repertoire."
Other Harbison-related events scheduled in February include a Madison Symphony Orchestra performance of his work "The Most Often Used Chords" ; a UW-Madison Memorial Library exhibit on his music; and a performance of the Grammy Award-nominated Imani Winds Wind Quintet in Shannon Hall at the Wisconsin Union Theatre. Other area ensemble tributes and musical activities are still in the planning stages.
Tickets ($25.00) may be purchased from Campus Arts Ticketing. All seats are general admission.
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About the Inhorns:
Stanley and Shirley came to Madison in 1953 – Shirley from Iowa to attend graduate school in biochemistry, and Stan from Columbia Medical School to become an intern at the Wisconsin General Hospital. Shirley is a pianist, and she also played the marimba in the University of Iowa band. Stan is a violinist who played in a string quartet in college and also started one in medical school. Stan courted Shirley by taking her to the Pro Arte Quartet concerts on campus, and soon they married and settled down to raise a family of three children. After he completed his training, Stan stayed on at the UW School of Medicine. One day, a neighbor, who happened to be the orchestra conductor at West High School, mentioned that he was going to audition for the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Stan joined him and subsequently played in the orchestra for several years until his academic responsibilities became too demanding. Their three children all took piano lessons, and in elementary school, each chose to play a string instrument – a violin, a cello, and a viola. Thus, the Inhorn String Quartet was created. Soon the children all joined the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras, in which both Shirley and Stan became life trustees. They also became board members of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the MSOL for which they received the first John DeMain Award. They have also been supporters of the Pro Arte Quartet and other programs at the Mead Witter School of Music. More recently Stan has been a board member of the Oakwood Chamber Players. The Inhorns appreciate the vibrant music scene in Madison and are pleased to be able to contribute their time and resources to these organizations.
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Concerto Winners on stage March 18; Meet Satoko Hayami from "Sound Out Loud"; Jazz Orchestra 50th anniversary podcast
"Symphony Showcase" Coming Soon!
Sunday, March 18, 7:30 PM, Mills Hall
We've announced this before, but here's a reminder: Our annual concerto winners solo recital (a/k/a "Symphony Showcase") takes place at 7:30 PM on March 18 in Mills Hall.
Our 2018 winners are Kaleigh Acord, violin (Beethoven, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, first movement); Aaron Gochberg, percussion (Keiko Abe, Prism Rhapsody); Eleni Katz, bassoon (Mozart, Bassoon Concerto in B flat major); Eric Tran, piano (Bach, Concerto No. 4 in A Major); and Mengmeng Wang, composer (premiere: "Blooming").
Tickets are only $10 for adults, free to students, and there's a free reception after the show in Mills Hall. Buy tickets here or at the door.
Meet Satoko Hayami, graduate pianist
Satoko, a doctoral student in Professor Martha Fischer's studio, is a member of Sound Out Loud, a recent winner of The American Prize. Here's an excerpt from our recent Q&A with Satoko:
"The idea of starting a contemporary chamber music ensemble came to me in searching for ways to better connect with more diverse audiences. I felt that the diverse musical language in contemporary repertoire might have as much or even more potential to be relevant to the different kinds of audiences including young people and non-classical music fans than older repertoire, if presented in appropriate ways. I wanted to team up with people who are open to different, sometimes unconventional ways to present music, and was lucky to find people who share the similar interests, openness and enthusiasm right away."
Satoko Hayami
James Latimer wins award
Emeritus Professor of Percussion James Latimer won a Lifetime Achievement Award at annual Wisconsin Days of Percussion event, January 27, 2018 in Milwaukee. While at UW-Madison, Latimer spearheaded a Duke Ellington Festival, started the Madison Marimba Quartet, initiated the first of 300 Young Audience Concerts held in public schools from 1969 to 1984, and hosted the Wisconsin Percussive Arts Society "Days of Percussion."
Shain Woodwind/Piano Duo winners concert
3:30 pm, Sunday, March 4, Morphy Hall
A competition and recital sponsored by former UW-Madison Chancellor Irving Shain
Winners were announced on Tuesday, February 27. They include: Juliana Mesa-Jaramillo, bassoon and Satoko Hayami, piano;
Anna Fisher-Roberts, flute and Eric Tran, piano.
Local arts reviewers loved "La Boheme"
University Opera's production of LA BOHEME. Foreground, left to right: Claire Powling (Musetta), Michael Kelley (Waiter), Jake Elfner (Alcindoro) Photograph by Michael R. Anderson.
"University Opera's "La Bohème" proves a complete success on all counts – from the staging and the costumes to the singing and the orchestra"
Larry Wells, The Well-Tempered Ear, Feb. 27.
"Ronis' able hand was evident in the players' acting. The cast was consistently believable, and consequently I was drawn into their world and suffered along with their despair over love's inconsistencies and death's sting. Using my acid test for a performance's success, I never glanced at my watch either night. I was fully engaged.
"The orchestra was a marvel. Conductor Chad Hutchinson let it soar when it was appropriate, but the orchestra never overshadowed the singers. In fact, the key term that kept occurring to me both evenings was balance. The acting, the back-and-forth between the singers, and the interplay between the orchestra and the singers were consistently evenhanded.
"As for the singers, the primary roles were double cast. Friday's Mimi was Shaddai Solidum whose first aria "Mi chiamano Mimi" was a lesson in the mastery of legato. Saturday's Mimi was Yanzelmalee Rivera who possesses a bell-like voice of remarkable agility."
Read the entire review here.
Yanzelmalee Rivera as Mimi in University Opera's production of LA BOHEME. Photograph by Michael R. Anderson.
University Opera Offers a Gem in a Bejewelled Setting
Greg Hettsmanberger, What Greg Says, 2.27.18
"Again we have been given much to look forward to; certainly it is unrealistic to see University Opera in Shannon Hall every season, but we can hope that it becomes a semi-regular occurrence. The greater lesson from Sunday's performance however is this: wherever Ronis and his "kids" show up, the audience is in store for some memorable opera. The national awards and recognition that the program are consistently earning are richly deserved, and our town is clearly the richer for what these folks are giving us."
Read the full review here.
Johannes Wallmann and Jazz at UW-Madison
"Bucky's Jazz Savior," Madison Magazine, February 2018
"It was that combination of vision, leadership and expertise as a pianist and composer that quickly pushed him to the top of UW–Madison's list of candidates for director of jazz studies. During [Director of Jazz Studies Johannes] Wallmann's first year of teaching here, in 2012-2013, he sought out and performed with many local jazz musicians as a means of building relationships and moving the music program forward.
"In less than five years, Wallmann took the Jazz Studies undergraduate program from zero enrollees to 17. It's an important part of the efforts to revitalize Madison's jazz community."
Read the story here.
Announcement: The UW Jazz Orchestra is turning 50! April's annual Jazz Fest will celebrate this anniversary with three concerts featuring guest trumpeter Marquis Hill, winner of the 2014 Thelonious Monk Competition. Learn about the history of the Jazz Orchestra with our new six-episode podcasts with Les Thimmig, longtime composer and saxophonist. Listen to Episode 1 on our SoundCloud channel.
The American Prize first-place vocal winner coming to Madison on March 19 & 20
Vocalist Kristina Bachrach, recent winner of The American Prize in Vocal Performance and the Friedrich and Virginia Schorr Memorial Award, will perform a concert on March 20 at 7:00 PM in Music Hall. Accompanied by faculty pianist Daniel Fung, she'll sing selections from "The Recovered Voices Initiative," started by James Conlon and Los Angeles Opera, which focuses on musical works and musicians that were either suppressed or killed by the Nazi regime in World War II.
Kristina Bachrach
Read about Kristina, the Initiative, and The American Prize at this link.
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Hamel Music Center gets attention; Student News; "La Bohème" Feb 23-25; Flute & Keyboard Days
"What are those crazy round windows in the Hamel Music Center? It's a question Gary Brown has gotten a lot lately."
To answer it, UW-Madison's Käri Knutson wrote a story for Inside UW, the weekly e-newsletter of UW-Madison.
"…They're not windows, explains [Brown], the director of campus planning and landscape architecture. They're sound chambers. And it's just one of the features that will help the Hamel Music Center hit all the right notes. 'It's going to be amazing,' Brown says. 'The architecture and design is something we haven't seen on this campus. It will really create a major gateway feature to campus.' "
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Three-day "La Bohème" run at the Union's Shannon Hall only three weeks away
The first University Opera production staged at the Union in 15 years, "La Bohème" features 56 cast members and a set designed by Madison's dean of theater design, Joseph Varga.
In the Union's "Green Room" blog, read Director David Ronis's description of his role as director: "What really interests me [in La Bohème] is seeing how the characters are changed from the beginning of the piece to the end," Ronis writes. "They are forced to grow up; they become less self-involved; they learn about the fragility of life. Their sense of time changes – they won't live forever – they learn the hard way how precious life and love are. For me, that's the fundamental story we're telling."
The opera will be staged Friday, February 23, 7:30 PM start time; Saturday, February 24, 7:30 PM start time; and Sunday, February 24, 3:00 PM start time.
Fellowship string quartet and pianist heads to Florida
Once a year, a quartet or quintet comprised of graduate fellowship recipients travels to Florida to perform a private concert for longtime School of Music donor Paul Collins. This year, they will perform works of Haydn, Beethoven, Manos Hadjidakis, Debussy, Liszt, Dvorak, and a passacaglia by Handel-Halvorsen. Collins not only supports ten graduate students at the school, but also contributed $5 million toward the new Hamel Music Center. The new recital hall will be named for him.
The 2017-2018 Fellowship String Quartet, L-R:
Ariel Garcia, viola; Kaleigh Acord, violin; James Waldo, cello; Richard Silvers, violin.
Harmony in performance: Violin Prof. Soh-Hyun Altino and cellist husband Leonardo Altino interviewed by the Wisconsin State Journal
"The Altinos, married in 2002, were born on opposite sides of the world. They had successful, growing, separate careers when they met and discovered two common languages between them: English and music.
Leo and Soh-Hyun Altino
"The couple came to Madison in 2015 when Soh-Hyun Park Altino was hired as assistant professor of violin at UW-Madison. Leo Altino now commutes from their West Side Madison home to Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, near Chicago, to teach three days a week."
The Altinos were profiled by reporter Gayle Worland prior to their joint concert debut on January 26 with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.
Synching science and music
Luke Valmadrid. Photograph by Sarah Morton.
Double degrees are hard, but a triple degree? "Luke Valmadrid has forged a rigorous path pursuing degrees in chemistry, biochemistry and violin performance — and the dedicated senior wouldn't have it any other way." Luke studies music with Prof. Altino, above. Written by UW-Madison's Katie Vaughn.
Polish your playing skills at our annual Flute or Keyboard Days
Flute Day, Sunday, February 11, includes performances by guest artist, flutist George Pope, as well as by UW-Madison flute faculty Timothy Hagen and the UW-Madison Flute Ensemble. In addition, participants will be offered a brief seminar on making practicing more effective and enjoyable. Most importantly, there are opportunities for younger participants to perform in master classes and mock auditions in preparation for WSMA Solo and Ensemble Festivals and other solo performances.
Keyboard Day, Saturday, February 17, will include workshops by UW-Madison piano faculty, including Artistic Pedaling Techniques for the Developing Pianist and Poems at the Piano: How Songs and Poetry Help Us Understand a Composer's Mind, Heart and Fingers. Guest pianist Marina Lomazov (Friday, Februrary 16 concert in Mills Hall) will offer a master class.
Music TA wins campuswide teaching award
We congratulate choral conducting graduate student Chris Boveroux, one of only 15 UW-Madison teaching assistants (out of 2,000 total) to win a Graduate School CampusWide Teaching Award. Not only has Chris TA'd in music, but also in mathematics, political science, and integrated liberal studies.
Chris Boveroux
Hire a (Student) Musician!
Not sure where to look for that wedding string quartet, an Easter trumpeter, a church pianist, or maybe you need an arts intern? Post your request on our Hire a Musician blog, about two to four months prior to your event. Recent listings include a request for a quartet for a 50th anniversary party, summer internships available at Bravo! Vail music festival, and a jazz vocalist.
Selected Upcoming Events
Guest artists: Anna Hersey, soprano & Alan Johnson, piano. February 11, 1:30 pm, Morphy Hall.
Guest artist: Blaise Magniere, violin. February 11, 7:30 pm, Morphy Hall.
Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, contemporary classical works. February 15, 8:00 pm, Mills Hall.
Master class with Alban Gerhardt, cello. February 16, 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Morphy Hall.
Guest artist: Marina Lomazov, piano. February 16, 8:00 pm, Mills Hall. Part of UW-Madison Keyboard Day.
View full calendar for more events.
Graduate composer Nathan Froebe, composer winner of the 2016-2017 concerto competition, offers two performances in the next month. February 19: Lecture recital on Pierre Jalbert's "The Invention of the Saxophone,' based on the poem of the same name by Billy Collins. Nathan Froebe, narrator; Patrick Specht, alto saxophone; and Kyle Johnson, piano. March 3: "Addiction's Actuality," for trombone, piano, and pre-recorded sounds. "Addiction's Actuality" explores the topic of alcohol and drug addictions, from a person's descent into addiction, through recovery, and life after. Disclaimer: This piece contains mature themes and content. Nathan Froebe, composer/electronics; Thomas Macaluso, trombone; and Vincent Fuh, piano.
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