This event has been cancelled.
Members of the UW Symphonic Band (Kevin Weingarten, director) perform chamber arrangements of music by Ligeti, Saint-Saens, Bizet and others.
Program
Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (selected movements) – György Ligeti
Danse Macbre (Clarinet Choir) – Camille Saint-Saëns
A Song for Japan (Low Brass Quartet) – Steven Verhelst
Festival March (Trombone Quartet) – Francis McKay
Brass Quintet No. 1 – Victor Ewald
Music for Five Trumpets – Verne Reynolds
Premier Quator, Mvt. 1 (Saxophone Quartet) – Jean-Baptiste Singelée
Carmen Fantasy (Saxophone Quartet) – George Bizet
Pavane (Flute Choir) – Gabriel Fauré
13 Moons - Jodie Blackshaw
Director Bio
Kevin Weingarten is a Visiting Lecturer in Music Education at the University of Washington. He is completing his PhD degree at the University of Kansas, where he taught conducting techniques to instrumental methods and music philosophy. Earlier, he was a middle school band director and general music teacher at international schools in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and Budapest (Hungary). His research encompasses questions of music perception, multimodal inattention in music rehearsal settings, and social-emotional learning, much of which has been featured in presentations at state- and national-level NAfME conferences as well as in forthcoming publications. He was recently a keynote presenter at the Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS) Music Educators Conference in Dubai.