News: Performances and Events

Blue lights
A musical finale to 2021

November 29, 2021

2021 Season header
School of Music returns to the stage in 2021-22 

October 14, 2021

Outpost co-founders Carrie Henneman Shaw and Sam Bergman performed at the start of Monday’s livestream from the Parkway Theater (Photo: courtesy Star Tribune).
Star Tribune: "Boldly mixing new music and spoken word, Outpost 'variety show' bursts out of hibernation"

April 19, 2021

Violinist Renee Zhang
Violin Concerto Competition winners named

January 15, 2021

Craig Sheppard,Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, Rachel Priday Faculty Concert
Autumn ’20 Livestreams from UW Music

October 12, 2020

Mark Rodgers, lecturer in Music History
A reimagined “Concert Season” for a new era

October 2, 2020

Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir
Summer 2020 Faculty Notes

June 25, 2020

Spring 2020 Digital Concert Series kicks off May 11

May 8, 2020

Pianist Craig Sheppard has both local and international engagements on the calendar in the coming months.
Winter 2020 Faculty Notes

January 24, 2020

George Garzone performs with UW Music faculty in March and April.
UW Music in the Community: Upcoming Performances and Premieres 

January 24, 2020

David Alexander Rahbee, director of orchestral activities
Crosscut: ‘No One Can Take Your Soul or Ideas’

January 23, 2020

Gabriel Kahane appears at the Meany Center in November 2019.
UW Music artists featured in upcoming Meany Center performances

November 12, 2019

Mallets from Harry Partch Instrument collection
Festival of Historical Experimental Music for Percussion Nov. 19-22

October 29, 2019

Lecture-recital image: Bach cello suites
Bach cello suites examined in upcoming lecture-recitals by faculty cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir 

October 9, 2019

Strings Attached Series assets
Strings Attached Extra: A look behind the look

October 7, 2019

UW Music 2019-20 Concert Season brochure cover
UW Music 2019-20 Concert Season Highlights

August 29, 2019

Strings Attached concert series image
Strings Attached: New UW Music concert series 

August 14, 2019

Music/DXARTS postdoc Marcin Pączkowski prepares JACK Quartet violinist Austin Wulliman for an EEG session
I Care If You Listen:  Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen on recent work with the JACK Quartet

May 15, 2019

Professors Joël-François Durand (right) and Larry Starr peruse the score of Durand's new commission for Seattle Symphony (Photo: Joanne DePue).
Q and A: Unpacking Joël-François Durand's new work Tropes de : Bussy 

April 5, 2019

Violist Melia Watras (Photo Michelle Smith-Lewis).
Faculty Profile: Violist Melia Watras on Schumann Resonances and her Folk Style Project

April 3, 2019

Amarilys Ríos Rosa
Meet the Artist: Amarilys Ríos, Ethnomusicology Community Artist-in-Residence, Winter 2019

January 18, 2019

UW Guitar Ensemble students playing guitars
Fourth Wednesdays Concert Series kicks off Jan. 23

January 14, 2019

Ganesh Rajagopolan, Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist (Photo: Steve Korn).
Meet the Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist: Ganesh Rajagopalan

October 11, 2018

Faculty pianist Cristina Valdés (Photo: Virginia Valdes)
Faculty Spotlight: Cristina Valdés, piano

October 8, 2018

UW Jazz Studies Faculty Ted Poor (Photo: Piper Hanson)
Course Spotlight: Ted Poor, The Blues and Otherwise

October 4, 2018

Faculty cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir
 Artist Spotlight: Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir 

September 5, 2018

Student musician playing a cello.
 Musical Gifts: Priceless music in 2018-19

September 5, 2018

UW Music: 2018-19 Season
Going Live: UW Music 2018-19 Concert Season

September 5, 2018

Myra Melford photo by Daniel Sheehan
Earshot Jazz: UW IMPFest X

May 18, 2018

Ricardo Garcia, flamenco guitar
The Whole U: School of Music brings flamenco to UW to challenge, inspire

May 18, 2018

Richard Karpen and Harry Partch instruments
Crosscut: Think your musical is radical? Now listen to Harry Partch

May 11, 2018

Carole Terry Festival schedule
Carole Terry Symposium Celebrates Longtime UW Organ Professor  

May 9, 2018

Robin and Rachelle McCabe, piano
Seattle Times - Sister acts: Musical siblings share the spotlight at Seattle Opera, Meany Theater

January 4, 2018

UW Music 2017-18 Season
UW Music 2017-18 concert season kicks off Sept. 27

September 8, 2017

Discovery Trio
UW Music names scholarship chamber groups for 2017-18

June 6, 2017

Defiant Requiem poster graphic
Two Seattle-area Performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

May 8, 2017

Harry Partch Cloud Chamber Bowls
Second Inversion: Greek Myths and Microtonal Instruments: Harry Partch’s Oedipus

May 4, 2017

Harry Partch's Cloud Chamber Bowls
The Stranger: Harry Partch's Oedipus Receives a Rare Performance at UW

May 4, 2017

Percussionist Bonnie Whiting
Bonnie Whiting presents vintage works of John Cage in UW solo debut 

March 30, 2017

Richard Karpen Juan Pampin photo Alan Berner/The Seattle Times
Seattle Times: Meet the encephalophone: An instrument you can play with your mind, just by thinking

March 23, 2017

Cristina Valdes
Piano Times Three: Recitals by keyboard faculty on the horizon

February 1, 2017

Corentin Pokorny performs with the UW Baroque Ensemble
A Musical Thank You from Scholarship Recipients

January 19, 2017

Max Reger stamp
Symposium pays tribute to German composer Max Reger

November 1, 2016

Closeup of piano strings
Musical Gifts in 2016-17

September 6, 2016

The Evergreen Trio, includes Natalie Ham, flute; Vijay Chalasani, viola, and Lauren Wessels, harp
Two scholarship chamber groups named for 2016-17

May 31, 2016

Bassist Reid Anderson (Photo: Axel Stalljohann)
IMPFest lineups announced

May 4, 2016

Young composers work at Benaroya Hall.
Faculty composer Huck Hodge leads young composers May 2 at Benaroya Hall

April 27, 2016

Charles Corey, director of the Harry Partch ensemble at the UW School of Music.
Seattle Times: Strange musical creations come alive at UW

April 27, 2016

Shakespeare Composite
Shakespeare at 400: Shakespeare, Music, and Memory

April 18, 2016

Hye Jung Yang performs with the UW Symphony on March 11
Concerto Competition winners appear with UW Symphony in upcoming performances

February 17, 2016

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