Performances and Events

Kaisha Barnhill, percussion concerto competition winner
Concerto Competition winners to perform with UW Symphony on June 6
May 16, 2025
Concert at the Mirabella retirement community.
School of Music pop-up concerts stage students in the broader community
March 6, 2025
Roy Cummings
 Former longtime UW jazz educator Roy Cummings to be remembered at May 27 Studio Jazz Ensemble concert 
February 14, 2025
Michael Lim from "Hertabuise" video
The Strad: Video Premiere: ‘Hertabuise’ by Melia Watras for violin and narrator
January 23, 2025
Doppelgänger dances video screenshot
The Strad:  Violin and dance combine in new video, ‘Doppelgänger Dances’
January 23, 2025
Miguel Ballumbrosio
School of Music co-hosts Seattle Participatory Arts Network conference Nov. 21-24, 2024
November 20, 2024
School of Music choral conducting alumni Jen Rodgers and Leann Conley Holcom (Photo: Joanne DePue).
Alumni, friends return to campus for second annual UW Music Homecoming
June 14, 2024
IMPFest slider
IMPFEST 2024 lineup announced
April 11, 2024
Kai en concerto winner
Concerto and Composition Competition winners named
March 6, 2024
Wind Ensemble Korea Tour Group 2024 (Mark Stone, UW Photography)
Wind Ensemble is South Korea bound
February 15, 2024
IMPFEST 2023 guests
Giving Spotlight: Seattle’s Raynier Foundation supports mentor-student collaborations
March 30, 2023
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