World premieres by faculty composers Richard Karpen, Joël-François Durand, and Huck Hodge are the focus of Seattle Symphony’s October 23 [UNTITLED] performance, the first of three concerts this season in the orchestra’s late-night new music series.
The pieces, commissioned by Seattle Music Director Ludovic Morlot, will be performed by a dressed-down coterie of Seattle Symphony players in the Grand Lobby of the Symphony’s downtown Seattle home.
Works on the program—Karpen’s Program Music…
As the artistic partnership between the School of Music and Seattle production company Pacific MusicWorks enters its third academic year, PMW’s Grammy winning artistic director, Stephen Stubbs, finds himself ever more engaged and immersed in the life of the school where he earned an undergraduate degree in composition in 1975 and now serves as senior artist-in-residence.
Initial partnership activities at the UW focused primarily on full-scale professional opera productions co-presented by UW…
The School of Music welcomes new faculty for the 2015-16 academic year, with new appointments in Strings, Instrumental Performance, Music Education, Jazz Studies, and more.Tekla Cunningham, Baroque ViolinStrings programTekla Cunningham joins the UW School of Music strings faculty in Fall 2015, teaching baroque violin. In addition to directing the orchestra of Seattle production company (and UW ensemble-in-residence) Pacific MusicWorks, Cunningham serves as principal second violin with…
The Singing Revolution of 1991 was a remarkable victory of the people of the countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia over the occupying forces of the Soviet Union. Their weapon? The human voice. Historically, the people of this region are among the most vocal of any culture in the world. From the earliest roots of their modern culture they have encoded their history and cultural story in song, and have used singing for virtually all the events of life, from menial daily tasks, to work, to…
