Spring Quarter at the University of Washington School of Music brings the completion of large-scale projects, commissions, residencies, and artistic and scholarly collaborations, as well as opportunities to get into the minds—and brainwaves—of composers and musicians at work.
In the lead-up to a Meany Hall recital on April 17 in which she unveils a new major work for viola and other instruments, the chair of the UW Strings program reflects on a busy year that has seen the release of a new CD, Schumann Resonances, as well the rewarding work of preparing a complex multi-song work, Folk Style Project, for its world premiere.
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A new work by UW Composition professor Joël-François Durand, Tropes de : Bussy, for orchestra, commissioned by Seattle Symphony and Music director Ludovic Morlot, receives its world premiere on Friday, April 18 at Benaroya Hall, with a second performance on April 20. Retired UW professor Larry Starr delivers pre-concert talks on both evenings. The... Read more
During the performance the members of the quartet will be outfitted with sensors that can detect brain activity occurring while listening, seeing, and performing - information which will then be transformed into a new kind of music of the brain.
Concluding their extended 3-year residency at the University of Washington, the JACK Quartet is to premiere a new piece that uses their brain waves to generate music. The performance will take place at the Meany Hall – Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater... Read more
Projects and performances come to fruition, concert tours, commissions, and world premieres are among recent activities of School of Music faculty.
Patricia Shehan Campbell, Music Education and EthnomusicologyProfessor Campbell was consultant for a recent episode of the Decoder RIng podcast on the newsite Slate.com. ... Read more
Students and alumni of the University of Washington School of Music share recent successes and achievements, including new appointments, awards and honors, research and performance activities, and more.
Alumnus Bret Amundson (’12 DMA, Choral Conducting) has been named dean of the School of Arts and Letters at The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. Amundson joined the St. Scholastica faculty in 2010 as assistant professor of Music and director of Choral Activities, was appointed... Read more
Recent recordings by UW Music faculty represent a broad array of musical influences and interests.
Richard KarpenNam Mai/StrandlinesA new CD on the Neuma label, “Nam Mai/Strandlines,” captures work by the faculty composer with the Vietnamese-Swedish collective The Six Tones and Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Two compositions are featured here: “Nam Mai,” commissioned by SSO in 2014-15, and “Strandlines,” a 2006-07 composition arranged for solo guitar and live electronics and performed... Read more
The elusive topic of “invisible music” was the focus of a May 10, 2019 symposium and concert at the University of Washington, hosted by the School of Music with the support of a grant by the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
The symposium, “Performing Lyric Cultures: Visible and Invisible,” will bring together scholars and musicians to explore a variety of poetic and dramatic texts, discovering the music underneath the words on a page. Guest speakers from a number of universities will... Read more
A successful spring break China tour by the University of Washington Wind Ensemble and director Timothy Salzman enabled 56 UW student musicians to undertake international travels in a memorable way, performing concerts and delivering master classes in three cities—Chengdu, Xi’an, and Beijing. The UW Office of Global Affairs reports some of the highlights of the tour in this feature,... Read more
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