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Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band with Carrie Shaw, soprano: Cityscapes

<p>The UW Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (Shaun Day, director) present their end-of-year concert, performing music by Marie A. Douglas, Jennifer Higdon, Nigel Hess, Paul Dukas, Augusta Read Thomas, and Michael Colgrass. With Carrie Shaw, soprano soloist on <span>Augusta Read Thomas' Of Being is a Bird.</span></p>
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<h3>Symphonic Band<br>Shaun Day, director</h3>

Faculty Concert: Melia Watras, viola: NewDub

<p>Violist/Composer Melia Watras presents a celebration of the viola with an evening of world premieres composed by UW faculty, students, and alumni. The program includes UW faculty composer Joël- François Durand’s <em>Geister weider… pour alto solo</em> (written for Watras), a collaborative composition by Watras and her former student Madeline Warner, and four pieces commissioned by Watras especially for this event, by UW students and alums Sandesh Nagaraj, Jonathan Rodriguez, Breana Tavaglione, and Wei Yang.

Percussion Ensemble and Harry Partch Ensemble 

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<p>The University of Washington Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) and the Harry Partch Ensemble (Charles Corey, director) present a shared concert marking<span> the conclusion of the Harry Partch residency at the UW.</span></p>
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 UW Modern Music Ensemble

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<p>The UW Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Valdés, director), performs works by Yi<span>ğ</span>it Kolat, Ania Vu, <span>Evis Sammoutis, Chen Yi, and George Crumb. Program includes the world premiere of Spomenik I, by UW faculty composer Yiğit Kolat and the West Coast premieres of Ania Vu's Tik-Tak, and Evis Sammoutis' Rotational Gravities. </span></p>
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UW Symphony with John Turman, horn; Sunny Xia, Seattle Symphony

<p>The UW Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee, director) performs music by Sibelius, Glière and Tchaikovsky in this end-of-quarter concert. With faculty artist John Turman, horn soloist on Glière: Horn Concerto, Op. 91 in B flat Major; and Seattle Symphony assistant conductor Sunny Xia, guest conductor for Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Op. 36, in F minor. </p>
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<p><strong><b>Sibelius: </b></strong>Spring Song, op.16<strong><br></strong></p>

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