<p> </p><p>Students and faculty from the School of Music perform works by Bach, Couperin, Pachelbel, Symth, Distler, Frahm, and an Improvisation on P.A.U.L. F.R.I.T.T.S in this collaboration hosted by the Seattle Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, St. Alphonsus Church, and the School of Music. </p><h2>Program Detail</h2><p>This 40th anniversary celebration of the installation of the historic Fritts-Richards organ at St.

<p>The School of Music keyboard program presents a solo piano recital by Cuban-American pianist Santiago Rodriguez, head of the keyboard program at the Frost School of Music at Miami University.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p></p><p>Santiago Rodriguez is the highly acclaimed Professor and Chair of the Keyboard Performance department at the Frost School of Music. Professor Rodriguez has been hailed as “a phenomenal pianist” by The New York Times and singled out as “among the finest pianists in the world” (according to The Baltimore Sun).

<p>Santiago Rodriguez, head of the keyboard program at the Frost School of Music at Miami University, leads a master class with UW piano students.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p></p><p>Santiago Rodriguez is the highly acclaimed Professor and Chair of the Keyboard Performance department at the Frost School of Music. Professor Rodriguez has been hailed as “a phenomenal pianist” by The New York Times and singled out as “among the finest pianists in the world” (according to The Baltimore Sun).

<p>Acclaimed piano–percussion quartet Yarn/Wire performs new works by UW Composition doctoral student Yonatan Ron, alum Yiğit Kolat, and others in an evening of adventurous contemporary music.</p><hr><h2>Biographies</h2><h3><a href="https://www.yarnwire.org">Yarn/Wire</a></h3><p><strong>Yarn/Wire</stron…; is a new music quartet dedicated to the promotion of creative, meaningful live mus

<p>Faculty pianist Robin McCabe joins forces with guest artist Maria Larionoff in an evening of high octane duos for violin and piano. On the launch pad: Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, Beethoven’s Sonata in G major, Opus 96, and Faure’s impassioned Sonata in A Major.</p><hr><h2>Biographies</h2><h3>Maria Larionoff</h3><p>Violinist Maria Larionoff is artistic director of the Missoula, Montana-based String Orchestra of the Rockies and former concert master of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

<p>Guest pianist Brian Hsu, associate professor of music at the University of Oregon, leads a master class with UW piano students.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p></p><p>Since his concerto debut at the age of 16 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Taiwanese-American pianist Brian Hsu has gone on to establish himself a pianist of great energy and unusual communicative ability. Critics have described his performances in surperlatives, noting his “breadth of expression and technical ability.”</p><p>An experienced performer, Mr.

<p>Winter Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist<em> </em>Ramón Gutierrez hails from Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico and specializes in playing the <em>requinto</em> (a small melodic guitar). He is the leader of the group Son de Madera, and has performed and recorded with musicians in other traditions, including the Chicano rock band Quetzal from Los Angeles and Antonio Corona, a performer of early music in Mexico.

<p>Seattle’s contemporary music orchestra performs György Ligeti's piano concerto, featuring faculty pianist and SMO member Cristina Valdés, alongside new works for sinfonietta by graduate student composers and faculty members, including Seattle newcomer and recently appointed UW composition professor William Dougherty.

<p>The School of Music keyboard program presents a solo piano recital by Spencer Myer, associate professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, performing works by Haydn, Ravel, Liszt, and Carl Vine. </p><hr><h2>Program</h2><p class="Body">Fantasia in C Major, Hob.