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<p>Fall Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Paco Díez, considered one of the most important musicians in Judeo-Spanish music, is joined by his students in this performance of Sephardic and Castilian folk music.</p>
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<h2 class="p1">Artist Bio: Paco Díez<strong></strong></h2>

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<p><strong>NOTE: This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a future date.</strong></p>
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<p>John-Carlos Perea and guests perform “Improvising Home” for jazz ensemble. Originally commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and composed by Perea in 2016, this performance revisits and reinterprets the score following Perea’s 2023 arrival at the UW, where he serves as Ethnomusicology associate professor and adjunct associate professor of American Indian Studies. </p>
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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Saëns, performed with winners of the 2024-25 School of Music Concerto Competitions--Flora Cummings, viola; Kaisho Barnhill, marimba; and Sandy Huang, piano. Also on the program, works by <span>Mikhail </span>Glinka, Richard Wagner, and <span>Giuseppe </span>Verdi.</p>
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<p align="center">Strings auditions for the <a href="https://music.washington.edu/ensembles/university-washington-symphony-o… Symphony Orchestra</a>. Winds, brass, percussion and harp interested in UW Orchestras, <a href="events/2019-09-23/winds-brass-percussion-fall-2019-ensemble-auditions">please see here</a>.</p>
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<p>The renowned Eroica Trio—Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello—performs works by J.S. Bach, Tomaso Albinoni, Fritz Kreisler, George Gershwin, and Johannes Brahms in this concert concluding the group's three-day residency at the School of Music.</p>
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<p>Faculty colleagues Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Benjamin Lulich, clarinet; Sarah Rommel, cello; and Craig Sheppard, piano, perform one of Olivier Messiaen’s signature works, The Quartet for the End of Time, composed in 1940-41 during Messiaen's detention in a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland.</p>
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<p>The violin and piano duo<span>—</span><span>Maya Bennardo (violin) and Karl Larson (piano)—performs music</span> by recent Rome Prize winner (and School of Music alumnus) Anthony Vine, Maya Bennardo, and UW graduate student composers Yonatan Ron and Justin Zeitlinger. </p>
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<p>No Abyss is Dead (2025) by Yonatan Ron</p>
<p><br>Worshipful Company (2024) by Anthony Vine</p>
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<p>The Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) and Symphonic Band (David Stewart, Solomon Encina, Yuman Wu, directors) present "Radiance," a program of music by Christopher Cerrone, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and others. With faculty artist-in-residence Carrie Shaw, soprano, and winners of the Winds Concerto Competition. </p>
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<h3>University of Washington Symphonic Band</h3>
<p><em>David Stewart, Solomon Encina, Yuman Wu director</em></p>

<p><br>Electroacoustic trio<span> </span><em>uluuul</em> (Carrie Shaw, soprano; Mabel Kwan, keyboard; Mauricio Pauly, multi-instrumentalist and electronic music creator) performs music from their latest collaboration, created with support from the UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF). </p>
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<p>Selected from 689 applicants from 44 countries, composer Chris Trapani was awarded the Barlow commission for a new song cycle to be premiered by an elite quartet of sopranos, including UW’s own Carrie Shaw. Hear the premiere of this major contribution to American art song, alongside works by living composers from around the world in her program "The Weight of Sweetness: Songs for All the Senses." Shaw is joined onstage by faculty colleagues Cristina Valdés, piano; and Andrew Romanick, piano and vocoder.</p>
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