<blockquote><p class="text-align-center">The Modern Band is a jazz rooted ensemble with a primary focus on repertoire that encompasses innovative trends in jazz of the last decade. </p></blockquote><p>Ensemble members will also be exposed to a wide range of musical influences that have pushed the boundaries of jazz as an art form forward into its current state.

<p>Nicholas Mathew, professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley, presents "The Post-humanization of Sound (between Paris and California," in the first presentation of the 2025-26 THEME lecture Series.</p><hr><h2>Abstract</h2><p>This talk begins in 1972, at the intermission of a concert in Berkeley, California, when the composer and astrologer Dane Rudhyar -- a veteran of twenties theosophical experimentation and sixties counterculture -- took to the stage and delivered a wide-ranging lecture entitled "The Transforming Power

<p>Ana Alonso Minutti, associate professor of musicology and ethnomusicology at the University of New Mexico, is featured speaker in this installment of the 2025-26 THEME lecture Series.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p>Ana Alonso-Minutti (she/hers) is an associate professor of music, research associate of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, and faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute and the Feminist Research Institute at the University of New Mexico.

<p>William Dougherty, assistant professor of composition at the University of Washington, is featured speaker in this installment of the 2025-26 THEME lecture Series.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p><span class="C9DxTc ">William Dougherty is an American composer, sound artist, educator, and writer who joined the University of Washington faculty in January 2025.

<p>Lauren Kapalka Richerme, professor of music education at Indiana University, is featured speaker in this installment of the 2025-26 THEME lecture Series.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p>Lauren Kapalka Richerme is professor of music in music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on philosophy, sociology, and instrumental methods.

<p>The School of Music Composition program hosts a guest lecture by composer Steven Mackey, the William Shubael Conant Professor of Music at Princeton University and faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2><p>Bright in coloring, ecstatic in inventiveness, lively and profound, Steven Mackey’s music spins the tendrils of his improvisatory riffs into large-scale works of grooving, dramatic coherence.

<p>The UW Music History program presents a guest lecture by Professor Stephen Pennington (Tufts University), "Inconvenient Voices, Inconvenient Identities: Black Trans Revue Girls, Hookers, and Drag Queens of the 1970s"</p><hr><h2>Biography </h2><p>Stephan Pennington is an Associate Professor of Music at Tufts University. His research interests are concerned with the politics of the performance of identity, and he has presented on a wide range of topics from on the rumba craze in 1930s Germany to appropriation as an historical process.

<p> Heidi Blythe (DMA, Choral Conducting) presents "A Certainty of Music," a degree recital featuring songs of spirit and strength performed by the UW Recital Choir, UW Cohort Ensemble, and the UW Advanced Treble Ensemble. With Steve Swanson, collaborative pianist.</p><hr><h2>Biography</h2>

<p>Celebrated pianist Jon Kimura Parker leads a master class with UW piano students. His visit to the School of Music is made possible by Meany Center for the Performing Arts, presenting Jon Kimura Parker in concert on Thursday, Nov. 6 at Meany Hall.

<p>Paula Clare Harper, assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago, presents "Viral: Metaphor, Narrative, Music" in this installment of the 2025-26 THEME lecture Series. Her lecture is made possible with support from the Wilberforce and Myra D. Hanford Endowed Program Support Fund in American Music.