<p><span>Auditions for the Studio Jazz/Big Band will include performance of a chromatic scale from lowest to highest and back down, an up-to-one-minute excerpt (student choice), transcription, etude, etc., that demonstrates the musician's abilities as a jazz player, sight-reading, and improvisation (optional).

<p><span>Auditions for the Studio Jazz/Big Band will include performance of a chromatic scale from lowest to highest and back down, an up-to-one-minute excerpt (student choice), transcription, etude, etc., that demonstrates the musician's abilities as a jazz player, sight-reading, and improvisation (optional).

<p>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>Acclaimed new music group the Mivos Quartet, dubbed by the Chicago Reader“ one of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles,” performs premieres by UW faculty composers Joël-François Durand and Huck Hodge and works by Ambrose Akinmusire and Chikako Morishita in this guest artist performance.</p>
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<p>UW piano students perform concerto movements with Tacoma-based chamber orchestra Northwest Sinfonietta (David Alexander Rahbee, conductor).</p>
<p><em>This event is made possible with support from the Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professorships in Piano. </em></p>
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<p><em>Il Mondo della luna</em>: Overture<strong> </strong>…………………………………………………..Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) </p>

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<p>Faculty artist Ted Poor continues his exploration of the drum set with an evening of solo performances. The program of debut original compositions for drum set extracts harmony and melody from an instrument mainly known for providing only rhythm.</p>
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<p>Artist-in-Residence Tekla Cunningham, violin, and guest pianist Sheila Weidendorf present "Between Heaven and Earth: A Year with Brahms,” a performance of the Brahms violin sonatas. </p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Chamber group Frequency—violinists Michael Jinsoo Lim and Jennifer Caine Provine, violist Melia Watras, and cellist Sarah Rommel—performs works by Sergei Prokofiev, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, Benjamin Britten, Felix Mendelssohn, Kaija Saariaho, and the world premiere of a new work by Melia Watras in this exploration of the musical form of theme and variations.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Dynamic duo Cuong Vu and Cristina Valdés straddle the worlds of contemporary classical music and free improvisation, premiering works for trumpet and piano by Oliver Schneller, Wang Lu, and Skúli Sverrisson, and performing music by Huck Hodge and <span>Eva-Maria Houben</span>. </p>
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<div><em>for C and C </em>(2024)<em>*</em> - Wang Lu (b. 1982)

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Faculty colleagues Rachel Lee Priday and Craig Sheppard present a blockbuster program including the Schubert D Major Sonatina, Fauré Sonata No. 1, and Bartók Sonata #1 for Violin and Piano.</p>
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