<blockquote><p>Auditions are for entrance to the UW School of Music in Fall Quarter, 2022. Audition sign ups are required and can be <a href="/audition-sign-ups">made online</a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Students of Thomas Harper and Carrie Shaw perform art songs and arias in a variety of languages and styles.</p>
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<h2>DIRECTOR BIOS</h2>
<blockquote><p><span>Making his Seattle Opera debut in the role of King Marke in Tristan und Isolde, internationally acclaimed bass and recent GRAMMY winner Morris Robinson visits the University of Washington to share his story as a professional opera singer and his insights into the challenges of performing Wagner in the 21st century.</span></p></blockquote>
<h3>Note: This interview is presented in collaboration with Seattle Opera for students enrolled in MUSIC 185. The event is open to the public.</h3>
<blockquote><p><span><span>Guest scholar Orit Hilewicz, Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Indiana Jacobs School of Music, presents "Berio's Compositional Poetics as Performance," an examination of</span></span> Luciano Berio's Continuo for Orchestra and Ekphrasis (Continuo II).</p>
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<h2>Abstract</h2>
<blockquote><p><span><span>Charles Kronengold, faculty member at Stanford University, presents "The Chaka Khanplex, 1977-78." </span></span>This paper focuses on R&B singer Chaka Khan to argue that theorists should move from the causal models of actor-network theories toward Black feminist concepts of friendship, relationality, and what Jennifer Nash calls “the side-by-side-ness of the beautiful and loss.”</p></blockquote>
<h2>Abstract</h2>
<blockquote><p><span><span>Ethnomusicologist Gabriel Solis, Divisional Dean of the Arts at the University of Washington, presents "Revisiting the Heterogeneous Sound Ideal: Timbre and Narratives of Global Music History," the first talk in the School of Music's 2022 THEME lecture series. </span></span></p></blockquote>
<h2>Abstract</h2>
<blockquote><p>Student chamber groups coached by UW Strings faculty perform an end-of-quarter recital. </p>
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<blockquote><p>Student chamber groups coached by UW Strings faculty perform an end-of-quarter recital. </p>
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<blockquote><p>Brigham Young University contemporary voice faculty (Korianne Orton Johnson) and classical voice faculty (<span>Diane</span> Thueson <span>Reich</span>) go head-to-head to collaborate on classical, musical theatre, and contemporary songs in this show of friendship, rivalry, and just plain good singing. With a special presentation by BYU faculty pianist Jared Pierce. </p>
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<h2>Program</h2>
<blockquote><p>The University of Washington School of Music Strings Program presents a guest artist master class with violist Randolph Kelly.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Program</h2>
<p style="text-align: center;">Performances by UW viola students:</p>