<p>The UW Steelband (Shannon Dudley, director) presents an end-of-quarter concert of <span>Caribbean classics—calypso, soca and son montuno--as well as an original new tune by Emily Silks. </span></p>
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<p>Sugar Bum Bum:  Aldwyn Roberts, aka Lord Kitchener (arr. Shannon Dudley)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Manicero: Moises Simón (arr. Shannon Dudley)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

<p>Violist/Composer Melia Watras presents a celebration of the viola with an evening of world premieres composed by UW faculty, students, and alumni. The program includes UW faculty composer Joël- François Durand’s <em>Geister weider… pour alto solo</em> (written for Watras), a collaborative composition by Watras and her former student Madeline Warner, and four pieces commissioned by Watras especially for this event, by UW students and alums Sandesh Nagaraj, Jonathan Rodriguez, Breana Tavaglione, and Wei Yang.

<p><span>Guest pianist William Wolfram leads a free master class with UW piano students</span></p>
<h4><span>Note: William Wolfram performs a solo recital on Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., in Brechemin Auditorium. Admission is free. Details <a href="/events/2023-04-18/guest-pianist-recital-william-wolfram" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here. </a></span></h4>

<p>Pianists Robin and Rachelle McCabe return to the Meany stage to perform Brahms’s magisterial two piano arrangement of his F minor quintet as well as music by Ravel and Prokofiev in this spirited display of sisterly chemistry.</p>
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<div class=""><strong>Ravel:</strong>   Rhapsodie Espagnole (Transcribed for two pianos by Ravel)</div>
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<p>Students of Thomas Harper and Carrie Shaw perform works from the vocal repertoire.</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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<p dir="ltr"><span>Chicago-based contemporary music collective Ensemble Dal Niente performs world premieres by School of Music faculty composers Joël-François Durand and Huck Hodge as well as pieces by Miya Masaoka and Andile Kumalo. With faculty violist Melia Watras, performing with the ensemble the world premiere of a new work by Durand, and faculty soprano Carrie Shaw, narrator on Andile Khumalo’s <em>Shades of Words.</em></span></p>
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<p>Pianist William Wolfram, faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music, explores the expressive vocabulary of three champions of pianistic Romanticism in his program including the Chopin Sonata #2, Schumann “Humoresque,” and Liszt “Dante Sonata.”</p>

<blockquote><p>The University of Washington Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Valdés, director) performs music by Ivan Fedele, José-LuisHurtado, Mario Lavista, inti figgis-vizueta, and Louis Andriessen. </p>
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<h3><strong>Modern Music Ensemble<br /><em>Cristina Valdés, director</em></strong></h3>

<p>The School of Music and the student-run Improvised Music Project present the annual Improvised Music Project Festival (IMPFEST), featuring two evenings of distinct performances by UW Music students, faculty, and guests. Featured artists for IMPFest 2023 are composer/pianist (and 2023 GRAMMY winner) <strong>Kris Davis</strong> and multi-instrumentalist/composer <strong>Michael Libramento. </strong></p>
<p><em>IMPFEST is made possible through generous support from Seattle's Raynier Foundation.</em></p>