<p>Faculty guitarist Michael Partington celebrates the release of his eleventh solo CD, "Concoctions from the Kitchen," dedicated to the music of American composer Bryan Johanson. Featuring pieces written during the last five years, including "The Illustrated Guitar," "Oranges," and "Sonatine-Cahier," the program also includes some of Johanson's popular Preludes. The composer will be in attendance, and will take audience questions during a post-concert question-and-answer session.

<p>The latest installment of an ongoing series created by artistic director Naeim Rahmani ('10 BM, Guitar Performance), the program includes commissioned works by Iranian composers living outside of Iran and Seattle-based composers with strong ties to the UW Composition Program: Huck Hodge, Joël-François Durand, Jeff Bowen, and Yigit Kölat. </p>
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<div><strong>Farzia Fallah:</strong> Thirty-Three Drops of Water
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<p class="p1">It’s Alive! The ever-popular Halloween Organ Concert rises from the dead with the arrival of Dr. Stephen Price, the UW’s inaugural Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow, who joins with friends to host a program of spooky organ classics and Halloween fun. With Melia Watras, Wyatt Smith, Trey Wheeler, Karen Haining, Emily Chua, and Stephen Price. </p>
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<p>Members of the UW Wind Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) perform music arranged for small ensembles. Program includes music by Igor Stravinsky, Kevin Puts, Guy Woolfenden, Bobby Ge, and others. With graduate conductors Shaun Day,  Roger Wu Fu, and David Stewart. </p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920): <strong>Igor Stravinsky</strong> (1882-1971)</p>

<p style="font-weight: 400;">Faculty colleagues Sarah Rommel and Craig Sheppard perform evergreen works by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, George Crumb's Sonata for (Solo) Cello, and Nadia Boulanger's Three Pieces.</p>
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<div><strong>Ludwig van Beethoven:</strong>  Variations on Judas Maccabaeus </div>
<div><strong>Nadia Boulanger:</strong>  Three Pieces</div>

<p>Small combos perform original music and arrangements of jazz standards, modern classics, and deep cuts from the popular music repertoire over two consecutive nights of performance. </p>
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<h4><b>We Are Ensemble<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></b><em>Ted Poor - advisor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></h4>

<p>Small combos perform original music and arrangements of jazz standards, modern classics, and deep cuts from the popular music repertoire over two consecutive nights of performance. </p>
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<h4><b>Vu Tang Clan<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span></b>Cuong Vu - advisor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></h4>

<p>Viola students of Melia Watras perform for renowned violist Atar Arad, longtime professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. <span>Arad will also give a talk, “A Tiger in the Room,” about dealing with stage fright.</span></p>

<p>Faculty violist Melia Watras welcomes viola legend Atar Arad (her former teacher) and her student Flora Cummings in a concert that celebrates their viola family tree. Arad will perform two chaconnes: his own composition and Bach’s monumental Ciaccona from Partita in D minor, transcribed for viola; Watras will perform three works that she penned for viola solo; and all three violists will take turns performing with each other in selections from Béla Bartók’s 44 Duos.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

<div>The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) explores early 1930s percussion repertoire in its program <em>Ionisation, </em>reimagining Edgard Varèse's iconic early percussion work with the <i> Afrocubanismo</i> pioneer Amadeo Roldán's <i>Ritmicas</i> as well as music by James Tenney, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Nick Hubble.</div>
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