<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present “Fields and Fences,” featuring works exploring the duality of liberation and constraint.</p>
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<p><strong>University Chorale</strong><br><em>Giselle Wyers, director<br>Serena Chin, piano</em></p>

<p>The UW Baroque Ensemble (Tekla Cunningham, director) performs works by G.P. Telemann, including two of Telemann's Paris quartets, and the orchestral suite "La Bizarre."</p>
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<p><span>David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University of Washington Symphony in a program of music by Kurt Atterberg, Jean Sibelius, and Johannes Brahms. With faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday, performing Sibelius' Violin Concerto<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the orchestra. </span></p>
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<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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<p>The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers) present their Winter Quarter concert. The University Chorale presents “Village Bells," a program of works by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Aaron J. Kernis, Veljo Tormis, and others. With special guest narrator Guntis Smidchens, and soloist Sophia Parker. The Chamber Singers presents "Improvisation, Collaboration, Creation," a program of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Jocelyn Hagen/Spearfisher, and young composers from Seattle's Columbia Choirs organization (Katrina Turman, executive director).

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<p>Fall Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Paco Díez, considered one of the most important musicians in Judeo-Spanish music, is joined by his students in this performance of Sephardic and Castilian folk music.</p>
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<p><strong>NOTE: This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a future date.</strong></p>
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<p>John-Carlos Perea and guests perform “Improvising Home” for jazz ensemble. Originally commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and composed by Perea in 2016, this performance revisits and reinterprets the score following Perea’s 2023 arrival at the UW, where he serves as Ethnomusicology associate professor and adjunct associate professor of American Indian Studies. </p>
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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of concerto excerpts by York Bowen, Keiko Abe, and Camille Saint-Saëns, performed with winners of the 2024-25 School of Music Concerto Competitions--Flora Cummings, viola; Kaisho Barnhill, marimba; and Sandy Huang, piano. Also on the program, works by <span>Mikhail </span>Glinka, Richard Wagner, and <span>Giuseppe </span>Verdi.</p>
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<p align="center">Strings auditions for the <a href="https://music.washington.edu/ensembles/university-washington-symphony-o… Symphony Orchestra</a>. Winds, brass, percussion and harp interested in UW Orchestras, <a href="events/2019-09-23/winds-brass-percussion-fall-2019-ensemble-auditions">please see here</a>.</p>
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<p>The renowned Eroica Trio—Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant’Ambrogio, cello—performs works by J.S. Bach, Tomaso Albinoni, Fritz Kreisler, George Gershwin, and Johannes Brahms in this concert concluding the group's three-day residency at the School of Music.</p>
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