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<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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<p style="text-align: center;">Performances by UW viola students:</p>

<p>The UW Voice Program presents an adaptation of Haydn’s 1773 one-act <span>singspiel</span> <em>Philemon und Baucis,</em> a tragicomic tale in two parts inspired by Ovid’s <em>Metamorphoses.</em></p>
<p>Stage direction by Kelly Kitchens. With members of the UW Symphony Orchestra, Daren Weissfisch, conductor.</p>
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<p><span><span>The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director) presents a year-end performance shared with the UW Steel Drum Band (Shannon Dudley, director).</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>The Steel Drum Band performs arrangements of calypso, salsa, reggae, soca, and other dance styles.</span></span></p>

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<p><span> </span>Faculty pianists Craig Sheppard and Cristina Valdés, faculty percussionist Bonnie Whiting, and Seattle principal timpanist James Benoit perform Béla Bartók's exhilarating and popular <span>Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, </span><span>Sz. 110, BB 115</span>. Also on the program: Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448 and Brahms' Waltzes, Op. 39.</p>
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<p>David Alexander Rahbee leads the UW Symphony in a program of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Igor Stravinsky, and Bizet/Shchedrin.</p>
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<p><strong>Monteverdi: </strong>Overture (Toccata) from <em>L´Orfeo </em></p>
<p><strong>Stravinsky: </strong>Pulcinella Suite</p>
<p><strong>Bizet/Shchedrin: </strong>Carmen Suite </p>
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<p>University of Washington Jazz Studies presents a free show by the Kris Davis Trio— Grammy winning pianist/composer Kris Davis, bassist Robert Hurst, and drummer Johnathan Blake—performing in support of Davis’s new album "Run the Gauntlet,” out on Sept. 27 from Pyroclastic Records. Students from the Jazz Studies program open. </p>
<p><em>This performance is made possible with generous support from Seattle's Raynier Institute and Foundation.</em></p>

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<p>The Campus Band (Solomon Encina, conductor) and Concert Band (David Stewart, Yuman Wu, conductors) present "Passages," a program of music by Clifton Williams, Frank Ticheli, Masanori Taruya, Rossano Galante, Samuel Hazo, Fred J. Allen, and others. This concert also includes the debut of a new community ensemble, the University Band. </p>
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<p><span>David Alexander Rahbee conducts the University of Washington Symphony and special guest, Michelle Cann, piano, in a program of music by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. With acclaimed pianist Michelle Cann, performing Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 with the orchestra. </span></p>
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<p>UW composers Jeff Bowen, Arshia Ashari, Melissa Wang, Huck Hodge, Joe Krycia, and Sandesh Nagaraj explore unconventional sonic landscapes in this concert presented by the UW Composition program.</p>
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<p>Faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday joins composer and virtuoso bandoneonist JP Jofre in his original nuevo tango compositions. The duo is joined by faculty pianist Cristina Valdés on several pieces arranged for piano trio.</p>
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