<p>The School of Music presents a recital by guest pianist Murray McLachlan, performing<span> works by Bach-Busoni, Beethoven, John McLeod, Chopin, Ravel, and Liszt. McLachlan is </span>p<span>rofessor of piano at the Royal Northern College of Music, visiting professor of piano at the University of St. Andrews and head of keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, England. </span></p>
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<p>Guest pianist Gil Kalish, professor of music and head of performance activities at Stony Brook University, leads a master class with UW piano students. </p>
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<p>The School of Music presents a recital by pianist Gil Kalish, professor of music and head of performance activities at Stony Brook University in New York. He performs works by Leoš Janáček, J.S. Bach, and Charles Ives, including Ives's Sonata No. 1. </p>
<p>The violin and piano duo<span>—</span><span>Maya Bennardo (violin) and Karl Larson (piano)—performs music</span> by recent Rome Prize winner (and School of Music alumnus) Anthony Vine, Maya Bennardo, and UW graduate student composers Yonatan Ron and Justin Zeitlinger. </p>
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<p>No Abyss is Dead (2025) by Yonatan Ron</p>
<p>Worshipful Company (2024) by Anthony Vine</p>
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<p>dormant gardens ii. (2024) by Maya Bennardo</p>
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<p>Dedicated to the presentation of new and rarely-heard works and gems of the historical avant garde, Ekmeles vocal ensemble performs works by UW faculty composers in their Meany Hall performance.</p>
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<h4><a href="https://www.ekmeles.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble</a></h4>
<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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<p>Pianist Catherine Kautsky, chair of the keyboard department at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, presents a lecture-recital: “Debussy’s Paris: Poets, Politics and the Piano.”</p>
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<h4 style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Kautsky</h4>
<p>The Campus Band (Solomon Encina, conductor) and Concert Band (David Stewart, Yuman Wu, conductor) present "Colors in Motion," a program of music by Malcom Arnold, Brian Balmages, Todd Starlter, Frank Erickson, John Barnes Chance, and others.</p>
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<h4 style="font-weight: 400;">University of Washington Campus Band<br /><em></em></h4>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Solomon Encina, director</em></p>
<p><span>The UW Percussion Ensemble (Bonnie Whiting, director), explores </span>North American Experimentalism from 1942-present in its collage concert "Credo in US (you and me)," performing John Cage's <em>Credo in US,</em> as well as works by Jonathan Bingham, Rich Burkhardt, Randolph Coleman, inti figgis-vizueta, Edward Miller, Juri Sea, and Sebastian Zhang.</p>
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