2008-09 Fanfare
School of Music
ANNUAL REPORT 2008-09
2 From the Director 4 News Notes 10 New Faculty Appointments 11 Faculty/Student/Alumni Update 12 Class of 2008 13 2008-09 Scholarship Recipients 18 Giving 20 Contributors 19 2008-09 Season Highlights
For those listeners the record player is still very much a viable piece of gear, delivering far more natural sound than the mp3 and other Joël-François Durand digital formats. Setting the Talea UW/Mary Levin apart from other high- end audio tone arms Joël Durand (left) with John Tolomei (patent agent, center) and Chris Igielski (technology is an innovation that manager, Bioengineering) of the UW’s Office of Tech Transfer. enables the listener A prototype of the Talea. to adjust the angle of Tracking the perfect tone the needle on the fly, or while it is actually in the groove of a spinning record. This feature enables Composition professor Joël-François Durand spent his summer working minute adjustments to be made to the tonal at the UW campus, but was rarely seen in the Music Building. Instead, the balance while a record is playing, so that listeners associate director of the School of Music logged more than 800 hours in the may judge with their own ears when the sound is Department of Mechanical Engineering’s machine shop, immersed in what he perfectly “in the groove.” calls his “unipivot tone arm project.” Approaching the Office of Tech Transfer with “I began this project in January of this year with no particular ambition his design, Durand found a receptive team of other than to see what would happen,” he says of his quest to create a piece collaborators who have since guided him through of high-fidelity stereo equipment that would combine crystalline sound and the process of applying for a patent on his design beautiful aesthetics. Nine months and more than 30 design iterations later, and licensing it for commercial use. Durand will Durand finds himself in a somewhat surprising position, that of inventor and share a portion of any royalties he receives with entrepreneur, with a patent pending, a recently formed business, collaborative Tech Transfer, which reinvests its revenues in relationships with new connections in the Business School, the School of the UW research enterprise by offering funding Law, the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and opportunities through the University’s Royalty Engineering, and the School of Art, and a first-hand understanding of how the Research Fund. Tech Transfer has also connected UW’s Office of Technology Transfer plays a pivotal Durand with legal help from the School of Law and role in bringing UW faculty research innovations to business consulting assistance from the Business the marketplace. School to help him navigate all the complexities of Durand’s design, a tonearm dubbed the starting a new commercial venture. UW/Mary Levin Talea, is unquestionably sleek in appearance and “I’m hoping to be ready to sell the first exemplars delivers a tone that was called “nothing short of by the end of 2009, if all goes well,” Durand says. amazing” at its first public showing at the 2009 “I never thought this would become a commercial Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver in early venture, but there we are. The journey continues.” October. But what sort of market could exist for an For more on Durand’s process of invention, visit his invention that serves what some might consider an blog at: http://joelfdurand.com/Tonearm_project/ obsolete audio format? The Talea is not intended index.html. to have mainstream appeal; it is intended to serve audiophiles who extol the virtues of analog sound. From the Director
In my 20 years on the faculty of the School this University and beyond. The magnitude of Music, I have been well aware of the of the budget cuts has brought the School to impressive work of my faculty colleagues and a turning point. We have had to make some our outstanding students, but as the incoming difficult decisions over the past year to scale director, I have become much more closely back our operations in accordance with our new acquainted with the extraordinary people who fiscal realities. But I know I speak for all of us call this school home. As you will read in this at the School of Music when I say that we are report, our aspirations are high and our reach more determined than ever before to uphold is international. Our students and faculty are and strengthen our core values of excellence engaged in their communities close to home and diversity in performance, scholarship, and and further afield, making a difference in the the creation of music. I’m sure you will share my world through music and scholarship and earning optimism for our future when you read about the recognition as leaders in their respective fields. remarkable accomplishments contained in this For those reasons and many more, it has issue of Fanfare. been an honor to accept a turn to serve as the We are truly grateful for your ongoing support School’s director and to extend my gratitude to of our students, faculty and programs. With Richard Karpen became my predecessor, Robin McCabe, for her leadership your help, we will continue to attain the distinct director of the School of of the School over the past 15 years. I expect excellence that has long been a hallmark of the Music on July 1 (Photo: our faculty and students to continue to do great UW School of Music, both now and in the years UW/Kathy Sauber). things in the years ahead. ahead. Today we face the most daunting economic challenges in a generation, and the School of Music has not been spared the effects of the budget crisis that has touched every corner of Richard Karpen, Director, School of Music
A good year for jazz Phil Sparks, a member of the UW Jazz Studies a BM in Jazz Studies at UW in 1994. Another UW faculty since 2005 and a mainstay on the Seattle alumnus, saxophonist Neil Welch, who earned jazz scene over the past three decades, was a BM in Jazz Studies in 2007, was named the honored for his contributions to Northwest music Emerging Artist of the year, a category that also last February when he was inducted into the included alumnus Evan Flory-Barnes as a nominee. Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame. Trumpet player and UW Jazz alum Thomas Sparks was honored at the annual Golden Ear Marriott’s country-western electric jazz group, Awards, awarded on the basis of votes cast by the Willie Nelson Project, was given the Outside fans, educators and jazz experts and presented Jazz Group award. That category also earned a by Earshot Jazz, a local nonprofit music, arts and nomination for the group Speak, whose members service organization. The unassuming bassist include Jazz Studies assistant professor Cuong Vu Phil Sparks is a newly has been a member of groups led by local jazz and Jazz alumni Luke Bergman, Chris Icasiano, inducted member of the luminaries Julian Priester, Ernestine Anderson, Aaron Otheim, and Andrew Swanson. Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame Wayne Horvitz, the late Floyd Standifer, Hadley Veteran saxophonist Hadley Caliman, whose Caliman, and many others, including 15 seasons quartet and quintet won the Acoustic Jazz with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra led Ensemble award and the Concert of the Year award, by Clarence Acox and UW saxophone professor performed with his quintet at the awards ceremony, member Michael Brockman. a group including Jazz Studies professor Marc Seales “Sparks is the consummate sideman, and for on piano and Thomas Marriott on trumpet. the past 26 years he has quietly gone about his “The Earshot Awards were filled with people business of making beautiful music night after representing the UW School of Music, which night,” states a cover story in Earshot’s May news became apparent to many people at the awards as magazine. “He has worked thousands of gigs and more and more people were called to the podium appeared on dozens of albums with little drama with the UW named at the top of their credentials or commotion.” . . . it felt like a sweep!” says Professor Michael In addition to Sparks, numerous other musicians Brockman, who was on hand to help present some with connections to the UW Jazz Studies program of the Earshot awards to winners. “Our alumni are were represented at the annual awards ceremony. out there doing great things in this entire region The 2009 Jazz Instrumentalist award went to and throughout the country. I was really proud of saxophonist Mark Taylor, an alumnus who earned our school.”
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 2 Composers help shape Polish contemporary culture
School of Music Composition faculty Richard Parmenter Joshua Karpen (also director of the School of Music) and Juan Pampin and alumnus Josh Parmenter were featured composers this fall at the Warsaw Autumn 2009 52nd International Festival of Contemporary Music. The three composers are affiliated with the UW’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), prominently highlighted in a concert of works from DXARTS presented at the Extra-High Voltage Hall, Institute of Power Engineering, on September 19. The program, which included DXARTS composer Ewa Trbacz’s “Errai” as well as Karpen’s “Strand Lines,” Parmenter’s “risonanza,” and Pampin’s “On Space,” employed electronic media, ambisonic sound projection, and visual spaces, along with live performance from the Percussion Group of the Academy of Music in Krakow and numerous other musicians, including School of Music alumnus Josiah DXARTS composers were featured in a program at the Warsaw Boothby. The Warsaw Autumn, organized by the Autumn festival in September. Polish Composers’ Union and operating continuously since its 1956 inception, plays an essential role in shaping contemporary culture in Poland. Music Alive! In the Yakima Valley News From the honored by College Music Library Music Society Judy Tsou, head of the Notable Acquisitions: The College Music Society Music Library, with an exact This year, the Music Library (CMS) has awarded the School facsimile of the heart-shaped Chansonnier de Jean de purchased an extraordinary of Music’s “Music Alive! In Montchenu manuscript. facsimile of the heart-shaped the Yakima Valley” the 2009 Chansonnier de Jean de Gunstream Education in Montchenu, a 15th-century Music Award. manuscript. The library “It is our hope that your project also acquired a music score will serve as a model for future collection from the Joel work throughout American Salsman estate, via Gloria higher education in music,” wrote Swisher, long-time supporter of Cynthia Crump Taggert, president the Music Library and School of of the CMS, which officially Music. The collection contains presented the award in October important compositions by at the Society’s 52nd Annual Pacific Northwest composers Conference in Portland, Oregon. and complements his audio The College Music Society collection, donated earlier. is dedicated to advancing the LP collection shifted to Sandpoint: The Music Library moved the majority of its little- ideals of education in music used LP collection to the Libraries’ storage in Sand Point last summer. Despite being in through meaningful community storage, these LPs can easily be paged back to the Listening Center for our patrons when engagement projects such as requested. As a result of the move, the library gained some much-needed space in the Music Alive!, a program developed stacks and has embarked on a major shifting project, also with the aim of integrating the by Music Education Professor Dewey classified scores with the regular score collection. That project will be completed Patricia Campbell that each year during Winter Quarter. sends School of Music students to A comfortable place to study: The Music Library created a group study area for the Yakima Valley to share musical its users last winter. This area is located near the Downstairs Stacks and is furnished traditions with school children in with sofas and end tables that can be easily moved to suit any group. Meanwhile, the area middle schools. Listening Center is having air conditioning installed in its facility to cool the extremely Music Alive! is made possible hot computer laboratory/listening area. This project should be completed by November. through generous funding from New faces at the Music Library: Lynn Cowan, Reserves Technician, joined the Music Seattle’s Peach Foundation. Library replacing Geoffrey Long, who left the Music Library to attend law school at the University of Oregon. — Judy Tsou, Head, Music Library
www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 3 News Notes
Robin McCabe and the Wailers an unlikely combo Robin McCabe took a bow in June after fifteen years as director of the School of Music in an unlikely and whimsical collaboration with some iconic local rockers. The musical entertainment for McCabe’s farewell party at the School of Music on June 10 was none other than legendary Tacoma rock and roll group The Wailers, who schooled attendees on the roots of Northwest rock with a four-song set in Brechemin Auditorium. The five-piece band—which includes original members Buck Ormsby and Kent Morrill as well as saxophonist Neil Rush and drummer Ricky Lee Johnson—features School of Music history instructor John Hanford in the lead guitar Robin McCabe played “Tall Cool One” with the Wailers in position. Hanford has been a member of the Brechemin Auditorium last June. venerable group since the untimely death in 2003 of original Wailer guitarist Rich Dangel (see It’s safe to say that this is the only black rock and article, this page). roll t-shirt in Dr. McCabe’s The highlight of the set came when Ormsby, John Hanford wardrobe. who band mates call Wailer Number One, called is The Doctor for “Rockin’ Robin” McCabe to join the group on John Hanford, a electric keyboard for a performance of the Wailers’ popular lecturer in the 1959 hit, “Tall Cool One.” Proving herself equal to Department of Music the task, Dr. McCabe gave the audience a once- History, was just a boy in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness Northwest and the members of The musical worlds collide. Wailers not yet out of The unusual performance was followed by a high school when their reception in the School’s Fishbowl conference song “Tall Cool One” landed the Tacoma group at room, where friends and colleagues toasted number 36 on the national Top 40 back in 1959. McCabe for her exceptional dedication to the “I was ten years old when ‘Louie, Louie’ started School of Music over three terms as director. Since destroying lives,” Hanford said, referring to the Professor David Kappy returning to full-time teaching and performing on seminal Northwest rock song made famous by the relates a favorite memory. June 30, she continues to make her mark on the Kingsmen, but only after the Wailers first recorded excellence of the School as the Donald E. Peterson the superlative rock and roll arrangement. Hanford Endowed Professor of Music. embarked on a life-long love affair with music, eventually earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at the UW School of Music and honing his guitar chops over four decades in various groups on the local and regional club circuit. When the Wailers’ original guitarist, Rich Dangel, died unexpectedly in 2003, Hanford was honored to receive the call to step into the guitar spot. Since then he has been considered an official member of the group. His band mates, in deference to his academic background, call him The Doctor and like to inform fans that Hanford’s master’s thesis was titled “Realities Altered and Redefined: Sound, Style, and Meaning in Jimi Hendix’s Purple Haze and The Star Spangled Banner.” The Wailers celebrated 50 years of music making in 2009, releasing a split CD called “Two Car Garage” with their friends and Northwest contemporaries, Friends and colleagues gathered in the School of Music’s Fishbowl conference room in June Rock and Roll Hall of Famers to honor outgoing director Robin McCabe. The Ventures.
Photos: Joanne De Pue
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 4 Radio Afghanistan Archivists visit School of Music
The visitors spoke little English and the hosts been engaged in helping spoke no Dari, but that didn’t prevent a mutually the Radio Afghanistan rewarding educational experience at the School of Archives preserve thousands
Music last summer. With the help of a translator, of recordings of traditional Photo: Colin Todd staff members from the School of Music and Afghan music going back to UW Libraries helped advance the skills of audio the early 1960s. archivists from the Radio Afghanistan Archives “The staff at the Archives through a sound archiving workshop held at the has had to deal with much School of Music June 22 through July 8. more than tape deterioration Laurel Sercombe (Archivist, Ethnomusicology due to aging, weather, and Program) and John Vallier (Head of Distributed poor storage,” Sercombe Media Services, Libraries Media Center) were says. “During the Taliban co-instructors for the course, and John Gibbs regime, the entire collection and Ann Lally of UW Libraries and Gary Louie was threatened with and Colin Todd of the School of Music acted as destruction and, at great risk co-presenters. In addition to various sessions at to themselves, the staff kept the Music Building, it hidden from view.” Photo: Gary Louie the group also paid With funding from Gary Louie, media visits to area radio the National Endowment for the Humanities, maintenance technician for stations, archives, Professor Sakata collaborated with the Archives the School of Music (center) and libraries during staff to purchase equipment for producing digital with (left to right) Abdul the three-week copies of the recordings and creating a database Jamil Warda, Abdul Wahed workshop, which catalog. Popal, and Zafar Jan Daqiq. included sessions Participants in the workshop were Zafar Jan on archival storage Daqiq, administrator of the American Institute and retrieval of Afghanistan Studies in Kabul and technical methods and consultant for the Radio Afghanistan Archives hardware/software project; Abdul Jamil Wardak, Radio Afghanistan Colin Todd, senior computer specialist for the School of Music, implementations staff and head of the Radio Afghanistan works with visitors from the as well as strategies Archives project; and Abdul Wahed Popal, Radio Radio Afghanistan Archives. for backup and Afghanistan staff, working mainly on the Radio disaster recovery. Afghanistan Archives project. The UW residency was part of a larger project “It was a great privilege to be part of this developed and directed by Professor Emerita important project and a real pleasure to get to Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, formerly on the faculty of know my Afghan colleagues,” Sercombe says. the UW Ethnomusicology Program and recently “Our sessions moved slowly—Professor Sakata retired from UCLA. Professor Sakata has been speaks some Dari, and Zafar Jan Daqiq speaks researching the music of Afghanistan since the some English, so we forged on, covering some 1960s, when she did her first field research there, fairly technical information and occasionally even and the School of Music’s Ethnomusicology managing to understand each other’s jokes.” Archives contains several large collections of her recordings. For the past several years, she has
Photo: Joanne De Pue
Laurel Sercombe (right) and John Vallier (to her left) led the three-week workshop, which was part of a larger project developed by Professor Emerita Hiromi Lorraine Sakata (far left).
www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 5 University Chorale performs for
Giselle Wyers and the Peter Leonard University Chorale president of Latvia perform for Latvian President Valdis Zatlers. When Valdis Zatlers, president of the Republic of Latvia, visited the UW last spring to help celebrate the centennial of the UW’s Scandinavian Studies Program, he enjoyed a special performance by The University Chorale. President Zatlers was visibly moved when the Chorale, conducted by Giselle singers on a tour of the Baltic states, UW Choirs’ Wyers, sang “Put vejini,” a Latvian folksong that third tour of the region. While there, the group served as the country’s anthem during the Soviet will conduct exchanges with Estonian and Latvian occupation, when the official anthem, “God Bless choruses as well as undertaking a busy performing Latvia,” was forbidden. schedule, singing at the Latvian Music Academy and That the Chorale should have more than a churches in Finland. Guntis Smidchens, the head passing knowledge of the folk music of Latvia of UW’s Baltic Studies Program, will travel with the makes sense when you consider that the UW choir and will serve as its translator and guide. Choral program claims a special distinction in The group also will make a repeat appearance the preservation of choral music from the Baltic before President Zatlers, who invited the group to region. The School of Music houses the country’s perform at the presidential palace if ever in Latvia. only library devoted to Baltic choral music, created “We had just finished singing when he stood and by Geoffrey Boers, director of choral activities at invited us to come to his palace,” Wyers says. “We UW. Boers, who directs the UW’s premier choral had originally planned to travel only to Estonia, but ensemble, the UW Chamber Singers, will join with are thrilled to have this opportunity to visit Latvia Wyers next spring to lead a select group of UW and learn more about its culture and history.”
Wind Ensemble returns to band of the People’s Liberation Army. This is a Japan, Salzman to Beijing return visit to the group, for which he served as guest conductor for ten days of rehearsals and The UW Wind Ensemble, at the invitation of performance last spring. the Kansai Band Association, will return to Japan Salzman’s Beijing 2009 visit culminated in a in March for its third concert tour of that country. concert with the Army’s top military band in its The ensemble will perform with selected Japanese new, state-of-the-art concert hall. He also led high school and university wind ensembles in master classes at the China Conservatory, presented Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, and Izumo, with a final master classes for wind conductors gathered from performance at Osaka Castle. Faculty artist Donna throughout China, and rehearsed several other Shin, flute, will also perform with the ensemble, school and university ensembles in the Beijing area under the direction of Timothy Salzman. including the Central University for Nationalities Professor Salzman will extend his stay overseas Conservatory Wind Ensemble and the Beijing at the conclusion of the tour to travel to Beijing, Imperial Children’s Palace Symphony Band. where he will be guest conductor for the top
Professor Tim Salzman was guest conductor of the top band of the People’s Liberation Army in Beijing last spring. He has been invited to make a return visit in spring 2010.
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 6 New faculty appointments for 2009-10
Douglas Cleveland, Organ and sophisticated playing of the gayageum. She Douglas Cleveland has been the Director of studied with some of the most celebrated Korean Music and Organist at Plymouth Church in Seattle traditional musicians and masters of gayageum, since September of 2004. In September of 2009 including Hae Sook Kim, Ui Sik Min, and Ji he was appointed to the music faculty at the Young Lee. Ms. Ju is considered one of the most University of Washington School of Music, where quintessentially trained traditional gayageum he teaches courses in Sacred Music. performers specializing in the performance He has studied at the Eastman School of Music lineage of Master Sung Geum-Nyeon. She also Doug Cleveland of the University of Rochester, Indiana University actively promotes contemporary music with a and Oxford University. His teachers have included specialization on the 25-string gayageum. Edward Hansen, Russell Saunders, Larry Smith and As a soloist, Bora Ju has performed numerous Marilyn Keiser. solo recitals in Seoul, Korea, and has frequently Cleveland gained international prominence appeared on international music and theater when he won first prize in the 1994 American festival stages around the world. She has Guild of Organists National Young Artists appeared to critical acclaim as a soloist with Competition in Dallas. Since then he has many of Korea’s prestigious orchestras, including performed in 48 of the United States and has been Seoul City Traditional Orchestra, Gyeonggi State invited to perform at such venues as the Victoria Traditional Orchestra and the National Traditional Concert Hall in Singapore, Minato Mirai Concert Youth Orchestra. She earned both her BA and Hall in Yokohama, Japan, Tchaikovsky Hall of MA degrees from the Korean National University Gary Hobbs the Moscow Conservatory, Westminster Abbey, of Arts. Notre-Dame Cathedral, Lausanne Cathedral and Benaroya Hall in Seattle. Jennifer Nelson, Clarinet From 1999 to 2004 he was Assistant Professor Jennifer Nelson joined the School of Music of Organ at Northwestern University, where he faculty as a clarinet instructor in Fall 2009. She received the Searle Award for Teaching Excellence. is currently principal clarinet with the Pacific He also has served as a visiting faculty member at Northwest Ballet and Auburn Symphony St. Olaf College and the UW. orchestras. She also has an active freelance career, playing shows at the Fifth Avenue and Paramount Gary Hobbs, Jazz Drumset Theaters, working as an extra with the Seattle Drummer Gary Hobbs is a native of the Pacific Symphony, Seattle Opera and Northwest Chamber Northwest and lives in Vancouver, Washington. Orchestra, and recording for various television and He has played professionally for more than three motion picture scores. decades and appears on more than 50 recordings. Nelson has also traveled throughout the United Hobbs played with The Stan Kenton Orchestra States with the national touring companies of Bora Ju from 1975 through 1977, and has also performed Phantom of the Opera and the New York City with Randy Brecker, Ken Peplowski, Pete Opera. Her orchestral and recital performances Christlieb, Greta Matassa, Anita O’Day, Susannah have taken her to Mexico, Japan, Germany, McCorkle, Dan Siegel, Glen Moore, The New York Liechtenstein, Austria, Honduras, and most Voices, Eddie Harris, Bud Shank, Bill Mays, Kurt recently India. Elling, Dave Frishberg, David Freisen, Bobby Shew, Bobby Watson, Bob Florence, Carl Saunders, The Laura Rebolloso, Visiting Artist, Woody Herman Orchestra, Terry Gibbs, Jaquie Ethnomusicology Naylor, Jim Widner Big Band, Mike Vax Big Band, Laura Rebolloso is a dancer, poet, and a and Tom Grant. virtuoso performer on the leona, the largest and Hobbs has appeared at some of the world’s lowest pitched member of the jarana guitar family great concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Royal popular in the Veracruz region of Mexico. In 1992 Festival Hall, Tivoli Garden, the Kennedy Center, she co-founded the ensemble Son de Madera, Jennifer Nelson and Wolf Trap. Active in Jazz Education, Hobbs regarded today as one of the most important teaches at the University of Oregon in addition exponents of son jarocho and a champion of the to the UW School of Music and travels all over community music celebration called fandango. the United States leading clinics, concerts, and She directs a renowned youth performing jazz camps with the help of Bosphorus Cymbal ensemble at the Xalitic school in Xalapa, and Company and the Yamaha Drum Company. teaches dance at the University of Veracruz. During winter and spring quarters of 2010, Bora Ju, Visiting Artist, Ethnomusicology Rebolloso will serve as a visiting artist at the Bora Ju joins the UW School of Music University of Washington in the Department of in Fall Quarter 2009 as a Visiting Artist in Dance and the School of Music, and will work with Ethnomusicology. Her residency is sponsored by Seattle community groups to advance the Seattle South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Fandango Project, building relationships through Tourism. An elegant artist of extraordinary musical participatory music. talent, Bora Ju is renowned for her exquisite Laura Rebolloso
www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 7 2008-09 Master Classes School of Music students participated in dozens of master classes throughout the 2008-09 school year. Below are scenes from just a few.
The School of Music and the Seattle Classic Guitar Society co-sponsored a masterclass in March with Grammy- nominated guitarist Paul Galbraith, featuring Chaz Rogers and Daniel Kashima, students of Michael Partington.
Photos: Dean Ritz
Jazz Studies assistant professor Cuong Vu brought his critically acclaimed trio to the School of Music in January for a day of clinics with UW jazz students.
Photos: Joanne De Pue
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 8 Flutist Paula Robison of the New England Conservatory was in residence at the School of Music in early March, her visit made possible through the Hans and Thelma Lehmann Endowed Lectureship in Music. While at the University, she led several master classes with UW music students and was the featured performer in a chamber music recital in Brechemin Auditorium and a guest artist recital in Meany Theater. Faculty artists Donna Shin, Melia Watras, Ron Patterson, and guest artist Michael Jinsoo Lim and numerous students performed with Robison in the two recitals.
Scott Pingel of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra led a master class with students of Barry Lieberman last January as part of the Barry Lieberman and Friends series.
Photos: Joanne De Pue www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 9 Faculty/Student/Alumni Update FACULTY
Jane Eaglen, Voice, was honored at New York presentations, including “Teaching Musicianship in City’s Lincoln Center, where she received the the Choral Rehearsal,” “Developing a Program of Baccarat Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Research,” and “Lost in Translation: Exploring Cross- Field of Opera. The award was presented by the Licia cultural Music Cognition.” Albanese-Puccini Foundation at a gala concert in October 2008. Huck Hodge, Composition, was awarded the Aaron Copland Award in Composition from the Bogliasco Craig Sheppard, piano, traveled to Japan in June for Foundation, and a residency at the Liguria Center for a series of solo recitals and master classes in Ashiya the Arts and Humanities. Jane Eaglen and Hashimoto. Concert selections included works by Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, and Chopin. Laurel Sercombe’s (Ethnomusicology Archives) essay “The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Richard Karpen, Composition, accepted a five-year Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives” term as director of the School of Music, starting July appears in a new volume, Music of the First Nations: 1, 2009. An internationally renowned composer Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, who most recently has served as Divisional Dean for published by University of Illinois Press. Research in the UW’s College of Arts and Sciences, he also is founding director of the UW’s Center for Digital Judy Tsou (Lecturer, Music History and Head, Music Arts and Experimental Media. Karpen has taught Library) presented a paper on race and gender Music Composition at the School of Music since 1989. in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at a colloquium hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Rhonda Kline, opera coach and coordinator of September, 2009. She also recently completed her accompanying at the School of Music, travels to Italy second three-year term on the editorial board of the each summer, where she is a charter faculty member Journal of the American Musicological Society. of Canta in Italia, a summer program for singers Richard Karpen to study opera in Florence, Italy. Canta in Italia is a Robin McCabe, piano, completed her third five- Wichita State University Summer Voice Program that year term as director of the School of Music on June allows participants to immerse themselves in the 30, 2009. Under her leadership, private support to original language of opera in the very city where the the School increased significantly and the School’s Camerata created the first music dramas. endowment grew from $1.59 million when she became director in 1994 to more than $8 million at Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies Cuong Vu the close of 2008. She returns to full-time teaching launched a concert tour of Italy this past summer with and performing as the Donald Petersen Endowed the Cuong Vu Trio. The tour included appearances Professor (2009-2012) in the School of Music. at jazz venues and festivals in Udine, Maestre, and Verona. Cuong Vu’s 2001 release Come Play With Me was named number 95 on Amazon’s 2009 listing of the 100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time. George Bozarth, Music History, is well known Cuong Vu Donna Shin, flute, gave a presentation at the 52nd in Seattle as artistic National Conference of the College Music Society director of Seattle’s in Portland, Oregon in October. Her presentation, acclaimed early music “Music in the Real World: Bridging the Gap Between series Gallery Concerts, Academia and Life,” was selected from more than now in its 21st year. But 5,000 proposals submitted for the conference. few are aware that Bozarth has gone bi- The American Sabor exhibit (first launched and coastal in sharing his presented at Seattle’s Experience Music Project), love of early music with the larger community. an installation that explores the influence of Latin Director of the Brahms Archive at the School American culture on American popular music, of Music, Bozarth and his wife, pianist Tamara co-curated by School of Music professor Shannon Friedman, spend their summers in Southern Dudley, was accepted by the Smithsonian Gallery Maine, where they are restoring the historic and is on display in the museum’s International Trafton House, a Victorian “Painted Lady” in Gallery through September 2011. the small community of Sanford. Not content Donna Shin to confine his chamber music activities to Music Education Professor Patricia Campbell the West Coast, Bozarth is also founder and and seven international colleagues have received artistic director of the Sanford-Springvale a generous grant from the Australian Research Classical Music Festival, which presents chamber Council. The purpose of the grant is to pursue music performed on historic fortepianos from the documentation of music diversity and the the late 18th and early 19th centuries with preservation and transmission of musical expression other instruments of that period. The 2009 in communities in Brazil, India, Australia, Vietnam, festival, Mainely Mozart, presented last July, Mexico, West Africa, and elsewhere. The UW is the included music by Mozart, Bach, Scarlatti, only American university participating in the five- Haydn, Schubert, and Beethoven, performed year, five-million-dollar program. in Sanford’s intimate, 60-seat Louis B. Goodall Music Education Professor Steven Demorest Library. The Festival, enthusiastically embraced was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study by area classical music-lovers and going into of Music Learning and Teaching at Penn State last its fourth season next summer, is presented March. The Center aims to engage its graduate by Musique du jour, a Sanford-Springvale students with scholars and researchers in the field community-based non-profit organization. Robin McCabe of music education. Professor Demorest gave several
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 10 Students Alumni
Choral Conducting masters student Nuría Molins Dwight Beckmeyer (BA/BM 1986, MM 1989), a was awarded a prestigious scholarship from the former piano student of Robin McCabe, was music Fundacio Pedro Pons at the University of Barcelona director and pianist in New York’s 92nd Street Y’s (Spain). This Foundation offers annually only one Lyrics and Lyricist series production of Rodgers scholarship for musicians who graduated from the &…, a music review of Richard Rodgers and his Conservatory of Barcelona and are earning a master’s collaborators. Beckmeyer also played Hammond or doctoral degree in a foreign country. B-3 organ in the new musical Memphis at the Fifth Avenue Theatre and was associate musical director Tenor Gregory Graduate student Rachel Routson, soprano, and pianist for Sunday in the Park with George. advanced to the Northwest regional auditions of the Carroll Metropolitan Opera National Council last winter. A Ben Albritton (PhD, Music History), a 2009 graduate, outstanding UW master’s student in voice who studies with Jane received a post-doctoral appointment at Stanford in his field Eaglen, Routson appeared in the role of Sandrino University to help digitize medieval manuscripts. His in the UW’s 2008 production of Mozart’s La Finta appointment is supported by the Mellon Foundation. Tenor Gregory Carroll Giardiniera. She was among 15 young opera singers George Julius Papadopoulous (PhD, Music History) continues to show selected in the District auditions in Seattle, Spokane, exceptional promise as Portland, and Vancouver, BC to compete in the was appointed artistic director of the Municipal Conservatory of Kavala in Northern Greece. an emerging artist in the regional auditions. opera world, garnering Kirsten Cummings, a first-year graduate Gwynne Brown (PhD 2006), an assistant professor several top honors and conducting student in the wind conducting program, at the University of Puget Sound, was invited to special distinctions in the was awarded a Ladies of the Podium Scholarship from submit an entry on UW Music History Professor Larry past year alone. Women Band Directors International, a Chicago- Starr for an upcoming edition of the New Grove Most recently, this up-and- based organization that supports and mentors Dictionary of American Music. coming student of world- women in the band world. Cummings is co-conductor renowned soprano Jane of the UW’s Campus Band for the 2009-10 school Chris Chapman (DMA 2008) was named Director Eaglen was awarded the sole year. of Bands/Assistant Professor of Music at Oregon State University. His appointment began in the Metropolitan Opera Career MeeAe Hong, a violin student of Ron Patterson, won winter of 2008. Grant for 2009. He recently first place in the College Strings division of the Coeur returned from New York, d’Alene Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Contest. Jonathan Pasternack, former orchestral conducting where he coached with Ken student of Peter Erös, served as Visiting Director of Noda and sang for Maestro Orchestral Activities at Pacific Lutheran University in James Levine onstage at the Tacoma during the 2008-09 academic year. Met during a trip initiated and funded entirely by the Metropolitan Opera. Earlier in the summer, Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the Carroll was a resident at the basis of academic or professional achievement, as Merola Opera Program at well as demonstrated leadership potential in their San Francisco Opera Center, fields. Case is among more than 1,500 U.S. citizens where he worked with studying abroad for the 2009-2010 academic some of the finest coaches year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, in the world, including America’s flagship international educational Kathryn Cathcart, George exchange program, sponsored by the United States Darden, Martin Katz, and Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Eric Weimer. One of 23 Cultural Affairs. singers chosen from across the world to participate in Prior to his studies in Tunis, Case was teaching English the prestigious program, at an elementary school in the Porte de Pantin he appeared at the Herbst Cody Case Receives neighborhood of Paris, where he used songs by classic Theatre and the San American artists such as James Brown and Ray Charles Francisco War Memorial Fulbright Award to help French schoolchildren learn to speak English. Opera House singing “It is a very diverse area populated mainly by Erik in Der fliegende Ethnomusicology graduate student Cody Case is minorities originally from North and West Africa, and Holländer; scenes of in Tunisia for the 2009-10 academic year, his study far from the average ‘romanticized’ image of Paris,” Walther von Stolzing in funded through a Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship. Case writes from Tunisia. “The school where I taught Die Meistersinger von Case is currently studying Arabic in Tunis, taking was L’école élémentaire de Josephine Baker, which Nürnberg; and scenes of courses on the Maluf musical tradition in the Rashidiyya I found particularly suitable for teaching children Doctor Caius in Falstaff. Conservatory, and learning to play the Arab lute known English through American popular music.” as the oud, his studies funded by the Fulbright Critical Just prior to his departure Case says music proved an effective means of helping Language Enhancement Award. He plans to use his for Merola, Carroll was the student begin to pronounce and memorize English Fulbright research grant to study how Maluf, an Arab- awarded two medals from words and phrases. “I discovered within the first Andalusian tradition that also bears Spanish, Egyptian, the elite Irene Dalis Vocal month that these kids loved to sing,” he says, “perhaps and Turkish influences, has influenced popular music Competition. Of the 100 because French education is rather conservative and in post-independence Tunisia since the 1960s. “I’m singers granted auditions traditional, and I made learning fun!” planning to investigate these influences of repertory and the ten finalists who and styles on the popular music specifically through appeared in-concert, he performances in marriage ceremonies,” he says. took second place overall and was awarded the distinguished Wagner Prize. www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 11 Class of 2009
Ah-Ra Yoo (left) celebrated her MM Graduate Justin in Organ Performance with organ Henderlight (BM, Music graduate student Hyun-Ja Choi. Education) with his proud parents.
Elizabeth Kohl (left) earned a bachelor’s degree in Instrumental Music, and Jessica Blackwood completed her master’s degree in Music Education. Graduates celebrated at Grand Finale 2009 School of Music graduates gathered with family and friends at the School of Music prior to Commencement on Andrea Emberly (PhD, Ethnomusicology), Ethnomusicology doctoral June 13, 2009 to celebrate their accomplishments at the embraces Visiting Artist Mudzunga Davhula (left), grad E. Jabali Stewart, School’s annual Grand Finale. who was in residence at the School of Music wearing a kente cloth given Of the 87 graduates in the class of 2009, 29 students during 2008-09. to him by his father, pauses earned undergraduate degrees, 31 earned master’s with family before heading off to Commencement. degrees, and 26 earned doctoral degrees. Six undergraduates also earned degrees in other areas of study. Lisa Philip, for instance, earned a BA in History in addition to a BM in Strings Performance, and Veronica Reed earned a BS in Biology along with a BA in Instrumental Music. Undergraduate Kaitlin Ehlers, who earned a BM in Vocal Performance, sang the national anthem at the University’s main Commencement Ceremony. After a welcome from then-director Robin McCabe, faculty members Thomas Collier (Percussion Studies), and Áine Heneghan (Music Theory), made brief remarks to Dmitriy Kosovskiy (MM, Piano Performance) receives congratulations from his professor, Kaitlin Ehlers (BM, Vocal grads and their families, as did students Jonathan Hill Patricia Michaelian. Performance), shown (BM, Orchestral Instruments) and Andrea Emberly (PhD, here with her parents, Ethnomusicology). Musical entertainment was provided sang the national anthem by student Daniel Lee on guitar. at Commencement. Congratulations to all of our 2009 graduates!
Happy graduate Josh Hollingsworth Kyler Brumbaugh (BM, Music Education) (BM, Music Education) has his hands full with his cousin at Grand Finale. with loved ones at Grand Finale.
Graduate Sean Conte (BA, Instrumental Music) and family before the walk to Commencement. Photos: Joanne De Pue
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 12 Music Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients 2008-2009
Wendy Elizabeth Adams M. Kathleen Johnson Andrew Marlin Music Scholarship Endowed Music Scholarship Sam McCoy Brad Osborn Michael DiRoberts Ali Rahmani Kristina Paulick Daniel Rossi Montserrat Alavedra Kenji Ulmer Endowed Scholarship Scott Lakin Jones Emily Autrey Endowed Scholarship Renee C. Ries and Richard T. Darin Jones Edna Chittick Endowed Yuliya Minina Black Endowed Scholarship Regina Thomas Scholarship in Music Francisco Orozco Milton Katims Viola/Strings Andrew Marlin Alcor Endowed Scholarship Scholarship Tina Tai Ben Albritton J. Edward Conlon Memorial Sarah Bass Kirsten Cummings Scholarship Rebecca Kim Bernice Mossafer Rind Meena Hwang Jeremiah Cawley Endowed Scholarship Nathan Harrenstein, cello, Man Kit Iong Katherine Chan Beecher Keifer Memorial in Music Memmi Ochi Alex Gagiu Music Scholarship Ashley Wong recipient of the Vilem Sokol Bren Plummer Laurie Betts Hughes Matthew Wu Endowed Scholarship with Milnora Roberts Scholarship Sarah Shewbert Daisy Li Jeannette Killian Scholarship accompanist Gabriel Manalac. Bryan Smith Nuria Molins Amy Bowen Eric Remme Megan Huckabay Maggie Stapleton Marcia Welk Julia Tai Roy E. Cummings Endowed Daisy Li Leonardo Valverde Scholarship Louis G. and Patricia A. Ryan Osinski Chris Icasiano James L. Beech Marsh Endowed Fellowship Milnora Roberts Endowed Scholarship Jane and David Davis in Music Memorial Scholarship Akiko Iguchi Bret Amundsen Endowed Fellowship Kirsten Alfredsen Leah Pogwizd Kyler Brumbaugh in Music Emily Autrey Taylor Kent Katherine Chan Louis and Katherine Marsh Kathryn Baker Wha-Yeon Lee Kyujin Choi Scholarship In Music Rachel Bernstein Emily Bishop David Margulis Nic Eisele Anton Coleman Andrea Dilley Rich Pellegrin Dallas Morris Michael Couch Emily Farnham Megan Perdue Doug Niemela Masamitsu Ohtake Jocelyn McCurtain Daniel Shontz Rebecca Paul Ryan Osinski Simone Placentia Nick Toretta Chaz Rogers Rudy de Tornyay Fellowship Lauren Roth Yi-Chen Yu John Rutherford in Opera Melissa Winstanley William Bergsma Sarah Markovits Shaunessey Scott Endowment for Excellence in Ah-Ra Yoo Cecilia Schultz Award Barbara, Walt and David for Outstanding Opera Music Composition Dryfoos Music Award Metzler-de Llaguno Richard Johnson Endowed Scholarship Performance Su Min Lim, violin, recipient Endowment Darin Jones of the Delores Gail Plath James and Harriette Bleitz Scott MacPherson Tonya Siderius Laurel Sercombe and Darwin Scholarship, with accompanist Endowed Music Scholarship Deborah and Meade Emory Harvard Palmer Award Brennan Carter Isaiah Lin Alonso Ethnomusicology Tara Swanson. Brian Culbertson Music Scholarship Award Ray Larson Sen Lu Ellen and Maynard Pennell Kim Cannady Endowed Scholarship Isaiah Lin Marie Ferrel Scholarship Vilem Sokol Havilah Nokes Benjamin Bourgoin Nicole Jahng Kristina Paulick Hae-Yoon Shin Endowed Scholarship Ruth Draper Sarah Bass Colin Pulkrabek Peter Galus Delores Gail Plath Natalie Hall Boeing Endowed Fellowship Tomoko Maki Scholarship Nathan Harrenstein for Excellence in Music Sarah Mortland Amber Archibald Annie Wong Masamitsu Ohtake Sarah Bass Bret Amundson Alice J. Sorenson Ethan Chessin Philip R. and Versa Foster Suhrim Choe Sylvia DeTar MeeAe Hong Memorial Scholarship Scholarship Jessica Blackwood Chia-Hao Hsieh Nicole Jahng Mark Hunter Sarah Watts Laney McClain Ryan Hyde Katie Kowalski Christopher Roberts Brittney Stout Su Min Lim Ruth Sutton Waters Sarah Shewbert Miriam Shames Endowed Scholarship Maggie Stapleton Friends of Opera Scholarship in Piano Yutaka Jono Darin Jones Claire and Gustav Raaum Scholarship in Piano Dmitriy Kosovskiy Brechemin Music Scholarship Charles T. Griffes Scholarship Gabriel Manalac Tomoko Maki Jung Hwan Jang Douglas Niemela Gabriel Manalac David Margulis, voice, recipient Richard Johnson Gina Funes and Fred Radke Barbara and Lynn Endowed Scholarship in Ruth Sutton Waters of the James L. Beech Endowed Gabriel Manalac Endowed Scholarship Edward Park Himmelman Endowed Music Scholarship. Scholarship Emily Autrey in Performance Toby Penk Ivan Arteaga Lisa Prina Daniel Rossi Drew Dresdner Brandon Izutzu Ben Krabill Lauren Roth Peter Hobbs Memorial Ruth Mar Bryan Smith Faina Morozov Scholarship Nataly Wickham Christopher Sibbers Kouki Tanaka Regina Thomas Walter C. Welke Roberta Brockman Endowed Frances Redner Memorial Consuelo Houts Scholarship Endowed Scholarship Memorial Scholarship Music Scholarship Torrey Kaminski Trevor Bortins Jonathan Hill in Music Aylan Lee Elliot Gray Kelsey Schwichtenberg Jonathan Ip Quinn MacKenzie Marion O. Williams Endowed Adeline Bowie Carlson Helen A. Reynolds Endowed L. Mildred Hurd Scholarship Scholarship in Music Scholarship Memorial Fellowship Brandon Izutzu Hans Anderson Arian Ashworth in Piano Sen Lu Katie Barrett Jung Hwan Jang Brooks Tran Lisa Prina Erh-Chia Wei Demar and Greta Irvine Jessica Blackwood Endowed Scholarship Cindy Chou Gayle Wilson Award Catch a Rising Star Endowed Abigail Aresty Leslie Edwards for Horn Studio Scholarship Julie Bannerman Jordana Elliott Amber Archibald Chris Icasiano Alex Gagiu Emily Kojis Kristina Paulick Ruth Mar, harp, recipient of the Christopher Lennard Bree McConnell George Hamilton Christopher Sibbers Daniel Rossi Kim Muñoz Danny Helseth Kenji Ulmer Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Kouki Tanaka Drew Nobile Josh Hollingsworth Scholarship in Performance. Regina Thomas Christopher Roberts Kara Ingram Hans Wolf Award Sarah Watts Andrew Jacobson in Music Regina Thomas Kaitlin Ehlers Jazz Scholarship Sam Thompson Jonathan Hill Chris Icasiano Darin Jones Faina Morozov Gabriel Manalac Photos: Joanne DePue www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 13 Thoughtful Gifts
Make a difference 2008-2009 Call for for the School of Music Instruments Advisory Board Do you have an instrument School of Music Neil Bogue collecting dust in the closet? You can help create futures at Dr. David Davis Flutes, clarinets, saxophones, the University of Washington. Deborah Carley Emory trombones, trumpets, snare drums, and bells are needed. A gift to the School of Music Prof. Ramesh Gangolli Donald Thulean, Chair, Max Gellert School of Music Advisory Board Our UW Music Education in your will can be part of your students have created a band legacy, supporting students, Gordon Grant “Our students, faculty and Dr. Kennan Hollingsworth at First Place School, a school faculty, teaching — whatever staff would like to thank all of serving homeless children is most important to you. You Dr. Carol Scott Kassner our dedicated School of Music Karen Koon and their families in Seattle’s can donate specific property, a Advisory Board members Central District. To offset fixed sum, or a portion of your Patti Marsh for a wonderful year. We are Prof. Robin McCabe the high costs of renting estate and receive an estate tax grateful for your hard work instruments, we would love deduction for your bequest. Joyce McCallum and unwavering support on Prof. Patricia Michaelian your gently used instruments. behalf of the school. We also Please contact (206) 543-1221 If you wish to make a bequest, Dr. Donald Miller commend Donald Thulean for please share this language Dr. Elaine Monsen or [email protected] if you would his committed service as Chair like to help. Thank you! with your attorney: I give to Renee Ries of the board. Thank you for the Board of Regents of the Bernice Mossafer Rind being great advocates for the University of Washington, Seattle, Dr. Gloria Swisher UW School of Music.” Donald Thulean (Chair) Washington, (specific amount, — Cristi Benefield, percentage of estate, or property Cristi Benefield (ex officio) Advancement Officer description) to benefit the School of Music. For more information about making a planned gift, please visit our Web site at: www.uwfoundation.org/ giftplanning
or contact the UW Office of Back row, left to right: Max Gellert, Donald Thulean (Chair), Neil Bogue, Dr. Gift Planning at 206-685-1001 Kennan Hollingsworth, Dr. Gloria Swisher, and Dr. Elaine Monsen. or toll free at 1-800-284-3679. Front row, left to right: Renee Ries, Karen Koon, Patti Marsh, Prof. Robin email: [email protected] McCabe, Dr. Carol Scott Kassner, Prof. Patricia Michaelian and David Davis. Not pictured: Dr. Ramesh Gangolli, Gordon Grant, Dr. Donald Miller, Joyce McCallum and Bernice Mossafer Rind.
Hollingsworth and Bagdi Organ Studio Christened Drs. (“Ken”) Kennan H. Hollingsworth (‘56, ‘60) and Phyllis Bagdi Hollingsworth have turned their passion for music into support for the School of Music with their gift of $200,000 for the purchase of a new practice organ and studio renovations. The newly renovated Hollingsworth and Bagdi Organ Studio, located in the lower level of the Music Building, has been named in the couple’s honor. “The new practice organ is a huge morale booster for our students and great bragging point for us all,” says Organ Professor Carole Terry. “I want to thank Phyllis and Ken for their extraordinary support of the organ program. Their gift of a new practice organ means so much to me and to the students who now have a superb instrument for their training. The new organ built by Fritts and Co. is sensitive in touch and its sounds are simply exquisite. It is truly a great teacher.” The Hollingsworths have also established a fellowship for graduate students studying Western classical instrumental music, with a preference for keyboard. “We cannot thank Ken and Phyllis enough for their commitment to our students Music to their ears: Drs. Phyllis Bagdi and school,” says School of Music Director Richard Karpen. Organ Professor Carole Terry Hollingsworth and Kennan H. Hollingsworth “Their generosity will have a lasting impact on our school for plays and demonstrates enjoy a private concert with the newly the new “Kennan Harrison christened practice organ. generations to come.” Hollingsworth and Phyllis Bagdi Hollingsworth” Organ.
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Scholarship Donor Celebration In April 2009 our annual Scholarship Donor Celebration featured an afternoon concert by our top scholarship recipients. Student scholars showcased on the Brechemin Auditorium concert stage included cellist Nathan Harrenstein, violinist Su Min Lim, voice scholar David Margulis, harpist Ruth Mar, and pianist Gabriel Manalac. Almost two hundred guests attended the post-concert hors d’oeuvres and wine reception that immediately followed in Director Robin McCabe the Music Fishbowl. Thank you to our donors, alumni, and alongside student scholarship Bernice Mossafer Rind with her student friends of the school who made this afternoon celebration recipient Ashley Wong, scholar Ashley Wong, recipient of thanking donors at the post- the Bernice Mossafer Rind Endowed possible. Your support makes a lasting difference in the lives concert reception. Scholarship in Music of our student music scholars.
Patti and Jerry Marsh with their student scholar Rebecca Paul (left) and Doug Niemala (right), Regina Thomas, recipient of the Peter Leah Pogwizd, recipient of the Louis G. and recipients of the Jane and David Davis Endowed Hobbs Memorial Award with her donor, Patricia A. Marsh Endowed Fellowship in Music. Fellowship in Music, with Dr. and Mrs. David and Sylvia Hobbs. Jane Davis.
Photos: Joanne De Pue
Patti Friends of Opera Help Underwrite and Jerry Eugene Onegin Marsh Several Friends of UW Opera stepped up in a big way this past spring. They helped to underwrite our 2009 spring opera production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin on the mainstage of Meany Theater. One of Bernita W. the largest operas the school has ever undertaken, Jackson the production would not have been possible without Gloria and Don Swisher the generous support of our Opera Production Underwriting Support Fund (OPUS!) contributors, including Neil and Kathleen Bogue, Bernita Wilson Jackson, Jerry and Patti Marsh, Don and Linda Miller, Renee Ries, and Donald and Gloria Swisher. Special recognition and appreciation also goes out to Donald Neil and Kathleen Bogue and Gloria Swisher for leading the OPUS! Campaign. Our opera students were thrilled to receive such an amazing experience – all thanks to you! Renee Ries Don, Linda, and Daniel Miller www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 15 Friends of the School of Music Gifts received July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009 Lifetime Friends Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Annie and Leroy Searle (Total lifetime giving of $10,000+) Ms. M. Kathleen Johnson* Jane and Roger Soder Mrs. Wendy E. Adams* Mr. and Mrs. Luther E. Jones* Dr. Gloria W. and Mr. Donald P. Swisher The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Mrs. Annie May H. Karrer* The Babb Foundation The Allen Foundation for Music Mr. and Mrs. George B. Kauffman The Bishop Foundation American Brahms Society Prof. Emeritus and Mrs. Gerald and The Brechemin Family Foundation Betty Kechley American Film Institute The Endurance Fund Mr. Douglas F. King Anonymous Gifts – Alumni and Friends The Marsh Family Foundation Karen L. Koon Apex Foundation The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Mr. Palmer D. Koon* Mr. James L. Beech* The Peach Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Kriewall Christina Sunardi, assistant Mr. and Mrs. Harve Bennett The Seattle Foundation Drs. Bruce Kulander and Glenna Burmer professor of Ethnomusicology, Prof. and Mrs. William Bergsma* The Tulalip Tribes with her mentor, Ki Midiyanto, Laurelhurst PTA Prof. Emerita Diane D. Thome a member of the faculty of Mr. Richard T. Black Dr. and Mrs. J. Hans and Thelma Lehmann* UC Berkeley who visited the Mrs. Harriette B. Bleitz* Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Mr. Edmund W. Littlefield, Jr. School of Music in February The Boeing Company Mr. H. Dale Thompson for master classes and Mr. James D. Wade & Ms. Mary Kay Long performance in the Javanese Mr. and Mrs. Louis and Mrs. Aloysia K. Tufts* art of Gamelan. Charlotte Brechemin* Anselmo J. Macchi Rev Living Trust United Way of King County Ms. Mary M. Brockman Mr. Theodore J. Macchi* Mrs. Ruth Sutton Waters* Mrs. Edna Chittick* Mr. Patrick MacDonald Ms. Sally Anne West and Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Cole and Mr. and Mrs. Louis G. and Patricia A. Marsh Mr. Peder H. Knudson* Adelaide Currie Cole* Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. McCaw Mr. David Wilcox* Community Church of Seattle Mr. Barry C. McCord Mr. DeWitt Williams* Mr. Kenneth B. Coulter* Microsoft Corporation Mrs. Eleanor Hale Wilson* Dr. and Mrs. David R. and Jane M. Davis Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Miller Ms. Gayle K. Wilson Dr. Rheba de Tornyay and Mrs. Aura Bonell Morrison* Mr. and Mrs. Lyle and Ruth Wilson* Mr. Rudy de Tornyay* Mrs. Jacqueline Nehammer* Mrs. Naomi Steil Wilson* Ms. Julia W. Derby Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. and Helen L. Ness* Dr. and Mrs. Loren C. Winterscheid Barbara, Walt and David Dryfoos Ms. Marilyn W. Newland Mr. Robert L. Wood* Prof. and Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Peg Locke Newman* Deborah Carley Emory Dr. and Mrs. Eric Offenbacher* Gifts $250,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. and Judith S. Evans Ms. Cathy Palmer and Mr. Greg Palmer* Mrs. Adelaide Currie Cole* Faculty artist Thomas Harper Fairchild Record Search Ltd. was the featured soloist with Ms. Anne Arnold Parry Mr. Franklin H. Cole* the Wind Ensemble (conducted Mr. Philip Foster* Ms. Jessie M. Paterson* The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation here by Eric Smedley) at its Mrs. Miriam V. Friedman and Mrs. Gloria B. Peck and Mrs. Eleanor Hale Wilson* December 2008 concert Mr. Robert Friedman* (Photo: Gary Louie). Prof. Cornelius Peck* Prof. and Mrs. Ramesh and Shanta Gangolli Mr. Gordon S. Peek Gifts $50,000 - $99,999 Mrs. Marion O. Garrison and Mr. Donald R. Pennell and Mrs. Elsbeth Pfeiffer* Mr. Robert H. Garrison* Mrs. Linda Halverson Pennell Dr. William and Ruth Gerberding Mrs. Mary Pennell Nelson and Gifts $20,000-$49,999 Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Mr. Kenneth M. Nelson Ms. Barbara D. Himmelman Dr. George G. Ghosn Mr. Robert M. Pennell and Dr. Kennan H. Hollingsworth and Mrs. Louise M. Goodrich* Mrs. Adelaide H. Brooks Pennell Dr. Phyllis Bagdi Hollingsworth Gordon Stuart Peek Foundation Ms. Mina Brechemin Person Laurelhurst PTA GRAMMY Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Greg* and Cathy Palmer Lt. Col. Charles T. Griffes Mrs. Elsbeth Pfeiffer* The Peach Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George and Ida Halpern* Mrs. Dolores Gail Plath* Ms. Mina Brechemin Person Drs. Edward and Luella Hermanson PONCHO Jane and Roger Soder Mr. and Mrs. Gregg N. Herrell Qwest Foundation Mrs. Ruth Sutton Waters* Ms. Anne M. Hewitt Mr. and Mrs. Gustav F. and Mrs. Barbara D. Himmelman and Claire Thompson Raaum Gifts $10,000-$19,999 Mr. Lynn P. Himmelman* Ragamala Mr. and Mrs. Harve Bennett Ms. Mary E. Hirsch Mrs. Ethel G. Reynolds* Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Dr. Kennan H. Hollingsworth and Mrs. Helen A. Reynolds* GRAMMY Foundation Students of Barry Lieberman Dr. Phyllis Bagdi Hollingsworth* Mr. and Mrs. George B. Kauffman performed for Scott Pingel of Ms. Renee C. Ries the San Francisco Symphony Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Huh Ms. Bernice Mossafer Rind Prof. Emeritus and Mrs. Gerald and Orchestra as part of the Barry Mrs. Marion B. Ingersoll* Mrs. Mary McEacheran Robinson* Betty Kechley Lieberman and Friends series. Ms. Mary T. Ingrim* Rev. and Mrs. Donald D. Rowland Karen L. Koon Mr. and Mrs. Demar Irvine* Mr. and Mrs. Steve C. Samuelson Ms. Gayle K. Wilson Mrs. Bernita Wilson Jackson and Mr. Wayne R. Schaub Mr. Quentin K. Jackson* (* Deceased)
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 16 Thank you for your generous support! We are grateful to our donors, alumni and friends, whose Gifts $1,000-$9,999 Loran & Sheila Kollmorgen Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Garrett generous and Mr. Batholomew Komoah Dr. David Klein and Ms. Karen Gottlieb Apex Foundation thoughtful support Mr. and Ms. Benjamin Leis Ms. Linda J. Gould Ms. Ruth M. Baker creates wonderful Mr. A. Lindsey and Ms. L. Manley Dr. Martin L. Greene and Prof. Toby Saks Bellevue Korean Presbyterian Church opportunities for Mrs. Nancy L. Matesky Mr. Daniel J. Haeck Bellevue Korean United Church our music students, Blaine Memorial U.M. Church Mr. Douglas J. Mathews Prof. Mary and Dr. William Hallauer faculty and programs. The Boeing Company Dr. Michael and Mrs. Rebecca McGoodwin Dr. and Mrs. Don M. Hallum Friends of the School Mr. and Mrs. Neil and Kathleen Bogue Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Metzler Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Hanich of Music receive Mr. and Mrs. Ross R. Bogue Ms. Aileen M. Miholovich Profs. Stephen Hinds & Catherine Connors Ms. Susan Boyden Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Morrison Ms. Geraldine Hoefer invitations to special Community Church of Seattle Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. Prince Ms. Barbara J. Howell concert events in Barbara, Walt and David Dryfoos Mr. and Mrs. Gustav F. and Claire Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Y. Ip addition to recognition Fairchild Record Search, Ltd. Thompson Raaum Dr. and Mrs. Burton Jay in programs and Ms. Shanna M. Fickentsher Dr. and Mrs. Philip D. Schuyler Dr. and Mrs. Richard Jones-Bamman publications. To make Mr. Mark Findlay Washington Women’s Foundation The Hon. Ruth Kagi a gift, please visit Drs. Carol and Kirk Kassner Leopold Gellert Family Trust Gifts $100-$499 www.uwfoundation.org Mr. Max E. Gellert Mr. Douglas F. King or call 1.877.894.4387. Accenture Foundation George G. Ghosn, D.D.S. Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Kischner Drs. Charles Alpers and Ingrid Peterson Thank you! Ms. Bernita Wilson Jackson Mr. and Ms. Laurence H. Lang Anonymous Gifts – Alumni and Friends Magnolia Chorale Mr. and Mrs. Byron R. Lapin Mr. John A. Attebery Mr. Lyle Mann Mr. Gary J. Louie Ms. Sharman N. Ballantine Mr. and Mrs. Louis G. and Patricia A. Marsh Barbara R. Lundquist, D.M.A. Mr. Darce R. Barager Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. McCaw Ms. Harriett D. Marshall Prof. and Mrs. James M. Beale Prof. and Mrs. Dean A. McManus Dr. Michael and Nancy Matesky Mr. and Mrs. Dwight C. Beckmeyer Ann H Milam, Ph.D. Ms. JoAnn M. Matlick Mr. Christian J. Bell Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Miller Prof. Robin L. McCabe Mr. and Mrs. David A. Bell Carol A. Nygren, C.P.A. Mr. Steven M. Messick Mr. Nelson B. Bell Ms. Anne Arnold Parry Microsoft Corporation Prof. and Ms. George Bertsch Ms. Gloria B. Peck Dr. and Mrs. Stafford W. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Donald Boothby Mr. and Mrs. A. Wayne Pietz Dr. and Mrs. S. Frank Miyamoto Drs. Joanne and Bruce Bouma Ms. Martha A. Poolton Mr. Coe Tug Morgan Mr. Charles F. Bretz Dr. and Mrs. Carl H. Reed Ms. Mary J. Neddermeyer Profs. Marshall J. and Jane K. Brown Ms. Renee C. Ries Mr. Jon R. Nelson Dr. and Mrs. Joseph and Barbara Buchman Ms. Jodi R. Salzman The New York Times Co. Foundation, Inc. Mr. Douglas P. Burton Prof. Timothy Salzman Ms. Janet L. Bogue and Ms. Paula Newberg Ms. Susan C. Cady Annie and Leroy Searle Prof. and Mrs. William T. Newell The Schools of Music and Mr. and Mrs. Norman and Marcia Calvo Drs. Darwin Alonso and Laurel Sercombe Dr. Ruth H. Nordlander-Edwards Drama presented Haydn’s Mr. Kalman Brauner and Ms. Amy Carlson Il Mondo Della Luna in Ms. Alexandra Shapiro NCW Music Educators Association Ms. Emily Neat Carter Meany Theater last November. Dr. Pamela K. and Mr. Patrick Steele Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Ockwell Noel Koran directed. Ms. Laura Jun-Ling Chang Dr. Gloria W. and Mr. Donald P. Swisher Mr. Cary S. Oshima Dr. Erin Chung and Mr. Edward Cummings The Marsh Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pavia Mr. Alan Robertson & Ms. Sally Clarke The Seattle Foundation Dr. and Mrs. K J. Philip Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Cleland The United Presbyterian Church of Seattle Mr. Warren Bakken & Ms. Jocelyn Phillips Thomas L. Crews, Jr. United Way of King County Mr. and Ms. George M. Poor Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Crosier Mr. Lee Winkler and Mr. and Ms. Jerrold E. Pritchard Dr. and Mrs. William H. Dahlberg Ms. Anne-Marie Van Wart Mr. Paul J. Rafanelli Dr. and Mrs. John M. Davis Ms. Sally A. West Mrs. Bernice M. Rind Dr. Pierre L. Divenyi Rind Family Foundation Gifts $500-$999 Mr. Jason E. Dougherty Rook, LLC Mr. Kalman Brauner and Ms. Amy Carlson Mr. Bill Dubay and Mr. John Reitberger Prof. and Mrs. Ralph R. Rosinbum Dr. and Mrs. David R. and Jane M. Davis Ms. Patricia A. DuRuz Drs. Cornelius and Penelope Rosse The UW Steel Drum Alvin and Ruth Eller Mr. and Mrs. Richard Earl Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Roubik Ensemble, directed by John S. Edwards, Ph.D. Shannon Dudley, gave an Mr. Gerald Stone Hartley Mr. Robin Datta and Ms. Meera Roy impromptu performance on Mrs. Sylvia H. Hobbs and Family Bettina M. Emerson, M.D. Profs. Irwin G. and Barbara R. Sarason Red Square last June. Mrs. Elaine R. Howell Mrs. Elve C. Fathers Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Schroeder Mrs. Susanne Hubbach Drs. Eric and Polly Feigl Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold K. Sherson Mr. and Mrs. Quentin K.* and Ms. Judith M. Filibeck Glenn P. Silva, Ph.D. Bernita Wilson Jackson David Fluharty and Lisa Bergman Dr. Landry T. Slade Photos: Joanne De Pue www.music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington Autumn 2009 17 Christine M. Snow, Ph.D. Dr. William Galloway Mr. and Ms. Frederick L. Rupp Dr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Stamey Mr. Dileep R. Gangolli Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Sayre Ms. Jan D. Stark Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gess Mr. David L. Schott Ms. Carole C. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Good Ms. Lois M. Schumacher Ms. Victoria Sutter Ms. Marilyn R. Gordon Mr. Dean S. Scotton Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Swier Ms. Jennifer Grahl Ms. Heather M. Seeley Maestro Peter Erös and Robin Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gunnar Prof. and Mrs. Jack Segal McCabe took a stroll in the UW’s Profs. Margaret E. & David J. Thouless Ms. Kari A. Hailey Ms. R. Suzanne Shawger Grieg Garden prior to Professor Ms. Nicola G. Tollefson Ms. Joanne Huot Hall Ms. Amy Maya Shimbo McCabe’s February performance with the University Symphony of Dainius Vaicekonis, Ph.D. Ms. Ardis D. Hallanger Prof. Donna Shin Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. Ms. Clarice A. Van Biber Dr. Jennifer L. and Mr. Tully Hammill Ms. Lucy L. Sidener Mr. Willard R. Wadt Mr. Ove W. Hanson Victor Smiley, AACM FM Ms. Frances K. Walton Ms. Nancy A. Hautala Ms. Melody Y. Smith Mr. and Mrs. William M. Wanser Ms. Whitney A. Henderson Mr. and Mrs. M. James Snyder Ms. Christy A. Watson Mr. Norman L. Hollingshead Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Spicciati Mr. and Mrs. Morton Weisman Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Howard Mr. P. Humphries & Ms. C. St. Clair Ms. Susan M. Wheatley Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Iseminger Ms. Susan C. Steil Ms. Ada M. Williams Dr. and Mrs. E. Harvey Jewell Ms. Laura J. Steinmann Mr. and Mrs. William S. Wilson Ms. Lois K. Johnson Ms. Nancy H. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Steven W. Wright Mr. and Mrs. James R. Johnston Ms. Vera Stirling and Mr. G. Jurewicz Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm and Barbara Joss Ms. Ann H. Straight Gifts $99 and under Drs. Nancy B. and Mark D. Kiviat Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Swafford The Studio Jazz Ensemble stayed Mr. Richard and Mrs. Susan Alvord Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Knopp Mr. Leon Tabachnick cool despite unseasonably warm Anonymous Gifts-Faculty/Staff temperatures at the group’s Mr. and Ms. Vincent G. LaBelle Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Taylor final rehearsal of the 2008-09 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bagshaw Mr. and Mrs. William Larrimore Ms. Valerie Ann Taylor academic year. Ms. Soo J. Bang and Mr. Tae Ku Kim Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Leach Prof. Carole Terry and Mr. Alan L. Fine Dr. Barbara and Mr. Richard Barker Prof. Heidi Lehwalder Ms. Margaret Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Barta Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Levant Mr. Andrew Gardner Mr. Brett M. Bartlett William P. Mahrt, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Thompson Cristi R. Benefield Mr. Ronald W. Mar Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur Thornquist Mr. Paul A. Berkolds Ms. Mary L. Martin Ms. Nancy G. Tuininga Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Berner Mr. Thomas Paulson and Ms. Lisa McNeill Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Urlacher Ms. Bonnie C. Birch Prof. Patricia E. Michaelian Ms. Maria E. VanTyen Ms. Judith M. Bircher Mr. J. W. Mikus-Mahoney & Ms. A. Fillips Dianne Vars, Ph.D. Mr. George S. Bozarth, Jr. Mr. Stephen M. Morris, Ph.D. Prof. Cuong Vu Margaret A. Brink, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Neuzil Mr. Emil Vernei and Ms. B. R. J. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Bronstein Ms. Erika L. Nisbet Mr. Joe R. Wall Laura Mulholland was featured Dr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Bruck Ms. Lan-June Wang soloist in the University Singers’ Mr. and Mrs. Tomoki Noguchi June performance. Dr. and Mrs. David A. Buck Mr. and Mrs. Allen Quinn O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Webster Dr. and Mrs. Edward H. Buhn Mr. Mark Y. Okinaka Mr. and Mrs. David A. White Mr. and Ms. Wiley D. Bunn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tam R. Osborne Mr. Duane C. White Phillip S. Bursett, O.D. Ms. Geneva R. Osburn Mr. Ryan L. Whitney Ms. Susan C. Cady Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Owen Ms. Margaret L. Whittlesey Profs. P. Shehan Campbell & C. Campbell Ms. Elizabeth A. Paterson Ms. Carol E. Whitworth Ms. Carol S. Canfield Dr. James E. Paul and Ms. Dolores Wells Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Widden Ms. Mary Jo Carlsen & Mr. John Wheeler John C. Paulson, D.M.A. Dr. and Mrs. John G. Williams Mr. John D. Carrington Mr. and Mrs. David R. Payson Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Wilson John and Maureen Cervinsky Mr. and Mrs. Mark Petersen Mr. and Ms. Tim Wood Mr. W. W. Cleland Ms. Elizabeth A. Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Yurkanin Mr. and Mrs. John C. Croskey Mr. G. Schmidt & Ms. P. Petrisor-Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cusick Mr. Jeffrey T. Powell (* Deceased) Ms. Shelly Devlin Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rhodes Ms. Dwyla C. Donohue Ms. Frances T. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Drumm Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Rosier Ms. Jacqueline J. Duggins Dr. Sandra K. Ruconich Members of the University Chorale Mr. and Mrs. Tom C. Dziekonski Kenneth E. Rudolf, Ph.D. happily rehearsing before their concert last June.
Autumn 2009 University of Washington School of Music www.music.washington.edu 18 2009-10 Season Highlights FEBUARY 16 (Tue) APRIL 13 (Tue) Contemporary Group Faculty Recital: UW Composers Showcase Marc Seales and Guests The UW Contemporary Group presents Marc Seales performs original works by School of Music composers Joël- compositions with Portland-based François Durand, Huck Hodge, Richard musicians Gary Hobbs and Dave Captein Karpen, and Juan Pampin. on drums and bass and UW faculty artist Cuong Vu on trumpet, with a special FEBUARY 23 (Tue) appearance by UW percussionist Tom Collier. *Special Free Event: University UW Symphony and Seattle APRIL 27 (Tue) Marc Seales Symphony Symphony: Side by Side Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist: (Not a Notecard event) Laura Rebolloso Gerard Schwarz conducts the University A virtuoso performer on the leona, the Symphony side by side with members of lowest-pitched instrument in the family the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Program of jarana guitars from Veracruz, Mexico, selections include Beethoven’s Piano Laura Rebolloso is also an accomplished Concerto No. 4 in G Major, featuring singer and a dancer in the percussive soloist Françoise Papillon, and Richard style of zapateo. Accompanied by Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”) expert local musicians, she will perform and Symphonic Poem Op. 40. traditional songs and innovative original * Advance tickets required. To reserve tickets, send compositions, presenting the variety and a request with your name, address, and phone number and a self-addressed stamped envelope improvisational energy encompassed in to the UW Arts Ticket Office, 4001 University Way the tradition of son jarocho. Michael Partington NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Limit 2 tickets per request. Laura Rebolloso Tickets may also be requested in person or by May 5 (Tue) phone at 206-543-4880. In order to receive your tickets by mail, please send your request with SASE Faculty Recital: by February 9th; after that date, tickets will be left in will call. Craig Sheppard, piano Schubert’s Last Three Piano FEBUARY 28 (Fri) Sonatas, D958-960 Faculty Recital: Schubert’s last three sonatas, composed Michael Partington on a grand scale and published posthumously, are the summit of lyricism. Guitar Plus! Written within a year of his untimely Michael Partington is joined by a diverse death at the age of 31, they are a fitting cast of colleagues in a program of gems testament to one of classical music’s from the chamber repertoire for guitar, greatest and most profound spirits. Barry Lieberman with music ranging from Boccherini to Craig Sheppard Takemitsu. Featuring faculty members MAY 12-16 Joyce Guyer, soprano; Ron Patterson, violin; Donna Shin, flute; and Carole Terry, Spring Opera Gala harpsichord; with special guest Kevin Voice Division with UW Symphony Callahan on guitar. Students and faculty from the School of Music Voice Division, along with Peter APRIL 11 (Sun) Erös and the University Symphony, present Barry Lieberman and Friends: songs and arias from the opera repertoire. Maria Larionoff, violin, and For details and more concert season Robin McCabe, piano events, visit www.music.washington.edu. Maria Larionoff, concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Robin McCabe, pianist and UW professor, present sonatas by Prokofiev and Franck, among other works.
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