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University of Notre Dame Department of Music Spring 2019 Season University of Notre Dame Department of Music Spring 2019 Season Tuesday, February 5 Friday, March 1 Friday, March 29 Thursday–Sunday, April 25–28 Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra and Student Chamber Groups Opera ND 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. (Thursday/Friday/Saturday) Leighton Concert Hall and 2:30 p.m. (Sunday) DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Decio Theatre As part of the residency of famed minimalist DeBartolo Performing Arts Center composer Philip Glass, the NDSO and student Martha Guth, soprano Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor Opera ND presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s beloved chamber groups present Reflection: Glass, Graham Johnson, piano Warren Jones, piano The Pirates of Penzance in a full, rollicking featuring excerpts from his symphonies as well as production featuring Notre Dame voice students, 7 p.m. 7 p.m. small ensemble works. For further information on LaBar Recital Hall LaBar Recital Hall members of University choral ensembles and the the residency, please visit performingarts.nd.edu. O’Neill Hall of Music O’Neill Hall of Music Symphony Orchestra, as well as musicians from the Michiana community at large. Directed by Graham Johnson represents the pinnacle of the Two lauded American artists present an evening Friday, April 5 Alek Shrader and conducted by Daniel Stowe. art song world, both as performer and scholar; of song. Anthony Dean Griffey is famed for his Martha Guth is a rising soprano and winner of performances of Britten, among many others, Notre Dame Chorale Sunday, April 28 the Wigmore Hall song competition. Together on the world’s great stages. Warren Jones is one 8 p.m. they will present works by three composers of the most visible and versatile collaborative Leighton Concert Hall University Band central to the genre: Schubert, Fauré, and Britten. pianists of the day. Program to be announced. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 3 p.m. For its spring concert, the Chorale will feature Leighton Concert Hall Tuesday, February 12 Friday, March 1 music by Byrd, Monteverdi, Schütz, Schubert, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Mendelssohn, Wagner, and selected movements Inna Faliks, piano Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra The University Band presents marches, from Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Daniel Schlosberg, piano 8 p.m. contemporary concert band pieces, popular music, and traditional Notre Dame favorites. The 7 p.m. Leighton Concert Hall Friday, April 12 LaBar Recital Hall DeBartolo Performing Arts Center University Band is a concert band for current students as well as staff, faculty, and alumni of O’Neill Hall of Music The Symphony’s winter concert will include Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s, and Holy Cross. Inna Faliks, professor and head of piano studies at two masterpieces of middle-period Beethoven, the Overture to “Fidelio” and the Symphony No. UCLA, joins ND faculty pianist Daniel Schlosberg Sunday, April 28 in this unusual presentation of Mahler’s poignant 6—the perennially popular “Pastoral”—along and epic Symphony No. 6, transcribed for piano with a performance by the winner of the annual Band Chamber Ensembles four-hands by Alexander Zemlinsky. student concerto competition, senior music 7:30 p.m. major Tim Michuda. Percussion Ensemble Ricci Band Rehearsal Hall Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m. Saturday, March 2 Philbin Studio Theatre The Notre Dame Band’s section ensembles February 22-23 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center perform their annual concert. The performing O’Neill Rollout Weekend The Notre Dame Band’s Percussion Ensemble ensembles include Flute Choir, Clarinet Choir, Saxophone Choir, Double Reed Choir, Trumpet Jonathan Biss, piano presents its hour-long spring concert, featuring 7 p.m. (Friday) and keyboard percussion, battery percussion, and junk Choir, Horn Choir, Trombone Choir, and Tuba/ 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. (Saturday) percussion ensembles. Performers are students Euphonium Choir. Free parking is available in the LaBar Recital Hall from the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s Library and Bulla parking lots. O’Neill Hall of Music College, and Holy Cross College. Zohn Collective Tuesday, April 30 One of today’s most Friday, April 12 probing concert 7 p.m. LaBar Performance Hall artists, pianist O’Neill Hall of Music Jonathan Biss returns to his home The expert new music ensemble comes to campus state of Indiana for his to perform works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and debut performance Notre Dame faculty member John Liberatore. at Notre Dame. He Jazz Band kicks off this special Tuesday, March 5 7 p.m. weekend with a recital on Friday evening Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra Leighton Concert Hall at 7 p.m. devoted entirely to Beethoven 8 p.m. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center piano sonatas. His performance at O’Neill Leighton Concert Hall Notre Dame’s three jazz ensembles (Jazz I, Hall will highlight the exquisite acoustics of DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Jazz II, and the New Orleans Brass Band) will the intimate LaBar Recital Hall, as well as the For its spring concert, the NDSO will present stellar capabilities of the Hall’s new Steinway present their end-of-year concert. In addition Jean Sibelius’s rich and sweeping Symphony concert grand, which was hand selected by ND to performing a variety of jazz repertoire, the No. 2, among other works. piano faculty at the Steinway headquarters in Schola Musicorum event will honor the senior members for their Queens, New York. 9 p.m. dedication to the program throughout their Sunday, April 14 time as collegiate musicians. Biss is also a highly sought-after pedagogue Reyes Organ and Choral Hall DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and is chair of piano studies at the legendary Concert Bands Wednesday, May 1 Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. The ensemble of faculty and students 3 p.m. He will share his gifts as a teacher in a from Sacred Music at Notre Dame and the Leighton Concert Hall Collegium Musicum masterclass on Saturday morning at Department of Music will perform Gregorian DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m. 10 a.m. This masterclass is open to the chant from medieval German manuscripts The Notre Dame Symphonic Winds and Reyes Organ and Choral Hall public and will showcase the impressive interspersed with 17th-century organ music. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center artistic capabilities of the Department’s Symphonic Band will present an afternoon of overtures, marches, and traditional concert undergraduate music majors concentrating Friday, March 22 This intimate vocal ensemble presents on piano performance and chamber music band works. The grand finale features the “A Musical Mirror,” featuring both Renaissance collaboration within the curriculum. Glee Club Concert combined bands performing traditional and contemporary sacred music. Notre Dame school songs, including Biss is also an admired and respected author 8 p.m. “The Notre Dame Victory March.” and lecturer on the repertoire he loves. The Leighton Concert Hall capstone of the weekend will highlight this DeBartolo Performing Arts Center scholarly side of his work in a Saturday For its annual spring concert, the Glee Club For DeBartolo Performing Arts Center ticket information, contact the Box Office afternoon panel discussion with ND will feature sacred and secular music from at 574.631.2800 or performingarts.nd.edu. music faculty beginning at 1 p.m. across Europe, in preparation for its tour of the All spring 2019 music events in O’Neill Hall will be free and open to the public. continent in May and June. Call 574.631.6211 or visit music.nd.edu/events..
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