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ANNUAL REPORT 2009-10/2010-11 2 From the Director 4 Maestro Takes a Bow 5 New Faculty Appointments 7 Week of Jazz 8 Master Classes 11 Faculty/Student/Alumni Update 15 Grand Finales 17 2010-11 Scholarship Recipients 18 Giving 24 Contributions 27 2011-12 Season Highlights
chamber ensembles, the Berlin Philharmonic’s Scharoun Ensemble. “The concerts presented three of my works, WHEN IN ROME… including the world premiere of Transfigured Assistant composition professor Huck Hodge finds inspiration Etudes for piano, performed by Majella Stockhausen, who premiered many of her in ancient settings and cross-disciplinary connections at the father Karlheinz’s Klavierstücke,” Hodge says. American Academy in Rome Transfiguredwas awarded a prize last summer When School of Music Assistant Professor Huck Hodge was awarded a in the American Liszt Society’s Liszt Bicentennial 2010 Rome Prize in Composition, he earned an eleven-month residency at Composition competition, just the latest of the American Academy in Rome, a compound of facilities and gardens on an impressive string of honors Hodge has the highest hillside overlooking the Eternal City. He also earned his place in accumulated since his arrival at the School of Music the illustrious ranks of previous prize-winners in composition over the past in 2008. century, which have included such storied names as Elliott Carter, George Though absent from the halls of the Music Rochberg, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and the UW’s Music Professor Building this past academic year, Hodge has Emeritus William O. Smith, a Rome Prize fellow in 1958. maintained his ties to the UW in tangible ways. Winning one of the nation’s most prestigious honors in the arts and A new composition, a consortium commission humanities admitted Hodge into a community of fellow prizewinners titled from the language of shadows, premiered comprising thirty of the country’s most promising scholars, writers, artists, at Meany Theater in March at the 2011 College architects, and designers. Hodge has produced six new works during his Continued on page 6 residency—more than an hour and a half of music—two to three times his typical output. In this, he has fulfilled the aim of the Academy to bring artists and academics together to inspire each other in unexpected ways. Indeed, to Hodge, one of the most unexpected aspects of the experience has been the inspiration he has discovered through his interactions with the visual artists in residence at the Academy. “It’s been very interesting to hear how they conceive of works,” he says. “I have gained a deeper appreciation for the value of focusing on creating an experience and the value of conceptual versus technical virtuosity.” The setting also has had a profound effect on his creative output. Hodge’s garden studio at the Academy sits on extraordinary ground—the site of the first official demonstration of Galileo’s telescope. A milestone anniversary of that demonstration, which took place 400 years ago this past April, was duly noted by the Academy, which commissioned Hodge to create a new Huck Hodge, in Rome, performing a new work composed for work to commemorate the occasion. The result, a twenty-minute multimedia the 400th anniversary of the first demonstration of Galileo’s collaboration with Baltimore-based video artist Karen Yasinsky, is a piece in telescope (Photo: Davide Franceschini/Altrospazio). Top left: five continuous movements titled Pools of shadow from an older sky. Hodge at the UW last summer, just before leaving for a year Hodge counts the collaboration and its execution among the highlights of in Rome (Photo: Joanne De Pue). a remarkable and productive residency. Another was a weekend of concerts in January 2011 at the Academy’s Villa Aurelia with one of the world’s leading From the Director
This issue of Fanfare contains the briefest Despite the serious challenges we have faced glimpse of the many activities and achievements and will continue to face, both in terms of the we have experienced at the School of Music broader economic realities in our region and during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years. those specific to higher education and the arts, Our faculty, students, and alumni continue to do we remain committed to attaining the highest extraordinary things both here at the University of levels of excellence in teaching, learning, and the Washington and far beyond our campus. creation of new knowledge and new music. You Over the past two years, we have welcomed who support the School of Music with your time, to our classrooms and performance venues your monetary contributions, and your attendance an astonishing array of renowned artists at our public performances and scholarly events and performers from around the world. We are critical to our success. On behalf of all of have congratulated our faculty and students our students, faculty, and the many community on outstanding artistic and professional members who benefit from the School of Music, I achievements, awards and honors in teaching, thank you for your continued support. performance, and the creation of new music. In the past two years alone, School of Music students and recent graduates have made an indelible mark on the Seattle musical landscape—creating two new orchestras, organizing music festivals and ongoing community events, and founding a record label, to cite only a few examples. Their Richard Karpen, enthusiasm and optimism continually inspires and Director, School of Music encourages me.
CUONG VU AWARDED 2010 DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD
Virginia Valdes Virginia Since his arrival as a member of matter, intellectual rigor, and a passion for the School of Music Jazz Studies teaching, the award is one of the highest honors faculty in 2007, trumpeter Cuong awarded to UW educators. In nominating his Vu has brought a renewed vitality colleague for the distinction—a rare honor to the program that has not gone for a young professor in only his third year of unnoticed by his colleagues, teaching—Jazz Studies chair Marc Seales noted students, and the broader music changes he has witnessed in the Jazz Studies Cuong Vu community in Seattle and beyond. His high program over the past several years. “Cuong has expectations and his conviction that the future of brought energy and intensity to our program that the music industry depends on musicians creating is just remarkable,” Seales wrote in his nomination their own local, independent music communities letter . “He has empowered the students in so have inspired his students to go forth and be many ways that really have been eye opening.” creative with some truly impressive results. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, With Vu as their mentor and instigator, Vu worked with some of the biggest names in students in the program have been instrumental jazz, rock, and experimental music—including in establishing the Improvised Music Project, touring and recording extensively with jazz which presents an annual week-long festival of guitarist Pat Metheny—before his arrival at the improvised music; ongoing live music events, such UW . He also has earned high accolades as leader as the Racer Sessions, held weekly at Seattle’s of several groups that have recorded and toured Cafe Racer; and a local record label and music internationally. collective, Table and Chairs, that features a At the UW, Vu’s formal music training, notable roster of local bands making innovative, his professional industry experience, and his genre-defying music. dedication to teaching have positioned him to Vu’s achievements at the UW were recognized make an immediate and profound impact on the last year when he was one of seven University lives and education of his students. “His zeal for educators to be awarded the 2010 UW music and teaching is contagious,” says School Distinguished Teaching Award. Presented to of Music director Richard Karpen. “The results faculty who show a mastery of their subject have been dramatic.”
2009-10/2010-11 University of Washington School of Music www .music.washington.edu 2 ÁINE HENEGHAN AWARDED NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOR 2011-12 Áine Heneghan, assistant professor of Music and in English that includes a new edition of his Theory, has been awarded a national fellowship influentialFundamentals of Musical Composition. for the 2011-12 academic year from the American The book is to be published by Oxford University Association of University Women (AAUW). Press . During her research leave, she plans to The AAUW American Fellowships support work on a second book, tentatively entitled women doctoral candidates completing Schoenberg’s Poiesis: Composing with Words and dissertations and scholars seeking funds for Music, a revisionist account of the composer’s postdoctoral research leave. They are awarded workshop that explores the interaction and on the basis of scholarly excellence, quality and interdependence of his musical and written originality of the proposed projects, and the output. level of commitment applicants have shown to An active member of both the Society of Music Áine Heneghan helping women and girls through service in their Theory and the American Musicological Society, communities, professions, or fields of research. Of Heneghan serves on the editorial boards of Music more than 1,200 applicants, Heneghan was one of Theory Spectrum and Analytical Approaches only ten selected in the category of Postdoctoral to World Music. She has been a member of Research Leave Fellowships. the School of Music faculty since 2006. Before The fellowship will provide a year of research her arrival at the UW, she taught music theory support for Heneghan, one of the world’s and music history at University College Dublin, leading scholars on the music and writings of where she held a Research Fellowship, and at the composer Arnold Schoenberg. She is currently University of Dublin, Trinity College, where she completing Schoenberg on Form, an examination completed her PhD. of Schoenberg’s writings on form in German
JUAN PAMPIN NEW MUSIC LIBRARY NEWS DIRECTOR OF DXARTS Judy Tsou, head of the Music Library and Juan Pampin, associate professor of lecturer in Music History, edited and published Music Composition, has been named (ClarNan Editions) a previously unknown song, the next director of the UW’s Center for “Birth,” by Amy Beach (1867-1944). The song was Digital Arts and Experimental Media Mary Levin/UW Photography discovered last summer among the manuscripts of (DXARTS) . A founding faculty member of the Kinscella Collection in the Music Library. the program, Pampin had most recently Tsou also serves as Chair of the American Music served as its associate director in addition Cultures Book Award Committee for the American to his work at the School of Music. His Musicological Society and will present the award in appointment was effective July 1, 2011. the Society’s meeting in November. On the library “Pampin brings unique and farsighted front, Tsou led the merger of two music library thinking to his work as an artist, teacher, Juan Pampin organizations in the United States: the U.S. Branch and researcher,” says School of Music Director of the International Association of Music Libraries and DXARTS co-founder Richard Karpen. “These and the Music Library Association. The merger qualities make him a superb choice to lead DXARTS initiative, decades in the making, passed with at the start of its second decade.” more than 95 percent of the votes by members of DXARTS faculty are drawn from across the the two associations and took effect on July 1. arts at the UW. They and their students work in a wide range of disciplines including music, visual — Judy Tsou, Head, Music Library arts, performance, and theater, in tandem with advanced technology research and theory. The program offers BFA and PhD degrees in Digital Arts and Experimental Media and is one of the first PhD programs in “arts practice” internationally. Pampin, who holds an MA in Composition from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, France and a DMA in Composition from Stanford University, creates works for instrumental, digital, and mixed media that have been performed around the world by renowned soloists and ensembles such as Susana Kasakoff, Melia Watras, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Arditti String Quartet, Sinfonia 21, and Krakow Percussion Group, to cite just a few. He has been a member of the School of Music Composition faculty since 2002. www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 3 Professor Emeritus Bela Siki pays tribute to his friend and former colleague.
Peter Erös conducts his final concert with the University Symphony (Photo: Gary Louie). Maestro Takes a Bow Faculty artist Carole Terry was a featured performer Maestro Peter Erös concluded a most distinguished professional on the final concert career on June 4, 2010 when he conducted his final concert with the (Photo: Gary Louie). University Symphony before retiring from teaching and conducting. Friends, family, colleagues, and students gathered in the Meany west lobby for a farewell reception following a program of works by Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, which featured appearances by faculty artists Carole Terry, Robin McCabe, and Joyce Guyer. Professor Emeritus Bela Siki, Seattle Symphony Music Director Gerard Schwarz, American String Project co-founders Maria Larionoff School of Music Director Richard Karpen, Professor Robin McCabe, and Barry Lieberman pay their and the maestro’s former student and interim successor Jonathan respects to the maestro. Pasternack made heartfelt tributes to the maestro, and scores of well- wishers offered hugs, congratulations, and other gestures of love, affection, and utmost respect. Cellist Nathan Harrenstein. Erös came to the School of Music 1989 as the Morrison Endowed Professor of Conducting and Music Director and Conductor of the University Symphony and Opera. Prior to his teaching career, he had worked with some of the world’s great musicians while conducting orchestras in Malmo, Sweden; Aalborg, Denmark; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; San Diego, California; and many other cities. He continues his association with the School of Music, holding the title of Emeritus Professor.
Maestro Erös with his son, Seattle Symphony Music Andy Erös. Director Gerard Schwarz.
Jonathan Pasternack, former student of Maestro Erös and interim conductor Faculty artists Joyce Guyer of the UW Symphony, says a few words about his mentor. and Robin McCabe (at piano) (Photo: Gary Louie).
Reception photos: Joanne De Pue
2009-10/2010-11 University of Washington School of Music www .music.washington.edu 4 New faculty appointments for 2010-11
Luke Bergman, Jazz Bass leading the London Symphony Orchestra in Luke Bergman joined the School of Music Béla Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin suite and faculty this past fall as a part-time lecturer in Jazz the Symphony No. 1 by Johannes Brahms, was Studies . An innovative bassist, composer, and released in January 2011 on the Naxos label. producer, he has garnered critical acclaim on a His opera conducting experience includes national and international level for his work with productions of Tosca, Don Carlos, Die Fledermaus, Heatwarmer, Speak, Thousands, and The Cuong The Turn of the Screw, Les Dialogues des Vu Group. Carmèlites, Cendrillon, L’enfant et les sortileges, Dedicated to the development of the local and Il barbiere di Siviglia. He led the Paris premiere music community, Bergman serves as co-creator, of Robert Clerc’s l’Ombre du grand arbre and the organizer and artistic director of The Racer world premiere of The Prestigious Music Award Luke Bergman Sessions, a weekly performance series devoted by Gloria Wilson Swisher at Shoreline Community to the advancement of avant-garde music in College. Seattle . Debuting new works each week and Born and raised in New York City, Dr. Pasternack operating as a performance workshop for group studied violin, cello, trombone, piano, and free improvisation, the series has provided a place percussion. He won a trombone scholarship to for artists to interact and inspire each other on a the Manhattan School of Music at the age of regular basis. Bergman, a graduate of the UW Jazz sixteen and later transferred to the Massachusetts Studies Program, also serves as a board member, Institute of Technology to pursue studies in producer, recording engineer, and co-founder astronomy, philosophy, and political science. He of Table and Chairs Music, a not-for-profit, earned master’s and doctorate degrees in music independent record label that documents and from the University of Washington, where he promotes creative music in Seattle. studied conducting with Peter Erös and trombone with Stuart Dempster. Steve Korn, Jazz Drumset In addition to numerous guest faculty Seattle drummer Steve Korn, an integral part residencies throughout the Northwest and of the Seattle jazz scene, joined the School of in France and Switzerland, Dr. Pasternack has Music faculty last fall as a part-time instructor in served as Assistant Conductor with the Oregon Steve Korn Jazz Studies. Symphony, Resident Conductor and Managing Korn has released three CDs on Seattle’s Origin Director of the Icicle Creek Music Center in Records: Here and Now (1999), Pride and Joy (2000), Leavenworth, and Visiting Director of Orchestral and Points In Time (2004). Each was nominated Activities at Pacific Lutheran University. as Northwest Recording of the Year by Earshot Jazz. He won the Earshot Golden Ear Award for Kari Ragan, Voice Northwest Emerging Artist for the year 2000. Soprano Kari Ragan holds degrees from When not leading his own group, he regularly Indiana University (BM, MM) and the University works with many of Seattle’s finest jazz musicians, of Washington (DMA), where she received the including Mark Taylor, Greta Matassa, Marc Seales, prestigious Williams and Beech Scholarships. Dr. Dave Peterson, and Jeff Johnson, among others. Ragan was the 2009 recipient of the National He also has been fortunate to perform with many Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Pedagogy jazz greats including John Scofield, Julian Priester, Award . She has developed and maintained a Larry Coryell, Dee Daniels, Mark Murphy, Jessica thriving and collaborative independent voice studio Williams, Ernestine Anderson, James Williams, Jay for nearly twenty-five years and has served on the Clayton, and Karrin Allyson. faculty at the University of Puget Sound in addition A published author and composer, Korn has to her faculty appointment this past fall as a full-time contributed transcriptions to two books for the lecturer in Voice. Jonathan Pasternack Hal Leonard Corporation (The Jack DeJohnette Although her primary training, performing, Collection and Drum Standards) in addition to and teaching are in the classical genre, she has articles for Down Beat, Percussive Notes, and additionally specialized in contemporary musical Modern Drummer magazines. Korn created and theatre pedagogy. She also is a singing voice coordinates the University of Washington Jazz specialist, having attained special and extensive Workshop. He holds a Master’s Degree in Percussion training in working with voice disorders in singers. Performance from the University of Washington. She is a frequent performer, adjudicator, and clinician throughout the Pacific Northwest. Jonathan Pasternack, Orchestral Activities She has sung with Spokane Opera, Fort Collins Jonathan Pasternack was appointed Director Symphony, Helena Symphony, Washington East of Orchestral Activities at the School of Music Opera, Spokane Symphony, Lyric Opera Northwest, for the 2010-11 academic year (His appointment and Opera Idaho, among others. A frequent was renewed for 2011-12). He has conducted recitalist, she recently presented a series of recitals Kari Ragan orchestras, opera, and ballet in the United States throughout the Northwest with Maestro Dean and Europe, with such ensembles as the London Williamson at the piano. She has been recognized Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest of the as the Regional finalist for the Metropolitan Hague, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the National Council Competition and the MacCallister National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Competition. Center, among many others. His debut recording, www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 5 New faculty appointments for 2011-12
Gina Funes, Voice as Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Gina Funes joins the School of Music faculty Masur, Seiji Ozawa, and Bernard Haitink. An active in Fall 2011 as a part-time lecturer in Voice. Her chamber musician and avid proponent of new professional singing career has included roles music, she performs regularly with the Seattle in Mimi, La Boheme, The Magic Flute, and The Chamber Players, the Seattle Chamber Music Marriage of Figaro with the Seattle Little Opera Society, and Music of Remembrance. Company and the University of Washington Born in Nice, France, she began her musical Festival Opera Company as well as engagements education at the Nice Conservatory, from which with the Seattle and Portland Symphony she received top honors. She continued her studies Orchestras. at the Curtis Institute with Marilyn Costello and Gina Funes As a nightclub performer, she has appeared Judy Loman, followed by graduate work at Yale with such artists as Glenn Yarborough, Miriam University with Nancy Allen. Makeba, George Burns, Connie Stevens, Tony Fred Radke, Jazz Studies Bennett, the Modernaires, Pete Barbutti, Johnnie Fred Radke joins the School of Music faculty in Ray, and Mel Torme. She has worked as a featured Fall 2011 as a part-time lecturer in Jazz Studies. A singing artist at Seattle’s Fairmont Olympic Hotel well-known big-band conductor and authority on and frequently performs around the world as big-band history, Radke will direct the University guest vocalist for the Harry James Orchestra, of Washington’s big band, the UW Studio Jazz directed by her husband, Fred Radke. Her Ensemble . A professional musician since the appointment is funded by the Apex Foundation. age of fifteen, Radke has toured extensively Valerie Muzzolini Gordon, Harp around the world as leader and member of the Valerie Muzzolini Gordon joins the School of Harry James Orchestra. He has also performed Music faculty in Fall 2011 as a part-time lecturer as lead trumpeter with many other well-known in Instrumental Performance. She has been a ensembles and performers, including the Glenn Valerie Muzzolini Gordon member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra since Miller Orchestra, the Dick Jergens Orchestra, the 2000 and has held the position of Principal Harp of Modernaires, Johnnie Ray, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel the Seattle Symphony Orchestra since the age of Torme, and numerous others. twenty-three. In addition to his professional career as a In demand both nationally and internationally, trumpeter, conductor, recording artist, composer/ she has performed as guest Principal Harp of the arranger, and producer, Radke is a musical clinician Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio–France and and educator who most recently has served as the the Nice Philharmonic and has also appeared with resident instructor of Jazz Studies at North Seattle the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed Community College. His appointment is funded by at prestigious festivals worldwide and has played the Apex Foundation. under the batons of such renowned conductors
Continued from page 1 WHEN IN ROME … Fred Radke Band Directors National Association Conference. A collaboration with Jazz Studies assistant professor Cuong Vu titled Passeggiata premiered to resounding approval at a year-end celebration at the Academy in May. The work, a structured improvisation for trumpet and piano with live electronics and computer-realized sound, extends an artistic collaboration by the two colleagues that began last year at the School of Music. “Basically the idea of this piece is that there are fixed pieces that act sort of like built structures, which can be arrived at in any order,” Hodge says. “The improvisatory has to interact with the non-improvisatory in a way analogous to how pedestrians improvise with the fixed structures (buildings, streets) of a city. In this case the fixed pieces are inspired by sounds and experiences I’ve had in Rome.” Overall, Hodge’s time in Rome will have lingering effects above and beyond the compositions he has created and the new friendships and connections he has made. When he returns to the School of Music in Fall Quarter 2011, he will bring with him many plans for future projects and partnerships, as well as a broadened approach in his creative process. “I have several collaborations lined up in the near future as a result of this residency,” he says. “But the most lasting thing I will take away is an intense desire to continue the collaborative spirit with my colleagues in other artistic fields at the UW.”
Huck Hodge (Photo: Joanne De Pue).
2009-10/2010-11 University of Washington School of Music www .music.washington.edu 6 Week of Jazz
Sohroosh Hashemi Sohroosh Jazz alums (left to right) Chris Cuong Vu and his quartet played a three-night Icasiano and Thomas Marriott, run at the Chapel Performance Space as part of with 2010 Jazz Studies grad the IMPfest and Week of Jazz festivities. Andrea Roberts. Joanne De Pue Students (left to right) Elliot Gray, Mark Hunter, Ivan Arteaga, Scott MacPherson, and Evan Woodle performed with Bill Frisell, capping off the Week of Jazz celebration. Twenty years strong
Emeritus Professor Stuart Dempster, who took part in a panel discussion after the Bill Frisell The School of Music and the Improvised Music IMP members (left to right) concert, chats with Susanne Seales at the Project (IMP)—a student group founded by UW Brennan Carter, Ray Larson, alumni reception. jazz students—joined forces in April 2010 to present and Evan Woodle. A Week of Jazz at the UW, a celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Jazz Studies Program that ran concurrently with the second annual IMPfest. Highlights included faculty recitals by Marc Seales and Tom Collier; three nights of music at the Chapel Performance Space in Wallingford featuring some of the area’s most promising up-and-coming new music groups (many populated by current and former Jazz Studies students); and a live recording project by faculty artist Cuong Vu and his quartet that resulted in Guitar instructor Michael his latest CD, Leaps of Faith. The week wrapped up on Partington (left) congratulates Noted musician and composer Wayne Horvitz April 18 with a concert at Meany Theater by renowned student Elliot Gray on fine (right), who took part in the Week of Jazz panel playing with Bill Frisell. discussion, talks jazz with Don Brown. guitarist Bill Frisell, who performed with faculty artists Marc Seales, Cuong Vu, and Stuart Dempster before delivering a stunning set with Jazz Studies students Elliot Gray (keyboards), Mark Hunter (bass), Ivan Arteaga (saxophone), Scott McPherson (saxophone), and Evan Woodle (drums). A panel discussion by jazz community members and a post-concert reception wrapped up this most memorable celebration. Support for A Week of Jazz was provided by The Washington Research Foundation, The American Music Partnership of Seattle (AMPS), KBCS radio, and Pals and creative co- Earshot Jazz. conspirators: Recent Jazz Sohroosh Hashemi Sohroosh alum Jared Borkowski (left) Heatwarmer, featuring alumni Aaron Otheim and 2010 grad Ivan Arteaga (left) and Luke Bergman, during the group’s hang out at the alumni IMPfest set at the Chapel Performance Space. reception. Joanne De Pue Bill Frisell looking pleased School of Music friends (left after the concert. Marc Seales played selections from his CD American Songs at his April 13 to right) Brad Edwards, Karin faculty recital, joined by Dave Captein on bass and Gary Hobbs on drums. Koon, and Patti Marsh. Reception photos: Tess Altiveros
www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 7 2010-11 Master Classes School of Music students and the public had many opportunities to listen, watch, and learn through recent visits to the School by a range of musicians, composers, and other artists.
Critically acclaimed violinist Gil Shaham, longtime friend of violin professor Ron Patterson, stopped by the School of Music to lead a master class with UW string students. Students performing for Shaham included Jae-In Shin and Sol Im, violin, and the UW Quantum String Quartet (violinists Kouki Tanaka and Meeae Hong, violist David Colmenares, and cellist Natalie Hall).
Grammy-award- winning bassist John Patitucci, former student of Barry Lieberman, led a master class and discussion during his March 4, 2011 visit. Students Mark Hunter, Carmen Rothwell, Gus Carns, and Grace Huang performed. Professor Marc Seales also took a turn at the keyboard, collaborating with Patitucci on two jazz standards.
Photos: Joanne De Pue
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran and viola professor Melia Watras led a workshop that featured performance excerpts of a new composition for solo viola, “Perfect Storm,” that Ran composed for Watras. The piece premiered at Meany Theater on October 25 at Watras’s 2010 faculty recital.
Fundación Conservatorio Flamenco Casas Patas, an internationally renowned flamenco ensemble from Madrid, led a lively workshop and masterclass, inviting UW students and other audience members onstage for a lesson in the art of flamenco dancing.
Photos: Joanne De Pue
www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 9 Jazz Dialogues, Masterclasses, and Workshops 2009-10 and 2010 -11
Some of the greatest names in jazz visited the School of Music in 2009-10 and 2010-11 in the School’s ongoing series of dialogues, workshops, and masterclasses. In addition to visits by such iconic figures as bassist Ron Carter and guitarists John McLaughlin and Bill Frisell, all pictured here, the School of Music also played host to guitarists Pat Metheny and Larry Coryell, saxophonist Lee Konitz, drummers Antonio Sanchez and Matt Wilson, and others.
Top right: School of Music Director Richard Karpen, Professor Ron Patterson, guitarist John McLaughlin, drummer/keyboardist Gary Husband, Professor Marc Seales, Assistant Professor Cuong Vu.
At left: School of Music Director Richard Karpen, Assistant Professor Cuong Vu, guitarist Bill Frisell, Professor Marc Seales, bassist Ron Carter, Artist-in-Residence Barry Photos: Joanne De Pue Lieberman.
2009-10/2010-11 University of Washington School of Music www .music.washington.edu 10 Faculty News
Jonathan Bernard, Music Theory classical contemporary works for marimba and • Gave the keynote address, entitled “Form(?) vibraphone. The CD is Collier’s third release on in Late Twentieth-Century Music,” at the the Seattle-based Origin label. nineteenth annual meeting of the West Coast Steven Demorest, Music Education Conference for Music Theory and Analysis, held • Chaired the organizing committee for the 11th at the University of Oregon in March 2010. International Conference on Music Perception • His chapter “The String Quartets of Elliott and Cognition held at the UW in August 2010. Carter” appeared in Intimate Voices: The The conference drew 465 attendees from Twentieth-Century String Quartet (University of 34 countries, including many of the leading Geoffrey Boers Rochester Press, 2009). scientists in music cognition research. Geoffrey Boers, Choral Conducting • Along with Music Education colleague Steven • In March 2010, conducted the Chamber Singers, Morrison, founded the Laboratory for Music University Chorale, and University Symphony Cognition, Culture, and Learning at the School in a concert titled Mass for Our Time, which of Music. The purpose of the lab is to explore featured movements by Durufle, Poulenc, scientifically the processes of music learning, Tavener, Vaughan Williams, and a newly both formal and informal, and how they are commissioned work Pacific Sanctus by Robert shaped by culture, biology, and experience. Kyr . The concert was subsequently presented at • With colleague Steven Morrison, published the 2010 American Choral Directors Association “An fMRI Investigation of the Cultural Northwest Convention. Specificity of Music Memory” in Social • Along with colleague Giselle Wyers, toured in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; March 2010 with the Chamber Singers and the “Cultural Constraints on Music Perception and Cognition” in Progress in Brain Research, University Chorale to the Baltics and Finland, the George Bozarth group’s third concert tour to the region. Vol. 178; and “Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function” inElsevier. George Bozarth, Music History Shannon Dudley, Ethnomusicology • His article “Piano Wars: The Legal Machinations of London Pianoforte Makers, 1795-1806,” RMA • Serves as guest curator for American Sabor: Research Chronicle (2009), 45-108, written in Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, an interpretive collaboration with Margaret Debenham, was museum exhibition documenting the influence selected by the American Musical Instrument and impact of Latinos in American popular Society as the winner of its Frances Densmore music . Currently touring nationally, the exhibit Prize for 2011. The award honored the most has shown at the Miami Museum of Science, the outstanding article on musical instruments Museo Alameda in San Antonio, and the Bob written in English in 2009. Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin. It opened at the Smithsonian Institution in Patricia Shehan Campbell, Music Washington D.C. in summer 2011. Patricia Shehan Campbell Education/Ethnomusicology • Serves as one of the forces behind the Seattle • Spent her 2009-10 sabbatical leave in Santa Fandango Project, providing community Barbara, with guest lectures at universities in workshops in the music and dance of son Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre, Brazil, Brisbane jarocho, organizing fandangos and other and Perth, Australia, and Dar es Salaam, community events, and sponsoring residencies Tanzania. by artists from Veracruz, Mexico. American • Prepared, co-wrote, or co-edited numerous Sabor and the Seattle Fandango Project have works for publication, including the second been funded in part by the American Music edition of Songs in Their Heads (2010), Free Partnership of Seattle (AMPS), for which Dudley to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music served as chair from 2002 to 2009, bringing in (2010), and the third edition of Multicultural funding of more than $1.5 million for research, Perspectives in Music Education (2010). performance, and service projects on a broad • Published numerous articles, including analytical spectrum of American music topics. descriptions of the Music Alive! in the Yakima Joël-François Durand, Composition Shannon Dudley Valley project for the International Journal • In November 2010, was named one of the of Community Music and the pedagogy of University’s inaugural UW Entrepreneurial Ethnomusicology in the Schools for the German Faculty Fellows in recognition of his innovative journal, Musik Pedagogik. work in developing a high-end audio tonearm • In Fall 2010, was appointed head of the UW known as the Talea. The fellowship program Ethnomusicology program and was named vice was established by Interim President Phyllis president of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Wise as a way to acknowledge the value that Tom Collier, Percussion UW faculty entrepreneurship brings to the academy, the region, and to society. Funds • Was appointed to a three-year term as an attached to the fellowship ($5,000 per year Adelaide D. Currie Cole Professor of Music, for up to two years) may be applied toward beginning in Fall 2011. commercialization activities such as travel, • In May 2011, released Mallet Fantastique, a research, and market analysis. varied collection of his own jazz-based and Joël-François Durand
www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 11 Ter Ellingson, Ethnomusicology Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle. Also • Conducted field research in the summer of 2010 performed at the La Guitarra California Festival, in central and northern Ghana, where he has the Whidbey Island Music Festival, and the been conducting an ongoing research project on Evergreen Festival. traditional African religion and music since 2001. • Was featured on the cover of the February 2011 issue of Classical Guitar magazine, the major Áine Heneghan, Music Theory guitar publication in Great Britain. A lengthy • Received a 2010 University of Washington interview and inside photos highlighted his Royalty Research Fund Scholar Award. work with students at the School of Music. • Served as a member of the program committee Tim Salzman, Instrumental Conducting for the First International Conference on Robin McCabe Analytical Approaches to World Music • Co-wrote and edited “A Composer’s Insight: (University of Massachusetts Amherst, February Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on 2010) and was appointed to the editorial board Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band of the new journal Analytical Approaches to (Volume IV), published by Meredith Music World Music. Publications. • Presented her research at the Joint Meeting of • In March 2010, led the University of the Royal Musical Association and the Society Washington Wind Ensemble on a nine-day for Musicology in Ireland and at the 2010 concert tour of Japan, the group’s third tour of Meeting of the American Musicological Society the country. The tour included performances in and the Society for Music Theory in Indianapolis, Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, and Izumo. Since 2004, Indiana. the ensemble’s Japanese host, the Kansai Band Association, has raised nearly $500,000 for • Contributed an arrangement for Irish harp UW Wind Ensemble tours as well as additional of the traditional reel “Jenny’s Welcome to tours for UW faculty and student chamber Charlie” to a publication celebrating the 50th music groups. Richard Karpen anniversary of Cáirde na Cruite. • Led the organization and hosting of the College Richard Karpen, Director and Composition Band Directors National Association Convention, • A new CD on the Caprice Records label features held at the UW in March 2011. It was the first a recording of Strandlines for classical guitar and time the national convention had been held on live electronics, performed by guitarist Stefan the west coast since 1976. Östersjö. • In 2010 and 2011, conducted the People’s • Performances of various compositions were Liberation Army Band in Beijing, China. Also featured in concerts and radio broadcasts in conducted and presented master classes with Belgium, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the the Beijing Conservatory Wind Ensemble, United States. Beijing Wind Orchestra, and several public • Continued intensive collaboration on Idioms, a school bands throughout Beijing. new work of music/theater for Vietnamese and Marc Seales, Jazz Studies Western Classical musicians and actors. The work, • Was appointed to a three-year term as an commissioned by the Swedish Theatr Weimar, Adelaide D. Currie Cole Professor of Music, premieres in Stockholm in November 2011. beginning in Fall 2011. Robin McCabe, Piano • Was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame • Served on the jury of the 2010 International San at the 2009 Earshot Jazz Awards. Antonio Piano Competition along with pianists • Released American Songs, a CD of original Michael Partington Ilana Vered, Santiago Rodriguez, Gustavo compositions and works by popular American Romero, and Eduardo Del Gado. artists. • Along with colleague Craig Sheppard, launched • Along with Seattle bassist Paul Gabrielson, the first UW Summer Piano Institute in summer helped kick off the 2010 Earshot Jazz Festival of 2010, selecting 14 gifted pianists coming from by accompanying former Poet Laureate Robert throughout the United States, Japan, Hong Pinsky in a reading of his poems set to jazz Kong, China, Taiwan, and Korea. The second improvisation in a performance at Benaroya Summer Piano Institute, featuring 18 pianists Hall’s Nordstrom Auditorium. from around the world, was held at the School of Music in July 2011. Craig Sheppard, Piano • Gave presentations and master classes during • Released Franz Schubert: The Last Three Piano 2010-11 at various Washington Music Teacher’s Sonatas, his sixth release on the Romeo Records Association Chapters. label . The CD was recorded live at Meany Theater on May 5, 2010. Michael Partington, Guitar • With his colleague Robin McCabe, launched the • Released a new CD, Resonance, for Rosewood UW Summer Piano Institute, which completed Marc Seales Recordings, featuring music by Manuel Ponce, its second year in July 2011. The Institute has Domenico Scarlatti, Mauro Giuliani, and the drawn gifted young pianists from around the Sonata for Guitar by Stephen Goss, written for world for private instruction and daily master Partington in 2006. classes and seminars with visiting artists and • Gave solo recital tours in the UK and Texas, leading scholars. with additional solo concerts in Los Angeles,
2009-10/2010-11 University of Washington School of Music www .music.washington.edu 12 • Performed and led the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 55th annual master classes in three meeting, held in Los Angeles in November Chinese cities in June of 2010. 2011 . He appeared • Published an article in the February 2011 and taught at the edition of Ethnomusicology titled “Negotiating China Conservatory in Authority and Articulating Gender: Performer Beijing, the East China Interaction in Malang, East Java.” Normal University in Shanghai, and the Cuong Vu, Jazz Studies Sichuan Conservatory in • Released Leaps of Faith, recorded in Chengdu . In Chengdu, he 2010 at the Chapel Performance Space performed an all-Brahms program, joined for during the School of Music’s Week of a performance of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances Jazz celebration. The CD was a critic’s by his graduate student, Qiang Nanyi, whose pick of the New York Times during its hometown is Chengdu. first week of release in early February 2011 and has received subsequent Donna Shin, Flute favorable reviews in a variety of • Performed a solo (Gabriela Frank’s Illapa) important jazz and mainstream with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra in publications. October 2010. • Was awarded a Donald E. Petersen • Traveled to Uzbekistan in late 2009, where Endowed Fellowship for 2010 by the she presented recitals and masterclasses at the UW College of Arts and Sciences. Uzbekistan National Conservatory, Institute • Was awarded a UW Royalty Research for Asian Culture and Development, and the Fund grant to fund the creation and recording Rainbow Academy in Tashkent. of new improvisatory works extending the • In March 2010, presented master classes and compositions and techniques of Duke Ellington concerto performances with the UW Wind and Charles Mingus. Ensemble on its tour to Japan. Melia Watras, Viola • In April 2010, performed the UW consortium commissioned work of D.J. Sparr’s Precious • Performed the world premiere of Pulitzer Metal flute concerto with the People’s Prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran’s Perfect Liberation Army Band of China, presented Storm, a solo viola work written specifically for recitals and masterclasses at the China Watras . The performance in Meany Theater Conservatory of Music and the Beijing Central on October 25, 2010 featured Ran as a special Conservatory of Music, and adjudicated the guest . Funding for the commission for the annual flute competition at the Beijing Central new work came from the Donald E. Petersen Conservatory. Endowed Fellowship, which was awarded to • In August 2010, was the Young Artist Watras in 2010. Competition coordinator at the National Flute • Performed important concerts in New York Association convention in Anaheim, CA. City, Chicago, Seattle, Syracuse (NY), Dayton (OH), West Chester (PA), and Swarthmore (PA) Larry Starr, Music History throughout 2009 and 2010. • His new biography of George Gershwin, • In Fall Quarter 2010, was promoted to Associate titled George Gershwin and published by Professor at UW, and assumed the role of Chair Melia Watras Yale University Press, received rave reviews in of the Strings Division. major academic and mainstream publications worldwide. A Giselle Wyers, Choral Conducting lengthy review in the • Along with colleague Geoffrey Boers and Guntis Washington Post in Smidchens of the UW Baltic Studies Department, G E GE O R R S G February 2011 called led 74 students from the Chamber Singers and H E W it “an insightful, University Chorale on a third concert tour of the I N technically intricate yet Baltic region and Finland. Highlights included easy-to-follow study a performance for the President of Latvia and of Gershwin’s music, exchange concerts with choruses at University particularly as it came of Tartu as well as with the Vox Populi Chamber out of the Broadway Choir, Revalia Male Chamber Choir, and tradition” and a Gaudeamus Male Chorus. valuable addition to the • In May 2010, conducted Randall Thompson’s Larry Starr body of biographical Frostiana with high school choirs from around Giselle Wyers information on the the United States and the Park Avenue Chamber composer. Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center) in Christina Sunardi, Ethnomusicology New York City. • Gave several conference presentations on her • Co-produced and conducted the debut solo study of gender in the production of tradition recording by the University Chorale, released in east Javanese music and dance, including at in summer of 2011. The CD, titled Climb, was recorded at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Seattle.
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Jason Anderson (’07 DMA Choral Conducting) Brad Osborn (’10 PhD Music Theory), former was named director of the historically acclaimed student of Áine Heneghan, was appointed Visiting Compline Choir at Seattle’s St. Mark’s Episcopal Assistant Professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Cathedral, an appointment that became effective Tenn. in 2009. Richard Pellegrin, doctoral candidate in Music Bonnie Blanchard (’75 Music Education) and Theory and former student of Áine Heneghan, Cynthia Blanchard Acree co-authored the book was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at the Making Music and Having a Blast: A Guide for University of Missouri. all Music Students! Their earlier work, Making Music and Enriching Lives, is being used as the Gene Peterson (’10 DMA Choral Conducting) was NEW KIDS ON THE pedagogy textbook at several colleges and named Associate Director of Choral Activities at BLOCK universities including Rice, Tennessee Tech, Central the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Washington University, and the University of Alina Rozanski (‘00 BA/BM Music Ed, BM Vocal Among the dozens of Washington. concerts the School Performance), a teacher for the Department of of Music presented at DMA instrumental conducting student Erin Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), serving Meany Theater in 2010-11 Bodnar was named one of three recipients of the students of United States military stationed were two featuring new National Band Association’s Young Conductor overseas, was selected as the 2011 Bavaria District orchestras founded by Award . Sixty conductors auditioned, and Bodnar Teacher of the year. She was one of 14 district current and former was the first female conductor to receive this teachers of the year selected from 8,700 DoDEA UW music students. honor, conferred in April of 2010. teachers around the world. The Seattle Metropolitan Ethnomusicology doctoral student Kimberly Robert Schultz (’09 PhD Music Theory) joined the Chamber Orchestra Cannady has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship theory faculty in the School of Music, University of (SMCO), founded in to research music in Iceland during the 2011-12 Massachusetts in Amherst. 2009 by former student academic year. Geoffrey Larson and Richard Scott (’74 MM Piano Performance) featuring many current Music Education alumna Ann Clements (Penn was installed for a two-year term on the Music and former UW music State University) and Rita Klinger (Cleveland State Teachers National Association (MTNA) Board of students, joined the UW University) collaborated to publish Field Guide To Directors at the 2010 March MTNA Conference in Baroque Ensemble at Student Teaching In Music with Routledge Press Albuquerque, New Mexico. Scott will represent the Meany for a February in 2010. Dr. Clements also edited the new book nine-state Southern Division. In addition, he was 2011 program of works Alternative Approaches in Music Education: Case awarded the Kentucky Music Teachers Association by Bach, Handel, and Studies from the Field, published by Rowman (KMTA) Distinguished Service Award at the 2009 Vivaldi. Larson is a former KMTA Conference at Northern Kentucky University conducting student of and Littlefield in association with The National Association for Music Education. and received the Murray State University (MSU) Peter Erös and member of Regents College 2009-10 Faculty Member of the the UW Wind Ensemble. Brandon “Billy” Fidler (‘11 BA Instrumental Year award. Performance) will spend the 2011-12 academic year The Seattle Modern Eric Smedley (’10 DMA Instrumental Conducting) Orchestra (SMO), co- in Germany as a Fulbright Scholarship recipient. was named Assistant Professor of Music and founded by Julia Tai (2010 DMA, Orchestral Jean Marie Kent (’10 DMA Choral Conducting) Assistant Director of Bands at the Indiana Conducting) and was named Director of Choral Activities at the University Jacobs School of Music. He begins his Jeremy Jolley (2010 University of Regina in Saskatchewan. appointment in Fall 2011. MM Composition) and Chung-Lin Lee (’10 DMA Woodwinds Laura Stambaugh (‘09 PhD Music Education), an also featuring current and former UW music Performance), former student of Donna Shin, Assistant Professor of Music Education at Georgia students, launched its was awarded the 2011 National Flute Association Southern University, published a study with inaugural concert season Graduate Research Competition for his dissertation School of Music Professor Steven M. Demorest in 2010-11 with a series of exploring the solo flute works of Kazuo Fukushima entitled, “The Effect of Contextual Interference three concerts featuring and Japanese aesthetics in art and culture. on Instrumental Practice: An Application of Motor important musical works He presented his dissertation at the 2011 NFA Learning Theory” in Update: Applications of from the 20th and 21st convention in Charlotte, N.C. Research in Music Education. centuries . The group performed its season finale Former UW Wind Ensemble teaching assistant Christopher Stover (’09 PhD Music Theory), at Meany Theater in May Linda R. Moorhouse (’06 DMA Instrumental former student of Jonathan Bernard, began an of 2011. Conducting) joined the University of Illinois faculty appointment as Assistant Professor of Theory at in the fall of 2010 as Visiting Associate Professor of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music To learn more about Music and Assistant Director of Bands. Her duties in New York in September 2010. the SMCO, visit include conducting the University of Illinois Wind seattlemetropolitan Orchestra and teaching courses in instrumental Sean Williams (’90 PhD Ethnomusicology) chamberorchestra.com. conducting. published a new textbook, Focus: Irish Traditional For more on the SMO, visit Music (Routledge 2010), as well as a critical seattlemodernorchestra.org. DMA Instrumental Conducting student Vu biography of (former School of Music Visiting Nguyen has accepted a position with Washington Artist in Irish singing) Joe Heaney. She co-wrote University in St. Louis, where he will conduct the the latter with Dr. Lillis Ó Laoire of the National University Wind Ensemble. His appointment is University of Ireland, Galway. The book, Bright Star effective in Fall 2011. of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man (Oxford University Press), was published in April 2011.
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Graduate Pyoung Kim (MM Choral Conducting) receives Bart Komoah (MA Ethnomusicology) receives a celebratory bouquet. congratulations from Ethnomusicology Archivist Laurel Sercombe (left) and graduate student Julia Day.
Tessia Altiveros (MM, Vocal Performance) caps off Grand Finale with an over-the-top score. Grand Finale 2010 Graduate Chris Lennard The School of Music held a grand celebration of its (BM Orchestral Instruments; 2010 graduates prior to Commencement on June 12, BM Music Education) and 2010 with a reception and ceremony in the School of proud loved ones before Music Fishbowl and Brechemin Auditorium. Commencement. The School of Music Class of 2010 included 78 Graduate Jennifer Smith (BA Voice) and family graduates, with 29 students earning undergraduate with Voice Professor Thomas Harper (left) and degrees, 27 earning master’s degrees, and 22 earning undergraduate advisor Jennifer Grahl (right). doctoral degrees. In addition to their music degrees, a number of graduates earned additional degrees in other areas of study, including English, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Comparative History of Ideas, Norwegian, Business Administration, Biochemistry, and others. Graduate Shinn-Yi Cindy Chou, who earned a BM in Orchestral Harp instructor Heidi Instruments, for instance, earned multiple degrees, Lehwalder (left) with graduates Brooks Tran with a BS in Physiology and a BS in Neurobiology in (BM Piano Performance), addition to her music degree. She also graduated with Rebecca Jordan (BM Piano college honors. Performance) and Piano After mingling and enjoying refreshments in the Professor Patricia Michaelian. School of Music Lobby and Fishbowl, attendees moved Graduate Núria Molins (MM Choral Conducting) down to Brechemin Auditorium for a performance celebrates with her husband and baby. by graduate student Alexandra Tsirkel, a piano student of Professor Robin McCabe. Director Richard Karpen made a brief welcome, followed by remarks by Professor Cuong Vu, Jazz Studies, and students Ivan Arteaga (BM Jazz Studies) and Julia Tai (DMA Instrumental Conducting), who gave a humorous and touching tribute to retiring Maestro Peter Erös. Graduate Eric Smedley (DMA Instrumental Conducting) with family at Grand Finale.
Graduate Brandon Zahl (BA Instrumental Music; BS Computer Engineering) with Professor Craig Sheppard.
Ivan Arteaga (BM Jazz Studies) with Graduate Jonathan Ip (BM Strings Violin Professor Ron Patterson undergraduate advisor Jennifer Grahl Performance, BA Economics) and congratulates graduate after delivering remarks in Brechemin his mother before the walk to Lauren Roth (BM Strings Photos: Joanne De Pue Auditorium. Commencement. Performance, BA Italian). www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 15 Class of 2011
Graduate Miho Takekawa (DMA Percussion) with her mother and Professor Tom Collier, who performed in the lobby of the Music Sze Lim Alice Wong (BA Instrumental Building during Grand Finale. Music) and feathered friend, with family in background.
Dan Miller (BA Music History; BA Cinematography), left, and Brandon Fidler (BA Instrumental Music; BA Germanics) on the front steps of the Music Building.
Graduate Sylvia Baba Grand Finale 2011 (third from left) (MM Vocal Performance) surrounded by family and loved ones. The School of Music celebrated its Class of 2011 on Commencement morning, Saturday, June 11, 2011 Daniel Atkinson (PhD Ethnomusicology) with his with a reception and program at the Music Building. mother and father. Seventy-five music students earned degrees, including 40 undergraduates and 35 graduate students across the spectrum of music degree programs. Following a reception in the School of Music Fishbowl, grads and their families and loved ones enjoyed remarks in Brechemin Auditorium by Ethnomusicology Assistant Professor Christina Sunardi, School of Music Director Richard Karpen, and students Kyra Settle (BM Music Graduate Constance Education) and Richard Johnson Logan-Greene (DMA Shepherd (BM Music Composition). Music for the occasion was provided Education) with parents by Professor Tom Collier, performing selections for and family prior to School of Music Director (and Composition Commencement. marimba in the School of Music lobby during the Professor) Richard Karpen (second from left) reception, and harpist Megan Bledsoe, who performed with Composition graduates (from left to right) Richard Johnson Logan-Greene, Marcin onstage in Brechemin Auditorium prior to the remarks Paczkowski, and Michelle McKenzie. by faculty and graduates. Congratulations, Grads!
Graduate Joe Early (BA Instrumental Music) with his mother, Mary.
From left to right: Annie Wong (BM Strings Performance; BA Psychology); Kelley Wang (BM Piano Performance), and Ada Zhang (BA Instrumental Performance, BS Bioengineering, UW Honors). Jane Lin (BM Music Ethnomusicology professor Shannon Graduate Lisa Beebe (MA Music Education; BA Vocal Music) Dudley, left, congratulates graduate History) with Professors JoAnn with undergraduate advisor Chia-Hao Hsieh (DMA Percussion). Taracani (left) and Larry Starr. Jennifer Grahl (left).
Photos: Joanne De Pue
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Wendy Elizabeth Adams Roy E. Cummings Endowed Scott Lakin Jones Endowed Youngdae Kim Music Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Isaiah Lin Jeshua Franklin Levi Gillis Laney McClain Michelle Nelson Montserrat Alavedra Jane and David Davis Milton Katims Viola Laura Ouimette Endowed Scholarship Endowed Fellowship in Scholarship Nathan Rengstorf Nongnapat Meowset Abbett Music Ayala Goldstein Gabriella Vizzutti Katherine Isbill Alcor Endowed Scholarship Gerald and Betty Kechley Renee C. Ries and Richard T. Nanyi Qiang Erin Bodnar Endowed Scholarship Black Endowed Scholarship Melissa Thorne in Music Winners of the 2010 UW Strings Mitchell Drury Jeffrey Bowen Rudy de Tornyay Fellowship Graeme Smith and Piano Chamber Ensemble Matthew Frost Beecher Keifer Memorial in Opera Competition, The Quantum String Elizabeth Jolly Music Scholarship Bernice Mossafer Rind Cristina Gonzalez Quartet: violinists Kouki Tanaka Sarah Patterson Mitchell Drury Endowed Scholarship in Music and Meeae Hong, violist David Tomoko Numa Barbara, Walt and Jeannette Killian Colmenares, and cellist Natalie Hall. Lauren Vander Lind David Dryfoos Music Award Megan Bledsoe Scholarship Rose Whitmore Endowment Recipients of the Raymond and Nongnapat Meowset Abbett Milnora Roberts Scholarship Melissa Winstanley Rachael Kim Olivia Cacchione Eleanor Hale Wilson Scholarship. Louis G. and Patricia A. James L. Beech Endowed Walter Eichinger Marsh Endowed Fellowship Milnora Roberts Scholarship Endowed Scholarship in Music Memorial Scholarship Abigail Aresty Rose Whitmore Jae-In Shin Nina Alden Kyujin Choi Maddie Boyd Elliot Gray Deborah and Meade Emory Seth Tomkins Music Scholarship Rachael Kim Subhash Prajapati Louis and Katherine Marsh Emma Schachter Constance Shepherd Jeremiah Selvey Scholarship In Music Alyssa Sibbers Marie Ferrel Scholarship Hyokyoung Byun Vilem Sokol Endowed Evan Woodle Megan Bledsoe Kimberly Cannady Strings Scholarship Sen Samson Lu William Bergsma Pyoung Gang Kim Ethan Chessin Sam Elliot Adrian Swan Endowment for Excellence Foreign Language and Area Kouki Tanaka in Music Composition Studies Fellowship Amanda Harris Daniel Peterson Andre Elias Sol Im Alice J. Sorenson Julia Day Metzler-de Llaguno Memorial Scholarship James and Harriette Bleitz Robert Pitzer Endowed Music Scholarship Bonnie McConnell Endowed Scholarship Amanda Harris Mark Hunter Philip R. and Versa Foster The Donald and Gloria Anton Coleman, Music Carmen Rothwell Scholarship Mu Phi Epsilon Seattle Swisher Concertmaster Education: recipient of the Bryan Van Pelt Tim Blok Alumni Endowed Chair in Orchestra Mu Phi Epsilon Seattle Alumni Mitchell Drury Endowed Scholarship. Boeing Endowed Fellowship Ryan Hyde Scholarship for Excellence in Music Scott Powell Anton Coleman Paul D. Tufts Endowed Janessa Anderson Christopher Sibbers Harvard Palmer Scholarship Fellowship Megan Bledsoe Bryan Van Pelt Isaiah Lin Samantha Englander Kimberly Cannady Charles T. Griffes Ruth Sutton Waters Ethan Chessin Julian Patrick Scholarship Opera Scholarship Endowed Scholarship Samantha Englander in Piano Abigail Aresty Annalisee Brasil Jon Hanson Ting-Yao Huang Paula Horner Barbara and Lynn Adelyn Peck Elizabeth Jolly Himmelman Endowed Endowed Fellowship Ruth Sutton Waters Scholarship Endowed Scholarship Wendy Moy Paula Horner Kyra Settle in Performance Brechemin Music Ellen and Maynard Pennell Miriam Champer Scholarship Peter Hobbs Memorial Endowed Scholarship Quinn MacKenzie Scholarship Abigail Aresty Esteban Urbina Emily Shan Han Walter C. Welke Abbey Blackwell Delores Gail Plath Memorial Scholarship Brennan Carter Nataly Wickham, Voice: Kennan and Phyllis Scholarship Christopher Sibbers Hollingsworth Endowed Jocelyn Chang Dune Butler recipient of the Brechemin Fellowship Marion O. Williams Elliot Gray David Colmenares Music Scholarship and the Monica Chiyoung Yoon Endowed Scholarship Emily Shan Han Alex Eding Raymond and Eleanor Hale Thomas Ball Masamitsu Ohtake Consuelo Houts Scholarship Meeae Hong Wilson Scholarship. Edward Park Cristina Gonzalez Sonja Myklebust Raymond and Eleanor Gabriella Vizzutti Emily Shan Han Emma Schachter Hale Wilson Scholarship Nataly Wickham Kyra Settle Olivia Thomas David Colmenares Annie Wong Leslie Edwards L. Mildred Hurd Scholarship Claire and Gustav Raaum Joshua Gailey Roberta Brockman Ruth Draper Piano Scholarship Natalie Hall Endowed Music Scholarship Maclean Ferguson Alexandra Tsirkel Meeae Hong Brittany Newell Alexander Hoelzen Gina Funes and Fred Radke Elizabeth Janzen Adeline Bowie Carlson Demar and Greta Irvine Endowed Scholarship Simon Khorolskiy Memorial Fellowship in Endowed Scholarship in Music Inkyung Lee Piano Alessandra de Castro Simon Khorolskiy Masamitsu Ohtake Yi-Chen Yu Sean Dugaw Colin Pulkrabek Kouki Tanaka Catch a Rising Star Samantha Englander Frances Redner Memorial Nataly Wickham Endowed Scholarship Maren Haynes Endowed Scholarship Emily Choi Joanne Bailey Wilson Shih-Wei Lo in Music Endowed Minority Holly Palmer Bryan Nichols Jordana Elliott Scholarship Stanley Chapple Scholarship Clara Lee Johnson Helen A. Reynolds Endowed Constance Shepherd Erin Bodnar Memorial Scholarship Scholarship in Music Hans Wolf Award for Laura Jeon Edna Chittick Endowed Jonathan Bezdegian Graduating Seniors in the Evan Woodle and Mark Hunter, Scholarship Juno Lee Jeffrey Bowen School of Music Jazz Studies: recipients of the Brenna Sluiter Andrew Marlin Hyun Ja Choi Emily Autrey Brechemin Music Scholarship M. Kathleen Johnson Emily Han Christine Cook and the James L. Beech J. Edward Conlon Memorial Chris Howerter Endowed Scholarship. Scholarship Endowed Music Scholarship Kristopher Jenkins Hyokyoung Byun Sylvia Baba Taylor Kent Woong-Cheon Kim Jeremiah Selvey Photos: Joanne DePue www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 17 Giving
ROY E. CUMMINGS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORTS RISING STARS IN JAZZ Since his graduation from the School of Music in 2008, drummer Chris Icasiano has earned a reputation as one of the most promising up-and-coming musicians in Seattle’s vibrant jazz scene. His thriving recording and performance career includes membership in two of the region’s hottest new jazz groups, the duo Bad Luck—in which he collaborates with another noted Music alumnus, saxophonist Neil Welch—and Speak, an experimental music ensemble boasting an impressive lineup of musicians with ties to the School of Music, ROY CUMMINGS including trumpeter and Assistant Professor Cuong Vu. “Chris continues to tirelessly work on his playing and his In his 30 years as an instructor in the School artistry,” Vu says of his bandmate and former student. Chris Icasiano of Music, trumpeter Roy Cummings influenced “He is a centrifugal force in the young, creative new the musical training of thousands of students, music scene that’s having an incredible impact on Seattle’s jazz scene.” introducing them to the greats of the jazz art While at the UW, Icasiano relied on scholarships to help fund his form and encouraging their professional and education. Support from the Roy E. Cummings Endowed Scholarship musical aspirations. He also was a co-founder enabled him to continue his music studies while taking advantage of of the School’s Jazz Studies Program, serving performance opportunities both at school and out in the clubs and as its chair from 1979 to 1993. Cummings’ coffeehouses that play host to the city’s most forward-thinking, musically career at UW began in 1970 when he became adept, and creative young musicians. a trumpet instructor after earning music and Saxophonist Levi Gillis is the most recent recipient of the Cummings music education degrees at UW, and continued Scholarship. It helped fund his sophomore year at with his longtime leadership of the Studio Jazz UW, which included his participation in the Studio Ensemble . He continued to teach at the School Jazz Ensemble, the Modern Band, private instruction until his untimely death in January 2000, when in the saxophone studio of faculty member Michael he suffered a heart attack in the Music Building Brockman, and collaborative music making in several on his way to teach a class. small ensembles. In addition to his work at the UW, Cummings “Levi just completed his second year at the UW, and was a first-call performer and bandleader who his musical growth from that first year until now has worked with such noted performers as Tony been gigantic,” says Professor Vu. “He emerged as a Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Peggy Lee, Harry strong leader among the students in only his second Belafonte, and Johnny Mathis. He appeared year and is one of the catalysts that I depend on to with the Seattle Symphony, the Seattle Opera continually push the program toward new heights. Orchestra, and numerous show orchestras as He’s well on his way to being a fantastic artist who will Levi Gillis well as directing or coaching with the Bellevue have an impact on whichever musical scene he chooses Jazz Festival All-Star Youth Band, Seattle Youth to dive into. Symphony, Cascade Youth Symphony, and the “I see the scholarships awarded to these two as having afforded them Marrowstone Music Festival. more time to focus on music while rewarding them for their hard work,“ he Cummings also was a passionate continues . “This kind of support is essential for us to not only keep sustaining spokesperson for the importance of music and these talented and driven young people, but also attracting more to the UW humanities education. “Jazz education in the School of Music.” state of Washington is in pretty good shape,” Increasing levels of student support for the Jazz Studies Program is a he said, in a 1985 interview in the Olympian top funding priority for the School of Music. Gifts to the Roy E. Cummings newspaper, “but it as well as all music Endowed Scholarship Fund will help the School of Music attract top students education and humanities curricula are falling to the program and provide financial assistance to undergraduates studying on hard times. Humanities education funding jazz at UW. To make a gift, or for more information, please contact Cristi is playing second fiddle to the sciences. We Benefield at (206) 543-1221 or [email protected]. Thank you! can’t all be scientists. We need the human expression and humanities to relax. Music is a big part of that.” Chris Icasiano (second from right), The performing arts, he said, are as is the drummer for the experimental necessary to the well-being of humankind as jazz group Speak, which continues a balanced diet, and humanities education to impress audiences locally should be funded as well as sciences, and worldwide with spirited improvisations and musical physics, and nuclear sciences. “These guys aptitude. Other members are are nuclear, too,” he said in reference to (from left to right) Aaron Otheim, the student musicians of the Studio Jazz Cuong Vu, Andrew Swanson, and Ensemble . “There’s some real explosions with Luke Bergman. Otheim, Swanson, Icasiano, and Bergman are all these guys.” alumni of the School of Music who studied with Cuong Vu. Bergman has returned to the School as a part-time instructor in jazz bass.
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VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM PROVIDES “By bringing artists directly to the UW, we as WINDOW ON THE WORLD students are able to learn Students of the world’s musical traditions have long enjoyed unique first hand not only how learning opportunities at the School of Music thanks to the Ethnomusicology to play a horn from Tibet Visiting Artists Program, which for nearly 50 years has brought international or a lute from Turkey, but performers of world renown to the School for extended residencies that more importantly, how to engage students in deep explorations of music and culture. learn from and establish “The rotating visiting artist positions involve students in a broad range of relationships with people from diverse backgrounds musical traditions outside of (and sometimes related to) Western art music and how to communicate and jazz,” says Patricia Campbell, chair of the School’s Ethnomusicology across barriers of culture, program . “They have sparked enduring interests and new directions for class, race, gender, religion students in all divisions of the School of Music, including Ethnomusicology, Munir Beken (Turkey) and often language itself Music Education, Jazz Studies, Composition, Music History, Choral Conducting, – all skills that are vital to and Percussion.” students who graduate But the impact of the residencies extends beyond the classrooms and and then represent the UW performance stages of the School of Music, allowing the School to forge in our globalized world.” partnerships, through music teaching and performance, with other UW - Andrea Emberly (PhD in departments, area studies programs, and community organizations, and to Ethnomusicology) influence the direction of musicians throughout the Pacific Northwest. “Were it not for the active presence of the Ethno Division’s visiting artists, “Thirty years after we would not enjoy the dynamic marimba and didgeridoo cultures that [Dumisani Maraire’s] time abound here, the rich rosters of Indian musicians that annually grace our at UW, marimba groups are still forming in the stages, and the diversity of musical influences – from Hamza el Din and Sam Northwest. There are now Ang Sam to Joe Santiago and Phong Nguyen – who have exerted a profound so many aficionados that influence on local musicians of all stripes, from pop to folk to jazz,” says Paul Mudzunga Junniah an entire festival, Zimfest, DeBarros, longtime music critic for the Seattle Times. Davhula (South Africa) is organized every year Over the past fifteen years, the School of Music has played host to the to reunite them .... Other following distinguished artists, who have bridged divisions and repertoires communities were also in the School, strengthened connections to local communities, and fostered created and sustained by international research and exchange: Mudzunga Junniah Davhula (South visiting artists, like Irish Africa, 2008-2009), Uday Bhawalkar (India, 2006-2008), Joe Santiago (Puerto sean-nos song and dance Rico, 2005-2007), Munir Beken (Turkey, 2000-2002), I Wayan Sinti (Bali, 2004- (inspired by Joe Heaney), 2006), Daniel “Koo Nimo” Amponsah (Ghana, 1998-2000), Chaka Charasariwa North Indian classical (Zimbabwe, 2002-2003), and Ray Holman (Trinidad and Tobago, 1998-2000). music (inspired by artists “Who I am and what I do professionally today is because of the Visiting like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Artists Program,” says alumna Miho Takekawa (DMA Percussion). “Ray Shujaat Khan, and others) Holman, Koo Nimo, and Fucho Aparicio were my dearest teachers and and Turkish classical music mentors . Not only did they teach me music, but they also made me realize (Dr. Munir Beken). In fact, how important it was to pursue my own heritage as a Japanese musician. This many of the ethnic-heritage program means much more than just learning music. The UW School of Music performance groups that Ethnomusicology Visiting Artists program is a life-changing human experience we present each year at and has impacted many lives locally and internationally for decades.” the Northwest Folklife Uday Bhawalkar (India) Festival were born out of Though one of the most distinctive features of the School of Music and a communities that were model for ethnomusicology programs nationwide, the Visiting Artists Program inspired by UW visiting has recently been restructured and scaled back in the face of the enormous artists.” - Robert Townsend, budget challenges facing the School of Music and its Executive Director of programs. In response, Director Richard Karpen has Northwest Folklife declared the creation of a permanent endowment to support the Visiting Artists Program a top “In l974 my father invited funding priority for the School. [UW visiting artist] Necdet When fully funded, the Visiting Artists Yasar to our synagogue to Endowment will ensure that School of Music play informally for many students will continue to explore new perspectives of our congregants whose on the sonic structures, cultural meanings, and families had emigrated performance of music for generations to come. from Turkey in the 1920s.... In retrospect, these events became the first contact To make a gift to the Ethnomusicology Visiting between our Sephardic Artists Endowment, or for more information, Jewish community and please contact Cristi Benefield at (206) 543-1221 or the Turkish community of email [email protected]. Thank you! Seattle, a relationship that Li Bo, a visiting artist from Mongolia in residence at the developed and continues to School of Music from 2007 to 2009, instructs graduate student Leah Pogwizd on techniques for the morin khuur grow even today.” - Judith (horse-head fiddle). Amiel, member of Seattle’s Sephardic Biku Holim Congregation www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 19 ROBIN L. McCABE ENDOWMENT Make a difference BRINGS DREAM TO LIFE for the In 2009, several friends of the School of Music established School of Music the Robin L. McCabe Endowment in Piano Performance in honor of her longstanding service as the director of the A gift to the School of Music School of Music (1994 to 2009). The McCabe Endowment in your will can be part of your will help bolster classical piano performance at the School legacy, supporting students, with funds to bring in visiting pianists for concerts, master faculty, teaching — whatever class performances, and workshops, as well as to provide is most important to you. You scholarship and fellowship assistance to piano performance may donate specific property, a majors . Additionally, the McCabe Endowment has helped fixed sum, or a portion of your foster a longtime dream of Dr. McCabe’s – to create a UW estate and receive an estate tax Summer Piano Institute. deduction for your bequest. Now in its second year, the UW Summer Piano Institute is an intensive immersion experience designed for gifted piano If you wish to make a bequest, students who aspire to careers in classical music. Over the course please share this language of ten days, students take private lessons, participate in seminars Piano Professor and with your attorney: I give to Divisional Keyboard Chair and master classes, enjoy visiting pianist performances and music Robin L. McCabe the Board of Regents of the festival concerts, and perform on the final day in a showcase University of Washington, Seattle, recital . Last summer, 14 aspiring classical pianists from around Washington, (specific amount, the world trained with co-directors Robin McCabe and Craig percentage of estate, or property Sheppard . This past July, the Institute selected 18 students to description) to benefit the School take part in the program. of Music. Robin McCabe’s ultimate dream is to expand the Institute in scope and quality. ”There is no piano camp providing this For more information about variety of experiences on the West Coast,” she says, “and I making a planned gift, please think it might have the potential to become a real summer visit our Web site at: destination for young classical pianists. We could eventually www .uwfoundation.org/ expand to involve collaborative chamber music as well, which giftplanning would be very exciting.” The Robin L. McCabe Endowment was established through Support from School of the thoughtful generosity of alumni and friends including Music Friend and UW or contact the UW Office of Alumna Anne M. Hewitt Gift Planning at 206-685-1001 Anne Hewitt, Ken Hollingsworth, Jerry and Patti Marsh, Don (1940, 1967) helped to or toll free at 1-800-284-3679. and Linda Miller, Bernita Wilson Jackson, and Don and Gloria create the Robin L. McCabe email: [email protected] Swisher. To make a gift to this endowment, call (206) 543-1221 Endowment in Piano or email [email protected]. Thank you! Performance.
education or music theory); and the Kathleen Munro Scholarship, which will help one or more students to off-set the cost of music fees, lessons, instruments, books, scores, and sheet music. The scholarships pay tribute to two former longtime School of Music faculty members and directors and their service to the School of Music . Professor Frances Dickey served as Dean of the Department of Music from 1932 to 1935 and continued as executive officer when the MU PHI EPSILON SEATTLE ALUMNI department was reorganized as the School of Music in 1935. Professor Kathleen Munro taught ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP Musicology at the UW and worked on the music Members of the Seattle Alumni Chapter of library’s archives well into her nineties. She served Mu Phi Epsilon gathered in the School of Music as acting director of the School from January 1947 Fishbowl in June of 2010 to toast the newly to September 1949. endowed Mu Phi Epsilon Seattle Alumni Endowed Mu Phi Epsilon, a national professional music Scholarship. The endowment will provide financial fraternity founded in 1903, promotes musicianship, assistance to undergraduate or graduate students scholarship, and music education, with emphasis in the School of Music. Three separate awards will on service through music. The Fraternity’s be given each year, including the Mu Phi Epsilon membership is composed of collegiate chapters, Alumni Scholarship, awarded to a student excelling alumni chapters, and allied members. in a music performance area; the Frances Dickey Special thanks go to Mu Phi board members and Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a student UW School of Music alumni Shelby Eaton, Dr. Carol excelling in a music academic unit (such as music Campbell, and Lois Ann Pearson for initiating this important new endowment. Thank you!
2009-10/2010-11 University of Washington School of Music www .music.washington.edu 20 School of Music friend Patti Marsh with Jae-In Shin, recipient of the Louis G. and Jazz Studies students (left to right) Elliot Gray, Mark Hunter and Christopher Sibbers, recipient of the Philip R. Patricia A. Marsh Endowed Evan Woodle kicked off the afternoon concert. Also performing was and Versa Foster and Walter C. Welke Memorial Fellowship in Music. Alexandra Tsirkel, a student of Robin McCabe (inset). Scholarships, performed at the afternoon Scholars’ Concert.
SCHOLARSHIP DONOR CELEBRATION The annual Scholarship Donor Celebration and Concert in November 2010 featured an afternoon of music by our top student scholars, who performed on the Brechemin Student Emily Shan Han, Anton Coleman (center), recipient of the Mu Phi Epsilon Alumni recipient of the Peter Hobbs Scholarship, flanked by Mu Phi Epsilon members. Auditorium stage. More than two Memorial Scholarship, with hundred guests attended the concert School of Music friend Sylvia and reception, at which students had Hobbs. the opportunity to meet the donors who made possible their scholarship support.
School of Music Friends Gloria and Don Swisher with Mitchell Drury, recipient of the Donald and Gloria Swisher Concertmaster Chair in Orchestra. Renee Ries and Graeme Smith, reicipient of the Renee C. Ries and Richard T. Black Endowed Scholarship in Music.
Senior Nataly Wickham, a voice student of Thomas Harper and recipient of the Brechemin Music Scholarship and the Raymond and Eleanor Hale Wilson Scholarship, performed at the Left to right: School of Music friend Cathy Palmer, Isiah Lin afternoon concert. (recipient of the 2010-11 Harvard Palmer Endowed Scholarship Megan Bledsoe, recipient in Music) and Cathy’s son, Ned. of the 2010-11 Bernice M. Rind Endowed Scholarship in Music, with School of Music 2010-2011 SCHOOL OF MUSIC ADVISORY BOARD friend Bernice Mossafer Rind.
Neil Bogue Max Gellert Patti Marsh Bernice Mossafer Rind Dr. David Davis Gordon Grant Joyce McCallum Donald Thulean (Chair) Deborah Carley Emory Dr. Kennan Hollingsworth Dr. Donald Miller Prof. Melia Watras Prof. Ramesh Gangolli Prof. Richard Karpen, Director Dr. Elaine Monsen Cristi Benefield(Ex officio) Dr. Carol Scott Kassner Renee Ries
“Our students, faculty and staff would like to thank all of our dedicated School of Music Advisory Board members for a wonderful year. We are grateful for your hard work and unwavering support on behalf of the school. We also commend Donald Thulean for his committed service as Chair of the board. Thank you for being great advocates for the UW School of Music.” — Cristi Benefield, School of Music Philanthropy Officer www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 21 MATCHING FUNDS: MUSIC EDUCATION ENDOWMENTS TO HONOR JAMES CARLSEN AND BARBARA LUNDQUIST Two new endowments under establishment at the School of Music will pay homage to Professors Emeriti James C. Carlsen and Barbara Reeder Lundquist and their pioneering contributions to the fields of Systematic Musicology and Music Education. Professor Emerita These endowments will enable the School Professor Emeritus Barbara Reeder Lundquist to provide music students opportunities for James Caldwell Carlsen taught Music Education and research and scholarship while honoring the is recognized worldwide for his Systematic Musicology at the UW legacy of two esteemed educators who have leadership in psychomusicology, School of Music from 1970 to 1991, made a profound impact in their fields of research methodology, and music serving as chair of Music Education research and in the lives of their students. education. Founder of the UW and professor of Sociomusicology. When fully funded, the James Carlsen Systematic Musicology graduate An internationally known author Visiting Scholar in Music Cognition and program (established in 1967 and and clinician in multiethnic- Learning will help to bring multiple scholars active through the mid-1990s), multicultural music education, she to the School of Music each year to share the he was notable on campus has won numerous awards and latest research on music cognition and explore and throughout the world for served as a curriculum consultant how such work can inform contemporary the substance, insight, clarity, for music education in Malawi and approaches to teaching and learning music. and humor of his lectures on Mozambique for the United States The endowment also will provide support psychomusicology and research. Information Service and the U.S. for Music Education students and faculty to In addition to serving in an Office of Education. further advance research in this field of study. editorial capacity for several Dr . Lundquist’s research and The Barbara Lundquist Fund for Excellence scholarly journals, such as the curricular philosophy have been in Music, Education and Culture will provide Journal of Research in Music featured in articles in a wide critical support to the Music Education Education, the Japanese Journal of range of professional publications program, providing enhanced opportunities Music Perception and Cognition, and academic journals and through scholarship and program support for and Psychomusicology, Dr. she has served in a number students training to disseminate knowledge Carlsen held key leadership of top leadership positions in through a broad spectrum of musical roles in a number of research national academic societies and traditions . Funds from this endowment and professional organizations. organizations. Author of numerous will also help bring in visiting scholars in His many honors include a textbooks, she also designed fields of music, education and culture, and Danforth Teacher Fellowship, two curriculum projects for the Ford ethnomusicology. International Research Exchange Foundation’s Contemporary Music The School of Music has set a goal of awards, and a Fulbright fellowship. Project and the U.S. Office of raising $25,000 to establish each endowment. “James Carlsen established the Education’s Manhattanville Music Dollar-for-dollar matching funds are available Systematic Musicology program Curriculum Project, among others. to alumni or friends who would like to help at UW when few in the music Alumna Carol Scott Kassner, officially launch the James Carlsen Visiting academy had the foresight to who studied under Dr. Lundquist Scholar in Music Cognition and Learning and establish a program of research as a graduate student at the the Barbara Lundquist Fund for Excellence in and teaching that embraced School of Music, calls her a “true Music, Education, and Culture. To make a gift, the tools and philosophy of the force of nature” and credits her as or for more information, please contact scientific method,” says David Brian the inspiration for her deep and Cristi Benefield at (206) 543-1221 or email Williams, president of The College abiding interest in world music. [email protected]. Thank you! Music Society and a 1970s alumnus “Her dynamism pulls you into of the doctoral program. “For learning in wonderful ways,” Dr. those of us who were fortunate Kassner says. “She risked exploring to study under his mentorship, West African drumming on a deep he helped instill in us skills and level in the mid-1960s, way before a healthy mindset founded on others were exploring the teaching rigorous methods of inquiry, a of world music. She, more than clear sense of the importance any of my female professors, was of theory development, and a a model of what was possible for passion for seeking answers to a women in higher education as richer understanding of the music teachers, leaders, and scholars.” experience.” Music Education Professor Steven Demorest with Dr. Carlsen at the 2010 International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, held in August of 2010 on the UW campus.
22 Bernita W. Jackson Gloria and Don Swisher Neil and Kathleen Bogue FRIENDS OF OPERA HELP UNDERWRITE HANSEL AND GRETEL Friends of the School of Music helped to underwrite the fall 2010 production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel. Though recent budget cuts have required the School of Music to scale back its opera productions, Voice Professor Thomas Harper has been determined to uphold this Voice students Brenna Sluiter and Cristina performance opportunity for School of Music Voice students. Gonzalez singing the roles of Hansel and In addition to taking on the role of Opera Director, Harper Gretel. and his wife, Silke, spent all of the summer of 2010 creating sets and costumes for this charming production. Professor Harper, stage manager Dan Miller, and opera cast members all pitched in when it was time to load the sets into Meany Theater in the final weeks of rehearsal. The School of Music extends a hearty round of applause to Professor Harper, whose determination and vision brought this production to life, to the voice and orchestra students who gave their very best to each performance, to Symphony conductor Jonathan Pasternack and assistant conductor Meena Hwang, and to our Opera Production Underwriting Support Fund (OPUS!) contributors: Dr. Gloria and Donald Swisher, Neil and Kathleen Bogue, and Bernita Wilson Voice student Nataly Wickham as the Sandman. Jackson. This fully staged production would not have been possible without the continued support of these generous Voice students Jared Ice as Father and friends. Thank you! Rebecca Paul as Mother.
Performance Photos: Joanne De Pue www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 23 Friends of the School of Music Gifts received July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011 Lifetime Friends of Music Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Mr. and Mrs. Steve C. Samuelson (Total Lifetime Giving of $10,000+) Ms. M. Kathleen Johnson* Mr. Wayne R. Schaub Mrs. Wendy E. Adams* Mr. and Mrs. Luther E. Jones* Annie and Leroy Searle The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Mrs. Annie May H. Karrer* Jane and Roger Soder The Allen Foundation for Music Mr. and Mrs. George B. Kauffman Mrs. Virginia Stephens* American Brahms Society Prof. Emeritus and Mrs. Gerald and Dr. Gloria W. and Mr. Donald P. Swisher Betty Kechley* American Film Institute The Apex Foundation Mr. Douglas F. King Anonymous Gifts – Alumni and Friends The Babb Foundation Karen L. Koon Apex Foundation The Bishop Foundation Mr. Palmer D. Koon* Mr. James L. Beech* The Brechemin Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Kriewall Geoffrey Boers, director of the Mr. and Mrs. Harve Bennett The Endurance Fund Drs. Bruce Kulander and Glenna Burmer Chamber Singers, works with a Prof. and Mrs. William Bergsma* The Marsh Family Foundation student before the group’s fall Laurelhurst PTA Mr. Richard T. Black The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation quarter performance. Dr. and Mrs. J. Hans and Thelma Lehmann* Mrs. Harriette B. Bleitz* The Peach Foundation Mr. Edmund W. Littlefield, Jr. The Boeing Company The Seattle Foundation Mr. James D. Wade & Ms. Mary Kay Long Mr. and Mrs. Louis and The Tulalip Tribes Charlotte Brechemin* Anselmo J. Macchi Rev Living Trust Prof. Emerita Diane D. Thome Ms. Mary M. Brockman Mr. Theodore J. Macchi* Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Thompson Mrs. Edna Chittick* Mr. Patrick MacDonald Mr. H. Dale Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Cole and Mr. and Mrs. Louis G.* and Mrs. Aloysia K. Tufts* Adelaide Currie Cole* Patricia A. Marsh United Way of King County Community Church of Seattle Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. McCaw Mrs. Frances Waibler Mr. Kenneth B. Coulter* Mr. Barry C. McCord Mrs. Ruth Sutton Waters* Dr. and Mrs. David R. and Jane M. Davis Microsoft Corporation Ms. Sally Anne West and Dr. Rheba de Tornyay and Dr. and Mrs. Donald and Linda Miller Mr. Peder H. Knudson* Mr. Rudy de Tornyay* Mrs. Aura Bonell Morrison* Mr. David Wilcox* Ms. Julia W. Derby Mrs. Jacqueline Nehammer* Mr. DeWitt Williams* Barbara, Walt and David Dryfoos Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. and Helen L. Ness* Mrs. Eleanor Hale Wilson* Prof. and Mrs. Meade and Ms. Marilyn W. Newland Mr. and Mrs. William and Gayle K. Wilson Singers in concert dress in the Deborah Carley Emory Mrs. Peg Locke Newman* Mr. and Mrs. Lyle and Ruth Wilson* Meany Theater Green Room. Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. and Judith S. Evans Carol A. Nygren Mrs. Naomi Steil Wilson* Fairchild Record Search Ltd. Dr. and Mrs. Eric Offenbacher* Dr. and Mrs. Loren C. Winterscheid Mr. Philip Foster* Ms. Cathy Palmer and Mr. Greg Palmer* Mr. Robert L. Wood* Mrs. Miriam V. Friedman and Ms. Anne Arnold Parry Mr. Robert Friedman* Ms. Jessie M. Paterson* Gifts $250,000+ Prof. and Mrs. Ramesh and Shanta Gangolli Mrs. Gloria B. Peck and Apex Foundation Mrs. Marion O. Garrison and Prof. Cornelius Peck* Mr. and Mrs. Louis G* and Mr. Robert H. Garrison* Mr. Gordon S. Peek Patricia A. Marsh Dr. William and Ruth Gerberding Mr. Donald R. Pennell and Estate of Helen Lee Ness* Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Mrs. Linda Halverson Pennell The Marsh Family Foundation Dr. George G. Ghosn Mrs. Mary Pennell Nelson and Estate of Eleanor Hale Wilson* Mrs. Louise M. Goodrich* Mr. Kenneth M. Nelson Gordon Stuart Peek Foundation Mr. Robert M. Pennell and Gifts $50,000 - $99,999 GRAMMY Foundation Mrs. Adelaide H. Brooks Pennell Ms. Peggy Anderson Lt. Col. Charles T. Griffes Ms. Mina Brechemin Person Brechemin Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. George and Ida Halpern* Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Petersen Ms. Anne M. Hewitt* Drs. Edward and Luella Hermanson Mrs. Elsbeth Pfeiffer* Mr. Daniel M. Marble Mr. and Mrs. Gregg N. Herrell Mrs. Dolores Gail Plath* Mina Brechemin Person Ms. Anne M. Hewitt PONCHO Mu Phi Epsilon, Seattle Chapter Mrs. Barbara D. Himmelman and Qwest Foundation Estate of Elsbeth Pfeiffer* Mr. Lynn P. Himmelman* Mr. and Mrs. Gustav F. and Ms. Virginia H. Stephens* Guest artist Margaret Leng Ms. Mary E. Hirsch Claire Thompson Raaum Tan worked with student Ragamala David Brooks during her May Dr. Kennan H. Hollingsworth and Gifts $25,000 - $49,999 2011 master class on the Dr. Phyllis Bagdi Hollingsworth* Mrs. Ethel G. Reynolds* Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation extended piano techniques of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Huh Mrs. Helen A. Reynolds* Mr. Gary Larson and Ms. Toni Carmichael composers John Cage, Henry Mrs. Marion B. Ingersoll* Ms. Renee C. Ries Cowell, and George Crumb. Carol A. Nygren Ms. Mary T. Ingrim* Ms. Bernice Mossafer Rind The Peach Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Demar Irvine* Mrs. Mary McEacheran Robinson* Mrs. Bernita Wilson Jackson and Rev. and Mrs. Donald D. Rowland Mr. Quentin K. Jackson* (* Deceased)
2009-10/2010-11 University of Washington School of Music www .music.washington.edu 24 Thank you for your generous support! We are grateful to our donors, alumni and friends, whose Gifts $10,000 - $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Kischner generous and Rebecca McGoodwin Ms. Aileen M. Miholovich Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation thoughtful support Dean and Tomilynn McManus Mr. Jon R. Nelson Anonymous Gifts-Alumni creates wonderful Mr. and Mrs. Wayne and Marjorie Pietz Prof. and Mrs. William and Mr. and Mrs. Harve and Jani Bennett opportunities for Mr. and Mrs. Richard and Dr. and Mrs. Richard and Karen Prince Rosemary Newell Elaine Babb Howell Ragamala Foundation Mr. Kirk Pawlowski our music students, Mr. and Mrs. George B. Kauffman Renee C. Ries Drs. Charles Alpers and Ingrid Peterson faculty and programs. Karen L. Koon Dr. Lorraine and Tom Sakata Ms. Jane A. Preston Friends of the School Laurelhurst PTA Prof. Tim Salzman Prof. Craig Sheppard and Mr. Greg Wallace of Music receive Dr. and Mrs. Donald and Linda Miller Dr. Mansour Samadpour and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert and Isabel Stusser invitations to special The Greater Everett Community Foundation Mrs. Dalia Alfi Ms. Victoria Sutter concert events in The Peach Foundation Prof. Philip D. and Kinza Schuyler Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. and Linda G. Swier addition to recognition Annie and Leroy Searle Dr. Gloria W. and Mr. Donald P. Swisher Profs. Margaret E. and David J. Thouless in programs and Drs. Darwin Alonso and Laurel Sercombe Estate of Frances Waibler* University of Washington Club publications. To make Frances K. Walton Gloria Wood and Jake Milton Gifts $5,000 - $9,999 Sally A. West a gift, please visit www.uwfoundation.org Ruth M. Baker Yamaha Corporation of America Gifts $100 - $249 or call 1.877.894.4387. Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. and Judith S. Evans Ms. Deborah Anderson Bernita Wilson Jackson Gifts $500 - $999 Mr. John A. Attebery Thank you! Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. and Mr. Donald Ackney and Ms. Amy Rosenleaf Ms. Elizabeth J. Bagshaw Joyce A. McCallum Ms. Jill S. Hanley Conner Mr. Warren Bakken and Orcas Island Community Foundation Alvin and Ruth Eller Ms. Jocelyn Phillips Dr. Mansour Samadpour and Ms. Geraldine Hoefer Mr. Darce R. Barager Mrs. Dalia Alfi Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Barta The Seattle Foundation Mr. Vincent M. Jolivet Prof. and Mrs. James M. Beale United Way of King County Dr. and Mrs. Richard Jones-Bamman Mr. and Mrs. Dwight C. Beckmeyer Washington Research Foundation Kabul Afghan Cuisine Mr. Paul A. Berkolds Washington State Federation of Music Clubs Drs. Carol Scott Kassner and Kirk Kassner Mr. and Mrs. Donald Boothby Sally A. West Mr. Douglas J. Mathews Janet L. Bogue and Paula Newberg Mr. and Mrs. William W. and Ellen P. McAttee Drs. Joanne and Bruce Bouma Gayle K. Wilson Mr. Steven M. Messick Mr. Charles F. Bretz Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Metzler Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Brown Guest artist Garth Knox led Gifts $1,000 - $4,999 Mr. Jon R. Nelson Mr. William T. Brune a class on viola techniques Apex Foundation Dr. Andie Palmer and Mr. Alf Shepherd Dr. and Mrs. David and Linda Buck in February 2011 and Prof. Emeritus Earl and Arlene Bell demonstrated for UW music Mr. and Mrs. Gustav F. and Claire Raaum Stephen P. Burns, M.D. students the unique sound of Mr. and Mrs. Neil M. and Mrs. Bernice Mossafer Rind Mr. Douglas P. Burton the viola d’amore. Kathleen M. Bogue Mr. Andrew P. Schmidt Ms. Susan C. Cady Dr. Joanne Bouma Profs. Irwin G. and Barbara R. Sarason Norman and Marcia Calvo Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson Dr. Christine M. Snow Ms. April Cameron Profs. Frank and Joan Catoni Conlon Dr. Pamela K. and Mr. Patrick Steele Mr. and Ms. Robert C. Carver Dr. and Mrs. Joe S. Creager Washington State Federation of Music Clubs Mr. John D. Carrington Prof. Emeritus Earl and Arlene Bell John and Maureen Cervinsky Dr. and Mrs. David and Jane Davis Gifts $250 - $499 Ms. Laura Jun-Ling Chang Mr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Davis Ms. Sharman N. Ballantine Ms. Sally H. Clarke Barbara and Walt Dryfoos Ms. Susan C. Ball Dr. Erin Chung and Mr. Edward Cummings Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Earl Mr. Christian J. Bell Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Cleland Prof. Emeritus Ramesh and Shanta Gangolli Mr. and Mrs. David and Karen Bell Mr. W. W. Cleland Jean F. Gardner Mr. Nelson B. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Winston H. Cook Mr. Max E. Gellert Cristi R. Benefield Thomas L. Crews, Jr. Dr. George G. Ghosn Mr. Douglas and Susan Burton Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Crosier Prof. John C. Hanford Prof. and Mrs. Marshall J. Brown Mr. Richard L. Dalzell Mr. Gerald Stone Hartley Dr. Kennan H. Hollingsworth Ms. Emily Neat Carter Dr. and Mrs. John M. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henigson (standing) along with students Dr. Erin H. Chung Dr. Martin Dickey (seated left to right) Jonathan Dr. Kennan H. Hollingsworth Citrix Systems, Inc. Ms. Dwyla C. Donohue Bezdegian, Rose Whitmore, Sylvia H. Hobbs and Family Sarah Patterson, and Laura Dr. Pierre L. Divenyi Mr. Jason E. Dougherty John’s Grill Ouimette and Professor Mrs. Patricia A. DuRuz Mr. Bill Dubay and John Reitberger Carole Terry, who performed Bernita Wilson Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gelon Mr. and Mrs. Elemer and Julia Dubrovay at the dedication celebration Littlefield Farm for the new Kennan H. Ms. Linda J. Gould Mrs. Sara Mae Eckstein Mr. Alex P. Loch Hollingsworth and Phyllis Prof. Mary and Dr. William Hallauer John S. Edwards, Ph.D. Mr. Gary J. Louie Bagdi Organ and Studio. Mrs. Susanne Hubbach Jim and Gretchen Faulstich www .music.washington.edu School of Music University of Washington 2009-10/2010-11 25 Drs. Eric and Polly Feigl Ms. Jean M. Skerlong Ms. Nancy A. Hautala L. Frederick Fenster, M.D. Dr. Landry T. Slade and Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Heinemann Ms. Judith M. Filibeck Ms. Gretchen Van Meter Mrs. Patricia Heuer Mr. J. Gregory Gale, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Spicciati Henrietta C. Hibbs Dr. William Galloway Ms. Jan D. Stark Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Howard George Frederich McKay Publishing Ms. Carole C. Stewart Frances B. Huessy Mr. David Friedt and Maj. David and Marcie Stone Dr. and Mrs. E. Harvey Jewell Ms. Marilyn Brockman Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Swafford Ms. Jill A. Johnson Heri Purwanto, a teacher and Gamelan musician from Central Dr. and Mrs. Dennis and Evette Glauber Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Swier Ms. Sally Johnson Java, was a visiting artist in Dr. David Klein and Ms. Karen Gottlieb Mr. Nelson E. Tandoc Mr. and Mrs. James R. Johnston Ethnomusicology during Spring Ms. Suzanne H. Greeley Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Taylor Ms. Judith A. Knopp Quarter 2011. Greenwood Foot and Ankle Center Ted Brown Music Company Robert H. Knopp, M.D. Mr. Daniel J. Haeck Prof. Carole Terry Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. 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Whitney Mr. and Mrs. Tomoki Noguchi Music Building. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Levant Ms. Ada M. Williams Mr. Mark Y. Okinaka Prof. Emerita Barbara R. Lundquist Mr. and Mrs. David A. Wood Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Owen Ms. Emily B. Marks Dr. and Mrs. Alan S. Woodle John C. Paulson, D.M.A. Mr. Doug Marlin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew and Mr. and Mrs. David R. Payson William P. Mahrt, Ph.D. Carol Odegard Yurkanin Mr. G. Schmidt and Ms. P. Petrisor-Schmidt Dr. Michael and Nancy Matesky Gifts $99 and under Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Pollock Ms. JoAnn M. Matlick Mr. Paul J. Rafanelli Ms. Joan F. Ashcraft Ms. Marcia McAllister Mr. and Mrs. Dan Rhodes Ms. Ann L Bailey Prof. Robin L. McCabe Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Rosier Ms. Brenda L. Banks Mr. Willard Wadt and Ms. Ann McLaughlin Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Roubik Dr. Barbara and Mr. Richard Barker Mr. and Ms. Bruce A. Meyers Mr. Armand K. Russell Mr. George S. Bozarth, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Meyers Ms. Mary L. Schneider Ms. Dorothy C. 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The School of Music presents more than 100 concerts and special events each year by our faculty, students, and visiting artists. Visit music.washington.edu for our complete events calendar. University Symphony: Jonathan Pasternack returns in 2011-12 in his second year as interim conductor of the University Symphony. In 2011-12, the Symphony adds two performances to its regular quarterly calendar, with performances scheduled for Friday, Oct. 28, Friday, Dec. 9, Thursday, Jan. 26, Thomas Harper Thursday, Feb. 23, Monday, April 30, and Friday, June 1. UW Opera Activities in 2011-12: During Fall Quarter, we present two performances of Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act chamber opera Amahl and the Night Visitor, directed by Thomas Harper, running Friday, Dec. 2 and Sunday, Dec. 4 at Meany Studio Theater. In Winter Quarter, UW Opera presents Benjamin Britten’s comic opera Albert Herring, with performances running Feb. 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 19 at 2 p.m. in the Meany Studio Theater. Faculty Recitals: Craig Sheppard, piano: The pianist pays tribute to Franz Liszt on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth with a solo recital at Meany Theater on Friday, Oct. 21. Sheppard returns to the Meany stage on Friday, April 20 for the fourth installment of his five-concert cycle Mostly Brahms. Tom Collier Mallethead Series Returns: Professor Tom Collier resurrects his popular Mallethead Series in 2011-12 with three concerts featuring Collier and longtime musical partner, bassist Dan Dean, collaborating with notable guest drummers. Performances are Friday, Nov. 18 at the Meany Studio Theater, featuring guest drummer Alex Acuña (known for his work with jazz fusion group Weather Report); Friday, March 2 with guest drummer Ralph Humphrey (known for his work with musician Frank Zappa); and Friday, May University Symphony 11 with New York-based drummer Ted Poor (who has worked extensively with trumpeter Cuong Vu). Faculty Recital: Melia Watras, viola: Melia Watras performs a concert Wednesday, Jan. 11 of solo works for the viola composed during the past Melia Watras 50 years. Along with pieces by 20th century masters György Ligeti, György Kurtág, and Iannis Xenakis, she presents world premieres of two new works by UW composers: a viola solo by Joël-François Durand and a commission from rising star Shih-Wei Lo. Faculty Recital: Robin McCabe, piano: Faculty artist Robin McCabe presents a concert January 24 of solo works for the piano, including the magnificent Bach-Busoni Chaconne, the passionate “Kreisleriana” of Robert Schumann, and works by Franz Liszt. Ethnomusicology Visiting Artists Concert: The annual concert this year, April 24 at Meany Theater, features music of Afghanistan by renowned raba¯b player Homayoun Sakhi and tabla player Salar Nader. The musicians will be in Craig Sheppard residence at the School from April 23-May 4, 2012.
JACK Quartet in the House: Renowned contemporary string quartet Robin McCabe The JACK Quartet is in residence at the School of Music May 14-18, 2012. The group’s visit will include workshop readings of works by composition students, a strings master class, collaboration with DXARTS, and a May 18 performance at the Jones Playhouse featuring works by UW composers Joël- François Durand, Huck Hodge, Richard Karpen, and Juan Pampin.
All dates, programs, and performers are subject to change. Ticket, venue and the latest schedule information is available at: music.washington.edu or by calling the Arts Ticket Office: 206.543.4880, or toll free at 800.859.5342. Tickets for 2011-12 concert events at Meany Hall go on sale September 15, 2011.
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