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march
Time
(Saturday) 2:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Kayla Patrick DMA Viola Recital Kayla Patrick, viola Sahada Buckley, violin Trace Johnson, cello …… Program Op. 11, No. 4. Paul Hindemith Piano Quartet in E-flat major Robert Schumann The
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Free | No ticket required
Kayla Patrick DMA Viola Recital
Kayla Patrick, viola
Sahada Buckley, violin
Trace Johnson, cello
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Program
Op. 11, No. 4. Paul Hindemith
Piano Quartet in E-flat major Robert Schumann
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair Claude Debussy
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Kayla Patrick is a violist and active chamber music collaborator from Chicago currently working toward her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at The University of Wisconsin-Madison under the guidance of Sally Chisholm. She holds a position in the Marvin Rabin String Quartet at the Mead Witter School of Music. Additionally, she engages in regular outreach throughout the Midwest, and finds great joy in teaching and performing in a variety of genres.
She was a recent finalist in the 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison Symphony Concerto Competition as well as in the 2021 Mead Witter Viola Competition. As a dissertator, she is currently engaging in research toward her doctoral project on Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto.
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Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
april
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Also streaming live Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series Duo Cortona Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano Ari Streisfeld, violin Duo
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Purchase tickets
General admission: $15
Students: Free (ticket required)
Also streaming live
Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series
Duo Cortona
Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano
Ari Streisfeld, violin
Duo Cortona is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation of works for its unique instrumentation: mezzo-soprano and violin. This ensemble explores new sounds and possibilities for its intimate, expressive, and vital combination. Duo Cortona works to establish a new and thus far unexplored repertoire, pursuing the endless possibilities of this union. They create opportunities for both established and emerging composers through commissions, competitions, educational workshops, university residencies, and major concert performances. Duo Cortona was founded at the Cortona Sessions for New Music by husband and wife team Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway.
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Program
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Rachel Calloway brings versatility and compelling insight to stages worldwide. Her work has been praised by the New York Times for “penetrating clarity” and “considerable depth of expression” and by Opera News for her “adept musicianship and dramatic flair.”
This season’s highlights include Janacek’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared at the University of Binghamton, The Castleton Festival, and the University of South Carolina, the music of John Zorn at the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), a world premiere by Robert Xavier Rodriguez with the Amernet Quartet, The Messiah with the Charleston Symphony and the Aiken Symphony, new works with the vocal ensemble Ekmeles in Chicago, Duo Cortona in residence at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and concerts of Jewish art music with Shir Ami in Charleston and Columbia, SC.
She has appeared in concert with the Orlando Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Series, the New York Philharmonic, Berkeley Symphony, Ojai Festival, San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, BAM Next Wave Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Cal Performances, and Lincoln Center Festival. Ms. Calloway made her European operatic debut as Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw at Opéra de Reims, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jovet (Paris) and Opéra de Lille. She has performed with Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival in Virginia, Opera Philadelphia, Tulsa Opera, Central City Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, The PROTOTYPE Festival, and the Glimmerglass Festival.
Ms. Calloway serves on the faculty of the University of South Carolina as Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Spark: Music Leadership at Carolina. She joined the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy) in 2014 and Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard (Switzerland) in 2016. Ms. Calloway holds degrees from The Juilliard School (BM) and Manhattan School of Music (MM) and can be heard on Albany Records, Tzadik Records, BCMF Records, and Toccata Classics.
Violinist Ari Streisfeld has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for his performances of diverse repertoire and has established himself as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music. Praised for his “dazzling performance” by the New York Times and “scintillating playing” by New York Classical Review, Mr. Streisfeld is a founding member of the world renowned JACK Quartet. Recent season highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall (London), La Salle Pleyel (Paris), Teatro Colon (Argentina), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Carriage Works (Sydney, Australia), Venice Biennale (Italy), Carnegie Hall, The Library of Congress, The Morgan Library (New York), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), and the Salzburg Festival (Austria). He has collaborated with many of today’s most prominent composers including John Luther Adams, Caroline Shaw, Julia Wolfe, Helmut Lachenmann, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas, Steve Reich, and Salvatore Sciarrino.
Together with his wife, mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway, Mr. Streisfeld formed Duo Cortona, a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to the creation of new works for the unique instrumentation of mezzo-soprano and violin. Recent and upcoming performances include the Resonant Bodies Festival, SONiC Festival, The Stone (NY), Contemporary Undercurrents of Song Project (Princeton, NJ), New Music on the Point (VT), and The Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). He is also a member of Shir Ami, an ensemble dedicated to the performance and preservation of Jewish art music. Mr. Streisfeld frequently collaborates with some of today’s leading ensembles, including Ensemble Signal, Worldless Music Orchestra, Weekend of Chamber Music, and the Cortona Collective.
Hailed as “imaginative” by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Streisfeld’s arrangements of madrigals and motets for string quartet by Machaut and Gesualdo have been performed to acclaim both at home and abroad. A recipient of the Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Mr. Streisfeld most recently premiered his Machaut arrangements for voice and violin at The Stone (New York).
A passionate and committed music educator, Mr. Streisfeld serves on the faculty of New York’s Special Music School, Face the Music, New Music on the Point and the Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy). He will join the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Music as Assistant Professor of Violin Pedagogy this fall.
Mr. Streisfeld attended the Eastman School of Music (Bachelor of Music), Northwestern University (Master of Music), and Boston University (Doctor of Musical Arts). He has recorded for Mode, Albany, Carrier, Innova, Canteloupe, and New World Records.
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Hamel Music Center - Mead Witter Foundation Concert Hall740 University Avenue
202403apr7:30 pmDanielle Bullock
Time
(Wednesday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Free | No ticket required Danielle Bullock Senior Voice Recital Danielle Bullock Aubrie Jacobson, piano
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Free | No ticket required
Danielle Bullock Senior Voice Recital
Danielle Bullock
Aubrie Jacobson, piano
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall740 University Avenue
Time
(Thursday) 7:30 pm
Location
Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall
740 University Avenue
Event Details
Purchase tickets General admission: $15 Students: Free (ticket required) Also streaming live Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series …… In addition to his teaching responsibilities as Professor of Music,
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Purchase tickets
General admission: $15
Students: Free (ticket required)
Also streaming live
Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series
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In addition to his teaching responsibilities as Professor of Music, Bassoon, Marc Vallon is bassoonist for the Wingra Wind Quintet in residence at the School of Music. A native of France, Vallon studied at the Paris National Conservatory where he earned two Premier Prix, one for bassoon studies with Maurice Allard and the other for chamber music with Maurice Bourgue, Myron Bloom, and Christian Lardé. He started playing professionally at the age of 18 during his conservatory studies and joined the Paris-based Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, performing under many renowned conductors including Sergiu Celibidache, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Karl Boehm, and Lorin Maazel. Soon afterward Vallon’s interests led him to the numerous smaller Parisian groups specializing in contemporary music. He was a founding member of the Nielsen Quintet in 1975, with which he played hundreds of concerts devoted largely to 20th century repertoire. He also collaborated with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Pierre Boulez, and took part in the first performance of Boulez’s major work, Répons. Concurrently, he earned a degree in philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne (University of Paris).
Marc Vallon was one of the pioneers of the early music movement in the 1980s. He was principal bassoonist with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for more than 20 years and performed with other leading early music ensembles such as La Chapelle Royale, Les Arts Florissants, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Tafelmusik. His personal collection of early instruments includes originals and copies of instruments dating from 1670 to 1920.
Vallon has taught modern and baroque bassoon at the Paris Conservatory and the Lyon Conservatory and has given master classes worldwide. His name can be found on more than one hundred commercial recordings, among them his acclaimed rendering of the Mozart bassoon concerto with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
An avid composer and arranger, Vallon uses these skills in his pedagogical approach. Besides his bassoon and chamber music teaching responsibilities, he teaches classes in “Solfège, Conservatoire style” and bassoon pedagogy.
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