The Florestan Duo, Stefan Kartman, collo and Jeannie Yu, piano perform an exciting program as part of the Chamber Music Milwaukee series featuring music from Bach and Rachmaninoff.
Join us for a concert-style presentation of original works by composer Lauren E. Spavelko performed by soprano Dr. Jessica Spafford. This program will highlight Spavelko’s art song cycle Baby Book, a deeply expressive set of six songs exploring themes of pregnancy and miscarriage, and possibly include excerpts of other recent compositions depending on availability and programming.
UWM Piano Faculty Elena Abend is joined by violinist Victoria Moreira, clarinetist Orlando Pimentel and violist Doyle Armbrust, in a program highlighting the expressive and rhythmic drive of Latin American composers and their use of expression though different combination of instruments. Exploring works by Paquito D’Rivera, Leandro Coral, Jimenez Mabarak, Irma Urteaga among others.
The Composition & Technology program will present a concert of original works by UWM students. The program will include freshly composed pieces for acoustic and electronic mediums.
The UWM Piano Studio will present a recital of solo and chamber music repertoire.
Join UWM's Alta Voce with a guest treble choir from Round Lake High School.
The UWM Symphony Orchestra performs on April 10 in Bader Concert Hall in a program featuring Dana Sherman, Professor of Horn, as soloist in Larsson’s Horn Concerto under the direction of Dr. Jun Kim.
Chamber Music Milwaukee presents a program featuring UWM alumni Elena Abend, piano, John Schultz and Pamela Simmons, violins, and Olga Tuzhilkov, viola as they join Stefan Kartman, cello in performances of dearly beloved masterpieces of the chamber music literature including Dvorak’s epic Eb major Piano Quartet Op. 87 and Mozart’s introspective “Dissonance” String Quartet in C major K. 465. Please join us for an evening of chamber music and support our alumni in this musical adventure.
Spend the morning with the UWM String Academy as students ages 4 through 18 perform an engaging program of music from around the world. This concert showcases the talent and hard work they’ve put in throughout the semester.
Join us for an evening of jazz featuring the UWM Jazz Ensemble, the UWM Afro-Caribbean Jazz Orchestra and the UWM Youth Jazz Ensemble (UJAY).
Students enrolled in Advanced Electronic Music and Sound Art, representing UW-MESS (UWM Electroacoustic Sound Studios), will showcase their final projects in a concert featuring all-new works of interactive electronic music!
Join us for a free faculty performance featuring René Izquierdo, Elina Chekan, Kevin Loh and Alberto Daniel Quintanilla.
The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, opening with: Beethoven String Quartet No. 5 in A Major — Beethoven wrote this as a conscious love letter to Mozart, studying and modeling a specific Mozart quartet so carefully that this is the most intimate and refined music in the set — elegant, shimmering, and at times almost fragile. AND Mozart String Quintet in C Major, K. 515 (1787) — The grandest of the six, opening with the longest chamber music movement Mozart ever wrote. Settle in and let its radiant confidence and symphonic scale carry you.
The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, including on May 21: Beethoven Beethoven String Quartet No. 2 in G Major — The most charming and witty of the set, full of courtly elegance and Haydnesque humor, with a slow movement that pulls off a delightful trick: a playful scherzo suddenly bursts through the middle of a tender operatic aria. AND Mozart String Quintet in D Major, K. 593 (1790) — The most intellectually rigorous of the six, leaner and more concentrated than its predecessors. Listen for the stately opening that keeps returning like a philosophical refrain, and a slow movement that ends with what one reviewer called "a sad smile."
The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, including on May 26: Beethoven String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat Major — The finale alone sets this quartet apart from everything else in Op. 18: a haunting, chromatic slow introduction marked La Malinconia repeatedly interrupts a cheerful dance in an escalating psychological tug-of-war, before the whole thing races to a breathless, whirlwind conclusion at Beethoven's fastest tempo marking anywhere in his output. AND Mozart String Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614 (1791) — Mozart's last chamber work, yet utterly free of valediction — just open-air good humor and Haydnesque mischief.
The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, including on May 28: Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 in D Major — The gentlest and most lyrical of the six quartets transforms completely in its finale, a blazing Presto that hijacks the entire work and then, at the last possible moment, dissolves into a teasing whisper rather than the expected triumphant close. AND Mozart String Quintet in C Minor, K. 406 (1787) — The odd one out: a transcription of a wind serenade, startlingly dark for the genre. The highlight is a minuet built on a mirror canon that Erik Smith described as "two swans reflected in still water."
The quartet will perform an ambitious FREE series in May of twelve masterworks over six concerts, closing with: Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F Major — This is Beethoven at his most concentrated and intense, building an entire opening movement from a single six-note idea that returns over 130 times in endlessly varied forms. Listen for the slow movement's volcanic emotional outbursts, inspired by the tomb scene from Romeo and Juliet. AND Mozart String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 (1787) — The emotional dark twin of K. 515, one of the most searching explorations of grief in all chamber music. The muted slow movement and the finale's hard-won turn toward happiness are unforgettable.
The Fine Arts Quartet presents a FREE concert featuring Brahms Piano Quartet #3 and Piano Quintet.
Join the University Community Orchestra for an evening of inspiring orchestral music featuring talented musicians from the university and the greater Milwaukee community. The concert showcases a diverse program of beloved classical favorites and audience-pleasing selections.
The Fine Arts Quartet presents a FREE concert featuring three Mozart piano concerto transcriptions.