Events and Performances

Concerto Competition Rules and Application (PDF) | Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Composition

Guest Artists: Performers and Composers

Menahem Pressler, piano

Heilig Family Memorial Scholarship Concert
October 21, 2007, 3 pm
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts

Master Class, with Department of Music students
October 22, 2007, 11 am, von der Mehden Recital Hall

William Funk, composer

Concert Choir and Women's Chorus
November 4, 2007, 3pm, von der Mehden Recital Hall
(World Premiere of Decima by William Funk)

Ik-Hwan Bae, violin
James Dunham, viola

Chamber Music Festival
November 30 and December 1-2, 2007, von der Mehden Recital Hall

Percussion Group Cincinnati

University Symphony
December 6, 2007, 8pm, von der Mehden Recital Hall

Concert Choir, Women's Chorus and Festival Chorus
December 7, 8pm, von der Mehden Recital Hall
(performing Carmina Burana)

Anton Belov, bass baritone

Concert Choir, Women's Chorus and Festival Chorus
December 7, 8pm, von der Mehden Recital Hall
(performing Carmina Burana)

Joan Panetti, composer

University of Connecticut Piano Trio
January 31, 2008

Mark Johnson, cello

Cello Festival
February 7-9, 2008, von der Mehden Recital Hall

Music History & Theory Colloquia

5:15 – 6pm, Room 103

Alain Frogley, Music History

"Dancing in the 'City of Dreadful Night': Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburg in the 1914 Scherzo-Nocturne of Vaughan Williams's A London Symphony," September 20, 2007

Lewis Rowell, Music History

"Musical Icons, Designer Labels, and Twenty-First-Century Culture," October 2, 2007 (NB: this presentation will take place during the Convocation period, 2 – 2:50 pm, von der Mehden Recital Hall)

Gundula Kreuzer, Music History

December 6, 2007

Glenn Stanley, Music History

"Why did Beethoven delete the flute part at the beginning of the Fifth Symphony?" February 14, 2008

Michael Klein, Music Theory

Postponed to Fall 2008

Convocation and Master Classes

Convocation Classes

2pm, von der Mehden Recital Hall, FREE and open to the public

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Christopher Taylor, pianist

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Quartetto di Venezia

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Richard Egarr, director of Academy of Ancient Music

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Paul Galbraith, guitar

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Dave Holland, jazz musician and bass player

Master Classes

Times and locations TBD, FREE and open to the public

Monday, October 22, 2007, 11 am, von der Mehden Recital Hall
Menahem Pressler, piano.

Friday, February 1, 2008
Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders

Saturday, March 1, 2008
Monterey Jazz Festival Tour

Monday, April 7, 2008
Paul Galbraith, classical guitar