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Guest Artists: Performers and Composers

Music History & Theory Colloquia

5:15 – 6pm, Room 103, except where noted*

Note: submit requests to present to ronald.squibbs@uconn.edu.
Helen Greenwald, New England Conservatory of Music
Thursday, September 17, 2009
"Ars moriendi: Reflections on the Death of Miḿ." Professor Greenwald is a leading authority on Italian 19th- and 20th-century opera, including Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini, on whom she has published widely; in 2008 she was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, and this summer her new reconstructive edition of Rossini's virtually forgotten opera Zelmira was premiered at the Pesaro Festival in Italy.
Peter Kaminsky, UConn Department of Music
Thursday, October 15, 2009
"(Whose) Performance and (Whose) Analysis: Towards a Pedagogical Approach"
Carissa Reddick, doctoral candidate
Friday, November 20, 2009 (not November 19, as previously announced)  *3pm, Room 107
Dissertation defense: "Formal Fusion and Rotational Overlap in Sonata Forms from the Chamber Music of Brahms, Dvorak, Franck, and Grieg"

Convocation and Master Classes

Convocation Classes

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

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Alexei Volodin, piano

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Bay State Winds

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Pacifica Quartet

Thursday, December 3, 2009
Five O'Clock Shadow.  Boston based a cappella group

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Capuçon-Angelich Trio

Master Classes

Times and locations TBD, FREE and open to the public

February 6, 2010
Kenny Barron, jazz pianist