Upcoming Events
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Sun26Jan2025
Schubertiade
3pmThe 12th-annual Mead Witter School of Music Schubertiade, a concert of Schubert’s songs, piano music, and ensembles, will take place on Sunday afternoon, January 26, 2025, at 2 pm in Collins Recital Hall. The theme this year is “Favorites and Discoveries”
The program celebrates the works of the great Viennese composer Franz Schubert in homage to the original “Schubertiades,” evenings at the homes of Schubert’s friends and admirers who gathered to hear Schubert’s sublime music, often with the composer himself at the piano.
Schubertiade is being hosted again by Professor Martha Fischer, who teaches piano and collaborative piano at the School of Music, and her pianist husband Bill Lutes. They will perform as accompanists and in piano duets on a modern copy of an 1828 Viennese fortepiano, built by Rodney Regier of Freeport, Maine.
The concert will include a mix of some of the most familiar and best-loved Schubert lieder, alongside songs that are beautiful, but lesser known. All three of the “Marches Militaires (No. 1 being one of the composer’s most recognizable tunes) will be heard at various points in the program. And for a performance of “The Shepherd on the Rock” for soprano, clarinet and piano, we welcome guest clarinetist Elise Bonhiver, who will perform on a modern copy of an 1820s-era clarinet.
The program will be a showcase for the School of Music’s voice faculty: Sarah Brailey, Julia Rottmayer, Mimmi Fulmer, Jessica Schwefel, and Matthew Treviño, along with guest artist and School of Music alumnus Wesley Dunnagan, who currently serves on the voice faculty of St. Olaf College. Each of them will present his or her group of lieder, based on a particular poetic theme.
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Wed05Feb2025
Lang: love fail (with Pilobolus Dance)
7:00pmLorelei Ensemble and Pilobolus Dance
David Lang's love fail
Denison University
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Thu06Feb2025
Lang: love fail (with Pilobolus Dance)
7:00pmLorelei Ensemble and Pilobolus Dance
David Lang's love fail
Denison University
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Thu13Feb2025
Poulenc: Figure Humaine
6:30pmFebruary 13, 6:30pm at St. Paul’s Chapel
Figure Humaine
Benjamin Britten Advance Democracy
Ilsa Weber Wiegala
Jacob Beranek Abendgebet
Francis Poulenc Un soir de neige and Figure Humaine
Elsa Barraine Prelude
Trinity Choir; Melissa Attebury, DirectorNew York, NY
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Thu27Feb2025
In Her Voice: LunART String Quartet with Sarah Brailey
7pmWorks for voice and string quartet by composers Caroline Shaw, Eliza Brown, and Danaë Xanthe Vlasse
Art + Literature Lab
Madison, WI
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Sat01Mar2025
In Her Voice: LunART String Quartet with Sarah Brailey
7pmWorks for voice and string quartet by composers Caroline Shaw, Eliza Brown, and Danaë Xanthe Vlasse
Mineral Point Opera House
Mineral Point, WI
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Sat15Mar2025
Breathe - World Premiere
7:30pmLorelei Ensemble with composer performers Charlotte Greve, Wendell Patrick, Ken Thomson, Jason Treuting
2640 Space
Baltimore, MD
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Sat22Mar2025
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Sun23Mar2025
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Fri28Mar2025
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Sat29Mar2025
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Sun30Mar2025
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Thu01May2025
Mead Witter Faculty Recital Series: Dan Cavanagh
7:30pmDan Cavanagh world premiere for soprano and string quartet
Sarah Brailey, soprano
Pro Arte Quartet
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Sat10May2025
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Sun11May2025
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Sun01Jun2025
BASS: New Voices Festival
5pmThe Brooklyn Art Song Society's New Voices Festival finale explores a brave new world of sonic possibilities in song. A world premiere by Tonia Ko examines the immigrant experience, while bold works by some of today’s most innovative composers chart a new frontier for music and words
Katherine Balch: Phrases
Fang Man: Partridge Sky
Tonia Ko: New Work (world premiere, BASS commission)
Samy Moussa: The Sick Rose
Andrew Staniland: Execution Songs
Kate Soper: The Fragments of ParmenidesSarah Brailey, Charlotte Mundy soprano
Kristin Gornstein mezzo soprano
Jeremy Chen, Mila Henry, Nathaniel LaNasa piano
Doug Balliett double bassMore details here
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Sat26Jul2025
Carmel Bach Festival
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
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