Upcoming Events
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Sun31Dec2023Mon01Jan2024
Vigil for Peace
5pmRachmaninoff @ 150:
Six Part Songs for Women's Voices
Choral Concerto: 'O Mother of God Perpetually Praying'
Panteley the Healer
Vigil for Peace by Alexander Levine (world premiere)The Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, conductor
Holy Trinity Cathedral
New York City
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Wed17Jan2024Sun21Jan2024
Lorelei Workshop
Lorelei Ensemble will workshop next season's touring program, which features music by Ken Thompson, Charlotte Grève, Jason Treuting, and Wendel Patrick.
Private home in the Berkshires
Not open to the public
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Sun28Jan2024
Schubertiade: The Müllerin Years
3pmFeaturing pianists Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes, and guests
Performing songs, vocal ensembles, and chamber music from the same period as the “Die Schöne Müllerin” cycleTickets include access to a pre-concert lecture with Susan Youens, one of the world’s foremost Schubert scholars
Pre-concert lecture: 2:15 pm in Lee/Kaufman Rehearsal Hall
Concert: 3 pm in Collins Recital Hall, UW-MadisonMore info here
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Sun04Feb2024
Zemlinsky: Maiblumen blühten überall
12:30pmwith Pro Arte Quartet:
David Perry, Suzanne Beia, Sally Chisholm, Parry Karp
Chazen Music of Art
Madison, WI
More info here
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Fri09Feb2024
Zemlinsky: Maiblumen blühten überall
7:30pmMead Witter School of Music Faculty Ensemble Series
Collins Recital Hall, Hamel Music Center
UW-Madison
David Perry, violin
Suzanne Beia, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Parry Karp, violoncello……
The Pro Arte Quartet (PAQ) is one of the world’s most distinguished string quartets. Founded by conservatory students in Brussels in 1912, it became one of the most celebrated ensembles in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century and was named Court Quartet to the Queen of Belgium. Its world reputation blossomed in 1919 when the quartet began the first of many tours that enticed notable composers such as Milhaud, Honegger, Martin, and Casella to write new works for the ensemble. In addition, Bartók dedicated his fourth quartet to the PAQ (1927), and in 1936 PAQ premiered Barber’s Op. 11 quartet, with the now-famous “Adagio for Strings” as its slow movement.
The Pro Arte made its New York debut in 1926 and toured the United States frequently under the auspices of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. The quartet was performing in Madison, Wisconsin in May 1940 when Nazi forces invaded Belgium. The University of Wisconsin responded to the emergency by offering the quartet a permanent campus home, the first such arrangement at a major American university. The UW Pro Arte residency became a model of artist residencies that is now widely emulated throughout the country.
As the first and only quartet ever to reach its centennial anniversary (2012), the Pro Arte’s 100th birthday was the occasion for a grand multi-year celebration. At its center was the commission of six new works by some of today’s most important composers: William Bolcom, Paul Schoenfield, John Harbison, Walter Mays, and Pierre Jalbert (United States), along with Benoît Mernier from Belgium. Other initiatives included a lecture series, museum exhibits, recordings on the Albany label, a video documentary broadcast on Wisconsin Public Television and available on DVD, a concert tour to Belgium, and an upcoming book on the storied history of this illustrious quartet.
The Pro Arte Quartet performs throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia and continues to champion equally both standard repertoire and new music. The group is an ensemble in residence at the Mead Witter School of Music and resident quartet of the Chazen Museum of Art, performing regularly on the concert series of both institutions. The quartet has performed at the White House and, during the centennial celebration, played for the King’s Counselor in Belgium. Recent projects include the complete quartets of Bartók and Shostakovich and, in collaboration with the Orion and Emerson String Quartets, the complete quartets of Beethoven. Regular chamber music collaborators that perform with Pro Arte include Samuel Rhodes, viola; Bonnie Hampton, cello; and Leon Fleischer and Christopher Taylor, piano.
More info here
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Sat16Mar2024
Faculty Recital
7:30pmwith Paul Rowe baritone, Julia Rottmayer soprano, and Martha Fischer piano
featuring works by Scott Gendel and Gilda Lyons
Collins Recital Hall
UW-Madison
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Sun17Mar2024
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
3pmwith Clara Osowski and Andrew Kane
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe
La Crosse, WI
More info here
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Sun21Apr2024
Paradise Lost
3pmFaculty recital with guest colleagues from UW-Madison including:
Dan Cavanagh, piano
Deirdre Brenner, piano
David Perry, violin
Suzanne Beia, violin
Sally Chisholm, viola
Madlen Breckbill, viola
Parry Karp, cello
James Waldo, cello
Kris Saebo, bass
Tony Di Sanza, percussion
Jamie Kember, trombone
Mary Brandenstein, soprano
Liz Olson, soprano
Collins Recital Hall
UW-Madison
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Sun28Apr2024
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Sun05May2024
Reich: Music for 18
with Bang On a Can All-Stars and guests
Long Play Festival
Brooklyn Academy of Music
More info here
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Sat18May2024
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
8pmwith Madison Bach Musicians
Andrew Megill, guest conductor
First Congregational Church
Madison, WI
More info here
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Fri14Jun2024
Handel: La Resurrezione
7:30pmIn a blaze of vocal glory, a star-studded cast is led by Grammy Award-winning soprano Sarah Brailey who portrays Handel’s warrior Angel opposite the “charcoal bass-baritone” (Bachtrack) of Douglas Williams in his Haymarket debut as the fallen angel Lucifer. With “a voice that is theater itself” (Classique News), soprano Hannah De Priest portrays the ever-faithful Mary Magdalene. Scott J. Brunscheen brings his “sweet lyric tenor” (Chicago Tribune) to the eloquent lines of Saint John the Evangelist and mezzo-soprano Quinn Middleman returns to Haymarket with her “dramatic nuance” (Musical America) as the virtuous Mary Cleophas.
Chicago’s virtuosa Rachel Barton Pine joins the acclaimed Haymarket Opera Orchestra as guest concertmaster to perform the work’s demanding violin solos, originally performed by baroque music icon Arcangelo Corelli. Haymarket Founder and Artistic Director Craig Trompeter plays the ornate viola da gamba solos.
Christian Curnyn, joining Haymarket to conduct its acclaimed orchestra of 18th-century period instruments, is widely recognized as one of the leading conductors specializing in the Baroque and Classical repertoire. Curnyn’s Haymarket engagement follows his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. The BBC Music Magazine praised his conducting as “a performance that leaves you savoring every note…and then some!”
Haymarket Opera Company
Chicago, IL
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Mon17Jun2024
Baroque Arias with Camerata del Sol
Beth Wenstrom, guest concertmaster
Las Cruces, NM
More info here
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Tue09Jul2024Fri12Jul2024
Madison Bach Musicians Summer Chamber Music Workshop
Madison Bach Musicians’ Summer Chamber Music Workshop, July 9-12, 2024, offers a unique opportunity for musicians to participate in extensive chamber music playing as well as in informative lectures, technique classes, and large group ensembles. We focus on early music from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods. It is our mission to provide a place where chamber music lovers can come together and work intensely for a week with highly skilled faculty. This summer, we have added new classes including an improvisation class, a conversation with Marilyn MacDonald about early music, and an advanced Viol Consort with Eric Miller, and we continue our popular wind, vocal, baroque, and string ensembles. There will be a special masterclass given by Marilyn McDonald, Oberlin College emeritus professor of violin and baroque violin, on Wednesday, July 10, and our faculty concert will be on Thursday, July 11. Please join us!
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