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  • Sun
    31
    Dec
    2023
    Mon
    01
    Jan
    2024

    Vigil for Peace

    5pm

    Rachmaninoff @ 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

    More info here

     

  • Wed
    17
    Jan
    2024
    Sun
    21
    Jan
    2024

    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

  • Sun
    28
    Jan
    2024

    Schubertiade: The Müllerin Years

    3pm

    Featuring pianists Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes, and guests
    Performing songs, vocal ensembles, and chamber music from the same period as the “Die Schöne Müllerin” cycle

    Tickets 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-Madison

    More info here

  • Sun
    04
    Feb
    2024

    Zemlinsky: Maiblumen blühten überall

    12:30pm

    with Pro Arte Quartet:

    David Perry, Suzanne Beia, Sally Chisholm, Parry Karp

    Chazen Music of Art

    Madison, WI

    More info here

  • Fri
    09
    Feb
    2024

    Zemlinsky: Maiblumen blühten überall

    7:30pm

    Mead 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

  • Sat
    16
    Mar
    2024

    Faculty Recital

    7:30pm

    with Paul Rowe baritone, Julia Rottmayer soprano, and Martha Fischer piano

    featuring works by Scott Gendel and Gilda Lyons

    Collins Recital Hall

    UW-Madison

  • Sun
    17
    Mar
    2024

    Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri

    3pm

    with Clara Osowski and Andrew Kane

    Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe

    La Crosse, WI

    More info here

  • Sun
    21
    Apr
    2024

    Paradise Lost

    3pm

    Faculty 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

  • Sun
    28
    Apr
    2024

    Hagen: Here I Am

    4pm

    with The National Lutheran Choir

    Jennaya Robison, conductor

    More info here

  • Sun
    05
    May
    2024

    Reich: Music for 18

    with Bang On a Can All-Stars and guests

    Long Play Festival

    Brooklyn Academy of Music

    More info here

  • Sat
    18
    May
    2024

    Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610

    8pm

    with Madison Bach Musicians

    Andrew Megill, guest conductor

    First Congregational Church

    Madison, WI

    More info here

  • Fri
    14
    Jun
    2024

    Handel: La Resurrezione

    7:30pm

    In 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

    More info here

  • Mon
    17
    Jun
    2024

    Baroque Arias with Camerata del Sol

    Beth Wenstrom, guest concertmaster 

    Las Cruces, NM

    More info here

  • Tue
    09
    Jul
    2024
    Fri
    12
    Jul
    2024

    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!

    More info here