Performing Arts at Iowa Feed - The University of Iowa

Wolfgang David, Timothy Gill, and David Gompper, trio recital

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:27 -0600

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:49 -0500

By Lydia R. Diamond

Directed by Tisch Jones

An affluent African American family gathers at their Martha’s Vineyard vacation home as two sons plan to introduce their girlfriends to their upper class parents. Instead, they stumble into a domestic powder keg exposing secrets of prejudice, hypocrisy, and adultery. Will confrontations over race, the economy, and politics pull a family together…or tear them apart?

Advisory: This production includes adult language and content, including some sexual situations, strong language, and simulated drug use.

Tickets: $17; $12 senior citizen; $10 youth (up to 17); $5 UI student (with valid ID)

UI Theatre Mainstage tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:43 -0500

By Anton Chekhov

Translation by Curt Columbus

Directed by Eric Forsythe

Chekhov's masterpiece is so true to life it could have been written yesterday, particularly so in this new translation by Curt Columbus. An aristocratic Russian family tries to hold on in challenging economic times; to preserve a way of life amidst the inevitable pressures of "progress." When presented with options to fend off impending foreclosure, can the family rise to the challenge? A dramatic comedy about change, loss, renewal, and folly.

Tickets: $17; $12 senior citizen; $10 youth (up to 17); $5 UI student (with valid ID)

UI Theatre Mainstage tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

University Symphony, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:36 -0500

Richard Strauss--Der Rosenkavalier

Edvard Grieg--Concerto for Piano, op. 16, A minor
Rene Lecuona, piano

Ottorino Respighi--Pines of Rome

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra has been hailed as one of the finest college/university orchestras in the U.S. In addition, this organization is one of the leaders in the premiering and promoting of new literature.

Music Therapy Club recital: Jazz Standard Songs for Voice and Piano

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:20 -0600

Concert Benefits Iowa City Hospice

Katherine Eberle, mezzo soprano and University of Iowa voice students from Eberle’s voice studio along with pianist, Eugene DeLuca, guitarist Matt Logan, Justin LeDuc, drums and Drew Morton, bass will perform a concert of “Jazz Standards” for voice and combo at the University Capitol Center Recital Hall on Sunday February 12, 2012 at 3:00 p.m. Their performance will be a benefit concert for the Hospice of Iowa City sponsored by the UI Music Therapy Club. Admission is free, but a suggested donation of items from a “wish list” is welcome.

The idea came from Professors Mary Adamek and Katherine Eberle who wanted to have their students get more performing experience while giving back to the community. The seventeen singers are embarking on a year-long project of developing various genres of music. In March they will present a concert of Irish Songs as a fund raiser for the Consultation of Religious Communities in Johnson County and last October and November did baroque and sacred music concerts.

“All of my students and have great interest in developing their voices and some are specializing in therapeutic music used in medical settings. I hope to introduce the audience to some well-known and some cherished Jazz repertoire far off the beaten track of the typical art-song recital,” Eberle said. “This music covers the gamut from beautiful ballads to rhythmic rocking dance numbers that allwill enjoy.” Last year we had great success with our concert “Songs of Fun and Foolishness” and this year we thought we would try a different style of music.

For information about the program, call 335-1675 or email k-eberle-fink@uiowa.edu or mary-adamek@uiowa.edu.

Iowa City Hospice Wish List 2012

Office Supplies

Antibacterial wipes
Binder clips (small, medium and large)
Black pens
copy paper
File folders
Garbage bags (Large and small)
Ice melt
Highlighters (Yellow)
Light bulbs (60-100 watt)
Paper towels
Permanent black markers
Post-it notes, all sizes and colors
Steno pads
Toilet paper
Tissues (Puffs or Kleenex brand) - used for bereavement purposes
Ziploc bags

Patient Care Supplies

Items must be unopened, unused and have current dating unless otherwise noted.

Oral Balance® Dry Mouth Moisturizer
Vaseline® Intensive Lip Therapy
Baby lotion and shampoo; lavender, vanilla and/or regular scented
Boost Supplements- any flavor; diabetic and regular needed.
Small pump antibiotic hand soap; any brand.
Kitty Litter; for ecologically safe medication wasting. Any size & brand.
Zipper plastic bags (such as Ziploc®);any size & brand.
Non-skid socks/slippers; any brand, color or size
Baby Monitors; can be used. Any brand.
Portable CD Players; can be used. Any brand
Antibacterial hand gel; any strength/any brand.
Saline eye drops; any brand
Adult incontinence garments- tab or pull-ups
Incontinence pads; male or female
Aquaphillic Lotion
A & D Ointment
Zinc based protective ointment; (Such as Desitin®)
Alcohol free mouthwash; any brand/prefer small bottles.
Distilled Water; 2 gallon jugs
Pill boxes, cutters and crushers; can be used if in good condition
Hot/cold packs; gel or instant
Nail clippers & files
Self adhesive warm packs (such as Thermacare) Any size & brand.
Alcohol swabs & bottle

KUL and ROLL Support Groups for children and youth:

Glue (Small bottles or glue stick)
Crayons/Markers
Construction paper
ribbon fabric Lots of different colored
Gift certificates to Pagliai’s Pizza everyone has pizza, fruit, juice and water together
Capri Sun drinks and bottled water

Iowa New Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:41 -0600

Monday, April 30

2:00 P.M. Staged Reading: Free the ABC by Bonnie Metzgar (Room 172)

5:30 P.M. Staged Reading: Champagne Gods by Emily Dendinger (Room 172)

Tuesday, May 1

2:00 P.M. Staged Reading: The Star Play by Bella Poynton (Room 172)

5:30 P.M.

& 9:00 P.M. Production: All That Shines by Basil Kreimendahl, Directed by Matt Hawkins (David Thayer Theatre)

Wednesday, May 2

2:00 P.M. Staged Readings: Dust and Ash by Lisa Meyers

Here Lies. ... : A Meditation by Micah Ariel James (Room 172)

5:30 P.M.

& 9:00 P.M. Production: The Man in the Sukkah by Deborah Yarchun, Directed by Nathan Halvorson (Theatre B)

Thursday, May 3

2:00 P.M. Readings from the Undergraduate Playwriting Workshop (Place TBA)

5:30 P.M.

& 9:00 P.M. Workshop Performance: The Zine of Grrrl by Louisa Hill, Directed by Patrick Reynolds (Room 172)

Friday May 4

2:00 P.M. Staged Reading: The Steve Plays by Amy Schleunes (Room 172)

5:30

& 9:00 P.M. Production: Ondine by Katharine Sherman, Directed by David Hanzal (David Thayer Theatre)

Saturday May 5

5:30 P.M.

& 9:00 P.M. Production: Collective Amnesia: A Study of Episodic Memory by Janet Schlapkohl, Directed by Kristin Clippard (Theatre B)

TICKETS

Productions: $5 for Non-Students, free for UI Students (with valid ID)

All Workshops and Staged Readings are free and open to the public.

Festival Box Office Hours: Monday, April 30 - Friday, May 4

12:00 (noon) to 1:30pm and one hour prior to each performance

UI Theatre Building, 200 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City

Persons with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you need assistance in order to participate in this program, please call 319-335-2700.

Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Winter Concert

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:20 -0500

The University of Iowa Youth Ballet will perform its winter concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, in the Space Place Theater of North Hall on the UI campus.

The young dancers in the UI Department of Dance's community program will perform ballet works choreographed by Youth Ballet director Jason Schadt and Dance Forum director Kathryn Smith, and faculty members Ashley Herrington, Peggy Mead-Finizio, Mareva Minerbi, and Steven Gray.

The program includes excerpts from "The Nutcracker," a work set to the new CD by pianist Dan Knight, a ballet based on a folk dance, a seasonal piece titled "First Snow," and a contemporary ballet.

Learn more about the UI Youth Ballet at http://dance.uiowa.edu/youth.

Admission is $12, $6 for senior citizen and youth, and $5 for UI student with a valid UI ID. Tickets are available in advance from the Hancher box office, 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets through Dec. 16. Remaining tickets will be on sale at the door one hour before each performance.

"Beyond the Ingenue," Niffer Clarke, soprano and Richard Carsey, piano

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:28 -0600

The University of Iowa School of Music will host a free performance of Beyond the Ingenue: Julie Andrews, Shirley Jones, Barbara Cook and Me, produced by the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.

Featuring soprano Niffer Clarke and pianist/music director Richard Carsey Beyond the Ingenue was stage directed by Bill Theisen, who has been the guest director for several UI opera productions.

The production pays homage to the golden-voiced sopranos Niffer Clarke grew up idolizing, captures the essence of Julie Andrews, Shirley Jones, and Barbara Cook, who endowed the ingénue –- the "girl-next-door" –- with wit, spine, and spirit. As their careers progressed, they also reinvented themselves, and their journeys have inspired Clarke on her own voyage of self-discovery and revelation.

The music is augmented by entertaining stories, personal anecdotes, and impressions from both Clarke and Carsey. Clarke says it is a story "about giving ourselves permission to move beyond roles that are set for us, to break free of society's set expectations, and live in the truth of who we are rather than who we think we should be."

Andrews, Cook, and Jones were considered ingénues but it is their unconventional approach to their roles with which Clarke identifies.

The show includes "I Could Have Danced All Night", "I Have Confidence," "The Sweetest Sounds" and other well-known songs, along with the debut of "Beyond the Ingénue" written for Clarke by Tony-nominated Broadway composer Jeff Blumenkrantz.

Beyond the Ingénue began in 2009 as a CD project while Clarke was touring with the Hollywood Concert Orchestra's "A Night at the Oscars" featuring Shirley Jones. Clarke created a concert version of the CD for a performance in her hometown of Canton, Ohio, leading to the Skylight Opera's expanded version."

Clarke's Skylight credits include Marian in The Music Man, Daisy in Adding Machine, Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Patience in Patience, and Anna Held in Tintypes. Her many other credits include Off-Broadway productions, regional theaters, Walt Disney Pictures' Meet the Robinsons, Angel of Death on the Discovery Channel, concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, recordings.

Carsey is a conductor, arranger, pianist, and actor. He provided music coaching for the recent Broadway production of House of Blue Leaves starring Ben Stiller and Edie Falco, was music supervisor for Josh Schmidt's A Minister's Wife at Lincoln Center Theater and conducted the cast recording. In 2010 he was music director for the first national tour of the new musical Little House on the Prairie, starring Melissa Gilbert, and for eight seasons he was the artistic director of Skylight Opera Theatre.

The School of Music is an academic unit of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Tricia Park, violin and Scott Dunn, piano

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:20 -0500

Violinist Tricia Park and pianist/conductor Scott Dunn will present a free performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, in the University of Iowa Riverside Recital Hall.

The program of works by Stravinsky, Gershwin, and Vernon Duke will in part preview the duo's March 28, 2012, performance of Duke's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with the UI Symphony.

The works on the program are Stravinsky's Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss," the Heifetz-arranged Selections from "Porgy and Bess," and the violin/piano reduction of the 1941 Duke concerto. The March performance will mark the first time since 1944 that this major work will be heard in its symphonic form.

Duke, who is best known as the composer of standards including "April in Paris" and "Autumn in New York," was also a composer of concert music including the concerto, which was written at the request of Jascha Heifetz.

Park was first violinist of the UI Maia String Quartet 2005-2011. UI Distinguished Alumnus Dunn, associate conductor of the L.A .Philharmonic's Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is a long-time promoter of Duke's music.

Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:19 -0600

Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper

Alan E. Hicks, director
William LaRue Jones, conductor

Do you believe in ghosts?

A governess arrives at a lonely English country house to care for two parentless children and something is very, very wrong. Wire-taught tension mounts as she gradually senses the truth....Evil has corrupted the children and she must fight it. This powerful and disturbing opera is based on the novel of the same name by Henry James: a tale of good versus evil, natural versus the supernatural, possession and exorcism. This haunting ghost story will have you on the edge of your seat.

Tickets

General admission is $20 per ticket
Seniors $15
Youth tickets $10
UI student tickets $5.00 (with valid student ID)

Tickets available at the Englert Theatre Box Office.

Honor Choir concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:20 -0600

Dance Thesis Concert

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:29:05 -0500

Rebecca Chun and Melinda Myers, Master of Fine Arts candidates in the University of Iowa Department of Dance, will present their thesis works in a shared concert at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, March 29-31, in the Space Place Theatre of North Hall.

Tickets: $12; $6 for senior citizens and youth, FREE for UI students (with valid ID). Tickets available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets.

Chun’s work, Americana: the Routes of our Roots, is about the choices, migrations, and expectations of Americans. It incorporates movement, music, and oral history to tell the stories of a patriot in the Revolutionary War; a man who immigrated from Mexico to work in a factory in Iowa; and a family who made their way north in the Great Migration.

Myers’ GREEN ROOMS explores the boundary between performance and its preparation and is a candid portrait of performers in their transformation from off-stage to onstage. Performers know that the details and sometimes toil that go into the production of a work typically remain unseen by the audience. Myers and cast share this irony with the audience through dramatic and humorous vignettes including an earnest story of major surgery told with unconvincing optimism, a heart-sinking audition scene, and the vices of a beautiful singer before she “goes on.”

Tickets, available in advance from the Hancher Box Office are $12, $6 for seniors/youth, and free for UI students with a valid UI ID. Any remaining tickets will be available for sale one hour before show time at Space Place Theater. North Hall is located at the north end of Madison Street on the UI campus. It is accessible from both Madison Street and the T. Anne Cleary Walkway. Parking is available in the North Campus Parking Ramp.

Bertrand Coullier, harpsichord

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:42 -0500

Born in 1978, Bertrand Cuiller studied the harpsichord with Jocelyne Cuiller in Nantes, then Christophe Rousset at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) in Paris, and Pierre Hantaï, with whom he worked for several years. He also plays the Baroque horn.

He has taken part in operatic productions with Le Concert Spirituel, Les Arts Florissants, Le Poème Harmonique, and Stradivaria.

Today Bertrand Cuiller appears all over the world as a soloist and in chamber music with Les Basses Réunies and La Rêveuse. He also takes an interest in contemporary music, and has premiered works by Jean-Yves Bosseur and Olivier Mellano.

Encouraged by the success in 2006 of his first disc, Pescodd Time, he went on to make a second recording on the Alpha label devoted to works by Scarlatti and Soler, followed by Bach harpsichord concertos with Stradivaria, released on Mirare, which was voted ‘Choc’ of the year 2009 by Classica. His new one, "Mr Tomkins his Lessons of Worthe", awarded a Diapason d’Or and Classica's ‘Choc’.

‘Like only a very few harpsichordists of his generation, Bertrand Cuiller possesses in the highest degree the ability to give musical ideas their most accomplished form.’ Diapason

Jupiter String Quartet

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:35 -0500

This program will feature Mozart's K. 428 quartet, the second quartet by Prokofiev and the String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, by Beethoven.

The Jupiters have been fortunate to receive several recent chamber music honors, including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competion, membership in Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, and Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, which “honors and promotes a rising young string quartet whose artistry demonstrates that it is in the process of establishing a major career.” The quartet also won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International auditions and now holds YCA’s Helen F. Whitaker Chamber Music Chair. Most recently, they were honored to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

The quartet concertizes across the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and South America. They have enjoyed playing in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, and Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Corcoran Gallery, and Library of Congress. Other recent concerts include debuts in Albuquerque, Austin, Birmingham, Boulder, Buffalo, Calgary, Chicago, Cincinnati, Davis, Dayton, Detroit, Edmonton, Jacksonville, Joplin, Palo Alto, Raleigh-Durham, San Antonio, San Diego, Tallahassee, Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg, among others. They have also been enthusiastically received at several major music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Caramoor International Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Honest Brook Festival, the Skaneateles Festival, and the Yellow Barn Music Festival.

Clarinet Studio recital

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:10:55 -0500

University Symphony, William LaRue Jones, conductor and University Choir

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:14 -0500

The University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra and combined choirs, under the direction of Timothy Stalter, will perform two religious works, Joseph Haydn's Mass in C and Francis Poulenc's Gloria, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

The performance is free and open to the public.

The Haydn Mass, which was premiered on Dec. 26, 1796, was composed in the period that also produced Haydn's popular oratorio "The Creation," to which the mass setting bears many musical similarities. The celebrated Poulenc choral work is in six parts and is scored for a large orchestra, soprano soloist, and chorus. It was premiered by the Boston Symphony two years before the composer's death in 1963.

The School of Music is a unit of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Holiday Tubas -- Collegium Tubum

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:44:10 -0600

Musicians from the University of Iowa School of Music and the community will gather for the annual Holiday Tubas celebration at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, on the steps of the Old Capitol on the UI Pentacrest. The UI Collegium Tubum will continue its tradition of collecting new, unwrapped gifts for Toys for Tots.

All tuba and euphonium plays are invited to participate, and this year the Collegium Tubum director John Manning has made a special pitch to members of the Hawkeye Marching Band to become Holiday Tubas.

Last year, the tubas premiered a "Silent Night" arrangement by euphonium student Steve Neilssen, and this year's performance of the arrangement will be dedicated to Gene Wibben, long-time tubist with the Des Moines Symphony, and Mel Culbertson, professor of tuba at the National Superior Conservatory in Lyon, France.

The popularity of Collegium Tubum continues to grow. This fall, the group has performed at the Cedar Rapids Czech Village Fall Festival, in the Amana Colonies' Oktoberfest, as Spooky Tubas at the Coralville Public Library, and during the Herbert Hoover Museum's tree-lighting ceremony.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:18:52 -0600

A powerful, radically-condensed (under 2 hours) version of Hamlet like you’ve never experienced. From an audience viewpoint you’ve never imagined. In a time period we can all relate to.

Possibly the most influential tragedy in the English language. Minimally staged and designed to draw you inside the heads and hearts of Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, Polonious, and Laertes as you accompany them through their epic struggles with treachery, revenge, love, and moral corruption.

Tickets are $17 general admission; $12 senior citizen; $10 youth (up to 17); $5 UI student (with valid ID)

UI Theatre Mainstage tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

Ask about our "groundling" tickets. Availability is limited.

See the UI Press Release at: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/november/112211Hamlet.html

Dance Department Collaborative Performance

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0500

Collaborative Performance: Tales of Mortals, Gods, and the Things They Do

The University of Iowa Division of Performing Arts will present a Collaborative Performance, “Tales of Mortals, Gods, and the Things They Do”, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, December 1-3 in the Space Place Theatre of North Hall.

The evening-length production was developed in the division's Collaborative Performance class in the Department of Dance, through which students in several arts disciplines work together in the creation of new work.

This year’s collaboration sets out to explore the origins of contemporary storytelling through mythologies. Tales of Mortals, Gods and the Things They Do, ventures into the realm of communication through dance, theater and film in an attempt NOT to reiterate the stories, but to illustrate the wonderful ways in which we understand them. We encourage everyone to join in on the odyssey to further understand the universality of the myth. Be prepared to wander the gallery-style installation space and interact with the performers. Limited seating will be available for those that require it. These myths contain the use of strobe lights, haze and adult content.

Tickets: $12; $6 for senior citizen and youth, FREE for UI students (with valid ID). All UI Dance tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets.

The Collaborative Performance class is led by UI Dance faculty member Deanna Carter.

AUDIENCE ADVISORY

This production contains adult content, images of partial nudity, and the use of strobe lights.

Chamber Orchestra and All University String Orchestra

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0500

The University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra and the All-University Orchestra, with graduate-student conductors Chun-Ming Chen, Hyeyoun Jang, Kira Horel, and Michael Wright, will present a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The performance will feature "Los Esclavos Felices" Overture by Juan C. Arriaga, a child prodigy who was known as the "Spanish Mozart" after his early death; "Die natali: Silent Night" by Samuel Barber; the Introduction, March, and Shepherds’ Dance from "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti; and "Peter and the Wolf," op. 67, by Sergei Prokofiev, featuring narrator John Muriello, a member of the School of Music voice faculty.

Prokofiev wrote both the music and the text for the picturesque children's story "Peter and the Wolf," which he composed in just four days in 1936, through a commission by the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow. The work is not only frequently performed -- often with celebrity narrators -- but has also been recorded dozens of times, with narrators including Arthur Godfrey, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Leonard Bernstein, Christopher Lee, John Gielgud, Peter Ustinov, Sterling Holloway, Lorne Greene, Alec Guinness, Jonathan Winters, Patrick Stewart, Ben Kingsley, Carol Channing, Sting, William F. Buckley Jr., and Captain Kangaroo.

University Symphony, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:41 -0600

For the first time in nearly 70 years, the Concerto for Violin by Vernon Duke will be performed in orchestral form, thanks to the affinity of University of Iowa School of Music Distinguished Alumnus Scott Dunn.

Dunn, associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, will conduct the UI Symphony Orchestra and soloist Tricia Park in this rare performance (the first of its kind since 1944) at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union.

"I've long been interested in music that lies in the intersection between so-called 'classical' or concert music and pop music—so called 'crossover' music and 'crossover' composers," Dunn says. "Vernon Duke, one of Gershwin's best friends, started life as a proper classical composer but Gershwin convinced him to change his name from Vladimir Dukelskyand to try his hand at popular songwriting and working in musical theater."

Duke embarked on a highly successful career composing songs and incidental music for Broadway and Hollywood, including Autumn in New York, April in Paris, I Can’t Get Started, Cabin in the Sky, and The Ziegfeld Follies. His works—part of the Great American Songbook—have been performed and recorded by artists including Tony Bennett, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, and Thelonious Monk.

But throughout his songwriting success, Duke also continued to write "serious" music, which was championed during his life by Serge Koussevitsky and Sergei Prokofiev, but was ignored for decades before Dunn made it a personal cause.

"I first became aware of Duke through composer friends, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and film composer Leonard Rosenman," Dunn explains. "Bennett gave me the un-orchestrated Piano Concerto in C to look at, which I eventually orchestrated and played at Carnegie Hall in 1999. And even prior to that—out in L.A., through Rosenman—I became friends with Duke's widow, Kay Duke Ingalls.

"Last fall when we resurrected Duke's End of St. Petersburg oratorio, along with the piano concerto Dedicases and Epitaph cantata for the Diaghilev festival in St. Petersburg, Kay came to Russia and attended all the rehearsals, concerts, and symposia."

To prepare for the March 28 performance, Dunn and Park, first violinist of the Maia Quartet from 2005-2011, performed a piano reduction of the 1941 violin concerto in a Dec. 16, 2011, event in Riverside Recital Hall.

"I first met Tricia when she was still on faculty here at the UI. We collaborated on a recital as part of a series of appearances I was doing here in conjunction with my 2010 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. We became instant musical 'soul mates' and are very close personal friends as well. She is an amazing person and a spectacular player.

"Tricia and I are planning to record an album of arrangements of Gershwin (by Heifetz) and of Vernon Duke songs (arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett). It's music we both really love. Longer term, it would be wonderful to get the violin concerto recorded—talks are going on about that right now."

The free March 28 concert will also feature 19th-century American composer George Frederick Bristow’s Rip Van Winkle Overture, conducted by graduate student Kira Horel, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique), conducted by William LaRue Jones, director of the UI Symphony.

Iowa Brass Quintet

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:32 -0600

Graduate/Undergraduate Dance Concert

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:19 -0500

Tickets: $12; $6 for senior citizen and youth, UI students FREE (with valid ID). All UI Dance tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets.

Voxman Celebration

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:41 -0600

The University of Iowa will host a special Himie Voxman Celebration at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, in the Main Lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union. Colleagues, friends, and students of the long-time director of the School of Music, will travel from near and far to pay tribute to Voxman, whose hundreds of publications made him famous among wind players the world over.

The legendary educator, administrator, pedagogue and clarinetist died in Iowa City in November 2011 at the age of 99.

Among his students who will speak and perform are:

—Bob Glidden former dean of the Florida State College of Music and president of Ohio University.

—Larry Mallett, director of the University of Oklahoma School of Music.

—Internationally famous saxophone virtuoso Eugene Rousseau, professor emeritus at Indiana University, and now professor of saxophone at the University of Minnesota.

—Larry Linkin, past president of the National Association of Music Merchants.

—Charles W. West, professor of clarinet at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Helen Chadima, a Department of Dance emerita and longtime friend of Voxman, will also speak. They shared a hometown, Centerville, Iowa, and her father, William Gower, was a long-time collaborator with Voxman on hundreds of important pedagogical publications.

Read about Voxman’s remarkable life and career, and the Himie Voxman Scholarship Fund here.

For additional information or accommodations for this event, contact the school at 319-335-1603. The School of Music is a unit of the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The UI Alumni Association is sponsoring this celebration. Though free and open to the public, registration is preferred. To register in advance, visit iowalum.com/voxman/.

The Last Flight by Levi Smith

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:43 -0500

Dr. Faustus

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:26 -0600

Uwe Kliendienst, trumpet; Gregory Hand, harpsichord; David Hempel, oboe and Todd Schendel, sackbut

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:41 -0500

After specializing on the piccolo trumpet (with solo parts in Bach's Christmas Oratorio, B Minor Mass, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2) at a very early age, Mr. Kleindienst earned an international reputation, and won, at the age of 23, the position of Principal Trumpet with the Rheinische Philharmonie (Koblenz). In 1989 Music Director Wolfgang Sawallisch appointed Mr. Kleindienst to the position of Principal Trumpet with the Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich, Germany. In 2000 he was appointed as a tenured professor of trumpet at the Musikhochschule Nürnberg-Augsburg. Prior to this appointment, he was awarded the title "Bavarian Chamber Virtuoso” by Music Director Zubin Mehta. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Trumpet at the newly founded Leopold Mozart Center for Music at the University of Augsburg.

"Dreaming in Colours," Benjamin Coelho, bassoon and Alan Huckleberry, piano

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:31:41 -0600

Tony and Friends V

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:35 -0500

"Tony and Friends V," a free concert featuring University of Iowa faculty cellist Anthony Arnone and six other musicians, will open the 2011-12 performance season of the UI School of Music. The program -- one in a series of "Tony and Friends" chamber-music events -- will be W.A. Mozart's Piano Quartet in E Flat, Anton Webern's "Langsamersatz" and the Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60, by Johannes Brahms.

Arnone will be joined by violinists Suzanne Beia and Katherine Wolfe; violists Christine Rutledge, Elizabeth Oakes and Kate Hamilton; and pianist Elizabeth DeMio.

Biographies of UI School of Music faculty members Arnone, Wolfe, Rutledge and Oakes are accessible at http://www.uiowa.edu/~music//faculty_staff/alphabet.shtml.

Karen Kanakis, soprano; Jacob Lassetter, baritone; Steven Marc Weiss, narrator and Joseph Dangerfield, piano

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:35 -0500

Opera Scenes

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:18 -0500

Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Winter Concert

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:20 -0500

Nicole Esposito, flute and Michel Bellavance, flute

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:19:23 -0500

Women's Chorale, Timothy Stalter, director

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:38 -0500

Euridice by Jacobi Peri

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:40 -0500

Maia Quartet with Assaff Weisman, piano

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:41 -0500

Join the University and Eastern Iowa community as our beloved Quartet In Residence performs its last CLAS-sponsored recital. This event is free and open to the public. Following the concert, all are invited to a reception to celebrate the Maia's long association with the University of Iowa.

Tricia Park, violin
Robin Sharp, guest violin
Elizabeth Oakes, viola
Hannah Holman, cello
Assaff Weisman, guest piano

Program:
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Dvorak: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major

Violinist Robin Sharp, a native of California, is a solo performer, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher. In addition to maintaining private teaching studios in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Ms. Sharp performs as concertmaster of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra with conductor Benjamin Simon, and is on the music faculty at Stanford University as full-time Lecturer in Violin. Ms. Sharp also served as concertmaster for the Berkeley Symphony with conductor Kent Nagano for six seasons, and was a guest concertmaster for a concert in Germany under conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. She is currently on the Artistic Advisory Board of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and is also on the faculty of California Summer Music.

Assaff Weisman’s performances have taken him to some of the major venues in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. These include appearances at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Philips Hall in The Hague, the Millennium Piano Festival in Spain as well as in Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. As first prize winner in the 2006 Iowa International Piano Competition he has appeared as soloist with the Sioux City Symphony, American Chamber Orchestra, Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra, Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra as well as the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Peru.

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:46:57 -0500

Since 1981, The University of Iowa Department of Dance has been proud to present exceptional, provocative and daring choreography from some of the finest choreographers of our time through our annual Dance Gala celebration. This year we celebrate collaboration and innovation in dance by welcoming world renowned pioneers in choreography and music.

Dance Gala 2011 will include choreography by Trisha Brown and Hubbard Street 2, as well as two world premiere musical compositions by The JACK Quartet with Payton McDonald and composers/musicians John Manning and Erin Vang.

Set and Reset/Reset, original choreography by Trisha Brown

One of our special guest choreographers is post-modern dance pioneer and legend Trisha Brown. The Trisha Brown Dance Company premiered Set and Reset in 1983 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It is the Company’s signature work and confirmed Trisha Brown as a leader of abstract choreography. For the creation of Set and Reset/Reset, the performers are an integral part of both the creative process and the end result. Former Trisha Brown Dance Company member Melinda Myers, now a second year MFA student at UI, taught the UI Dance performers exact sequences from the original choreography and later guided them in an extensive improvisation process using the very same set of instructions that Brown gave to her Company in 1983: keep it simple, act on instinct, stay on the edge, work with visibility and invisibility, and get in line. Set and Reset/Reset is a combination of the original choreography and the students’ original choreography.

Costume design is by UI costume designer Margaret Wenk, based on the original design by Robert Rauschenberg for the 1983 premiere. As envisioned by Rauschenberg, Gabby McNally has assembled a video collage inspired by the original work, the dancers, and their collaboration. The piece also features an outstanding score by performance artist and composer Laurie Anderson.

Link: http://www.trishabrowncompany.org/

The JACK Quartet with Payton MacDonald world premiere Tongues in Trees

For UI Dance faculty choreographer Alan Sener’s world premier of Tongues in Trees, composer and percussionist Payton MacDonald composed the original score for The JACK Quartet, featuring MacDonald on percussion. This all new world premiere dance and music collaboration will include the musicians performing live for the first weekend of the run (October 27-30) with a recorded version for the November 3-6 performances.

Payton MacDonald explains the origin of the new collaborative work:

I composed Tongues in Trees for The JACK Quartet and myself on percussion on commission from the University of Iowa Division of Performing Arts. Alan Sener and I had several conversations about the direction of the project. We settled on the idea of a two-movement work that would explore the differences between a mechanized experience with movement and music, and a more organic, fluid, natural experience. The percussion part for the first movement of Tongues in Trees is scored for drum set and the music is very pattern-based. It’s a mechanized sound world, heavily influenced by computer music, and by man-made things in general. And it’s fast. The second movement is slower and more contemplative, with a prism of colors and melodies. It reflects my experiences as a trail runner and hiker, and gives the dancers a chance to explore more fluid physical movement.

Payton MacDonald is a composer/improviser/percussionist. He has created a unique body of work that draws upon his extensive experience with East Indian tabla drumming, American military rudimental drumming, Jazz, European classical music, and the American experimental tradition. He works across multiple musical genres, often at the same time. MacDonald studied music at the University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music. MacDonald is an Associate Professor of Music at William Paterson University.

The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide and has performed to critical acclaim at Wigmore Hall (London), Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims (France), Ultraschall Festival für Neue Musik (Germany), and across Europe and North America, as well as The Library of Congress and Carnegie Hall. The Quartet performs at the SONiC Festival as hosts of the Extended Play Marathon at venues across North America and Europe. Throughout 2012-2014, The JACK Quartet will join legendary pianist Maurizio Pollini as a part of his Perspectives series with performances at the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Suntory Hall (Japan), Cité de la Musique (France), Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Germany), and Teatro alla Scala (Italy). Additionally this year, JACK will be the featured ensemble for the 2012 Finale National Composition Contest in partnership with MakeMusic and the American Composers Forum. Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Kevin McFarland, The JACK Quartet is focused on the commissioning and performance of new works, leading them to work closely with composers Helmut Lachenmann, György Kurtág, Matthias Pintscher, Georg Friedrich Haas, James Dillon, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Sharp, Beat Furrer, Caleb Burhans, and Aaron Cassidy.

Thanks to David Gompper of the UI School of Music for his inspired idea to invite The JACK Quartet to Iowa City and to meld them with the Department of Dance.

Links: http://www.paytonmacdonald.com/index.htm

http://www.jackquartet.com/

Hubbard Street 2 and award-winning choreographer Clebio Oliveira share new work for UI

The UI Department of Dance has had the great opportunity this year to work directly with Hancher Auditorium and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Thanks to the innovative thinking of Hancher’s Chuck Swanson, UI Dance was able to invite Hubbard Street 2 for a residency in which a new work was choreographed by Clebio Oliveira, winner of the 2010 Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition. This is the first time the residency has taken place outside of Chicago. Choreographer Oliveira and Hubbard Street 2 members in the residency have trained UI dancers to perform the new work, titled: “The fantastic escape of a little buffalo” which was premiered by Hubbard Street 2 at our own Space Place Theater in September 2011.

Clebio Oliveira began his dance training by studying folk dance in Natal (the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Note). He later graduated at the Rio de Janeiro State University as a dancer, choreographer and contemporary dance teacher. Before joining Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker in 2004, Clebio worked with several Brazilian choreographers such as Regina Miranda and Carlota Portella. He has also choreographed for Companhia Vacilou Dançou among others. In 1999 Clebio won the Rio Arte Award as Best Dancer of the Year. In 2001 and 2002 he won the award for Best Choreographer in the Rio Dance Festival.

Link: http://www.hubbardstreetdance.com

John Manning and Erin Vang play “Catch” for Charlotte Adams’ world premiere piece

Catch, a new work by UI Dance faculty choreographer Charlotte Adams is created in collaboration with musician/composers John Manning (Associate Professor of Music at UI and founding member of the Atlantic Brass Quintet) and Erin Vang (freelance orchestral horn player from Oakland, CA and owner of the consulting firm Global Pragmatica LLC.) Catch is the second project conceived among three, having presented Tuba or Not Tuba at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles in 2010. Additionally, ten inventive UI dancers collaborated with Adams in rehearsals, exploring and manipulating the movement themes. The piece, conceived between Tucson, Iowa City and the Bay Area, begins at The End and travels back through memory to The Beginning. The dancers embody the stillness of absence, tear backwards through space, banter to honky tonk piano, and joyously fling themselves into each other's grasp, evoking relationships over time. Accompanied live by Manning on tuba and Vang on French horn and piano, the music ranges from the mournful Israeli Kaddish, to the rhythms of New Orleans jazz, to the sweetness of a lullaby. This collaborative project was made possible with support by The Division of Performing Arts grant program: “Arts Across Borders” and by The UI Department of Dance.

…And More

Dance Gala 2011 also includes pieces by acclaimed UI faculty choreographers Eloy Barragan and Deanna Carter.

Dedication

The Department of Dance would like to dedicate Dance Gala 2011 to Dean Linda Maxson, Dean of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, who is retiring in 2012.

Yet More Info

Read the UI Press Release here

Tickets

Dance Gala continues to sell out year after year, so order your tickets early!

Tickets: $20; $15 senior citizen; $10 youth (up to 17); $5 UI student (with valid ID)

$100 Patron Ticket (includes an $80 contribution to the UI Department of Dance through the UI Foundation)

Dance Gala 2011 tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

The Iowa City Press-Citizen is the proud media sponsor of Dance Gala 2011

Band Extravaganza

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:42 -0500

The top bands of the University of Iowa School of Music will take center stage with the annual Band Extravaganza at 7:30 p.m . Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Carver Hawkeye Arena. This beloved Iowa tradition is a popular showcase for the Johnson County Landmark (JCL) jazz band, the Symphony Band, and the Hawkeye Marching Band.

Under the direction of John Rapson, JCL will perform "Blues Almighty" by Ken Schaphorst; "Catch Me If You Can" by Wil Swindler; Rapson's "Legacy of Lyons, featuring New York saxophonist Dave Pietro as special guest; and Pietro's "Juba." Visit http://davepietro.com to learn more about Pietra, who has performed and recorded with artists including the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Paul Anka, Blood Sweat & Tears, Ray Charles, Chaka Khan, and Liza Minnelli.

The Symphony Band will play "American Salute" by Morton Gould, "Semper Fidelis" by John Philip Sousa, and the Overture to "The Cowboys" by John Williams.

The extravaganza will culminate with highlights from the 2011 marching season by the Hawkeye Marching Band, directed by Kevin Kastens and featuring Hawkeye Golden Girl Chelsea Russell, drum major Joe Piasecki, and the Iowa Spirit Squads. Herky will be available for photos.

Band Extravaganza admission is $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Tickets are available in advance from the Hancher box office in Old Capitol Town Centre, 319-335-1160, 800-HANCHER or online http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets.html.

For more information on the University Bands, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/ensembles/band/.

Percussion Ensemble, Dan Moore, director

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:41 -0500

The University of Minnesota presents: Balkanicus

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:36 -0500

The University of Iowa Center for New Music will host a free concert by the Balkanicus Ensemble with cellist Nickolai Kolarov, performing contemporary music from Bulgaria. The program will feature chamber works by Dragomir Yossifov, Vassil Kazadjiev, Ivan Spassov, Lubomir and Denev.

The Balkanicus Ensemble is based in the Twin Cities area, where its members teach at the University of Minnesota, Augsburg College, the Minnesota Valley Conservatory and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Kolarov, a prizewinner in the Bulgarian National Competition in 1988, graduated from the Bulgarian State Academy of Music in Sofia and received his master's degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Tanya Remenikova, a student of Mstislav Rostropovich. He delivers lectures on Balkan music in colleges and schools throughout Minnesota and the United States.

For more information on this and other Center for New Music events, please visit www.uiowa.edu/~cnm.

Dance Alumni Event

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:06:44 -0500

This event is FREE and open to all. No tickets required.

Join us in this culmination of UI Dance Alumni Week as we enjoy and celebrate specially selected works by UI Dance alums. Experience some of the most popular works currently being choreographed and performed by UI Dance alums across the country. Some of the pieces to be performed include:

Elizabeth June Bergman (MFA 2009) “St. Vitus Dance” is a movement meditation on exercise, exorcisms, and the shifting experiences of consciousness that result from extreme physicality.
Jacqueline Stewart (BFA 2007) “Kick-Stand” is an excerpt from a full-length concert “Dance Gallery” created and produced by Jacqueline that premiered July 2011. The specific excerpt is the second section of a female duet exploring an ambiguous and abstract relationship of support and betrayal through its decomposition of civilized human interaction.
Vladimir Conde Reche (MFA 2008) "Imã" uses the idea of separation and union as a metaphor/point of departure for movement invention and visual imagery. This is his first choreographic work after participating in a summer intensive in Israel, where he worked directly with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company dancers deepening his knowledge and understanding of Naharin’s Gaga technique.
Nicole Morford (BFA 2007) will present "P.S.A." An exuberant, wacky trio celebrates self-liberation and confronts audiences in a provocative, tongue-in-cheek way.
Ellie Goudie-Averill (MFA 2007) "Convictions" (2010) & "Platform" (in progress, premiere). "Convictions" premiered during the 2010 Philly Fringe Festival. Concerned with body language of posture and gesture, the solo explores how personality is read through posturing and how our postural modes change depending on how we wish to be perceived by those around us. Much of the movement material is derived based on Ellie's experience of being a woman from the Midwest, taught to effuse, apologize and placate with her body language, and later learning to steel herself against criticism about her sexuality and belief systems. "Platform" takes these explorations into a more public sphere. As we approach another election year, what we respect as a culture in terms of body language is of particular interest to Ellie. How do we want our leaders to hold themselves, what do we respect in terms of posture/posturing? "Platform" is about the expressions of strong beliefs and opinions through the body.
Analia Alegre-Fermenias (MFA 2008) "The Truth About Almonds" is a dark comedy, with numerous balloons representing the almond shaped organ of the amygdala (the most important organ of emotion in the brain). The emotionally charged work unravels the dancer's ordeal of apathy, unlike her cellist who can feel everything and invites her to try to do the same as well. This solo (duet) investigates a lack of emotion in society and wishes to leave its audience with the hope that change is possible.
Amy Lynne Barr (MFA 2011) "The Toss Away(s)" is a new solo that tests the physical stamina of the dancer, along with addressing how text and music play with how the audience may be seeing and interpreting the choreography.
Joanna Rosenthal Read (MFA 2008) "It is What it Is" (Work in Progress) takes the pervasive American idiom “it is what it is,” used to explain the unexplainable, as a jumping-off point to explore the concept of frustrated acceptance in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. In exploring this concept and its implications for today’s working artist, Rosenthal invokes the era of Vaudeville as her stylistic tool for approach. Through research on Vaudeville and the artists that participated in this lucrative but short-lived genre, she poses a dichotomy between “artist” and “entertainer” that questions the values of both. “From rejection, shortage in funding, politics, self criticism, tremendous financial and personal sacrifice, I ask myself when is enough, enough?” she shared of her creative process. Asking the same questions that undoubtedly many Vaudevillians posed to themselves, Rosenthal crafts a sophisticated and nuanced work full of historic references but decidedly contemporary in feel that examines the lines that every artist must face and, ultimately, choose whether to cross.
Jennifer Medina (MFA 2002) "Women of the Cove" is inspired by the tradition of midwives, known as the "angels of the cove", that served as the primary medical care givers of the Cades Cove community in the Great Smokey Mountains. They tended to the infirm and delivered (and lost) many young children in this pioneer community.

The Orchid Ensemble

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:37 -0500

The Orchid Ensemble--Lan Tung, Yu-Chen Wang and Jonathan Bernard--represents a musical genre based on the cultural exchange between Western and Asian musicians, which flourishes in Vancouver. The ensemble regularly collaborates with musicians from a wide variety of world cultures and actively commissions new works from Canadian and U.S. composers for its unique instrumentation -- erhu (fiddle), zheng (zither) and marimba/percussion. The percussion instruments include hand drums from various cultures, temple bowls, bells, gongs, cymbals and wood blocks.

The recital will range from an interpretation of a Bengal folk song, an arrangement of an Ashkenazi sacred song, and a piece reflecting the maqam tradition from the Middle East and Central Asia, as well as music from Chinese traditions.

For more information on this and other Center for New Music events, please visit www.uiowa.edu/~cnm.

Dance Thesis Concert

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:51:07 -0500

Undergraduate Dance Concert

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:15:47 -0500

Direct from Chennai, India by way of the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival, Madhavapeddy Murthy brings his troupe of dancers and orchestra for an evening of Indian Classical Dance and Music.

Madhavapeddi Murthy is the son of the veteran playback singer, Madhavepeddi Sathyam and a senior disciple of the respected dance Guru Dr. Vempati Chinna Satyam, Murthy has traveled and performed in all major dance festivals in India and all over the world. Noteworthy among them are his performances at Taj Mahotsav, Hampi Utsav, Khajuraho festival, Puri Beach festival,Rajgirh Mahotsav and his dance tours of the United States, Canada, France, Belgium Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, former USSR, Turkmenistan, UAE, Indonesia, and Mauritius, He has also performed as a guest artist at the Indo Swiss friendship festival organized as a tribute to Maurice Bejart. He is a regular performer in the dance productions of the film personality,Hemamalini. He is the founder-director of Siva Foundation, a center for dance in Chennai and has received the prestigious Kalaimamani award from the Tamilnadu Government.

Tickets, available in advance from the Hancher Box Office at 335-1160 or www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets, are $10 general admission, $5 for students, and free for children under 12. Any remaining tickets will be available for sale one hour before show time at Space Place Theater. North Hall is located at the north end of Madison Street on the UI campus. It is accessible from both Madison Street and the T. Anne Cleary Walkway. Parking is available in the North Campus Parking Ramp.

Madhavapeddi Murthy, Dancers and Orchestra residency is sponsored by India Association of Iowa City Area, CARTHA, The Samskriti Foundation (Chicago), The Siva Foundation (Chennai), The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UI International Programs, the South Asian Studies Program and the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center, The UI Division of Performing Arts, UI School of Music and the UI Department of Dance.

Romeo and Juliet

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:10 -0600

April 26, 27, and 28 at 8 pm
April 29 at 2 pm

Englert Theatre, downtown Iowa City

Presented by the University of Iowa School of Music

Music by Charles Gounod
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Directed by Alan E. Hicks

Experience one of the world's most enduring love stories:
Over the centuries, Romeo and Juliet has inspired all kinds of music from songs and symphonic poems to Broadway musicals and film scores. Shakespeare's timeless tale of impetuous, young lovers thwarted by their feuding Veronese families is propelled to the stage by Charles Gounod's sumptuous music. This famous love story delivers a timeless tale, from beginning to tragic end.

Purchase tickets at the Englert Box Office at 688-2653 or www.englert.org.

Undergraduate Dance Concert

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:08:01 -0500

PROGRAM

Time Resets [1]

Choreographer: Courtney Paulsen

Dancers: Jackie Crivlare, Molly Schuneman, Katie Skinner, Sophia Sednova Sparham

Music: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold: Introduction; This Will Destroy You: They Move on

the Tracks of Never Ending Light (edited by Jason Gregory); Lymbyc Systym: Contemporary Art

and Rest Easy/Age Kindly

“Man, probably the most mysterious species on our planet. A mystery of unanswered questions. Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? How do we know what we think we know? Why do we believe anything at all? Countless questions in search of an answer, an answer that will give rise to a new question and the next answer will give rise to the next question and so on. But, in the end, isn’t it always the same question? And always the same answer?” – the movie Lola Rennt (written and directed by Tom Tykwer)

Me, the Barns, and Templeton [2]

Choreographer: Makinze Meiners

Dancer: Hope Spear

Music: Michael Nyman: The Promise

I would like to thank Hope for all of her inspiration and heart. And I want to dedicate this piece to the life and memory of Jim Meiners.

Infitialis [3]

Choreographer: Ashley Michalek

Dancers: Elizabeth Dickson, Irina Gass, Marisha Johnson, Lauren Linder, Claire Mueller, and Colleen Ward

Music: Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again by The Books

I am extremely appreciative of the time, energy, and personal contributions that these dancers brought to this experience.

Wallflower [4]

Choreographer: Jennifer Gram

Dancers: Jennifer Gram, Chris Masters

Music: Nina Simone: I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl and My Baby Just Cares for Me

Chris Masters, thank you for your continual guidance and inspiration!

Movement 8 [5]

Choreographer: Sara Carusona

Dancers: Hannah Anderson, Sarah Carusona, Bianca Medina, Molly Schuneman, Kathryn Smith

Music: Michael Lee: Pass On, Le Mepris: Shiuku (mixed by Sarah Carusona)

This dance is dedicated to all those who have passed on before us, and to those that have loved and supported us during our life on earth. A special thanks to the dancers for their dedication and willingness to embody new movement.

Echoes of Silence [6]

Choreographer: Mia Miller

Dancer: Mia Miller

Music: Clint Mansell: The Last Man

We Love Love? [7]

Choreographer: Leah McClure

Dancers: Theresa Berger, Jennifer Gram, Carolyn Kalscheur, Julie Walter

Music: Billy Holiday: Them There Eyes and The Man I Love, Dean Martin: You’re Nobody ‘Till

Somebody Loves You

Many thanks to my dancers for their input and work during the creation of this dance.

.....................................intermission........................................

Between a Moment [8]

Choreographer: Elizabeth Dickson

Dancer: Elizabeth Dickson

Music: Max Richter: Vladmir’s Blues

I’ve Got 99 Problems but a Bitch Ain’t One [9]

Choreographer: Erin Fitzgerald

Dancers: Shaina Branfman, Erin Fitzgerald, Sean Laughead

Music: Adam Fischer, Cecilia Bartoli, International Chamber Soloists & Orchestra La Scintilla: La

Sonnambula: Ah, non giunge uman pensiero; Hermann Prey, Karl Böhm & Orchester der

Deutschen Oper Berlin: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Non più andrai; Cecilia Bartoli and András

Schiff: Schubert: Vedi, Quanto Adoro, D 510, Didone Abbandonata

Sean and Shaina…You guys rock! Thanks for your quirky spirits and wonderful dancing.

Should the Shadows Come [10]

Choreographer: Jennifer Pray

Dancer: Jennifer Pray

Music: The Great Doxology from the Utreniye (dir. Viktor Popov)

“The one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind” –James 1:6

Au Courant Timbre [11]

Choreographer: Julia Stelmach

Dancers: Katie Driggs, Irina Gass, Alee Ronchetto

Music: Far to Midland: Uh-oh, Silverstein: Runaway, Isles and Glaciers: Kings and Chandeliers

(edited by Julia Stelmach)

Set My Spirit Free [12]

Choreographer: Emma Rose Carson

Dancers: Jennifer Pray, Ashley Michalek, Colleen Ward, Chelsea Brown (Thurs, Sat), Claire Mueller (Fri)

Music: “My Body is a Cage” by Arcade Fire, Rearranged by Katie Rosenberger, featuring Alex Skalla

Performed by: Katie Rosenberger (Thursday, Friday) and Katie Jepson (Saturday), Drums: Samuel Summer

The miracle that gave them such a death, Transfigured to pure substance what had once, Been bone and sinew; when such bodies join, There is no touching here, nor touching there, Nor straining joy, but whole is joined to whole; For the intercourse of angels is a light, Where for its moment both seem lost, consumed. --W.B. Yates

Special thanks to Carol MacVey, Tony Orrico, and the grace and artistry of the performers.

The Final… [13]

Choreographer: Mia Miller

Dancer: Brittany Reuss

Music: Danielle Morrison: Bach Cello Suite No. 2

I am so glad to have had the chance to work with Brittany before she graduates. Thank you so much for everything.

Tetrishead [14]

Choreographer: Theresa Berger

Dancers: Erin Fitzgerald, Marisha Johnson, Ashley Michalek, Leah McClure, Julie Walter

Music: Zoe Keating: Tetrishead

Christopher Masters-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:39 -0600

Chris Masters' will present his final work at the Robert A. Lee Center this April.

The evening length dance investigates the phenomenon of the high school prom and its connection to gender and sexual identity.

Suggested donation is $5 for adults, FREE for UI student and youth. Tickets will be available at the door.

Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center is located at 220 South Gilbert between College and Burlington.

This show will contain adult themes.

Tickets: Free with valid University of Iowa I.D.
$5 suggested donation without an I.D.

Location:
Robert A. Lee Center
220 South Gilbert St
Iowa City, IA 52240

Voxman Celebration

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:51:45 -0500

The Woman in Black

book by Susan Hill

adaptation by Stephen Mallatratt

directed by Mary Beth Easley

EC Mabie Theatre

June 28, 29, 30, July 5, 6, 7 @8pm

Yes, this play is based on the same book as the recent movie starring Daniel Radcliffe. But the play is so theatrically compelling when seen with live actors, it almost feels like a different piece entirely.

The Woman in Black is a bone-chilling mystery of the imagination, especially notable for having only two actors—and one ghost—perform the entire play. The story follows Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, as he journeys to the small market town of Crythin Gifford to attend the funeral of a client, Mrs. Alice Drablow. At the funeral, he sees a young woman with a wasted face, dressed all in black, standing in the churchyard. Puzzled by the villagers' reluctance to speak of the woman in black, Kipps goes to Mrs. Drablow's abode, Eel Marsh House, a creepy old building in the middle of a marsh, cut off at high tide. Sorting through Mrs. Drablow's papers, he finds a box of letters and ultimately discovers the dreadful secret of the woman in black—at a terrible cost.

The Woman in Black opened in London in 1989 and is still being performed there, becoming one of the longest-running plays in the history of the West End.

This play may be too intense and scary for younger audiences.

Tickets on sale now: http://hbotix.hancher.uiowa.edu

Download a printable season order form: assets/Uploads/SummerRep2012DOWNLOADABLEORDERFORM.pdf

Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Winter Concert

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:31:52 -0500

Also see the University of Iowa Dance Youth Ballet and School of Dance website at: http://dance.uiowa.edu/youth/

Voxman Celebration

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:43:57 -0500

Music by Arthur Sullivan

Libretto by W.S. Gilbert
John Cameron, director
William LaRue Jones, conductor

July 13 & 14 at 8 pm
July 15 at 2 pm

Set sail for the hilarious high seas with Gilbert & Sullivan’s tongue-and-cheek comic opera, H.M.S. Pinafore!

Captain Corcoran's daughter is due to be betrothed to the upper-class Cabinet Minister in charge of the entire Navy, but she falls in love with a lowly common sailor under her father's command. Gilbert and Sullivan's first smash hit satirizes the British class system, with a surprise twist ending. Featuring full orchestra, soloists, and chorus, this production is sung in English with supertitles projected above the stage.

Don’t miss the delightful music and sidesplitting comedy of this perennial audience favorite!

Tickets:

$20/adults
$16/seniors
$10/youth
$5/UI students with valid ID

Tickets on sale now! Call 335-1160 or 1-800-HANCHER, purchase online, or Download a printable season order form>>

Special runout performance in Des Moines!

July 20 & 21 at the Hoyt Sherman, downtown Des Moines
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Voxman Celebration

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:09:04 -0500

Sherlock’s Last Case

by Charles Marowitz

directed by Matt Hawkins

EC Mabie Theatre

July 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21 @8pm

We know Sherlock Holmes as highly educated, piercingly intelligent, and apparently unconcerned with other people except to the extent they present puzzles for him to solve. Watson is certainly no potted plant, but only appears one step behind because Holmes is so far out in front. Described as a black comedy, Sherlock’s Last Case takes what we know about Holmes and Watson, twists it, and cranks it up a notch to the point where it becomes absurdly comedic.

The Holmes of Sherlock’s Last Case is somewhat more of a…well…jerk than Doyle’s Holmes. His inconsiderate manner and self-centeredness are emphasized to comic effect. And this Holmes has rather more of an eye for women than his literary model. The play takes place in Holmes’s well-known sitting room. The plot involves a mysterious woman who very nearly out-Holmeses Holmes with lines like, “Do you recall the case of the Vinegar-Stained Hat-Band?”, references to the treacherous Professor Moriarity, and several twists and turns that will keep you guessing.

This play is appropriate for all audiences.

Tickets on sale May 16: http://hbotix.hancher.uiowa.edu

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Voxman Celebration

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:07:24 -0500

It's here! Our new arts events guide...Arts Iowa. Where you'll find all your UI Music, Theatre and Dance events!

Christopher Masters-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:38 -0600

In completion of his MFA in Choreography at The University of Iowa, Chris Masters' will present his final work at the Robert A. Lee Center this April. The evening length, in-the-round dance|theatre event investigates the phenomenon of the high school prom and its connection to the construction of gender and sexual identities.

Suggested donation is $5 for adults, FREE for UI students. Tickets will be available at the door, but it is anticipated that this concert will sell out. Those interested in confirming seats in advance should email christopher-masters@uiowa.edu to RSVP.

For more information, visit the event page on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/events/328787480485871/?ref=ts

Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center is located at 220 South Gilbert between College and Burlington.

This show is recommended for mature audiences and will contain adult themes, language, and sexual content.

Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:42 -0500

Included in this performance will be "Big Dipper" by Thad Jones, "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins, "Self-Portrait in Three Colors" and "Better Get Hit in Your Soul" by Charles Mingus, "Anthropology" by Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie, "Count 'Em" by Quincy Jones, "Quiet Night and Quiet Stars" by Antonio Carlos Jobim, and "The Chicken" by PeeWee Ellis.

Jazz Repertory Ensemble is a big band that performs the works of the great composers from many eras of jazz history. Read a bio of Sandy at http://www.uiowa.edu/~music//faculty_staff/profiles/sandy.shtml.

Admission to the all-ages performance at the Mill is $3 for students and $5 for nonstudents.

Symphony Band

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:31 -0600

Undergraduate Director's Festival

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:44 -0500

Kirsten Kaschock fiction reading

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:05:40 -0500

Uwe Kliendienst, lecture

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:40 -0500

John Aley, trumpet and Martha Fischer, piano

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:17:34 -0500

John Aley is the professor of trumpet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. He is a former member of the American Brass Quintet, with whom he performed extensively throughout the U. S. and internationally. He has performed with New York based ensembles such as Musica Sacra, American Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble and American Composers' Orchestra. He has recorded with the American Brass Quintet, the PDQ Bach Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, the American Composers' Orchestra, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and numerous other ensembles. Aley has performed as soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Composers' Brass Group, and on various public radio broadcasts throughout the U.S. He has performed as principal trumpet and soloist with the Wichita Symphony, and the Greenwich and Stamford symphony orchestras. He has been a soloist with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in concert with Maurice Andre. He is principal trumpet with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and has been featured as a soloist on numerous occasions. He has performed in orchestras under the baton of legendary musicians Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland.

Martha Fischer is professor of piano at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, where she heads the collaborative piano program. A sought-after accompanist and chamber musician, she has performed throughout the United States and Europe with many internationally recognized singers and instrumentalists. In a review of Fischer’s recording with trombonist Mark Hetzler, American Voices II, American Record Guide wrote: “At least half of the credit for these superb readings must go to her, for she is a marvelous pianist, profound interpreter, and expert collaborator.”

Fischer and her husband, Bill Lutes frequently collaborate in concerts of two-piano and piano duet literature. Their interpretation of Schubert's "Fantasie in F minor" was described by the Washington Post as "an energetic performance bursting with heartfelt intensity." Together they have presented all-Schubert concerts of lieder, vocal ensembles and piano music in the style of the original “Schubertiads,” with series in Boston and Washington DC. Recently they premiered a two-piano work, Stray Dogs, written for them by distinguished American composer Lee Hoiby. Singers as well as pianists, Fischer and Lutes have toured North America with their revue Innocent Merriment: An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan. Fischer has also presented unique recitals of art song in which she accompanies herself in the tradition of the French singer Jane Bathori.

Dr. Faustus

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:27 -0600

Camerata

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:39 -0500

Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:37 -0500

Johnson County Landmark (JCL) is a jazz orchestra, under the direction of John Rapson, devoted to the performance of original compositions by jazz masters, past and present.

Its programs have included the music of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Tadd Dameron, Thad Jones, and Charles Mingus, as well as current stars Maria Schneider and John Hollenbeck. JCL has recorded six CDs since 1995, and its most recent album Dreams of Pangaea was released on Southport Records.

Members of Johnson County Landmark are selected by auditions which equally stress reading and improvisational skills. Much of the material performed by JCL requires members to double on secondary instruments and to be conversant with music from different stylistic periods. In addition to its free concerts on campus, JCL makes frequent club appearances and is often featured as part of Community Artists Series.

Baroque for Betty: A Flute Extravaganza

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:04 -0600

"Baroque for Betty" is a concert in honor of University of Iowa Professor of Flute Emerita, Betty Bang Mather, in recognition of her 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association. Mather will receive the award at the NFA's annual convention, to be held in August 2012, in Las Vegas, NV.

University of Iowa Flute Professor Nicole Esposito and the University of Iowa Flute Studio, along with special guests, will present this recital to celebrate Mather's life-long achievements and contributions to the flute world and music profession at large. The mostly Baroque program will feature music by Telemann, Handel, Scarlatti, J.S Bach, W. A.Mozart and others.

A charismatic and versatile flutist, Nicole Esposito is the flute professor at The University of Iowa. She has achieved a career as a soloist, teacher, chamber and orchestral musician on an international level having been featured across the United States, Europe, Central and South America. Esposito has performed at numerous events including the National Flute Association Conventions in Orlando, Washington DC, Nashville, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Anaheim and Charlotte, as well as regional conferences including the Florida Flute Fair, Madison Flute Festival and the Iowa Flute Festival. Recent and upcoming invitations include appearances at the San Francisco International Flute Festival, The Texas Summer Flute Symposium, Festival Virtuosi, Brazil, the International Flute Festival sponsored by the Brazilian Flute Association, the Santa Maria International Winter Festival, the International Flute Festival of Costa Rica, the Spanish National Flute Convention, Bogotá Flute Festival, the International Flute Congress of Argentina and the European Piccolo Festival in Slovenia.

Christopher Masters-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:38 -0600

Voxman Celebration

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:41:11 -0500

What the Butler Saw

by Joe Orton

directed by Eric Forsythe

David Thayer Theatre

June 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, July 1, 3, 8, 10, 11 @ 8pm

July 4 @ 6pm (get out in time to go see the fireworks!)

What the Butler Saw is one of the great satiric comedies of modern theatre, and, like a good detective, it requires curiosity and a quick mind. It may be the craziest spoof of detective mysteries ever written.

Now just try to keep this uproarious mystery straight. Dr. Prentice, a psychiatrist, attempts to seduce attractive prospective secretary Geraldine. When the doctor’s wife interrupts the “interview,” sparks (and several items of clothing) fly! At the same time, Mrs. Prentice is being secretly seduced by young Nicholas, whom she has promised the doctor’s secretary job. In a hilarious, cross-dressing calamity, Nicholas and Geraldine end up dressed as each other. Dr. Prentice's clinic is then faced with a government inspection headed by the self-important Dr. Rance and a police investigation led by bulldog-like Sergeant Match. Behind all this stands the upright statue of Sir Winston Churchill, whose private parts somehow work their way into the whole sticky situation.

Dr. Rance, absolutely giddy amid the surrounding chaos, and hoping to capitalize on it all by publishing details in a new psychiatric masterpiece proclaims: "The final chapters of my book are knitting together: incest, buggery, outrageous women and strange love-cults catering for depraved appetites. All the fashionable bric-a-brac."

The play, which combines Monty Python-style characters, British dry wit, and some seamy content, is not appropriate for younger audiences.

Tickets on sale now: http://hbotix.hancher.uiowa.edu

Download a printable season order form: assets/Uploads/SummerRep2012DOWNLOADABLEORDERFORM.pdf

Voxman Celebration

Wed, 09 May 2012 12:00:19 -0500

Trouble is my Business

A Minimally-Staged Reading

adapted by James Glossman

from two stories by Raymond Chandler

Tuesday, July 17 at 8 pm

Theatre B

A minimally-staged reading of a new stage adaptation of two of Raymond Chandler's best stories: a tough-as-nails detective, Philip Marlowe, tackles gritty, urban crimes. Is it possible to make the world a better place when it's hard to believe in yourself? Society's seamy underbelly: murder and mayhem in theatre noir.

Tickets on sale May 16: http://hbotix.hancher.uiowa.edu

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Voxman Celebration

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:30:56 -0500

The legendary educator, administrator, pedagogue and clarinetist died in Iowa City in November 2011 at the age of 99.

Among his students who will speak and perform are:

—Bob Glidden former dean of the Florida State College of Music and president of Ohio University.

—Larry Mallett, director of the University of Oklahoma School of Music.

—Internationally famous saxophone virtuoso Eugene Rousseau, professor emeritus at Indiana University, and now professor of saxophone at the University of Minnesota.

—Larry Linkin, past president of the National Association of Music Merchants.

—Charles W. West, professor of clarinet at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Read about Voxman’s remarkable life and career, and the Himie Voxman Scholarship Fund here.

The UI Alumni Association is sponsoring this celebration. Though free and open to the public, registration is preferred. To register in advance, visit iowalum.com/voxman/.

Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Winter Concert

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:36:01 -0500

Also see the University of Iowa Dance Youth Ballet and School of Dance website at: http://dance.uiowa.edu/youth/

Composer's Workshop, David Gompper, director

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:35 -0600

Uwe Kliendienst, trumpet and Rene Lecuona, piano

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:40 -0500

Dr. Faustus

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:27 -0600

Graduate/Undergraduate Dance Concert

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:18 -0500

Anthony Arnone, cello and Christine Dore, piano

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:37 -0500

This performance features the Beethoven Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 2, No. 5; 4 Fragments by Asian-American composer and folk-rock singer Huang Ruo; Brahms' F Major Sonata, Op. 99; and Introduction and Polonaise Brilliante by Chopin.

The performance of 4 Fragments will be a Midwest premiere. Arnone recorded the work this summer for a CD that will be released next year.

Pianist Christine Doré has received international acclaim as a chamber musician with wide interpretative capabilities. She has been hailed for her nimble-fingered brilliance and wonderfully expressive piano playing. She enjoys an active and varied career as a chamber musician, accompanist, soloist and teacher. Ms. Doré is a founding member of the chamber music ensemble Chamberosity, which recently commissioned and premiered Eric Ewazen’s Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano. The ensemble is making the first recording of this piece, and is currently performing it internationally. Ms. Doré’s chamber music performances have been aired on such radio stations as KSUI (Iowa Public Radio) and WNYC. She currently serves on the music faculty of C.W. Post University, teaching Instrumental Coaching, and as a faculty member of the C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Doré will be performing in four cities in Iowa this fall, 2011.

Called “a cellist with rich tonal resources, fine subtlety and a keen sense of phrasing” (Gramophone magazine), cellist Anthony Arnone enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, conductor, recording artist, and teacher throughout the country and around the world. Mr. Arnone is associate professor of cello at The University of Iowa School of Music, and is also on the faculty of the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City, where he teaches and conducts. During summers he teaches at the Madeline Island Music Camp.

Undergraduate Director's Festival

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:44 -0500

Oni Buchanan, piano

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:37 -0500

Center for New Music event. For more information on this and other Center performances, please visit www.uiowa.edu/~cnm.

Program
Missy Mazzoli: Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos (2007)
Mei-Fang Lin: Interaction (2001)
Carolyn Yarnell: The Same Sky (2000)
Missy Mazzoli: Orizzone (2004)
Cindy Cox: from Hierosgamos: Studies in Harmony and Resonance (2003)
Jacob Ter Veldhuis: The Body of Your Dreams (2003)

Concert pianist Oni Buchanan performs an incredible range of piano literature, with her focus and expertise running from the miniature keyboard works of Francois Couperin to the syncopations of Bach to the fire and brimstone of Beethoven to the moody cycles of Schumann to the lush expanses of Ravel to the sarcasm and lyricism of Prokofiev to the peasant dances of Bartok, and--bringing her into the most contemporary musical moment--to the exceptional works of women composers writing today.

Ms. Buchanan's concert programming is often interdisciplinary in nature, directly engaging the intimate connections between the arts, and frequently including adventurous contemporary works alongside established repertoire, bringing works from disparate centuries into fascinating and enlightening conversation. Ms. Buchanan has performed solo recitals in major cities throughout the U.S. and abroad, at such U.S. venues as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) in Berkeley, the Bechstein Piano Centre in NYC, the Lane Series in Burlington, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Harvard University Hall Concert Series, among many others. She has performed internationally at the Instituto Brasileiro de Administracao Municipal (IBAM) and the Centro Cultural Laurinda Santos Lobo in Rio de Janeiro, the Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasilia, the Associacao Cultural Cachuera! in Sao Paulo, the William H. Buset Centre for Music and Visual Arts in Thunder Bay, and at the University of Guelph and Conrad Grebel University College in Guelph and Waterloo, respectively. In addition, Ms. Buchanan has given ensemble performances in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, at Harvard University, and at the New School of Music in Cambridge, MA, and has been a concerto soloist with the Waynesboro Community Orchestra (VA), conducted by Eric Stassen.

Oni Buchanan received her Master's degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, her Bachelor's degree in music from the University of Virginia, and conducted three years of her music studies at the University of Iowa School of Music while pursuing an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her teachers have included Russell Sherman, Stephen Drury, Daniel Epstein, Patricia Zander, Uriel Tsachor, and Mimi Tung. In addition, she studied at the Aspen Music Festival in the studios of Joseph Kalichstein and Gabriel Chodos, and has been an active participant and performer in the New England Conservatory Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP).

Ms. Buchanan is also an award-winning poet, and holds a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her second book of poetry, Spring (University of Illinois Press, 2008), was selected by Mark Doty as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and also received the 2009 Massachusetts Book Award. Her first poetry book, What Animal (UGA Press, 2003), was chosen by Fanny Howe as winner of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series competition. Ms. Buchanan's poems are featured in many anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2004 and have been published in numerous journals across the country. Ms. Buchanan currently maintains a private piano studio in Boston. Her discography includes three solo piano CDs on the independent Velvet Ear Records label.

Diana Seitz and Katie Wolfe, violin

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:01 -0600

Dance Gala 2011

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:46:13 -0500

For more than 30 years UI’s Dance Gala has wowed audiences by showcasing some of the best choreography and dance from one of the most highly acclaimed dance programs in the country. Dance Gala 2011 will present a world premiere work by one of the greatest modern dance choreographers in the country, Trisha Brown, performed by elite UI Dance students. Come experience the best in dance and choreography – powerful energy, graceful flight, and electrifying performances led by our internationally-celebrated faculty choreographers.

Dance Gala continues to sell out year after year, so order your tickets early!

Tickets: $20; $15 senior citizen; $10 youth (up to 17); $5 UI student (with valid ID)

$100 Patron Ticket (includes an $80 contribution to the UI Department of Dance through the UI Foundation)

Dance Gala 2011 tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

The Iowa City Press-Citizen is a proud media sponsor of Dance Gala 2011

Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Winter Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:42 -0600

UI Afro-Cuban Jazz Summit Concert

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:17 -0500

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:19 -0500

A powerful, radically-condensed (under 2 hours) version of Hamlet like you’ve never experienced. From an audience viewpoint you’ve never imagined. In a time period we can all relate to.

Tickets are $17 general admission; $12 senior citizen; $10 youth (up to 17); $5 UI student (with valid ID)

UI Theatre Mainstage tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

Ask about our "groundling" tickets. Availability is limited.

See the UI Press Release at: http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/november/112211Hamlet.html

Nancy King & Andrew Parker, oboes

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:31 -0600

Latin Jazz Ensemble

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:35 -0600

Ten-Minute Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:24 -0600

Graduate/Undergraduate Dance Concert

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:19 -0500

Ksenia Nosikova, piano

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:37 -0500

Called a pianist of “impressive musicianship” and “refined sensibility and exquisite pianism, fascinating to watch and hear” by the Boston Globe and New York Concert Reviews, Ksenia Nosikova has performed extensively as a solo pianist and chamber musician in Europe, Asia, Russia, USA, and South America. The scope of her performances expands from prestigious international and national professional concert venues, such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York City, City Hall Theatre in Hong Kong, Palacio da Artes in Brazil, Chetham’s International Piano Series in England, and Dame Myra Hess concert series in Chicago, to major academic institutions, including National University of Singapore, Federal Universities of San Paolo and Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), University of Glasgow (Scotland), and over 70 American universities’ guest artist series. She has also been invited to perform in various international and national festivals including those in Rimini (Italy), Munster (France), Rovin (Yugoslavia), Gabrovo (Bulgaria), and Novi Sad (Serbia), as well as the Aspen and Sarasota Music Festivals in the United States. The press has praised her performances as being “… brilliant, full of grace and the most astonishing precision.…” (Dernieres Nouvilles D’Alsace), and “…musically very poetic ...full of light, warmth, and joy…” (Madison Music Review).

Among her recordings are the complete Years of Pilgrimage by Franz Liszt, released by Centaur Records to critical acclaim. Her recording of the Italie volume was called a ‘super disc’ and chosen as one of six recommendable recordings, along with recordings of Brendel, Berman, and Bolet by International Piano magazine (London, UK). This set of 3 CDs received praise as an ‘outstanding achievement’ by ClassicsToday (USA). Ksenia Nosikova’s collaboration with an American composer, Lera Auerbach, led to her release of Flight and Fire (2007) by Profil Medien GmbH, which has been enthusiastically reviewed by numerous national and international critics. Her latest CD recording Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, including Liszt’s Malédiction, was released in 2009 by Profil Medien GmbH. Ms. Nosikova has been featured on several live radio and television programs, including WQXR in New York City, WFMT in Chicago, WGBH in Boston, KMZT in Los Angeles, and Zagreb TV.

Ksenia Nosikova is a graduate of Moscow Conservatory, where she received her Undergraduate and Masters’ (with highest honors) degrees. She earned her Doctoral degree from the University of Colorado. Presently, Dr. Ksenia Nosikova is a Professor of Piano at the University of Iowa, where she devotedly teaches an international studio of graduate and undergraduate students. Her students won prizes at international, national, regional, and state piano competitions, including Eastman Young Artist International Piano Competition, New York International Piano Competition, Liszt-Garrison International Piano Competition, and national MTNA auditions. They have been successful in obtaining and maintaining college teaching jobs, as well as being accepted to important graduate music programs and festivals. Several of her students were featured on national and state radio broadcasts, such as the From the Top (Boston) and Know the Score (Iowa City). Since joining the University of Iowa faculty in 1998, Dr. Nosikova has presented over 70 master classes in the US and abroad. In 2008 she was named an Honorable Professor of Music at the Shenyang University, China.

Undergraduate Director's Festival

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:45 -0500

Payton MacDonald, marimba

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:39 -0500

Payton MacDonald (b. 1974, Idaho Falls, Idaho) is a composer/improviser/percussionist. He has created a unique body of work that draws upon his extensive experience with East Indian tabla drumming, American military rudimental drumming, Jazz, European classical music, and the American experimental tradition. He works across multiple musical genres, often at the same time. MacDonald studied music at the University of Michigan and the Eastman School of Music. His composition teachers include Sydney Hodkinson, Robert Morris, Dave Rivello, Bright Sheng, and Augusta Read Thomas. His percussion teachers include John Beck and Michael Udow. Further studies include tabla with Bob Becker and Pandit Sharda Sahai. MacDonald is a disciple of Mr. Sahai. The New York Times described him as an "energetic soloist" and The Los Angeles Times described him as an ". . . inventive, stylistically omnivorous composer and gifted performer . . ." MacDonald is an Associate Professor of Music at William Paterson University.

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:45:48 -0500

By Anton Chekhov

Translation by Curt Columbus

Directed by Eric Forsythe

Iowa New Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:39 -0600

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:57:57 -0600

Directed by Meredith Alexander

Yes, THAT kind of vibrator. Medical history reveals that the vibrator was the first small appliance to be electrified. Installed by a proper gentleman doctor and scientist in a seemingly perfect Victorian home, the strange new device for treating “hysteria” in women (and occasionally men) resides “in the next room.” Sexually frustrated patients and the doctor’s energetic young wife help tell this historical (and hysterical) comedic story of love, marriage, and sexual awakening in the Victorian era.

Audience Advisory: This production contains explicit sexual content, nudity, and adult language.

UI Theatre Mainstage tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

High School Latin Jazz Festival

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:18 -0500

UI Orchestral Invitational Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:25 -0600

Dr. Faustus

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:27 -0600

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Directed by Kristin Clippard

Tickets for Galleries, Workshops, Special Events, and Featured New Works are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Gallery tickets are $5 for non-students and free for UI students (with valid ID). Workshop productions are free of charge, however you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited. Performances are at 8 pm except Sunday performances, which are at 2 pm. Please call 319-335-2700 or visit http://performingarts.uiowa.edu for more information.

Productions may contain nudity, sexual content, simulated violence, or other adult content. Please see details for each production at http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre or call 319-335-2700. Information on UI Theatre productions can be found at: http://performingarts.uiowa.edu or by calling 319-335-2700.

Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:30 -0600

UI School of Music Voice, Organ and Harpsichord Chamber Music Collaborative Concert

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:41 -0500

Voice, organ and harpsichord students from the University of Iowa School of Music will share a free concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, in the Riverside Recital Hall. The performers are students of faculty members Gregory Hand, Susan Sondrol Jones, Katherine Eberle, John Muriello, and Stephen Swanson.

The program of works for voice with keyboard accompaniment includes compositions by Barbara Strozzi, Henry Purcell, Libby Larsen, Lili Boulanger, Hugo Wolf, Louis Veirne, J.S. Bach, and George Frideric Handel.

Read bios of the faculty members at http://www.uiowa.edu/~music//faculty_staff/alphabet.shtml.

Oasis Saxophone Quartet Masterclass

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:41 -0500

The Oasis Quartet has emerged out of a shared goal of interpreting dynamic repertoire at the highest level. In the tradition of fine chamber ensembles, Oasis quartet's nuanced performances of string and wind arrangements are as fresh, authentic, and arresting as their interpretations of original works for saxophone. Founded in 2006, the ensemble has received rave reviews of its live performances as well as for its innovative and creative clinic and concert programming.

Composition Festival

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:34 -0600

Ten-Minute Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0600

Vaudeville Dreams by Janet Schlapkohl

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:18 -0500

Chamber Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:38 -0500

Felix Mendelssohn--Fingal's Cave Overture, Op. 26

Mozart--Symphony no. 26, K184, E flat

Ravel--Le Tombeau de Couperin

Mozart--"Per Questa bella Mano," K612
John Muriello, baritone
Volkan Orhon, bass

The Chamber Orchestra, designed for graduate students, is based around the ensemble format established during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its repertoire covers a broad range from Classical and early Romantic composers to contemporary. The Chamber Orchestra presents two or more concerts each semester and is conducted by Dr. Willam LaRue Jones.

Clarinet Studio recital

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:38 -0500

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:46 -0500

Theatre Honors Week

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:31 -0600

Dance Thesis Concert

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:21:23 -0500

Iowa New Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:39 -0600

Undergraduate Dance Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:40 -0600

Cello Daze

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:36 -0500

Recital featuring UI faculty Anthony Arnone and guest artists Zuill Bailey and Tim Janof.

Amy Schendel, trumpet; Alan Huckleberry, piano; Gregory Hand, organ and Todd Schendel, trombone

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:36 -0500

This performance will feature the Concertino for cornet and piano by 19th-century French composer Henri Senee, the "Christgeburt" Concerto by contemporary German composer and brass player Bernard Krol, Seven Spanish Folksongs by Manuel de Falla and "Eveils" for trumpet, trombone and piano by Swiss composer Jean-Francois Michel, former principal trumpet of the Munich Philharmonic.

Biographies of Schendel, Huckleberry and Hand are accessible at http://www.uiowa.edu/~music//faculty_staff/alphabet.shtml.

Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:29 -0600

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Vaudeville Dreams by Janet Schlapkohl

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:19 -0500

This production of Vaudeville Dreams is a UI Theatre Workshop. Workshop productions are free of charge, however you must obtain a ticket at the door and seating is limited. Tickets for Workshops are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Please call 319-335-2700 for more information.

UI Theatre productions may contain nudity, sexual content, simulated violence, or other adult content. Please see details for each production at http://www.uiowa.edu/~theatre or call 319-335-2700.

Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers by Louisa Hill

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:19 -0600

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Arts Share Percussion Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:22 -0600

"Music From (Nearly) Nothing" will be the theme when Iowa Percussion performs at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, in the Riverside Recital Hall, located in the former St. Thomas More Church at 405 N. Riverside Drive in Iowa City.

The concert is free and open to the public. University of Iowa Arts Share and the Community Foundation of Johnson County are the sponsors of the event.

Iowa Percussion is directed by Dan Moore, professor of percussion at the UI School of Music, who notes that this concert will demonstrate how the ensemble recycles ugly trash into beautiful music with found objects such as metal, wood, paper, and cardboard.

Arts Share continues the UI's long tradition of sharing creative resources from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Its goal is to strengthen the arts in underserved areas, reaching out to provide access to life-enriching arts experiences throughout Iowa.

The Community Foundation of Johnson County has a simple mission: building an endowment for the greater community good.

Honor Band Festival Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:26 -0600

Dr. Mark Heidel, Conductor
Dr. Myron Welch, Honor Band Guest Conductor

The 2012 Iowa High School Honor Band is comprised of over one hundred of the top high school instrumental musicians from across the state. Each year these elite musicians meet at the University of Iowa to rehearse and perform a concert in one day while working with a distinguished conductor in the band field. This year we are excited to welcome Dr. Myron Welch, Director of Bands Emeritus from the University of Iowa as our guest conductor!

Program:

University of Iowa Symphony Band
Variants on a Mediaeval Tune, Norman Dello Joio (1963)
Dance Movements, Philip Sparke (1996)

2012 Iowa High School Honor Band
Fanfare and Flourishes, James Curnow (1995)
Finale to Symphony No. 3, Gustav Mahler/arr. Saucedo (1896/2002)
Königsmarsch, Richard Strauss/arr. Barrett (1906/1991)
Rejoicing from Three Revelations from the Lotus Sutra, Alfred Reed (1984)
The Liberty Bell, John Philip Sousa/arr. Brion and Schissel (1893/2001)

Myron Welch retired as Professor of Music and Director of Bands at The University of Iowa in 2008. During his twenty eight year tenure at Iowa he conducted the Symphony Band and Chamber Wind Ensemble, coordinated the graduate program in band conducting, and taught courses in instrumental methods, conducting and band literature. In 2001, Dr. Welch was named a Collegiate Fellow in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for his years of outstanding teaching, service and dedication to the college.

Prior to coming to Iowa, Dr. Welch was Director of Bands and Coordinator of Music Education at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. He was also band and orchestra director at Okemos High School, Okemos, Michigan, where he developed superior ensembles in both mediums. A native of Michigan, he received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Michigan State University, with majors in clarinet and bassoon. He earned the Doctorate in Music Education from the University of Illinois where he was selected as the first candidate for the Band Conductor Internship program and studied conducting with Dr. Harry Begian.

Ensembles under his direction have performed at state and national conventions for the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, Ohio Music Education Association, Iowa Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, Iowa Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, and the American Bandmasters Association. The University of Iowa Symphony Band presented a concert in Carnegie Hall in March of 2008. Dr. Welch was a reviewer of new music for The Instrumentalist and is a frequent guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician. He has appeared with the Goldman Band of New York City, numerous all-state bands and honor bands, and served on the conducting faculties of Interlocheon Center for the Arts, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and music camps throughout the country.

Dr. Welch is Past-President of the American Bandmasters Association, Past-President of the Iowa Bandmasters Association, Past-President and Treasurer of the Big Ten Band Directors Association, and holds membership in the College Band Directors National Association (Past-President, North Central Division), National Band Association (College/University Representative), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (Past-Faculty Advisor), and Music Educators National Conference.

Dr. Welch was awarded the National Band Association's Citation of Excellence in 1998. In 2000, he was recognized in the Music Educators National Conference publication, Teaching Music, as an accomplished teacher for his teaching skills and efforts to advance music in the education of young people. He was named the winner of the National Federation of State High School Associations "Outstanding Music Educator Award" for Iowa, 2004-2005, the regional award winner for 2005-2006, and the national award winner in 2009. The Iowa Music Educators Association presented him with the IMEA Distinguished Service Award in December 2004, and he was selected as the 2005 Outstanding Bandmaster by Phi Beta Mu International. In 2006, Dr. Welch received the Karl L. King Distinguished Service Award from the Iowa Bandmasters Association. The Association of Concert Bands presented him with the Mentor Ideal Award in 2007 and The University of Iowa Graduate College honored him as an Outstanding Graduate Mentor for 2007. Dr. Welch received the Orpheus Award from Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in 2008 and was honored with the “Friend of the Iowa Bandmasters Association” award at their 2008 annual conference.

Latin Jazz Ensemble

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:41 -0500

This performance will feature music representing the traditions of Cuba and Brazil, including a composition by Brazilian pianist Rafael Dos Santos, an alumnus of the UI School of Music.

The Latin Jazz Ensemble has recorded four CDs during past eight years, and has also been featured on live radio broadcasts on jazz station KCCK.

Composition Festival

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:35 -0600

Ten-Minute Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:25 -0600

Dance Department Collaborative Performance

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:15 -0500

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:46 -0500

Randall Hall, saxophone

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:38 -0500

Hall's performance will include several works he composed, and well as works by Jonathan Kirk, Francoise Rosse, Ed Martin, Yiu-kwong Chung and Christian Lauba. Several of the compositions utilize electronics.

Hall's performances of new music range from the contemplative to the ferocious, and feature his mastery of experimental playing techniques, cutting edge electronics and white-hot improvisations. He has given concerts throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and has been honored with a Fulbright Grant, Frank Huntington Beebe Grant, Presser Music Award, Encore Grant, and the Premier prix in the Concour Région Ile-de-France.

He is a music faculty member at Augustana College in the Quad Cities, where he teaches saxophone, improvisation, composition and music theory.

For additional information about this event, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~cnm/46.111010.html.

Euridice by Jacobi Peri

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:38 -0500

Symphony Band

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:42 -0500

Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:40 -0500

Directed by John Rapson, JCL will perform Radiohead's "Idioteque," "Everything In Its Right Place," and "Bodysnatchers," as well as compositions by Duke Ellington, Brenda Halverson, Ken Schaphorst, Wil Swindler, Jimmy Rowles, and Rich Hirsch.

Soloists will be trombonists Nathan Gier and Zach Spindler; saxophonists Ryan Smith, James Skretta, Nathan Bogert, and Tony Rosenberg; trumpeter J.R. Pruitt; drummer Cassius Goens; guitarist Ze Emilio Gobbo; and pianist Michael Jarvey.

Johnson County Landmark (JCL) is a jazz orchestra, under the direction of John Rapson, devoted to the performance of original compositions by jazz masters, past and present.

Members of Johnson County Landmark are selected by auditions which equally stress reading and improvisational skills. Much of the material performed by JCL requires members to double on secondary instruments and to be conversant with music from different stylistic periods. In addition, to its free concerts on campus, JCL makes frequent club appearances and is often featured as part of Community Artists Series.

Kantorei

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:39 -0500

Parking Alert:

Due to the recently announced Ron Paul appearance at 8 p.m. in the IMU, and the Homecoming festivities, it is advised that audience members arrive early for the 7:30 performance. If driving, please park in the North Campus Ramp just north of the Union [see map].

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The University Choir and the Camerata, vocal ensembles in the University of Iowa School of Music, will share a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, in the Ballroom of the Iowa Memorial Union.

The University Choir, conducted by graduate student Michael Schnack and accompanied by John P. Rakes and a small orchestral ensemble, will open the concert with the Gloria by Luigi Boccherini, and Devotional Songs by Jean Berger.

Schnack chose the settings by exiled German-Jewish composer Berger, based on German texts by the Pennsylvania Dutch, because their strong connection to Iowa's Mennonite and Amish people. The pieces will be performed in English, fulfilling Berger's stress on the importance of the direct emotional connection with concert audiences through use of the vernacular.

Faculty member David Puderbaugh will direct the Camerata, an ensemble combining UI students and community members, in "See on Eesti" and "Kus mu kodu" by Estonian composer Anti Marguste, "O sing joyfully" by Adrian Batten, Two Choruses from "Samson" by George Frideric Handel, Three Mountain Ballads arranged by Ron Nelson, and "Feller from Fortune" arranged by Harry Somers. Schnack is the Camerata accompanist.

Theatre Honors Week

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:32 -0600

Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:10 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:39 -0600

Undergraduate Dance Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:41 -0600

Cello Daze

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:36 -0500

Recital featuring UI faculty Anthony Arnone and guest artists Zuill Bailey and Tim Janof.

Symphony Band

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:38 -0500

Ray E. Cramer, Ernest Jennings, guest conductors
Dr Kenneth Tse, saxophone

Program:

Concert Band
The Sinfonians – Clifton Williams
Fantasy on Sakura Sakura – Setting by Ray Cramer
Festal Scenes – Yasuhide Ito
Footsteps – Dana Wilson

Symphony Band
Moving Parts – David Sampson
Rest – Frank Ticheli
Martyrs for the Faith – David DeBoor Canfield
Dr. Kenneth Tse, alto saxophone
Peterloo Overture – Malcolm Arnold

Professor Emeritus from Indiana University, Ray E. Cramer holds a BA in Education, an MFA from the University of Iowa, an Honorary Doctorate from Western Illinois University, Vandercook College of Music, and in 2009 an Honorary Professorship at the Musashino Academy of Music in Tokyo. Prior to his appointment at Indiana University Mr. Cramer taught public school in Bardolph, Illinois (1961-62) West Liberty, Iowa (1963-65) Harlan, Iowa (1965-68) and Parma, Ohio 1968-69). Ray E. Cramer was a member of the Indiana University School of Music faculty from the fall of 1969 through May 2005. In 1982, Mr. Cramer was appointed Director of Bands. Under his leadership the Indiana University Wind Ensemble earned an international reputation for outstanding musical performances including the 1982 American Bandmasters Association Convention, Indianapolis; the 1984 joint American Bandmasters Association/Japan Bandmasters Association Convention, Tokyo; the 1988 MENC National Convention, Indianapolis; the 1991 National CBDNA Convention in Kansas City, the 1994 National MENC Convention in Cincinnati, the 1995 American Bandmasters Association Convention in Lawrence, Kansas; the 1997 National CBDNA Convention in Athens, Georgia; a 2000 spring tour to Japan performing in six cities and the All Japan Band Clinic; The 2003 CBDNA National Convention in Minneapolis, MN; a December 2003 performance at The Midwest Clinic; plus numerous other regional and state conventions.

In addition to his administrative responsibilities as the Department of Bands/Wind Conducting Chair, Mr. Cramer taught graduate courses in wind conducting, history and literature. He also conducted the University Orchestra for seven years during the fall semester. (1994-2001) Mr. Cramer enjoyed a 36-year tenure at Indiana University with the final 24 years as Director of Bands. He is a member of ABA, CBDNA, NBA, WASBE, MENC, CMEA, CBA, CIDA, and is affiliated with Phi Mu Alpha and Phi Beta Mu. Mr. Cramer is a recipient of the Student Alumni Council Senior Faculty Award (1983), the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Award (1988), the CIDA Director of the Year Award (1988), the Phi Beta Mu, International Assembly, Outstanding Bandmaster Award (1988) and the Kappa Kappa Psi Bohumil Makovsky Memorial Award (1991), The Edwin Franko Goldman award (2002), The MENC Lowell Mason Fellow medallion (2003) Midwest Clinic Medal of Honor (2005) Bands of America Hall of Fame (2006) Lifetime Achievement Award (2006). He has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Colorado Bandmasters Association (2007), Honorary Life Membership Iowa Bandmasters Association (2007) and has recently received the 17th Japan Academic Society of Winds, Percussion and Band Award (2007). In December of 2008 he was named the “The Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts” honoree by the National Band Association. The AWAPA was established by the NBA for the purpose of recognizing those who have made truly significant and outstanding contributions to the furthering of the excellence of bands and band music. The 9-inch silver “AWAPA” figure is the “Oscar” of the band world. He was also elected into the “NBA Hall of Fame”

Widely recognized as one of the leading classical saxophonists in the world, Kenneth Tse [cheh] began his career as a winner of the New York Artists International Competition, making his Carnegie Hall debut in 1996 and being hailed “a young virtuoso” by the New York Times. Since then he has been a frequent soloist in five continents and has made solo appearances with Des Moines Symphony, United States Navy Band, Slovenia Army Band, La Armónica Band of Spain, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and Hong Kong Sinfonietta among others, as well as at venues such as World Saxophone Congress and North American Saxophone Alliance conferences. He has also been a guest clinician at prestigious conferences hosted by the California Band Directors’ Association, Iowa Bandmaster’s Association, and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinics as well as universities worldwide.

Since publishing his first recording with Crystal Records at age 23, Tse has subsequently released ten critically acclaimed solo and chamber music CDs under Crystal Records, RIAX Records, Enharmonic Records and Arizona University Recordings. The Fanfare magazine praised, "Hong Kong-born Kenneth Tse is of the caliber of instrumentalists whose very sound is captivating." American Record Guide echoed with, “supremely elegant tone…sheer virtuosity.”

Opera Scenes

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:19 -0500

Due to illness, this program has been cancelled. We will reschedule at a later date in January.

This intriguing and informative event is FREE and open to the public! Join the cast of UI's production of Turn of the Screw for a preview of this riveting opera, which will be presented in its entirety January 27-29, 2012.

About the opera:
A governess arrives at a lonely English country house to care for two parentless children and something is very, very wrong. wire-taught tension mounts as she gradually senses the truth. Evil has corrupted the children and she must fight it. This powerful and disturbing opera is based on the novel of the same name by Henry James: a tale of good versus evil, natural versus the supernatural, possession and exorcism.

Center for New Music, David Gompper, director

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0600

Program:
First Construction in Metal (1939) for six percussionists
Speech (1955) for five radios and newsreader
44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 (1976) for string quartet
Forever and Sunsmell (1942) for soprano and two percussionists
Six Short Inventions (1934) for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, 2 violas and violoncello
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Ensemble (1950-51)

This concert is part of the Center for New Music John Cage Celebration. For more information about other events in this celebration, click here.

Ten-Minute Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:26 -0600

High School Hero by Mark Smolyar

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:30 -0600

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Andrew Hardy, violin and Uriel Tsachor, piano

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:15 -0500

The Hardy/Tsachor Duo, featuring violinist Andrew Hardy and University of Iowa School of Music pianist Uriel Tsachor, will present a free performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

Their program will be Schubert's Sonatine no. 2 in A minor, D. 385; Beethoven's Sonata no. 3 in E flat Major, op. 12, no. 3; Anton Webern's Four Pieces, op. 7; and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Sonata in G Major, op. 6.

Hardy and Tsachor have been performing throughout Europe and the United States for nearly two decades, and have recorded nine CDs, including performances of many obscure and rarely heard works.

Hardy is the vice president and music director of Les XXI, which organizes a chamber music series in Brussels, Belgium. Read Tsachor's bio at http://www.uiowa.edu/~music//faculty_staff/profiles/tsachor_uriel.shtml.

Oasis Saxophone Quartet

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:41 -0500

Composition Festival

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:35 -0600

Faculty/Graduate Dance Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:24 -0600

Tuba/Euphonium studio recital

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:15:01 -0500

Dance Department Collaborative Performance

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:15 -0500

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:47 -0500

Eric Kutz, cello and Miko Kaminami, piano

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:40 -0500

The Murasaki Duo, cellist Eric Kutz and pianist Miko Kominami, will present a free performance as guests of the University of Iowa School of Music at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.

Their program is Twelve Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op. 66, by Ludwig van Beethoven; Three Pieces by Nadia Boulanger; Hungarian Rhapsody by David Popper; the Sonata in G minor, Op. 65, by Frédéric Chopin; and Le Grand Tango by Astor Piazzolla.

The Murasaki Duo, a resident ensemble of Luther College, was founded in 1996 at the Juilliard School. Named in homage to Lady Murasaki, the author of the world's first novel, they have performed throughout the United States and Canada, including concerts in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto.

In 2005 the Duo gave a six-concert tour of Scandinavia, which included performances in Copenhagen and Oslo, and they have been a part of leading festivals, such as the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival, the Malibu Coast Music Festival, the Icicle Creek Music Center, and Lutheran Summer Music.

Greg Crowell, organ

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:39 -0500

Theatre Honors Week

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:32 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:44:27 -0500

UI Theatre Arts Department and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Intergenre Working Group present the play

STILL

By Jen Silverman

A staged reading directed by Meredith Alexander

Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Cosmo Catalano Studio (Room 172)

Theatre Building – Riverside Drive

Forty-one-year old Morgan’s baby has been born dead and eighteen-year-old Dolores is pregnant with a child she doesn’t want. Morgan's midwife Elena, shaken by guilt, has abandoned her practice to seek redemption in the strangest of places. As all three women confront their fears, their desires, and each other, dead baby Constantinople roams the world, searching for the meaning of the word “wow,” a satisfying explanation of S&M, and above all, his mother. The play takes inspiration from Elizabeth Heineman's memoir, Ghostbelly, which is forthcoming with Feminist Press.

The audience is invited to stay after the performance for a discussion.

This event is free and open to the public. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you need assistance in order to participate in this program, please call 319-335-2700.

Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:37 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:40 -0600

Gregory Hand, organ and Amy Schendel, trumpet

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:46:00 -0500

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:47 -0500

Iowa Percussion Semi-Annual Last Chance Concert

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:20 -0500

Jenga by Deborah Yarchun

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:21 -0600

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Composers Workshop, David Gompper, director

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:15 -0500

The University of Iowa Composers Workshop will present a free performance of new student works at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The program will consist of:
--Trio for horn, trombone, and tuba by Ryan Cole, composed for the Iowa Brass Trio.
--"Contrasting Images" for stereo fixed media by Shane Hoose, recent finalist in the Music Teacher's National Association Composition Competition.
--"Sunset Over the Lotus Pond" composed and performed by violinist Leonid Iogansen, former composer in residence at the Shuang Yin International Arts Festival in Taiwan.
--String Quartet by Cole, modeled on the quartets of Henryk Gorecki.
--Jason Palamara's "either/or" for laptop with audience participation, in which the responses of audience members to questions and commands become material for electronic manipulations.
--"As We Continue Across the Country" for soprano solo and percussion, featuring text by Thea Brown, composed by Zach Zubow, 2010 regional winner of the Society of Composers/ASCAP Student Composition Competition.

For detailed information about the concert, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~cnm/46.111203.html.

Composers Workshop, David Gompper, director

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:41 -0500

The Center for New Music, a performance organization devoted to the late 20th and early 21st century repertoire, is the focus of contemporary composition and performance at the University of Iowa. The Center, like the internationally renowned Writers Workshop, embodies the institution's commitment to the vital role of the creative arts at the frontiers of human experience.

Program:

Aaron Perrine: Bridge Suite
Leonid Iogansen: Tango...
Yunsoo Kim: Duo
Zach Zubow: Sundown
Jason Palamara: crawly
Matthew Smart: Chiasma
William Huff: Prosodic Units
Brian Penkrot: String Quartet No. 1

For more information about this and other Center for New Music events, visit their website at http:www//uiowa.edu/~cnm.

Composition Festival

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:33 -0600

Chloroform Dreams by Katherine Sherman

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:46 -0500

by Katherine Sherman

directed by Kristin Clippard

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Renaissance dramatist Christopher Marlowe is reimagined as a hard-hitting, hard-drinking private eye in a hazy, dreamlike noir-world laced with fairy tales. Marlowe stands accused of heresy by a villainous druglord who knocks him out with chloroform and leaves him asleep in a speakeasy basement. Moments reinterpreting myths and fairy tales mingle with tropes and archetypes of the genre, the legend around Marlowe’s own turbulent biography and the mythology of the play itself: a tangle of religion, love, addiction, and heresy – however it’s defined.

christopher marlowe's chloroform dreams was first presented as a staged reading for the Iowa New Play Festival 2011.

Tickets are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Gallery tickets are $5 for non-students and free for UI students (with valid ID).

Productions may contain nudity, sexual content, simulated violence, or other adult content. For more information, please call the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700.

Faculty/Graduate Dance Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:24 -0600

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:19 -0500

University Choir, Timothy Stalter, director

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:38 -0500

Under the direction of Peter Grau and accompanied by pianist John P. Rakes, the Women's Chorale will perform the anonymous "Portum in ultimo," "Bist du bei mir" by Johann Sebastian Bach, "O Lovely Peace" by George Frederick Handel, "At the River" by Aaron Copland, "Shule Agrah" by Carolee Curtright, "Dance on My Heart" by Allen Koepke, "Will There Really Be a 'Morning?" by Craig Hella Johnson, and "Fancie" and "Oliver Cromwell" by Benjamin Britten.

Kantorei will be conducted by Timothy Stalter, director of choral activities for the School of Music, with accompaniment by graduate student Michael Schnack.

The Kantorei program will feature "Ave Maria" by Josquin Des Prez, Missa Brevis by Palestrina, Trois Chansons by Maurice Ravel, and Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer, op. 65, by Johannes Brahms. Soloists will be sopranos Robyn Goodner, Rebecca von Kamp, Emily Spencer and Carolyn-Anne Templeton; tenor Jacob Stanbro and Mark Reagan; mezzo-sopranos Elayne Juten and Lauren Tompkins; and basses Nicholas Miguel and Brian Dykes.

University Symphony, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:39 -0500

featuring Volkan Orhon, guest bass

Essay No. 1, op. 12 Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Divertimente Concertante – Nino Rota (1911 – 1979)

Theatre Honors Week

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:32 -0600

Brenda Wristen, piano

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:09:59 -0600

Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:37 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:40 -0600

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:22 -0600

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:47 -0500

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:17 -0500

Jack Quartet

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:40 -0500

The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwide with "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) and "viscerally exciting performances" (New York Times). David Patrick Stearns (Philadelphia Inquirer) proclaimed their performance as being "among the most stimulating new-music concerts of my experience." The Washington Post commented, "The string quartet may be a 250-year-old contraption, but young, brilliant groups like the JACK Quartet are keeping it thrillingly vital." Alex Ross (New Yorker) hailed their performance of Iannis Xenakis' complete string quartets as being "exceptional" and "beautifully harsh," and Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times) called their sold-out performances of Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 3 In iij. Noct. "mind-blowingly good."

The quartet has performed to critical acclaim at Wigmore Hall (London), Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims (France), Ultraschall Festival für Neue Musik (Germany), Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ (Netherlands), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Donaueschinger Musiktage (Germany), Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), Library of Congress, Kimmel Center, La Biennale di Venezia (Italy), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), and Carnegie Hall.

Afro/Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:06:44 -0500

This event is FREE and open to all. No tickets required.

Join us for this Alumni Week wrap-up celebration, featuring The University of Iowa's Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble, brought to you by UI's Arts Share, Department of Dance, and Division of Performing Arts.

The Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble is a unique group of percussionists and dancers performing the folkloric music and dance of Cuba. Members of the group have traveled to Cuba to learn the music and dance of this rich island culture. This colorful presentation includes drumming, song, and dance, as well as an explanation of each element of the performance. The program can enhance the study of Africa and Cuba, and the relationship between dance and music in cultural traditions.

Center for New Music, David Gompper, director

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0500

The University of Iowa Center for New Music (CNM) Ensemble will present a free concert ranging from John Cage works from the first half of the 20th century to a world premiere at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The concert will open and close with Cage compositions from the 1940s -- "Forever and Sunsmell" for soprano and percussion with text by E.E. Cummings, and "Amores" for piano and percussion.

The premiere will be "Life Studies," composed this year by University of California-Santa Barbara faculty member Leslie Hogan, for a chamber ensemble including winds, strings, and percussion, conducted by CNM Director David Gompper. Hogan co-founded Current Sounds, a new music consortium based in Santa Barbara, Calif., and also serves on the board of the Chamber Music Society of Santa Barbara, an organization which promotes the performance and appreciation of chamber music repertory through sponsoring workshops, concerts, and outreach activities.

The concert will also include "Antares" for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano by Grammy nominee Carter Pann, and the Trio for horn, trombone, and tuba by Hungarian composer Frigyes Hidas.

For additional details, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/~cnm/46.111204.html.

Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:33 -0600

Theatre Honors Week

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:32 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:57:01 -0500

Free For All is a unique and captivating theatrical experience! Through poetry you will be taken on a journey; a journey of life. You become privy to myriad perspectives and as the characters grow and discover; you will learn about yourself. Darwin Turner Action Theatre invites you to experience the new world!

Admission is free. Please call 319-335-2700 or visit http://theatre.uiowa.edu for more information. Productions may contain nudity, adult language, sexual content, simulated violence, or other adult content.

Darwin Turner Action Theatre (DTAT) is the social outreach component for the Theatre Arts Department. It was originally established in 1968 as Black Action Theatre. Its mission was to expose Iowa audiences to African-American culture and promote knowledge and understanding to people of different backgrounds. DTAT is now more culturally and socially inclusive, reflecting the growing diversity of our state and country. It presents dynamic, thought-provoking pieces of theatre for social and cultural awareness.

Topics include:

race/cultural identity
gender
racial/age/sexual discrimination
historical biographies and events

With offerings for all ages, DTAT's performances and workshops are interactive and aimed to provoke awareness and discussion.

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:35 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:41 -0600

Voxman Celebration

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:54:50 -0500

Sherlock’s Last Case

by Charles Marowitz

directed by Matt Hawkins

EC Mabie Theatre

July 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21 @8pm

This play is appropriate for all audiences.

Tickets on sale May 16: http://hbotix.hancher.uiowa.edu

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:17 -0500

Center for New Music, David Gompper, director

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:40 -0500

This concert is presented as part of the "Re-creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiquity" conference. For more information about this event and the conference, go to http://www.uiowa.edu/~classics/events/music_classics_conf_registration.html.

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:48 -0500

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:21 -0600

Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:38 -0600

The University of Iowa Department of Dance will present Mind the Gap, a production featuring the thesis works of four graduate students, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14, in the Space Place Theater of North Hall.

The event combines new works by Gabriel Anderson, Jiaxi Li, Kristin Marrs, and Kevin Schroder. Anderson, who is a certified yoga teacher and holds a master's degree in public health, toured the world performing and teaching with ARENA Dance. His LoveFool features his original music and lyrics, as well as music by School of Music graduate student Jason Gregory.

Shanghai native Li has performed professionally with City Ballet of San Diego and Ballet Arizona, and her experience includes ballet, modern dance, Han folk dance, and Tibetan and Uigur dance. Her contribution to this production is Dream the Butterfly Dream.

Marrs, an Iowa native who is also a yoga teacher, has performed professionally in the United States and Europe, including Columbus Dance Theatre, Ballet Quad Cities, Images, and the Arova Contemporary Ballet. She choreographed A Poet's Love to music by Schumann.

Schroder, the choreographer of the "digital dance" IC Solos (w.Kevin), recorded in locations around Iowa City, has been a member of the companies of Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Stephen Petronio and Donna Uchizono. View the piece online.

Admission to Mind the Gap is free for UI students with a valid student ID, $12 general admission, and $6 for youth and senior citizens. Tickets are available from the Hancher box office or at the door.

Undergraduate Dance Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:41 -0600

PROGRAM

Time Resets [1]

Choreographer: Courtney Paulsen

Dancers: Jackie Crivlare, Molly Schuneman, Katie Skinner, Sophia Sednova Sparham

Music: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold: Introduction; This Will Destroy You: They Move on

the Tracks of Never Ending Light (edited by Jason Gregory); Lymbyc Systym: Contemporary Art

and Rest Easy/Age Kindly

Me, the Barns, and Templeton [2]

Choreographer: Makinze Meiners

Dancer: Hope Spear

Music: Michael Nyman: The Promise

I would like to thank Hope for all of her inspiration and heart. And I want to dedicate this piece to the life and memory of Jim Meiners.

Infitialis [3]

Choreographer: Ashley Michalek

Dancers: Elizabeth Dickson, Irina Gass, Marisha Johnson, Lauren Linder, Claire Mueller, and Colleen Ward

Music: Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again by The Books

I am extremely appreciative of the time, energy, and personal contributions that these dancers brought to this experience.

Wallflower [4]

Choreographer: Jennifer Gram

Dancers: Jennifer Gram, Chris Masters

Music: Nina Simone: I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl and My Baby Just Cares for Me

Chris Masters, thank you for your continual guidance and inspiration!

Movement 8 [5]

Choreographer: Sara Carusona

Dancers: Hannah Anderson, Sarah Carusona, Bianca Medina, Molly Schuneman, Kathryn Smith

Music: Michael Lee: Pass On, Le Mepris: Shiuku (mixed by Sarah Carusona)

Echoes of Silence [6]

Choreographer: Mia Miller

Dancer: Mia Miller

Music: Clint Mansell: The Last Man

We Love Love? [7]

Choreographer: Leah McClure

Dancers: Theresa Berger, Jennifer Gram, Carolyn Kalscheur, Julie Walter

Music: Billy Holiday: Them There Eyes and The Man I Love, Dean Martin: You’re Nobody ‘Till

Somebody Loves You

Many thanks to my dancers for their input and work during the creation of this dance.

.....................................intermission........................................

Between a Moment [8]

Choreographer: Elizabeth Dickson

Dancer: Elizabeth Dickson

Music: Max Richter: Vladmir’s Blues

I’ve Got 99 Problems but a Bitch Ain’t One [9]

Choreographer: Erin Fitzgerald

Dancers: Shaina Branfman, Erin Fitzgerald, Sean Laughead

Music: Adam Fischer, Cecilia Bartoli, International Chamber Soloists & Orchestra La Scintilla: La

Sonnambula: Ah, non giunge uman pensiero; Hermann Prey, Karl Böhm & Orchester der

Deutschen Oper Berlin: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Non più andrai; Cecilia Bartoli and András

Schiff: Schubert: Vedi, Quanto Adoro, D 510, Didone Abbandonata

Sean and Shaina…You guys rock! Thanks for your quirky spirits and wonderful dancing.

Should the Shadows Come [10]

Choreographer: Jennifer Pray

Dancer: Jennifer Pray

Music: The Great Doxology from the Utreniye (dir. Viktor Popov)

“The one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind” –James 1:6

Au Courant Timbre [11]

Choreographer: Julia Stelmach

Dancers: Katie Driggs, Irina Gass, Alee Ronchetto

Music: Far to Midland: Uh-oh, Silverstein: Runaway, Isles and Glaciers: Kings and Chandeliers

(edited by Julia Stelmach)

Set My Spirit Free [12]

Choreographer: Emma Rose Carson

Dancers: Jennifer Pray, Ashley Michalek, Colleen Ward, Chelsea Brown (Thurs, Sat), Claire Mueller (Fri)

Music: “My Body is a Cage” by Arcade Fire, Rearranged by Katie Rosenberger, featuring Alex Skalla

Performed by: Katie Rosenberger (Thursday, Friday) and Katie Jepson (Saturday), Drums: Samuel Summer

Special thanks to Carol MacVey, Tony Orrico, and the grace and artistry of the performers.

The Final… [13]

Choreographer: Mia Miller

Dancer: Brittany Reuss

Music: Danielle Morrison: Bach Cello Suite No. 2

I am so glad to have had the chance to work with Brittany before she graduates. Thank you so much for everything.

Tetrishead [14]

Choreographer: Theresa Berger

Dancers: Erin Fitzgerald, Marisha Johnson, Ashley Michalek, Leah McClure, Julie Walter

Music: Zoe Keating: Tetrishead

University and Concert Bands, Mark Heidel, director

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0500

Enrico Elisi, piano masterclass

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:29 -0600

Theatre Honors Week

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:33 -0600

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:36 -0600

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:48 -0500

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:17 -0500

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:22 -0600

Interpretation of Non-German Art Song

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:15:12 -0500

Jazz Repertory Ensemble

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:17 -0500

The University of Iowa Jazz Repertory Ensemble (JRE), directed by School of Music faculty member Brent Sandy, will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in the Riverside Recital Hall. The band will preview the concert in a performance at the Mill Restaurant in downtown Iowa City at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17.

Included on the concert will be "Big Dipper" by Thad Jones, "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins, "Self-Portrait in Three Colors" and "Better Get Hit in Your Soul" by Charles Mingus, "Anthropology" by Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie, "Count 'Em" by Quincy Jones, "Quiet Night and Quiet Stars" by Antonio Carlos Jobim, and "The Chicken" by PeeWee Ellis.

JRE is a big band that performs the works of the great composers from many eras of jazz history. Read a bio of Sandy at http://www.uiowa.edu/~music//faculty_staff/profiles/sandy.shtml.

Enrico Elisi, piano

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:29 -0600

Guitar Ensemble

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:40 -0500

Dance Thesis Concert

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:07:41 -0500

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:36 -0600

Scott Conklin, violin; Alan Huckleberry, piano; and Jason Sifford, piano

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:24:45 -0500

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:38 -0600

Directed by Paul Kalina

When 50 brides forced to marry their 50 cousins flee their weddings and seek refuge in an Italian villa—only to be discovered by the 50 jilted grooms—unimaginable mayhem and comedic chaos ensues. This high impact production takes Greek theatre to a whole new level. You’ll plunge and soar on this rollercoaster of intense emotion, harsh realities, and the occasional pop song, rhythmic dance, or romantic moment. Can no one find true love?

Audience Advisory: This production contains explicit sexual content, nudity, and adult language.

UI Theatre Mainstage tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets

Bass Studio recital

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:15:13 -0500

Brass Chamber Ensemble

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:37 -0600

Johanna Kirk-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:30 -0600

Johanna Kirk-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:29 -0600

Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:28 -0600

Dancers in Company Home Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:28 -0600

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0600

Lysistrata, directed by Matt Hawkins

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:49 -0500

Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:28 -0600

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0500

Wolfgan David, violin and David Gompper, piano

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:22:40 -0500

The duo of Viennese violinist Wolfgang David and pianist David Gompper will present a Center for New Music concert that includes some music that's not so new, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol on the University of Iowa campus.

In addition to works from the 21st century -- including the premieres of Gompper's "Calling Cards" and UI alumnus Christopher Gainey's "Salmagundi Farrago," as well as "Tristia" by English composer Jeremy Dale Roberts -- the duo will reach back into the first half of the 20th century with performances of Nigun No. 2 from 1923 by Ernest Bloch and Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a, from 1943.

The fruitful Gompper/David collaboration began in 2000 when David toured in the United States. In the beginning they only worked together as a composer and performer, which has inspired Gompper to compose a dozen works. But in 2002 they were invited to perform together in Moscow. Encouraged by this success, they have continued to concertize together, performing more than 100 events throughout the United States and Europe.

Since earning a doctorate in composition at the UI, Gainey has seen his works performed by groups including the Atlantic Guitar Quartet, the Affinity Chamber Players, the San Francisco Guitar Quartet and Duo Transatlantique. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in music theory at the University of British Columbia.

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:36 -0600

Iowa Piccolo Intensive

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:24:46 -0500

Horn Studio Recital

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:51 -0500

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:24 -0600

Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:28 -0600

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:16 -0500

Lysistrata, directed by Matt Hawkins

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:49 -0500

Dancers in Company Home Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:28 -0600

Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:14 -0500

New York trombonist Michael Dease will be the guest artist when the Johnson County Landmark (JCL), the top big band of the University of Iowa School of Music's jazz studies program, performs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in the Mill Restaurant in downtown Iowa City. The Dan Padley/Ryan Smith Quintet will open at 6 p.m.

In just seven years on the New York jazz scene, Dease (www.mikedease.com) has appeared on more than 50 albums, including four as a leader.

He will perform works including "Blue Dease" and "When I Fall in Love" with JCL, and also team up with UI jazz faculty members Brent Sandy, John Rapson, Steve Grismore, and Jim Dreier, and alumnus Steve Charlson for a set including more of his compositions.

Admission (cover) for the all-ages performance is $5 for nonstudents and $3 for students.

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:36 -0600

Interpretation of German Art Song recital

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:40 -0600

Iowa Piccolo Intensive

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:24:46 -0500

Saxophone Studio Recital

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:53 -0500

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:25 -0600

Lysistrata, directed by Matt Hawkins

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:50 -0500

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:15 -0500

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:37 -0600

Iowa Piccolo Intensive

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:24:46 -0500

Voxman Celebration

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:39:43 -0500

Music by Arthur Sullivan

Libretto by W.S. Gilbert
John Cameron, director
William LaRue Jones, conductor

July 13 & 14 at 8 pm
July 15 at 2 pm

Set sail for the hilarious high seas with Gilbert & Sullivan’s tongue-and-cheek comic opera, H.M.S. Pinafore!

Don’t miss the delightful music and sidesplitting comedy of this perennial audience favorite!

Tickets:

$20/adults
$16/seniors
$10/youth
$5/UI students with valid ID

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Special runout performance in Des Moines!

July 20 & 21 at the Hoyt Sherman, downtown Des Moines
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Electronic Music Studio, Lawrence Fritts, director

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:54 -0500

Jenga by Deborah Yarchun

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:21 -0600

Chloroform Dreams by Katherine Sherman

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:51 -0500

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:14 -0500

Saxophone Studio recital

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:48:54 -0600

Steel Band II and III

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:36:28 -0500

Camerata, Timothy Stalter, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:43 -0600

Jenga by Deborah Yarchun

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:20 -0600

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:51 -0500

Clarinet Studio recital

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:48:56 -0600

Holiday Percussion Pops

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:55:36 -0600

Iowa Percussion and PanAmerican Steel Band welcome winter to Iowa City with "Holiday Percussion Pops" at the Englert Theatre. The concert will be under the direction of Dr. Dan Moore.

Seasonal favorites old and new, presented in Iowa Percussion's inimitable way, will give audiences of all ages a holiday glow. Even the biggest Grinch will smile at tunes such as the group's newly-arranged Caribbean Snowlypso Medley, The Little Drummer Boy with a South African beat, the Moody Blues' beautiful December Snow, and Jingle Bell Bossa.

The grand finale will feature Iowa Percussion in full force performing the classic Carol of the Bells. This winter concert is sure to warm your heart and keep it pumping to the island beat.

Percussion Spectacular, Dan Moore, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:44 -0600

Improvisation for Classical Musicians recital

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:41 -0600

High School Hero by Mark Smolyar

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:30 -0600

Chloroform Dreams by Katherine Sherman

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:52 -0500

Jenga by Deborah Yarchun

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:20 -0600

Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:34 -0600

C.P. Cavafy and Music

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:06 -0600

A program of Cavafy songs by Greek, American, German, and British composers, such as Manos Hadjidakis, K. Rekleitis, D. Gompper, K. Tsoupaki, M. Theodorakis, D. Papademetriou, W. Bolcom, Ron McFarland, D. Stephanidis, M. Plessas, Ned Rorem, A. Evangelatos and Christian Boissel.

The program brings together the two most popular areas of modern Greek culture, music and poetry. Although Cavafy's poems notoriously resist being set to music, composers have found the challenge irresistible. This program examines the challenges presented by the poetry and the diverse musical idioms that have been used to turn it into art song.

Lady from the Sea

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:47 -0500

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Directed by David Hanzal

Tickets are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Gallery tickets are $5 for non-students and free for UI students (with valid ID).

Productions may contain nudity, sexual content, simulated violence, or other adult content. For more information, please call the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700.

Cello Studio Recital

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:08:38 -0600

Chloroform Dreams by Katherine Sherman

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:52 -0500

Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:19 -0600

Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:34 -0600

Center for New Music, David Gompper, director

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:06 -0600

Hiking the Cascade Creek Trail (2012)
Zach ZUBOW (b. 1984)

Andrew Thierauf, percussion

Croquis, for string trio (1976-80)
Jeremy Dale ROBERTS (b. 1934)

Precipitoso
Croquis 2
Sommeil
Eye
From the Chinese
Quodlibet

Katie Wolfe, violin
Elizabeth Oakes, viola
Hannah Holman, violoncello

Musica segreta, for piano quartet (1996)
David GOMPPER (b. 1954)

Katie Wolfe, violin
Elizabeth Oakes, viola
Hannah Holman, violoncello
David Gompper, piano

Mirage of the Mountains for chamber ensemble (premiere) (2012)
Zach ZUBOW (b. 1984)

Chamber Symphony No. 1 (1992)
John ADAMS (b. 1947)

I. Mongrel Airs
II. Aria with Walking Bass
III. Roadrunner

CNM ensemble

Nora Epping, flute
Meghan Kimball, oboe
Marjorie Shearer and Lisa Marner, clarinets
Stephanie Patterson and Sarah Wildey, bassoons
Dan Spencer, horn
Deborah Bierschenk, trumpet
Jonathan Allen, trombone
Andrew Thierauf and Christine Augspurger, percussion
Grethe Nothling, piano
Megan Karls and Katie Wolfe, violins
Manuel Tabora, viola
Eunkyung Son and Yoo-Jung Chang, violoncelli
Michael White, double bass
David Gompper, conductor

Trumpet Studio recital

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:15:09 -0500

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:52 -0500

Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:18 -0600

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:33 -0600

Richard Shuster, piano masterclass

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:07 -0600

Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers by Louisa Hill

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:19 -0600

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:53 -0500

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:34 -0600

ArtsShare Collaborative Concert

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:08 -0600

Amy Schendel, trumpet; Gregory Hand, organ; Lee Nguyen, piano

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:53:39 -0600

Amy Schendel, professor of trumpet at the University of Iowa School of Music, will perform Concert Scherzo by Alexander Arutunian, Two Portraits by Joseph Turrin and "Someone to Watch Over Me" by George Gershwin. She will be joined by UI graduate and local pianist Lee Nguyen.

She will be joined by a faculty colleague, organist Gregory Hand, for "Christgeburt-Concerto" by Bernard Krol, and by trombonist Todd Schendel and Nguyen for "Eveils" for trumpet, trombone and piano by Jean-Francoise Michel.

Dr. Amy Schendel currently plays with the Iowa Brass Quintet and Contrapunctus Brass Trio. Previous positions include Spoleto Festival USA, Wisconsin Brass Quintet, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. She has also won trumpet positions with the United States Marine Band, “The President’s Own,” and the United States Air Force Ceremonial Band, Washington, D.C. Dr. Schendel has studied with John Aley, John Rommel, Robert Baca, Manny Laureano, Uwe Kleindienst, and Gary Bordner. She has degrees from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Indiana University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. While at Madison, she was a Paul J. Collins Wisconsin Distinguished Fellow and was co-author of a grant entitled Western Wisconsin Cultural Initiative, providing supplemental music performances to rural western Wisconsin school districts. Since 2009, Dr. Schendel is the trumpet professor at the University of Iowa.

The recital is free and open to the public and the Riverside Recital Hall is located at the former St. Thomas More Church at 405 N. Riverside Dr. in Iowa City.

Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers by Louisa Hill

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:18 -0600

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:54 -0500

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:34 -0600

Improvisation for Classical Musicians

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:08 -0600

Clarinet Studio recital

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:48 -0500

Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers by Louisa Hill

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:18 -0600

Lady from the Sea

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:54 -0500

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:35 -0600

Richard Shuster, piano

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:08 -0600

Scott Conklin, violin; Alan Huckleberry, piano and Jason Sifford, piano

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:50 -0500

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:53 -0500

Dean Billmeyer, organ

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:09 -0600

Hannah Holman, cello and Rene Lecuona, piano

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:39 -0600

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:54 -0500

Chamber Winds recital

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:09 -0600

Lysistrata, directed by Matt Hawkins

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:45 -0500

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Lysistrata by Ellen McLaughlin

Based on the play by Aristophanes

Directed by Matt Hawkins

Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace. Using a modern script by Ellen McLaughlin, director Matt Hawkins infuses Hip-Hop Music and Dance, choreographed by Katie Moffitt, to re-tell a classic Greek Play that celebrates Men, Women, Peace and Sex.

Lysistrata contains very strong adult situations, the use of very strong adult language, lots of sex jokes and sexually charged dance choreography. The performance is approximately one hour.

Tickets are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Gallery tickets are $5 for non-students and free for UI students (with valid ID).

For more information, please call the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700.

Michael Tsalka and Sonia Lee, duo-harpsichordists

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:40 -0600

Lady from the Sea

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:54 -0500

Romeo and Juliet

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:11 -0600

University Choir and Kantorei, Timothy Stalter, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:41 -0600

Lady from the Sea

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:55 -0500

Romeo and Juliet

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:11 -0600

Dance Gala 2011

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:55 -0500

Romeo and Juliet

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:12 -0600

Latitude Ensemble

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:36:02 -0500

Andrea Huber, masterclass and lecture/discussion

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:26 -0600

Dance Alumni Event

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:06:44 -0500

Electronic Music Studios

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:12 -0600

Electronic Music Studios

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:28 -0600

Chamber Winds recital

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:55:33 -0600

Johanna Kirk-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:31 -0600

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:57 -0500

Bassoon Studio Recital

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:46 -0500

Symphony Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:29 -0600

Johanna Kirk-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:30 -0600

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0500

Chamber Orchestra/All University String Orchestra

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:12 -0600

Marvin Bell concert

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:25 -0600

The University of Iowa Center for New Music will present a Marvin Bell Celebration -- the poetry of Bell set to music by CNM Director David Gompper -- at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol on the UI campus.

Featured performers will include UI faculty members Katherine Eberle, Timothy Stalter, John Muriello, Stephen Swanson, Volkan Orhon, Daniel Moore, Christine Rutledge; guest artist Tony Arnold from SUNY-Buffalo; the CNM Ensemble; and the Kantorei.

The program includes the premiere of Five Love Songs; "You're Not Dead Yet" for vocal quartet; "Light Poem" for mezzo and harp; "Poetry for a Midsummer's Night" for tenor, double bass, and piano; Selections from "The Animals" for baritone and piano; and "An Elm We Lost" for tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra. Get full details at http://www.uiowa.edu/~cnm/46.120219.html.

Gompper and Bell have collaborated on a UI seminar course, "Words & Music," and Gompper has been setting Bell's poems to music for many years. Bell, who was Iowa's first poet laureate, is an alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and he is now an emeritus faculty member after 40 years of teaching. One of America's leading poets, Bell has published 17 books of poetry and has received numerous honors.

Improvisation for Classical Musicians recital

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:29 -0600

Johanna Kirk-Dance Thesis Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:30 -0600

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0500

University and Concert Band

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:13 -0600

Viola Studio recital

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:08:30 -0600

"Jenga" by Deborah Yarchun, reading

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:03 -0500

Karen Becker, cello

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:26 -0600

CD Release recital: "Dreaming in Colors"

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:17:35 -0500

Benjamin Coelho, professor of bassoon, has been at The University of Iowa since 1998. He has appeared as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, teacher and clinician in several countries including the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Portugal, France, Romania, Australia, Canada and Czech Republic.

An avid chamber musician, he has performed with the Gramado Woodwind Quintet (Brazil), the Alaria Chamber Ensemble (New York) and the Contemporary Music Group of Minas Gerais (Brazil). As a founding member of the Manhattan Wind Quintet, Mr. Coelho performed numerous recitals and concert tours throughout the United States. The group won various chamber music competitions including Artists International, Coleman, and Monterey Peninsula Chamber Music Competition. In January of 1987 the quintet played a sold-out concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York.

Praised for his “impeccable musicianship, exhilarating technique, and panache” (American Record Guide), pianist Alan Huckleberry is recognized as a multi-faceted artist on the classical music scene. He has performed both in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in Germany, England, Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, Spain, France, Costa Rica, Colombia, and across the United States.

Huckleberry is also in demand as a chamber musician, with recitals across the United States, Australia, and Europe. He can be heard on four compact disc recordings on the Crystal Record and Albany Record labels.

Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:31 -0600

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:57 -0500

Andrew Parker, oboe and Alan Huckleberry, piano

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:13 -0600

William Westney, piano

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:32 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival, Undergraduate Evening

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:03 -0500

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0500

Symphony Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:14 -0600

Undergraduate Director's Festival

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:45:41 -0500

A UI Theatre Gallery Production

Plays:

The Raunchy Dame in the Chinese Raincoat directed by Kaitlyn Busbee

Medusa's Tale directed by Emilia Hodges

American Pride directed by Josh Raheim

Mastodon Juan directed by Mark Smolyar

Tickets are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Gallery tickets are $5 for non-students and free for UI students (with valid ID).

Productions may contain nudity, sexual content, simulated violence, or other adult content. For more information, please call the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700.

Chamber Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:33 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival, Undergraduate Evening

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:03 -0500

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:57 -0500

Steel Band II and III

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:15 -0600

Composer's Workshop, David Gompper, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:33 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:08:41 -0500

By Neil Simon

Directed by Eric Forsythe

It’s 1942. Brothers Arty and Jay, whose single dad Eddie works as a traveling salesman to pay off medical debts incurred by the death of his wife, are left in the care of their Grandma Kurnitz and Aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York. Grandma is formidable and intimidating to the young boys (and to most of Yonkers, for that matter). Bella is a sweet but mentally challenged young woman who longs to marry a movie house usher to create a family of her own. Bella’s brother Louie is a charming, tough-talking hoodlum on the run, and sister Gert suffers from a breathing problem with causes more psychological than physical. Desperate to escape their quirky and demanding caretakers, Jay and Arty scheme to make money fast to help their father reconstruct their small family. In the process, they learn about love, respect, and responsibility. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened on Broadway in 1991 and ran for 780 performances, garnering 4 Tony Awards, including Best Play.

About the Playwright

Born in the Bronx, New York, Marvin Neil Simon, a product of a marriage that saw its share of turbulence, grew up in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood. After graduating from public school, he enlisted in the Army and began his career writing for an Army camp newspaper. A week later, armistice was declared. After discharge, he returned to New York and became a mailroom clerk for Warner Brothers' East Coast office. Soon he was writing comedy revues with his brother Danny in the Poconos, then for radio, providing material for the likes of Tallulah Bankhead, and finally, for television, where he helped make Phil Silvers, Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Garry Moore, Sid Caesar, and Imogene Coca funny.

Simon has written 28 plays, holds the record for the greatest number of hits in the American theater, and has rewarded with four Tony Awards, two Emmys, a Screen Writers Guild Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. A sample of his hits includes The Odd Couple (1965), Promises, Promises (1968), The Out of Towners (1970), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues (1985), Broadway Bound (1986), and The Goodbye Girl (1993). The city which has figured so prominently in his life and work has honored him by making him the only living playwright for whom a Broadway theater is named.

Excerpt from www.kennedy-center.org

This production is sponsored in part by The University of Iowa Office of Summer Session.

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Horn Studio recital

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:16 -0600

Iowa Brass Quintet

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:43 -0500

UI Horn Choir

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:34 -0600

School of Music Benefit Concert with Eugene Rousseau

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:34:40 -0500

Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado

Bill Theisen, director
William LaRue Jones, conductor

Three little maids from school, a hilariously pompous government official, a wandering minstrel and a Lord High Executioner… just some of the hilariously absurd characters in Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous operetta, The Mikado. Set in the fictional Japanese town of Titipu, The Mikado is a tale of the beautiful school girl Yum-Yum, who is engaged to be married to Ko-Ko, the tailor-turned-Lord High Executioner, despite her love for the romantic, wandering minstrel, Nanki-Poo. Will these two young lovers find their happily-ever-after . . . or will heads roll? The merriment of Gilbert & Sullivan is sure to amuse and delight audiences of all ages!

This production is sponsored in part by The University of Iowa Office of Summer Session.

Ticketing:

Reserved Seating:
$20 nonstudents
$15 seniors
$10 Youth (17 & Under)
$5 Students (must present a student ID)

Tickets available through the Englert Box Office

Bill Theisen,

Bill Theisen, director

William LaRue Jones, conductor

director

William LaRue Jones, conductor

Three little maids from school, a hilariously pompous government official, a wandering minstrel and a Lord High Executioner… just some of the hilariously absurd characters in Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous operetta, The Mikado. Set in the fictional Japanese town of Titipu, The Mikado is a tale of the beautiful school girl Yum-Yum, who is engaged to be married to Ko-Ko, the tailor-turned-Lord High Executioner, despite her love for the romantic, wandering minstrel, Nanki-Poo. Will these two young lovers find their happily-ever-after . . . or will heads roll? The merriment of Gilbert & Sullivan is sure to amuse and delight audiences of all ages!

Camerata and Women's Chorale

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:17 -0600

Sarah Plum, violin

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:45 -0500

Drake University faculty violinist Sarah Plum, guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free recital with pianist Kate Boyd at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.

They will perform the Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor K. 304 by W. A. Mozart, the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Leo Janacek, and "Kreutzer" Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Plum began her performing career by winning the first prize at the International Stulberg Competition in 1984. Subsequently she has appeared on stages in the United States and abroad as a soloist and chamber musician as well as in contemporary music ensembles and top orchestras. She played in the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the North German Radio Orchestra, the Saarlaendischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Saarlaendisches Staatstheater, and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra.

Boyd is a faculty member at Butler University and a founding member of the New York-based Oracle Trio, a piano trio that performs works from the eighteenth century to the present.

University and Concert Band

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:34 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:01:32 -0500

Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt

Directed by Nathan Halvorson

Based on the hugely popular 1951 Jan de Hartog play The Fourposter, this two-character musical follows Michael and Agnes through fifty years of marriage (1895 to1945). Experience the joy and laughter, success and disappointment, and trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century couple as they work through the challenges of their marriage, their family, and each other. The set consists solely of their bedroom, dominated by the large fourposter bed in the center of the room. The Broadway production opened in 1966 and ran for 560 performances with Mary Martin and Robert Preston as the original cast. Nominated for 7 Tony Awards (Preston won for Best Actor), I Do! I Do! features the musical number “My Cup Runneth Over.” The most popular recording of the song, by Ed Ames, topped the charts in 1967. Jones and Schmidt also created The Fantasticks.

About the Creators

Jones wrote the book and lyrics for I Do! I Do! as well as The Fantasticks, collaborating on both with Schmidt. For several years Jones and Schmidt worked privately at their theater workshop, concentrating on small-scale musicals in new and often untried forms. The most notable of these efforts were Celebration, which moved to Broadway. The Show Goes On, a musical revue featuring their theatre songs and starring Jones and Schmidt, was presented at the York Theatre to great acclaim. Jones and Schmidt were introduced into the Broadway Hall of Fame at the Gershwin Theatre, and their "stars" were added to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

-Excerpt from www.americantheatrewing.org

This production is sponsored in part by The University of Iowa Office of Summer Session.

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Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:15 -0600

Senior Recital Revisited: 45 years later

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:16 -0600

Baritone Stephen Swanson, a faculty member in the University of Iowa School of Music, will be joined by pianist Casey Rafn to perform "Senior Recital Revisited: 45 Years Later," at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, in Iowa City's Congregational United Church of Christ, 30 N. Clinton St.

The event will recreate the 1967 recital program Swanson gave in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music degree at North Park College in Chicago. As an academic exercise the recital was intended to demonstrate proficiency in several foreign languages, mastery of a variety of musical styles, and a comfort level in performing both arias and art songs.

The program will begin with arias from Handel's "Messiah" and Bach's Cantata #130. Swanson will also sing German art songs by Brahms, Schubert, Wolf, and Strauss, followed by French art songs by Duparc and Ravel. The program will conclude with selections from Vaughan Williams' "Songs of Travel."

Read Swanson's bio at http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/faculty_staff/profiles/swanson.shtml.

Rafn is a student Ksenia Nosikova majoring in piano performance. He won the 2010 Iowa Music Teachers Association Young Artist competition, and at the 2011 Liszt-Garrison International Competition of the American Liszt Society he was awarded the top two Young Artist prizes.

Kenneth Tse, saxophone and Jason Sifford, piano

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:35 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:36:10 -0500

By Paul Zindel

Directed by Mary Beth Easley

Ruth and Tillie are school-aged sisters trying to cope under challenging conditions. Their single mother, whose life has gone awry, is the main challenge. While shy Tillie prepares her science fair experiment involving marigolds exposed to radioactivity, her mother continually attempts to sabotage any chances Tillie might have at success or happiness. To make matters worse, Tillie’s sister Ruth, an unstable adolescent prone to cooperating with their mother’s antics, blackmails Tillie to hand over her prized pet rabbit. When optimism and perseverance collide with fear and malice, can the family unit survive? This 1971 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama offers a powerfully honest look at a family seeking love and acceptance in a challenging world.

About the Playwright

“I grew up on Staten Island with my mother and sister. When I was young, my father left the family. My mother struggled to get money from him, and tried to keep us together, moving from apartment to apartment and coming up with "get-rich-quick" schemes. By the time I was ten I had gone nowhere, but had seen the world. I dared to speak and act my true feelings only in fantasy and secret. That's probably what made me a writer. In high school, I wrote my first play. During my ten years of teaching, I continued to write plays. My first staged play was The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. It is the kind of story that just sort of pops right out of you, because you've lived it.”

-Excerpt from “My Biography by Paul Zindel” at www.paulzindel.com

This production is sponsored in part by The University of Iowa Office of Summer Session.

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University Choir and Kantorei, Timothy Stalter, director

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:18 -0600

Thu, 19 May 2011 08:41:40 -0500

Concerto in A minor (Antonio Vivaldi)
Allegro
Larghetto
Allegro

Cinque Pezzi Facili (Nino Rota)
La Passeggiata di Puccettino
Serenata
Pavana
La Chioccia
Il Soldatino

Il pleut, Il pleut Bergere (Paul A. Genin)

Rima (Mariyn Bliss)

Evocação (Pattapio Silva)
Primeiro Amor

Sonata for piccolo and piano (Mike Mower)
Lively
Gently
Fiery

Honor Choir, Timothy Stalter, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:17 -0600

Evan Pettit, double bass

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:06:34 -0500

Come and celebrate the return of an Iowa alum to the UI stage! The first half of this unique concert will feature solo works by living composers who are also bass players: "The Death of Desdemona" for Double Bass and Stereo Tape by Frank Proto, former composer-in-residence for the Cincinnati Symphony; "B.B. Wolf (An Apologia)" by Hungarian-American Jon Deak, associate principal bass of the New York Philharmonic; and "Bass Trip" by influential Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. Pettit will then be joined by bassoonist T.J. Blackburn, an adjunct faculty member at Oklahoma Baptist University, for a performance of the Sonata for Bassoon and Cello by W.A. Mozart.

Evan Pettit is a doctoral student at the University of Oklahoma (OU), where he serves as graduate assistant for Dr. Anthony Stoops and the OU double bass studio. He is also a three-year holder of an OU Alumni Fellowship.

Before his appointment at OU, Pettit earned his Master’s Degree at the University of Iowa under Volkan Orhon and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin- Platteville. In his professional career, Pettit has served as principal double bassist for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria and has also performed with the Laustizer Opern Sommer Festival in Cottbus, Germany. He performs regularly in the United States as a member of the Lawton Symphony and the Norman Philharmonic (Oklahoma).

While establishing his performance career, Pettit is also researching the affect of stretches and physical fitness on the playing life of double bassists.

Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:36 -0600

Society of Composers

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:18 -0600

Dorian Leljak, piano

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:17 -0600

Pianist Dorian Leljak, a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music, will perform music by Chopin and Rachmaninov in a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

The program will include a prelude, two mazurkas, two nocturnes and the Barcarolle, Op. 60, by Chopin, and Rachmaninov's Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor (second version).

Leljak, who teaches at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in Serbia and the Royal College of Music, has won several international piano competitions, including the Rachmaninov Competition in Belgrade. He has performed worldwide as a recitalist and orchestral soloist.

He is also the artistic director of the International Isidor Bajic Piano Competition, president of the World Piano Teachers Association and the World Piano Congress, and president of the European Piano Teachers Association.

Iowa Summer Music Camp, Koplant No jazz concert

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:12:02 -0500

Ben Pierce, tuba

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:06:35 -0500

Pierce's program will feature the Sonata in G minor by 18th-century English composer Henry Eccles; Parallels by contemporary Hungarian pianist/composer Áron Romhányi; Insects, a work written this year by Russian composer Elena Lebedeva, and two arrangements by Pierce -- the Romanze, op. 2, by Carl Nielsen, and Three Spanish Dances by Pablo de Sarasate.

Pierce is a faculty member at the University of Arkansas, where he directs the tuba/euphonium ensemble, and he is the editor of the Journal of the International Tuba Euphonium Association. The winner of numerous international competitions, he is a member of the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and has performed as a soloist and ensemble member with orchestras in Asia, North America and Europe.

Society of Composers

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:36 -0600

University of Minnesota New Music Ensemble

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:19 -0600

John Manning, tuba; Johathan Allen, trombone; and Lee Nguyen, piano

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:17 -0600

Tubist John Manning, a faculty member in the University of Iowa School of Music, will prepare for his upcoming engagement at the Isla Verde Bronces Brass Festival with a free recital at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. He will be assisted by pianist Lee Nguyen and faculty trombonist Jonathan Allen.

The program will feature a commissioned world premiere by Argentine composer Roberto Pintos, as well as "Three Romances for Susie" by Barbara York, "Thoughts of Sunraysia" by Australian composer Eric Gross, Dialogue for Trombone and Tuba by John Stevens, and "Concertpiece for Tuba and Piano" by Libby Larsen, and Manning's arrangement of the Concerto for Double Bass by Capuzzi.

Manning will play some of this program Feb. 10 in Isla Verde, where he will be on a faculty that includes Paul Archibald from the Royal Academy in London, Jacques Mauger from the Paris Opera, international soloist Pierre Badel, Frank Lloyd from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Canadian Brass founding member Ronald Romm.

Iowa Summer Music Camp, jazz faculty concert

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:12:02 -0500

Semi-Annual Last Chance Percussion Concert

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:10:19 -0600

The Last Flight by Levi Smith

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:46:51 -0500

By Levi Smith

A UI Theatre Workshop

Tickets are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Workshop productions are free of charge, however you must obtain a ticket at the door, as seating is limited. Productions may contain nudity, sexual content, simulated violence, or other adult content. For more information, please call the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700.

Eric Plutz, organ

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:20:18 -0600

Eric Plutz, university organist at Princeton University, will present a free recital as a guest of the University of Iowa School of Music at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, in the Riverside Recital Hall.

He will perform the Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, Op. 37, No. 1, by Felix Mendelssohn; Trumpet Minuet by Alfred Hollins; the Scherzo from Five Short Pieces by Percy Whitlock; a Serenade by contemporary composer Derek Bourgeois; the Andante, K. 616 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sonata No. 3 in d, BWV 527, by Johann Sebastian Bach; "Miroir" by contemporary composer Ad Wammes; Capriccio on the Notes of the Cuckoo by Richard Purvis; and three settings of "Ein' Feste Burg" by Jan Bender, Johann Gottfried Walther, and Gerald Near.

At Princeton Plutz' responsibilities include playing for weekly services at the chapel, academic ceremonies, solo concerts, and accompanying the Chapel Choir in services and concerts. Plutz, originally from Rock Island, Ill., is a graduate of the Westminster Choir College and the Eastman School of Music, and he has recorded two well-received CDs.

Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Spring Concert

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:09:52 -0600

Tickets are $12 non-students, $6 seniors, $6 youth. Admission for UI students is free (with valid ID). Tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office by calling 319-335-1160 or 1-800-HANCHER; or click to buy online.

Organ Studio Recital

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:44:29 -0500

Cello Studio Recital

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:44:40 -0500

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:54:06 -0500

This event is being hosted jointly by the Iowa Summer Music Camps and the Iowa City Summer Jazz Fesitval. For more information on the Iowa City Summer Jazz Festival, please visit http://www.summerofthearts.org/festival-menu/jazz-festival/schedule.aspx.

The rain location for this event is the Riverside Recital Hall located at 405 N. Riverside Dr. in the former St. Thomas More church. Visit http://itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu/bandaids/campus_maps/building_details.cfm?abbr=rrh for directions.

Cristina Gerling, piano

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:25:06 -0500

Tinwomen by Bethany Jackson, reading

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:46:50 -0500

By Bethany Jackson

A UI Theatre Public Reading

Public Readings are open to everyone and are free of charge. However, you must obtain a ticket, as seating is limited. Tickets are available one hour before curtain at the UI Theatre Building. Readings may contain adult language. For more information, please call the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700.

Cristina Gerling piano masterclass

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:25:08 -0500

The Boat House by Eve Adderly, reading

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:46:50 -0500

By Eve Adderley

A UI Theatre Public Reading

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:49:23 -0500

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:32:01 -0500

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:47:11 -0500

By Lydia R. Diamond

Directed by Tisch Jones

Advisory: This production includes adult language and content, including some sexual situations, strong language, and simulated drug use.

Barry Green, "Bringing Music to Life"

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:46:33 -0500

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:41:34 -0500

Iowa Brass Concert

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:13 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:49 -0500

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:36:31 -0500

Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:44:05 -0500

Working Group Theatre, the University of Iowa Veterans Association, and The Telling Project are proud to present:

Telling: Iowa City

Itʼs time to speak. Itʼs time to listen.

An original play based on the experiences of Iowa veterans, performed by the veterans themselves. America has been at war for over ten years, but with less than 1% of the population serving in the military, the veterans among us go largely unseen. Bringing veterans from the Marine Corps, Army, Navy and Air Force, with service experiences ranging from field hospitals in Vietnam, to the oil-filled skies of Desert Storm, from Afghan air bases to the Pentagon on 9/11, Telling: Iowa City hopes to change that. Telling: Iowa City promises to be a unique and unforgettable theatre event.

Performances are Tuesday November 8, Wednesday November 9 and Thursday November 10 at 7:30pm at the University of Iowa Theatre Building in Theatre B. Tickets to these performances are FREE, thanks in part to the generous support of the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts.

Founded in Eugene, Oregon by Jonathan Wei, The Telling Project has been produced in Eugene and Portland, OR, Sacramento, CA, Starkville, MS, Washington, DC, Seattle, WA and Baltimore, MD. This is the first time Telling will be performed in the Midwest.

For more information about Telling: Iowa City, go to www.workinggrouptheatre.org. Also see the University of Iowa press release here.

Performances of Telling: Iowa City are generously sponsored by grants from Humanities Iowa/The National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Legion of Iowa Foundation and Rockwell Collins, and the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts. Additional support has been given by the UI Centre for Human Rights, the UI School of Social Work, the UI School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the UI Department of History, and UI Student Disability Services.

Brad Dutz Jazz Duo

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:09:52 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:50 -0500

Brass Chamber Ensembles

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:24:13 -0500

Rachel Joselson, soprano and Soo Eun Choi, piano

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:09:53 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:51 -0500

Thu, 05 May 2011 23:36:28 -0500

Plan on taking a break from the June heat to enjoy a performance by the talented young musicians participating in the Hawkeye Band and Summer Hawk Orchestra of the 2011 Iowa Summer Music Camps.

The Summer Hawk Orchestra will be directed by UI School of Music faculty member Dr. William LaRue Jones, who is currently Director of Orchestral Studies and conducts the UI Symphony Orchestra, in addition to teaching graduate-level conducting in the School of Music. Their program will include:

Symphony No. 5 (Reformation) Mvt. IV: Andante con moto-Allegro Maestoso/Felix Mendelssohn arr. Vernon Leidig

Fantasia on a Theme from Thailand/Richard Meyer

"Jupiter-Bringer of Jollity" from The Planets/Gustav Holst arr. Vernon Leidig

William LaRue Jones is “one of the most active and versatile symphonic conductors in America today, possessing a unique ability to work effectively with musicians at all levels of performing capability and experience” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). His conducting schedule averages over 100 concerts annually and includes a wide array of professional, festival, collegiate and student ensembles throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, ranging from the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops, to the Penang (Malaysia) Symphony, the Antofagasta (Chile) Symphony and the Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne (Switzerland). Recent conducting engagements include orchestras in Illinois, Wisconsin, Nevada, Ohio, Minnesota, Arizona, Maryland, Nebraska and Florida, as well as concerts in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia, Belem, Brazil, and Liaoning, China. He was appointed ‘Honorable Visiting Professor’ of Shenyang Normal University (China) and returns annually to conduct and present master classes. In addition, Jones has conducted over 90 All-State orchestras with additional festival/clinics in each of the 50 states and Canadian provinces. For his untiring work on behalf of music and arts education, he has been honored with the David W. Preuss Leadership award, the American String Teachers Associations Exceptional Leadership and Merit Award, the Sigma Alpha Iota Musician of the Year Award, WCCO Radio "Good Neighbor Award" and the State of Minnesota Governors' Proclamation of "Dr. William LaRue Jones Day." A Texas native, Dr. Jones holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa and Kansas State University, with additional studies at The Juilliard School of Music and the University of North Texas.

The Hawkeye Band will be conducted by UI School of Music alumus Mark Whitlock, who is currently Director of Bands at the University of Minnesota Deluth. The program will include:

Cenotaph/Jack Stamp

Benediction/John Stevens

Joy Revisited/Frank Ticheli

Canticle of the Creatures/Jim Curnow

His Honor/Henry Fillmore ed. Frederick Fennell

Mark Whitlock is Director of Bands at the University of Minnesota Duluth. His responsibilities include directing the Concert Band and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, teaching Instrumental Conducting, Instrumental Teaching Methods and supervision of Instrumental Student Teachers. Prior to his appointment at UMD, Mark was Assistant Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Trombone at Eastern Kentucky University, a position he held since 1986. While at Eastern Kentucky University, Mark was the Associate Director of the Stephen Collins Foster Music Camp and was the director of the junior high band portion of that camp. Dr. Whitlock has earned degrees from Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Dr. Whitlock is the founder and director of the North Shore Summer Music Experience.

Faculty/Graduate Dance Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:25 -0600

Tickets: $12; $6 for senior citizen and youth; FREE for UI students (with valid ID). All UI Dance tickets are available through the Hancher Box Office at 319-335-1160, 1-800-HANCHER, or http://www.hancher.uiowa.edu/tickets.

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:52 -0500

Eberle Voice Studio recital

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:36 -0500

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:52 -0500

Voice Area recital

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:14:56 -0500

Latin Jazz Ensemble

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:36 -0500

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:54 -0500

Electronic Music Studio, Lawrence Fritts, director

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:36 -0500

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:55 -0500

Bassoon Recital: Ricardo Rapoport, David Rachor, and Benjamin Coelho, bassoon

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:49:37 -0600

David Cooper, trumpet and Keith Leinert, percussion

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:36 -0500

David Cooper is widely recognized as one of the most versatile trumpets players in the Midwest. His performing affiliations include the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the New Breed Jazz Quintet, The Art Blakey Tribute Band, and The Tim Whalen Nonet. Performances have been with such renowned artists as; Doc Severinsen, Adolph Herseth, Kurt Elling, Wayne Newton, Lynn Harrell, Orbert Davis, Ben Sidran, Andre Watts, Bob Mintzer, Joe Williams, Ed Shaunessy, Clyde Stubblefield, Bobby McFerrin, Armen Donelian, Lew Soloff, Bobby Shew, Bob Newhart, Marie Osmond, Robert Goulet, among others. Ensemble affiliations have included the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, the Milwaukee, Madison, Canton and La Crosse Symphony Orchestras, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, The Dallas Brass, Walt Disney World, and the Aspen Jazz Ensemble.

Keith Lienert is a music lecturer at the University of Wisconsin in Platteville, where he teaches music courses, coordinates percussion studies, and directs the Pioneer Percussion Ensemble. In addition to his teaching duties at Platteville, Keith has performed with the Rountree Ensemble, the Dubuque Symphony, and most recently performed on WPR "Live at the Chazen" with UW-Platteville faculty group Ensemble Nouveau.

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:56 -0500

Patricia von Blumroder, piano

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:06 -0600

Matthew Steckler and Dead Cat Bounce

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:37 -0500

Presciently stripped from the headlines, the term dead cat bounce denotes a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. To the artists in Dead Cat Bounce, it signifies one's dedication to creative rebirth and renewal even as times, traditions and masters move on.

Featuring four saxophones of all ranges plus upright bass and drums, Dead Cat Bounce since 1997 has been the unique artistic vision of founder and composer Matt Steckler. Word of DCB's high caliber as a performance ensemble has brought them to festivals and concerts nationally, and garnered distinctions from Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Boston Music Awards, Jazz Times, The Washington Post, Cadence and many others in the creative music community.

Dead Cat Bounce invokes Charles Mingus and the World Saxophone Quartet with their "tightly arranged, swirling contrapuntal reeds and multi-part, blues n' roots-infused tricky compositions" (Jon Garelick, the Boston Phoenix). Their eclectic approach to rhythm is informed by traditions from the Caribbean, Deep South, Brazil, West Africa, Eastern Europe and Detroit. In Dead Cat Bounce, solo and collective improvisations energetically complement the poise of its ever-expanding compositional repertoire.

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:57 -0500

John Cage panel discussion

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:07 -0600

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:45:59 -0500

John Cage's "Lecture on Nothing"

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:07 -0600

Katie Wolfe, violin and Adrienne Kim, piano

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:32 -0500

Pianist Adrienne Kim's recent performances include recitals in New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Bargemusic, Boston's Symphony Hall, Washington D.C.'s Phillips Gallery and Ravinia's Rising Stars series in Chicago. She has appeared as soloist with the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and the Richmond Orchestra. Ms. Kim was a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's residency program for emerging young artists, and has performed with David Shifrin, Daniel Phillips, Ida Kavafian, Edgar Meyer, Cho-Liang Lin, Fred Sherry, Lucy Shelton, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito Rivera, and members of the Brentano, Borromeo, Cassatt, Mendelssohn, Meridian and Miami String Quartets.

Violinist Katie Wolfe leads an intriguing career mix as a soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, orchestral leader and adjudicator. She has performed in the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, the Soviet Union, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. She also shares her passion for music as a teacher. Originally from Minnesota, she joined the string faculty of The University of Iowa in 2004 as Associate Professor of Violin. Prior to teaching in Iowa, Ms. Wolfe taught violin, viola, and chamber music at Oklahoma State University. She also served as Associate Concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:43:10 -0500

"Musicircus"

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:07 -0600

Dance Forum/UI Youth Ballet Winter Concert

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:41:09 -0500

This is a FREE event.

The graduating BFA candidates from the Department of Dance present the BFA Dance Event. This event showcases the eight Dance BFA and Honors Thesis Projects. The eight BFA candidates in dance include: Shaina Branfman, Kimberly Chmielewski, Erin Fitzgerald, Jennifer Gram, Steven Gray, Brittany Reuss, Kimberly Staniforth, and Juliana Walter. The performance will highlight the skills of the graduating seniors and represents the best of what the University of Iowa Dance Department has to offer. It is a diverse show including many forms of contemporary dance such as ballet and modern. The pieces were choreographed by a variety of choreographers from the University of Iowa faculty and guests from Chicago and New York City.

The eight works are presentations of extensive artistic research and explorations on a variety of subjects including social contexts, historical perspectives, voyeurism and femininity, and character development. The BFA candidates have worked throughout the year to develop their projects, and have collaborated to bring this final performance to the stage.

The event is free and open to the public.

Thomas L. Davis Biennial Percussion Alumni Concert

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:55 -0600

Music IC festival: A Very Open Rehearsal

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:42:50 -0500

"Music IC: Where Literature and Music Meet,"

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:19:41 -0500

Clarinet Studio recital

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:48:38 -0600

William Westney lecture/demo

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:09:46 -0600

William Westney workshop

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:09:46 -0600

Big Love by Charles L. Mee

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:19:58 -0500

Directed by Paul Kalina

Thu, 05 May 2011 23:30:04 -0500

The recital will include two members of the School of Music instrumental faculty, Benjamin Coelho, professor of bassoon, and Amy Schendel, professor of trumpet. Rounding out the program will be several School of Music graduate students and teaching assistants who are serving on the instrumental faculty of Week 1 of the 2011 Iowa Summer Music Camps.

For more information, contact the department of bands at 319-335-1635.

Alumni Organ Duo recital

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:17:20 -0500

Featuring University Alumni Paul Tegels and Dana Robinson

Paul Tegels, a native of the Netherlands, is university organist at Pacific Lutheran University. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship from the Netherlands-America Commission for Educational Exchange.

He has done extensive research on the concertos of Haydn, and played the American premiere of the Haydn Organ Concerto in D, for which he prepared a performance edition. He is past dean of the Tacoma Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and is president of the Westfield Center, a national resource for keyboard music.

Dana Robinson has performed on some of the most significant modern and historic organs in the United States, and has presented recitals, master classes, and lectures for many organizations, including the National Convention of the Organ Historical Society. His performances are frequently featured on the syndicated radio program "Pipedreams," and he is now the organist of Grace Lutheran Church in Champaign.

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:18:39 -0500

The 2011 Iowa Summer Music Camps Talent Show has been cancelled.

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:26 -0600

Directed by Meredith Alexander

Thu, 19 May 2011 08:55:45 -0500

Serenade aux Etoilles op. 142 (Cècile Chaminade)

Incontro e Danza (Alessandro Cavicchi)

Piccolo Italiano (Gary Schocker)

The Crazy Acrobat (Raffaele Bellafronte)

Two Melodies of Japan
Hamabe-no-uta (Tamezo Narita)
Aku-tombo (Kosaku Yamada)

Piccolo Concerto op. 50 (Lowell Liebermann)
I. Andante comodo
II. Adagio
III. Presto

Thu, 19 May 2011 09:44:23 -0500

Piccolinette (Jules Pillevestre)
Fantaisie-Polka

Nicole Esposito, Horacio Massone, piccolos
Tim Carey piano

Le Bouquet de Roses Op. 408 (Eugene Damare)

Horacio Massone, piccolo
Tim Carey, piano

Fantasie No. 10 in F# minor (G. P. Telemann)

Nicole Esposito, piccolo

Carnivale di Venezia (P. A. Genin)

Horacio Massone, piccolo

Gli Amanti Segreti (Christopher Caliendo)

Nicole Esposito, Nicola Mazzanti, piccolos

Eco di Napoli (Donato Lovreglio)

Nicola Mazzanti, piccolo
Tim Carey, piano

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:38:33 -0500

Lysistrata, directed by Matt Hawkins

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:30:32 -0500

This is a FREE event open to all.

The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts and the UI International Writing Program will present “Global Express” an evening of staged readings of works by current participants in the IWP at 7:00p.m. Saturday, October 15th in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building.

The free production is organized and directed by actress/director Saffron Henke with dramaturgy by Maggie Conroy, an alumna of UI Playwrights Workshop.

“Global Express”, now in its eleventh year, has become an annual event where international writers have an opportunity to see their work be staged, whether it’s a play, short story or a poem. This year Singapore, Scotland, New Zealand, India, Australia, Nigeria and the Philippines will be represented.

For more information, please call the Department of Theatre Arts at 319-335-2700.

Shinsai: Theaters for Japan

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:05:27 -0600

Dancers in Company Home Concert

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:48:29 -0600

Combined Efforts by Janet Schlapkohl

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:56:09 -0600

8 pm Th-Sat, April 7-9 / 2 pm Sun, April 10, UI Theatre Building

The play hits on several topics of interest, the labor movement, the ILGWU and WTU women's organizations, Vaudeville theatre, and disability. It also nearly coincides with the 100 year anniversary of the event of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. March 25th, 1911. This play is a collaborative production that will involve persons with special needs.

A University Theatres Gallery production. Tickets are available one hour before showtime. Gallery show tickets are $5 for non-students and free for UI students (with valid ID).

Related Events Sponsored by the UI Center for Human Rights and the UI Labor Center

From the Ashes of the Old: The Triangle Fire and its Labor Rights Legacy

The UI Center for Human Rights and the UI Labor Center will co-sponsor a series of public events on the UI campus in March and April to mark the 100th anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and to examine its relevance in the present. The Center for Human Rights and the Labor Center and their UI partners are participants in the national Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition.

April 4-11 - Presente—She Is Here with Us: Paintings by Janet Essley

Paintings of garment workers from around the world on display at the UI Theatre Building April 4-11.

April 7-10 - Post-performance “talk-back” discussions on labor rights sponsored by the UI Center for Human Rights and UI Labor Center

April 7: “Letting History Speak,” Kristin Cippard, Triangle Director
April 8: “Fighting Exploitation and Deadly Fires in Today’s Global Sweatshops,” Trina Tocco, International Labor Rights Forum
April 9: “Women Workers and the Right to Organize: From Iowa’s 1911 Button Strike to Today,” Janet Weaver, UI Women’s Archives and Robin Clark-Bennett, UI Labor Center
April 10: “The Triangle Fire’s Legacy,” Shel Stromquist, UI History Dept., and "Fairness in Fashion," Loyce Arthur, UI Theatre Dept.

April 14 – Unfinished Business: Hawkeye Apparel and the Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement

Featuring live video chat with unionized Dominican Republic factory workers who sew Hawkeye apparel under the Alta Gracia label.

These events are free and open to the public. Sponsored by:

UI Center for Human Rights
UI Labor Center
UI Iowa Women’s Archives
UI Department of Theatre Arts
UI International Programs

For more Triangle event details, please visit:

UI Center for Human Rights website:
http://international.uiowa.edu/centers/human-rights/TriangleEvents.asp

UI Labor Center website:
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/news/index.html

School of Music Benefit Concert with Eugene Rousseau

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:08:25 -0500

Join the University of Iowa School of Music and acclaimed saxophonist Eugene Rousseau in a benefit concert and marking an exciting first step in raising resources to build a new home for the School. Mr. Rousseau will be performing with both student and faculty ensembles during the first half of the concert. The second half of the concert will feature the world-renowned musician with the Johnson County Landmark jazz band, under the direction of John Rapson.

Program:

Paul Hindemith, Konzertstück for Two Saxophones, with Stephen Page (DMA Candidate)
Ludwig van Beethoven, op.11 Trio, with Anthony Arnone, cello, and Uriel Tsachor, piano
Bernard Heiden, Intrada, with Nicole Esposito, flute, Andrew Parker, oboe, Maurita Mead, clarinet, Benjamin Coelho, bassoon, Jeffrey Agrell, horn

intermission

‘Round Midnight, Thelonious Monk (arr. David Baker) – Eugene Rousseau, baritone saxophone
Body and Soul, Green/Heyman/Sour/Eyton (arr. Rich Shanklin) – Eugene Rousseau, soprano saxophone
Harlem Nocturne, Earle Hagen (arr. Eugene Rousseau) – Eugene Rousseau, alto saxophone
Woodchoppers’ Ball, Woody Herman and Joe Bishop – Eugene Rousseau, clarinet

Ticketing:

Reserved Seating:
$25 Adults
$10 Youth (17 & Under)
$5 Students (must present a student ID)

Tickets available through the Englert Box Office

The proceeds from this concert will only be used to fund the non-Federal share of the project cost or for project improvements and will not be used to duplicate any benefit under the Public Assistance Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. If any gift is associated with any naming recognition at a specific gift level, the naming is not any indication that the funds were used to construct any specific space or portion of space in the building, but is a recognition naming opportunity for a certain level of gift.

Undergraduate Concert, UI Dance Department

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:09:51 -0600

The program for this spring's undergraduate dance concert, selected through adjudication, consists of Steven Gray's "Greener on the Other Side," Emily Rezetko's "Spokes," "Far From Home" by Erin Fitzgerald, "Re Progression" by Brittany Reuss, Madison DeWitt's "Inanimate Objects Are People Too," Stephanie Baer's performance of David Dorfman's "Lightbulb Theory," "Removing the "EX" from Urgency" by Kim Chmielewski, "Aspire to Prevail" by Julianna Walter, Erin Hull's "Soaked in Taint" and Libby Dunnigan's "Amongst the Grass."

The solos and small-ensemble pieces feature music ranging from the theme from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" to Lesley Gore to a string quartet arrangement of Radiohead to Brad Paisley.

Center for New Music

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:44 -0600

This concert is the homecoming performance of the annual Center for New Music tour. The Ensemble is joined by special guests Michael Norsworthy, clarinet; Rogerio Wolf, flute; and the Maia Quartet.

Michael Norsworthy's virtuosity and unique voice on the clarinet have made him a sought after soloist and chamber music collaborator and garnered praise from critics and audiences around the globe. His performances have taken him to distinguished concert venues including Vienna’s Musikverein, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Philharmonie Hall, New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and Miller Theatre, Boston’s Jordan and Symphony Halls, St. Louis’ Sheldon Concert Hall, Festival Casals de Puerto Rico and the Aspen Music Festival.

After more than 25 year as principal flute at the best orchestras in Brazil such OSESP - São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra - from 1981 to 2001 and OSB - Brazilian Symphony Orchestra – in Rio de Janeiro from 2003 to 2006, Rogerio Wolf currently is dadicate to play as soloist, chamber music player and is the presidente of the Brazilian Flute Association-ABRAF. Since he left the orchestral work, was invited to solo many concerts including Khachaturian Flute Concert, Rodrigo’s Concerto Pastoral and many others. Considered one of the most important flute teachers in Brazil, he has been invited to teach in several institutions and several music festivals all over Brazil and abroad. He is flute professor at the Escola Municipal de São Paulo, Faculdade Cantareira and Instituto Baccarelli in São Paulo. His discography includes: Trio for Flute, Viola and Guitar, Music for Flute; dedicated to Boismortier’s compositions, and more recently, Luminamara dedicated to contemporary Brazilian composers and Retratos de Radamés, with the chamber music from Radamés Gnattali.

Since its formation in 1990, the Maia Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Iowa, has established itself nationally as an ensemble of innovation and versatility. Praised by critics for its "sparkling musical intelligence," (The Baltimore Sun) the Quartet has appeared in major concert halls throughout the U.S. and abroad, including New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall and the 92nd Street Y, Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center, Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall and the Aspen Music Festival's Harris Hall. Recent collaborations with leading chamber musicians include performances with Joel Krosnick, Andre-Michel Schub, Cynthia Phelps and Daniel Avshalomov. The Quartet's commitment to the work of living composers has led to premieres of compositions by Pierre Jalbert, Dan Coleman and Vivian Fung.

The Center for New Music, a performance organization devoted to the late 20th and early 21st century repertoire, is the focus of contemporary composition and performance at the University of Iowa. The Center, like the internationally renowned Writers Workshop, embodies the institution's commitment to the vital role of the creative arts at the frontiers of human experience.

The Center functions as a laboratory and performance extension of the School's composition area, and as a repertory ensemble for the creation and presentation of new music in general. Depending on funding, the size of the core ensemble has varied from as many as 26 persons (including a vocal ensemble of 12) to as few as seven players. Extra players are hired on occasion in order to present larger-scale compositions. The Center also serves as the locus of activities for guest composers whose visits range from a few days to entire academic terms.

As the Center begins its 44th year, it remains an advocate of contemporary music performance. Its programming reflects the range of current compositional styles as well as what is considered classic repertoire from the 20th century. The high quality of performance results from working with a core ensemble, solidly grounded in the repertoire, over an extended period of time. New and more diverse audiences are carefully cultivated through outreach concerts, and the Center's professional reputation is steadily being established through CD recordings as well as through the collaboration of nationally-known guest composers and performers.

Iowa Percussion Semi-Annual Last Chance Alumni Concert, Dan Moore, director

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:53 -0600

Iowa Percussion is one of the oldest and most active percussion programs in the country, established in 1958 when Iowa hired Thomas L. Davis as its first professor of percussion. In 1996 Dr. Daniel Moore became the second professor in the program's history.

Ensembles have shared the stage with outstanding performers such as alumni Steven Schick, Yousif Sheronick, and John Wooton, as well as Mike Mainieri, Matt Wilson, Mat Britain, Johnny Rabb, Renzo Spiteri, Anders Åstrand, Ray Holman, Dick Sisto, Liam Teague, Mat Britain, Andrew Spencer, Jiao Shan Lin, Daniella Ganeva, Jimmy Finnie, Robert Chappell, and J.C. Combs. Iowa Percussion has sponsored recitals and clinics by notable artists such as Dave Samuels, Gary Burton and Chick Corea, Stefon Harris, Keiko Kotoku, Kai Stensgaard, Daniella Ganeva, Richard L. “Dick” Schory, alumnus Nick Petrella, Robert Breithaupt, James Campbell, Brett Kuhn, Julia Gaines, alumnus Lee Ferguson’s Duo Contour, the Sylvia Smith Duo, the U.S. Army Old Guard, and Maraca2.

Iowa Percussion ensembles have performed around the state and the Midwest, in China, and at two Percussive Arts Society International Conventions.

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:39:21 -0600

The evening's program will include Ives' Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano, Leon Kirchner's Duo No. 2 for violin and piano, and the Ravel Sonata.

Park and Hanick have collaborated for four years. Richard and Judy Hurtig co-commissioned their performance of Kirchner's Duo No. 2 in memory of, Felix Galimir, who died in 1999. Galimir was the uncle of Richard Hurtig, UI professor of communication sciences and disorders, and also was Park's chamber music teacher at the Juilliard School. Judy Hurtig recently retired as artistic director of Hancher.

Park said the Ives and Ravel, which contain elements of blues, gospel and other revival music, will go perfectly with the centerpiece Kirchner Duo in this program which "takes us on a mini journey through American music."

Iowa New Play Festival

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:09:51 -0600

Join our annual week-long festival of new work written by MFA and undergraduate playwrights. Five full productions and several staged readings are presented to audiences that include visiting professional writers, dramaturgs, directors, producers, theatre lovers, and new play enthusiasts.

Festival participants also have opportunities to discuss these new works through workshops, roundtable discussions and receptions.

This year's Festival is dedicated to Cosmo Catalano, who joined the UI Department of Theatre Arts in 1966. He was professor in charge of acting and directing, Department Chair, and Managing Director of Iowa Summer Rep. Catalano directed over 100 productions for the Department. Catalano died January 27, 2011. His numerous contributions to the department and the University community are detailed here: http://performingarts.uiowa.edu/ui-mourns-loss-of-cosmo-catalano/

Tickets

Non-Students: $5.00
UI Students: Free

Students must show a valid University ID and can only receive one free ticket per show. All workshops and readings are free and open to the public.

Box Office Hours and Location

Tickets for the Iowa New Play Festival are only available at the UI Theatre Building.

Festival Ticket Hours: Friday, April 29; 12:00 - 1:30 pm; Monday, May 2 - Friday, May 6; 12:00 - 1:30 pm and one hour before each performance

Location: The Theatre Box Office is located at 200 North Riverside Drive on the UI Campus

Festival Schedule

Sunday, May 1

Rogue's Dance by Janet Schlapkohl
Directed by David Hanzal
5:30 and 9:00 pm, David Thayer Theatre

Monday, May 2

Reading: Jenga by Deborah Yarchun
3:00 pm, Catalano Acting Studio (room 172)

And Humbaba Came from His Strong House of Cedar by Jen Silverman
Directed by Matt Hawkins
5:30 and 9:00 pm, Theatre B

Tuesday, May 3

Reading: Orange Julius by Basil Kreimendahl
2:30 pm, Catalano Acting Studio (room 172)

Undergraduate Evening: Excerpts from Eggshell, Hot Mess Sundae, and Operation Midnight Climax (featuring Undergraduate playwrights Soren Olsen, Alexandria Petroski and Matt Benyo)
5:30 and 9:00 pm, Catalano Acting Studio (room 172)

Wednesday, May 4

Reading: Black intellectuals chew the flan waiting for death and/or tenure by Idris Goodwin
2:30 pm, Catalano Acting Studio (room 172)

People of the Ditch by Kevin Artigue
Directed by Patrick Reynolds
5:30 and 9:00 pm, David Thayer Theatre

Thursday, May 5

Reading: christopher marlowe's chloroform dreams by Kat Sherman
3:00 pm, Catalano Acting Studio (room 172)

Friday, May 6

Reading: The Lord of the Underworld's Home for Unwed Mothers by Louisa Hill
2:30 pm, Catalano Acting Studio (room 172)

Proficient by Jessica Foster
Directed by Nathan Halvorson
5:30 and 9:00 pm, Theatre B

Saturday, May 7

Landless by Andrew Saito
Directed by Kristin Clippard
5:30 and 9:00 pm, David Thayer Theatre

History

For more than two decades, the Theatre Arts Department has presented an annual festival centered around producing, reading and discussing new scripts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. The Workshop was formally organized in the fall of 1971, although a strong tradition of playwriting has existed at Iowa since the 1920s when the department was under the leadership of E.C. Mabie. From 1923 until his death in 1956, Mabie was strongly dedicated to the writing and production of original plays. The Workshop was one of the first programs established to concentrate solely on playwriting and is one of the most production oriented playwriting programs in the country.

The New Play Festival is presented during the last week of spring term classes. Five plays by MFA playwrights are selected for full productions, most of them directed by MFA directing students and faculty members. Readings of full plays written by the other MFA writers are also presented during the week, as is a selection of work by undergraduate playwrights. Classes in the department are cancelled for the week so everyone may participate. Professional playwrights, directors and producers from around the country are in residence to see and discuss all aspects of the work.

Many of the plays premiered during the Festival have gone on to win prestigious awards and have productions at professional theatres throughout this country and abroad. Preparing five new plays and presenting them in a single week is a monumental undertaking that is only possible by the utilization of the department’s wide ranging resources in acting, directing, design, dramaturgy, stage management and technical support. The development of new work through production continues to be a fundamental emphasis of the entire department.

Mon, 02 May 2011 20:50:41 -0500

The UI Symphony Band is excited to be headed west to Des Moines to cap off the spring 2011 semester with a performance at this year's Iowa Bandmasters Association Convention. The program will feature a wide array of guest artists from the Iowa City and University of Iowa communities.

First on the program will be Charles Ives' "Variations on America," orchestrated by William Schuman and transcribed for band by William E. Rhoads. Following the Ives, Kevin Kastens, director of the Hawkeye athletic bands and Associate Director of Bands at the University of Iowa, will conduct his own arrangment of Percy Grainger's "Blithe Bells." Next, the program will feature Alan Huckleberry, a member of the UI's piano faculty, in a performance of Dana Wilson's "Vortex." Then, the Symphony Band will share the stage with The Beggarmen, an Iowa City-based Celtic folk band as they perform Dan Welcher's "Mistrels of the Kells." The Symphony Band will then welcome its final guest artist of the evening, Iowa City West High School band director Rob Medd, who will conduct Karl King's spirited march "The Melody Shop." The program will conclude with "Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral" by Richard Wagner and transcribed for band by Lucien Cailliett.

The Symphony Band is the premiere wind band at The University of Iowa, and it showcases the talents of fifty-five of the most talented wind and percussion students at the university. The Symphony Band performs the finest traditional and contemporary wind literature, frequently premieres new works for wind band, and regularly features internationally recognized artists as soloists and conductors. Selected members of this ensemble form the Chamber Winds, which offers one-per-part soloistic performance opportunities in a flexible instrumentation setting. The Symphony Band performs two formal concerts on campus each semester and, on occasion, performs at state, regional, and national conventions.

The Iowa Symphony Band enjoys a rich tradition with performances for conventions of the Iowa Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, and the American Bandmasters Association. In 2008, the Iowa Symphony Band, under the direction of Dr. Myron Welch, performed at historic Carnegie Hall in New York City.

In 2008, Dr. Richard Mark Heidel was named the fifth Director of Bands at The University of Iowa, where he follows in the strong heritage of previous Directors of Bands including Charles Righter (1930-1954), Frederick Ebbs (1954-1967), Frank Piersol (1967-1980), and Myron Welch (1980-2008).

Iowa New Play Festival

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:23:01 -0500

Students of the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present "Iowa Love for Japan -- Love Through Performance," a benefit theater, music, dance, and video event to aid victims of the recent earthquakes and tsunami in northern Japan, at 8 p.m. Monday, April 25, in Theatre B of the UI Theatre Building.

Admission is free, but donations to Japan relief through ShelterBox USA will be solicited. ShelterBox responds to disasters by delivering boxes of aid to those who are in need. Each box supplies an extended family of up to 10 people with a durable tent and essential equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless. Donations can be made at http://bit.ly/iowaloveforjapan.

Artists will include Soren Olsen, Tricia Park, John Kaufmann, Peige Zhou & juggler, Intersection (a capella male group), the Hinkler Twins, Yuichi Ura, Betsy Ray & Les Dames du Burlesque, John Watkins & Band, Sarah Genta, and Jessie Traufler.

Electronic Music Studio

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 09:09:48 -0600

"Honors Week"

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:56:07 -0600

Toyer

by Gardner McKay.

Directed by Theresa Augsburger

Showcasing Cassandra Schiano, in her thesis role, and Alex Flesher

"The Toyer" is a serial mutilator who seduces and manipulates women. He attacks them by administering an animal tranquilizer and then performing a spinal lobotomy, leaving his victims alive but lifeless. Maude works with these women, who have been turned into human toys (hence the serial's nickname). When Maude is visited by Peter, she lets him into her home on the condition that he will leave after using her phone. It soon becomes clear that Peter is more than the average stranded traveler; whether he is a voyeur, an actor, or the Toyer himself remains to be seen. This play is about manipulation, trust, and violence. It is about our dreadful crimes; not that they happen, but that we know about them and turn the page. March 24 and 26 at 8pm at the University of Iowa Theatre Building, Theatre B.

This play contains strong language, sexual situations, nudity, and violence.

Thirteenth Night

By Thomas Henrich

Directed by Mark Smolyar

Three classic stories. Three "different" twists. In the new play written by Thomas Henrich, and directed by Mark Smolyar, 'Thirteenth Night or What We Would', is a behind the scenes look at three of Shakespeare's works, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello, as seen through the eyes of two of Shakespeare's most downtrodden villains, Shylock and Malvolio, who have been sent through time by the Weird Sisters to unravel the stories that Shakespeare crafted. How will the plays we have come to know and love stand up to the intervention of witches and misers and love-struck fools? What will change? What will be the same? And will Hamlet finally grow a backbone and do something with himself for a change? Find out at 8 PM on Friday March 25th and 2 PM on Sunday March 27th, in Theatre B at the University of Iowa Theatre Building.

Tickets are $5 -- FREE for UI students (with valid ID). Available beginning one hour prior to showtime.

Thesis Concert, UI Dance Department

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:56:08 -0600

The program will include works and performances by three MFA candidates in the University’s Department of Dance. An Implicated Distance: the bridge, the closet, the shelf, the couch, to build something else…the revolving door, home is a work created by MFA Candidate in Choreography Amy Lynne Barr, in collaboration with her cast. MFA Candidate in Performance Sarah Genta will perform three separate works—a solo by New York-based choreographer Alexandra Beller, an improvisational trio accompanied by violinist Jason Gregory, and a duet choreographed by fellow graduate student Johanna Kirk. MFA Candidate in Performance Anna Maris will be featured in the collaboratively created work, Slip One Stitch, Knit Two Slipped Stitches Together, featuring the creative work of Johanna Kirk (fellow MFA candidate and choreographer), Fannie Hungerford (locally-based actress/playwright) and Renee Cheveallier (Shreveport-based choreographer).

Throughout the concert, the accompaniment will range from recorded music to live performances, some of which was commissioned specifically for the show. The concert will also include spoken and sung text, much of which is original.

Amy Lynne Barr

Amy Lynne Barr has a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on her MFA at the University of Iowa. She has produced choreographic work for and performed with many companies, including Windfall Dancers Inc, Bloomington, IN; O-T-O Dance Theater, Tucson, AZ; NewArticulations Dance Theater, Tucson, AZ; Fun House Movement Theatre, Tucson, AZ; Thom Lewis Dance, Tucson, AZ; and Theatrical Mime Theater of Tucson, Tucson, AZ. She toured with Charlotte Adams and Jennifer Kayle in "Virtually Yours", a multi-media performance of Dance-Theatre, to the Dominican Republic and Los Angeles in the summer of 2010, performed in Martha Clarke’s new work In the Night in the fall, and has presented work at the Judson Church and 100 Grand in New York.

An Implicated Distance: the bridge, the closet, the shelf, the couch, to build something else…the revolving door, home, is a work created by MFA candidate in choreography, Amy Lynne Barr in collaboration with her cast. It is a study of the lived experience of the embodiment of home in their everyday lives and the intimacy that could be found within the self and the things/people/places they interact with; doors and phones will be used as metaphors for openings, closings, pathways, connectivity and the constructability of the symbolic home. Featuring music by Danny Norbury, Four Tet, Fennez, and Bjork, the dancers will build the path to their metaphysical home throughout the work, constructing and deconstructing different structure/scenes during their journey.

Sarah Genta

Sarah Genta came to Iowa after a year of traveling. Before that, she received her B.A. in English Education from Illinois State University. She is now working on her MFA in Dance Performance here at the University of Iowa. She has performed in original works for Illinois State Dance Theatre, Charlotte Adams, Jennifer Kayle, Mo Miner, and Sara Semonis, and in works by Armando Duarte and Lucas Crandall. Sarah has enjoyed taking workshop intensives with Project Bandaloop and The Architects. She currently teaches Modern Dance at the University of Iowa and works as the dance arts coordinator for Arts Share, the University's arts outreach program.

The Room is Large, which opens the concert, borders on the edge of dance and theater. It brings to the stage a character driven piece full of personal revelations, humor, irony and satire. Choreographer Alexandra Beller is the artistic director of Alexandra Beller/Dances in New York and has been making work that is “ripe with metaphor, abstracted narrative and controversial ideas” that “attempt(s) to move, stimulate, impassion and incite the audience." "Beller is making intelligent, engaging dance...visually compelling, insightful and humorous. (She is) an articulate, confident choreographer with a clear idea about how to shape a piece's trajectory through time."  The Columbia Spectator (10.2001)

In an improvised trio, Amy Barr, Sarah Genta and Sara Gonsiorowski explore the stage, not as the space of product, but as the place of possibility. The dancers, lighting designer, and musician collaborate in the moment to compose a different dance each night.

Kirk’s duet for Genta and Anna Maris creates an intimate and nuanced event that brings to the fore the simplest of human interactions. What does it feel like to touch a friend, a stranger? It involves an original film by MFA Film student Jeffery Palmer.

Anna Maris

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Anna Maris graduated with a BA in Dance and Psychology from Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. Since arriving at the University of Iowa, she had the privilege of performing Jose Limon’s Psalm under the direction of Nina Watt. This past fall, Anna worked with renowned choreographer and theater artist Martha Clarke on a newly created work entitled In the Night, which premiered at the University of Iowa through the Iowa Partnership in the Arts. As a member of the University’s resident repertory company, Dancers in Company, Anna performed and toured across Iowa in the spring of 2010 in work by guest Carl Flink and faculty choreographers Eloy Barragan and Armando Duarte. In January 2011, Anna traveled to Chennai, India for a three week intensive study of the classical Indian dance form Kuchipudi under the expert teaching of Madhavapeddi Murthy. In addition to enjoying her current role as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Iowa, Maris also loves the opportunity to participate in collaborative projects involving the larger community in making and sustaining hopeful and creative changes through the arts.

Slip 1 Stitch, Knit 2 Slipped Stitches Together (tentative title) attempts to playfully and communally explore a vision of shared experience, connection, and hope through dance. Crafted and created by a community of artists, choreographers, and collaborators with the nagging sense that life really could be magical, this work comes to life through the generous donations of knitted materials from individuals around the country, the contributions of cast members, and the presence of the audience. Together we will celebrate the stories that weave us all together through dance, voices, and a stage full of yarn. Following the concert, all donated and created materials will then be passed on to those in need of warm winter gear through established non-profits and organizations, further expanding our connected story beyond the walls of the theater. Collaborators include choreographer Johanna Kirk, an MFA candidate in choreography at the University of Iowa, and theater and movement artist Fannie Hungerford, who helped shape the text and overall vision of the work. Louisiana-based choreographer and performance artist Renee Cheveallier choreographed a solo for Maris that has been interwoven into the work’s entirety. Chicago-based composer Joshua Dumas contributed two original works of music for harpist Meredith Wright, who will be playing live during the concert. Additional collaborators include John Watkins, who offered an original song for the work, and Callie Garnett who gave aid in shaping and directing the music. The work depends upon an intimate cast of dancers including: Theresa Berger, Fannie Hungerford, Nicole Klein, Kristin Marrs, and Jennifer Weber.

North Hall, which is accessible on foot from the T. Anne Cleary Walkway, is across the pedestrian bridge from free parking in the Hancher lot. Parking is also available right next door in the North Campus ramp at the north end of Madison Street.

Rachel Joselson, soprano

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:38 -0600

Before joining the School of Music faculty in the fall of 1997, Rachel Joselson spent 13 years in Europe performing operatic roles while engaged at theaters in Darmstadt, Hamburg, Essen and Basel. As a guest she performed with opera companies and orchestras in Gars, Austria, Aachen, Barcelona, Berlin, Bilbao, Bonn, Braunschweig, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Madison, Essen, Brussels, Kiel, Gelsenkirchen, and St. Gallen. For the 1995-96 season, she had her first engagement at the Metropolitan Opera, and was engaged by London's Covent Garden for their 1992 Japan tour of Don Giovanni.

Joselson began as a mezzo soprano singing such roles as Rosina, Dorabella, Cherubino, Adalgisa and Idamante before switching to soprano repertoire during her tenure at Hamburg. Her current roles include Leonore (Fidelio), Tosca, Butterfly, Mimi, Micaela, Melisande, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), and Eva (Meistersingers of Nuremberg). She was featured as Madame Euterpova in the 1998 recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's Help! Help! The Globolinks! under the musical direction of John DeMain, and her CD The Songs of Arthur Honegger and Jacques Leguerney with pianist Rene Lecuona was released in 2003 by Albany Records. Joselson was a featured soloist with the Utah Festival Opera during the summer of 2003, and debuted with New Rochelle Opera in the role of Tosca in 2006.

Jeffrey Agrell, horn

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:49 -0600

With his broad range of interests and abilities, Associate Professor of Horn Jeffrey Agrell is a “hornist for all seasons.” As a performer/educator he has performed and taught the full gamut of horn literature, including the repertoire for symphony orchestra, opera, musicals, ballet, operetta, solo and chamber music, while stretching personal artistic boundaries beyond the orchestra as a composer, writer, clinician, recording artist, and solo performer.

He joined The University of Iowa School of Music faculty as horn professor a decade ago after a first career as a symphony musician, and has been very active as a guest artist and clinician, performing, giving workshops, masterclasses, and presentations at state, regional, national, and international workshops, festivals, and conferences. He recently finished a second term as a member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society, and has been a member of the faculty of the Asian Youth Orchestra (Hong Kong). In the summer he teaches at the UI Band Camp and is on the faculty of the prestigious Kendall Betts Horn Camp in New Hampshire. His CD recordings include “Repercussions” (horn and piano), “Side Show Tim” [Dane Records] with Cerberus (horn, tuba, trumpet), and “Mosaic” [MSR Classics] with Duende (horn, cello, piano), which has garnered rave reviews recently for its new interpretations of medieval and Renaissance music. He is currently interim principal horn for the Quad City Symphony Orchestra.

2011 Iowa Liszt Festival Bi-Centennial Celebration: Piano Master Class: âInterpreting Liszt,â Michael Gurt, guest master teacher

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:45 -0600

Michael Gurt, guest master teacher

UI Piano Students

Program

Widmung, S. 566 - Schumann/Liszt
-Younjung Cha

Aprés une lecture du Dante (After Reading Dante), S. 161 - Franz Liszt
-Casey Rafn

Funérailles (October 1849), S.173 - Franz Liszt
-Ryan McNamara

Mephisto Waltz No.1, S. 110 - Franz Liszt
-Alex Ponamarchuk

UI Symphony Band, Mark Heidel, conductor

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:48 -0600

Join the UI Symphony Band for a delightful evening of new and classic wind band music, which will feature a diverse array of guest artists. The Symphony Band is excited to be performing the world premiere of UI School of Music doctoral student Anthony Donofrio's "In Violent Silence," a double percussion concerto that will feature Meghan Aube and Lucas Brenier. Also joining the Symphony Band include the members of the Irish Folk Band "The Beggarmen," who will perform during Dan Welcher's Irish-themed work "Minstels of the Kells," and piano faculty member Alan Huckleberry, who will be the featured soloist in Dana Wilson's "Vortex." Conducting graduate student Richard Chapman will lead the band in Percy Grainger's "Children's March: Over the Hills and Far Away," and graduate student Carter Biggers will guest conduct Morton Gould's "Ballad for Band," both classics of the wind band repertoire. Rounding out the program will be Charles Ives' popular "Variations on America," arranged for band by William Rhoads.

Pre-concert music will also be provided by the Bon Vivant Horn Quartet, comprised of local hornists Kelly Heidel, Steve Schultz, Kristin Thelander, and Russ Lenth.

Camerata and Women's Chorale, Timothy Stalter, director

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:52 -0600

Camerata is a select ensemble of 50-70 singers is open to both UI students and the greater community. Camerata usually presents three concerts per year and joins the UI Symphony Orchestra for two concerts of major works.

Women's Chorale is a select chorus of 40 women, and presents three to four concerts per year. They join the University Symphony Orchestra for two concerts.

2011 Iowa Liszt Festival Bi-Centennial Celebration: Lecture-Recital: âLiszt, Religion and Death,â Thomas Mastroianni, guest artist

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:45 -0600

Thomas Mastroianni is known for his recitals, lectures, concerto appearances and chamber music programs throughout the United States and in Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Russia, South America and the Far East. He is Professor Emeritus of Piano at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America, having served this institution as Dean of Music for nine years and as Chairman of Piano for twenty-five years. Prior to this he was Chairman of Applied Music and Professor of Piano at Texas Tech University .

Peripherie

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:47 -0600

The mission of the newly established Ensemble: Périphérie is to promote contemporary music by presenting stimulating and inspiring concerts of new chamber works, by commissioning new works from both emerging and established composers, and by inviting audiences to join us in recognizing great art of our time. Established in 2010 by composers Joseph Dangerfield and Luke Dahn, EP consists of a core group of performing artists in the midwestern region. One of the primary goals of EP is to bring greater exposure to composers and works that are underperformed and neglected—that is, music that lies on the periphery.

Arts Share Community Concert: Maia Quartet

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:49 -0600

"Democracy In Action" is the title of this family-centered event, available to the community free-of-charge. Maia describes this concert as, "a program that addresses the concept of democracy. We've created an event that highlights the ways in which a string quartet functions in a democratic fashion; that is, with emphasis on teamwork, equal participation from all four members, and making decisions by consensus."

Bring the whole family and join Violinist Tricia Park, Violist Elizabeth Oakes, Cellist Hannah Holman, and special guest violinist Miera Kim for this fun-filled musical event!

Since its formation in 1990, the Maia Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Iowa, has established itself nationally as an ensemble of innovation and versatility. Praised by critics for its "sparkling musical intelligence," (The Baltimore Sun) the Quartet has appeared in major concert halls throughout the U.S. and abroad, including New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall and the 92nd Street Y, Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center, Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall and the Aspen Music Festival's Harris Hall. Recent collaborations with leading chamber musicians include performances with Joel Krosnick, Andre-Michel Schub, Cynthia Phelps and Daniel Avshalomov. The Quartet's commitment to the work of living composers has led to premieres of compositions by Pierre Jalbert, Dan Coleman and Vivian Fung.

The Maia Quartet’s 2010-11 season includes appearances on the Sheldon Friends of Chamber Music series in Lincoln, NE, the Quad Cities Visiting Artist Series, the City University of New York Chamber Music Series, and at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Past season highlights included performances for the Westchester Chamber Music Society, the Austin Chamber Music Center, the Zimmerli Art Museum, the Great Wall International Music Academy in Beijing, China and at the Up-Beat Festival in Hokkaido, Japan.

University Choir and Kantorei

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:53 -0600

University Choir is a select, advanced choir of 50-60 singers, primarily undergraduate students. They present four to five concerts per year and combine to perform two major works with the University Symphony Orchestra.

Kantorei is the premier choral ensemble of the University, consisting of about 30 graduate students. Kantorei presents four to five concerts on campus each year, as well as a number of off-campus performances.

2011 Iowa Liszt Festival Bi-Centennial Celebration: Recital: âInfluences on Lisztâs Organ Music,â Gregory Hand

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:45 -0600

Program

Prelude and Fugue on BACH , S. 260 - Franz Liszt

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 - J. S. Bach

Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine (Miserere d’Allegri et Ave verum corpus de Mozart), S. 658 - Franz Liszt

“Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”. Variations on a theme of Bach, from the 'Crucifixus' of the Mass in B minor, S.673 - Franz Liszt

About the Artist

Gregory Hand is Assistant Professor of Organ at The University of Iowa. Prior to this appointment he held the position of University Chapel Organist at Northwestern University, where he also taught in the Music Theory department. He was awarded the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where he studied with James Kibbie.

Dr. Hand has participated in several international organ competitions, including the Grand Prix de Chartres (France), St. Albans (England), Prix Andre Marchal (France), and the Dublin International Organ Competition. He is also active as a harpsichordist and continuo player. Recent engagements include Giulio Cesare with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ritorno d'Ulisse with Chicago Opera Theater, and several concerts with Ars Antigua, a Chicago-based period ensemble.

UI Chamber and All-University String Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:50 -0600

The University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra's program will include Milhaud's "La creation du monde," op. 81a, Beethoven's Overture to "Prometheus," Op. 43, and the Symphony no. 3 in D major by Schubert. Graduate students Kira Horel, Michael Wright, and Yuichi Ura will conduct the program.

The All-University String Orchestra will perform Holst's "St. Paul's Suite," Op.29, No.2, H.118, Elgar's Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20, and W.A. Mozart's"Eine Kleine Nactmusik."

The Chamber Orchestra, designed for UI graduate students, is based around the ensemble format established during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its repertoire covers a broad range from Classical and early Romantic composers to contemporary.

The All-University String Orchestra performs one concert per semester and various community service oriented performances on a request basis.

Center for New Music, Composer's Workshop, David Gompper, director

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:54 -0600

The UI Center for New Music is happy to conclude its 45th season with a program of new works from the Iowa Composers Workshop. All of the works on the program were composed in 2010 and 2011:

--"Apple Lemon-Lime Eternal Affiliation, A Loss of Interest, Desire, and Direction" for flute and piano by undergraduate student Dana Telsrow.
--"At Play" for flute and violin by Brett Kissell, who has had several pieces performed in UI recitals.
--"A Dragon in Genesis 6:7" for voice and piano by Andrew Wagner, an economics major with a minor in music.
--"Identity Crisis I" for saxophone and piano by Shane Hoose, a recent finalist in the Music Teacher's National Association Composition Competition.
--"Hiking the Cascade Creek Trail" for percussion and "Rounded Angles" for saxophone and percussion by Zach Zubow, whose music is featured this spring on five College Music Society Regional Conferences; the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium; an exchange festival between the UI, University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Colorado-Boulder; and the New Music Festival at the University of Central Missouri/Society of Composers Region VI.
--"Bridge Suite" for saxophone and cello and "Buzz" for percussion by Aaron Perrine, whose composition for band was a finalist in the first Frank Ticheli Composition Contest, a JW Pepper "Editors' Choice" and a featured composition in "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 7."
--"IV" for flute, piano, violin and cello by concert organizer Tony Donofrio
--"Pan Thwarted" for flute and double seconds by Stephanie Pieczynski, who has had pieces performed by the Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble and the Fusion Arts Exchange Ensemble.
--And "Musings…"by music theory teaching assistant Stas Omelchenko, for a chamber ensemble conducted by graduate student Kira Horel.

The CNM, directed by David Gompper, is a unit in the Division of Performing Arts in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The 45th concert season was presented in memory of Richard Hervig, founding director of the CNM.

2011 Iowa Liszt Festival Bi-Centennial Celebration: Lecture: âLiszt and the Beethoven Symphony Transcriptions,â Alan Walker, guest speaker

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:46 -0600

Alan Walker, guest lecturer

Alan Walker is Professor Emeritus of Music at McMaster University, Canada. Before settling in North America he was on the staff of the Music Division of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London. He has broadcast for the BBC, for the CBC, and for CJRT - FM (Toronto), and gives regular public lectures on the music of the Romantic Era, a period in which he specializes. His thirteen published books include A Study in Musical Analysis, An Anatomy of Musical Criticism, and symposia on Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt.

Dr. Walker’s three-volume, prize-winning biography of Franz Liszt, published by Alfred A. Knopf (New York), was a project which took him twenty-five years to complete, and for which the President of Hungary bestowed on him the medal Pro Cultura Hungarica. The biography also received the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize, presented by HRH The Duke of Kent in London.

Time Magazine hailed the biography as “a textured portrait of Liszt and his times without rival”. The Wall Street Journal called it “The definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire.” The Washington Post selected it as a Book of the Year.

Two other books on Liszt have meanwhile followed. The first is called ”The Death of Franz Liszt” (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY). It describes the last ten days of the composer's life in Bayreuth. Based on eye-witness accounts, and the unpublished diary of a pupil, it tells a harrowing story of the final illness, medical malpractice, family neglect, and a callous disregard of Liszt's final wishes. Walker’s latest book, “Reflections on Liszt”(Cornell University Press) is a sequel to the 3-volume biography, and deals with certain topics in greater depth than the biography itself could accommodate. These include Liszt’s myriad connections with Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann; his work as a teacher and editor of the music of others; and his published writings. The book ends with ”An Open Letter to Franz Liszt”, which the Times Literary Supplement called “an affectionate and stylized farewell from a biographer to a great subject.”

Alan Walker’s latest book is a long-awaited biography of Hans von Bülow, Franz Liszt’s leading pupil and the world’s first virtuoso orchestral conductor. Published by Oxford University Press in December 2009, the book is the first biography of Bülow ever to appear in the English language. The European Piano Teacher's Journal extolled it as ' magnificent long-overdue biography....and as unputdownable as the latest historical novel by Mary Renault'. The Washington Times praised it as ‘a superb biography...and a treat to read.

University and Concert Bands, Mark Heidel, director

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:51 -0600

The University of Iowa Concert Band under the direction of Hawkeye Marching Band conductor Kevin Kastens and the University Band under the direction of graduate student Carter Biggers will feature guest conductor Marc Decker and Curran Prendergast in this free and open to the public performance.

The Concert Band's program is "Homage To Perotin" by Ron Nelson, "Dance of The New World" by Dana Wilson and Johan de Meij's Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings," whose five movements, written long before the popular Peter Jackson movies, musically illustrate characters and episodes in the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy.

The University Band will perform the "Marche des Parachutistes Belges" by Pierre Leemans, Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John Barnes Chance, "Brigg Fair" by Percy Aldridge Grainger, Concertino for Tuba and Band by James Curnow featuring guest soloist Blaine Cunningham, and "American Civil War Fantasy" by Jerry Bilik.

Decker, Prendergast and Cunningham are UI School of Music graduate students.

2011 Iowa Liszt Festival Bi-Centennial Celebration: Piano Recital: âPiano Transcriptions by Franz Lisztâ Uriel Tsachor, UI faculty; Scott Dunn, guest artist; Nicholas Roth, guest artist; Daniel Rieppel, guest artist

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:46 -0600

Scott Dunn, guest artist
Alan Huckleberry, UI faculty
Réne Lecuona, UI faculty
Daniel Rieppel, guest artist
Nicholas Roth, guest artist
Uriel Tsachor, UI faculty

Program

Frühlingsglaube, S. 558, no. 7 - Schubert/Liszt
-Réne Lecuona

Valse Caprice No. 6 from Soirées de Vienne, S. 427 - Schubert/Liszt
-Daniel Rieppel

Erlkönig, S. 588 - Schubert/Liszt
-Nicholas Roth

Widmung, S. 566 - Schumann/Liszt
-Nicholas Roth

Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus Tristan und Isolde (after Wagner), S. 44 - Franz Liszt
-Scott Dunn

Paganini Etude No. 6, S. 141 - Franz Liszt
-Alan Huckleberry

Prelude on a Theme of Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen S. 179 - Franz Liszt
-Uriel Tsachor

Transcriptions of the Confutatis and Lacrymosa from the Requiem, S. 550 - Mozart/Liszt
-Uriel Tsachor

“Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”. Variations on a theme of Bach, from the 'Crucifixus' of the Mass in B minor, S. 180 - Franz Liszt
-Uriel Tsachor

Jazz Repertory Ensemble, Brent Sandy, director

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:51 -0600

Jazz Repertory Ensemble is a big band devoted to performing the works of the jazz mainstream. Directed by Brent Sandy, this ensemble covers the range between early swing and progressive jazz. Students learn the conventions of performance practice for each era and the skills for stylistic improvisations.

2011 Iowa Liszt Festival Bi-Centennial Celebration: Piano Recital, âTranscendental Piano,â Michael Gurt, guest artist

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:46 -0600

Michael Gurt, guest artist

Program

Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude, S. 173 - Franz Liszt

Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Bach, op. 81 - Max Reger

Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 - Franz Liszt

About the Artist

Michael Gurt is Paula Garvey Manship Distinguished Professor of Piano at Louisiana State University. Professor Gurt serves as Piano Mentor at the Hot Springs Music Festival, and is also the head of the piano department at the Sewanee Summer Music Center. He has served as Piano Chair of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association, and he has taught at two summer music seminars held at Tunghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Professor Gurt holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School. In 1982 he won First Prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and he was also a prize winner in international competitions held in Pretoria, South Africa, and Sydney, Australia.

Center for New Music: New Music Ensemble, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:55:23 -0600

The University of Iowa Center for New Music will welcome the New Music Ensemble of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, directed by violinist Young-Nam Kim, for this free concert concert which continues a series of exchanges between new music ensembles in the Midwest.

The program will be:
--Erwin Schulhoff, Duo for Violin and Cello.
--Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Etude No.6 for Solo Violin, "The Last Rose of Summer."
--Michio Mamiya, Serenade III, "Germ," for voice, two violins, viola, two cellos and percussion, conducted by Kim.

Kim has appeared widely in the United States and Europe in summer festivals, recitals and as a soloist with orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in venues including Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center.

Founder and artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Kim frequently performs in concerts with such distinguished artists including Leon Fleisher, Gilbert Kalish, Robert Mann, Joseph Silverstein, Samuel Rhodes, David Shifrin, Fred Sherry and Yo-Yo Ma.

Johnson County Landmark, John Rapson, director

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:25:17 -0600

***THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED***

A new date will be announced shortly.

Iowa Flute Festival

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:25:18 -0600

Stefán Höskuldsson and Raffaele Trevisani, flute
Alan Huckleberry and Paola Girardi, piano

Sonata for flute and piano - Jindrich Feld
I. Allegro giocoso
II. Grave
III. Allegro vivace

Sonata for flute and piano Op. 23 - Lowell Liebermann
I. Lento con rubato
II. Presto energico

Stefán Hoskuldsson, flute
Alan Huckleberry, piano

—I N T E R M I S S I O N—

Suite Op. 34 - Charles Marie Widor
I. Moderato (1844 – 1837)
II. Scherzo
III. Romance
IV. Final

Fantasia on “La Traviata” - Verdi P. A. Genin

Gran Fantasia on “Mosè” - Rossini P. Morlacchi

Raffaele Trevisani, flute
Paola Girardi, piano

Semiramide Overture - G. Rossini

Raffaele Trevisani, Stefán Höskuldson, Nicole Esposito, flutes

Iowa Brass Quintet, Jeffrey Agrell, director

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:44 -0600

The Iowa Brass Quintet is the resident faculty brass ensemble at the University of Iowa School of Music. Founded in the early 1950s, the IBQ has been widely acclaimed for its artistry in the performance of music of all periods and premieres of new compositions. Their spring concert, free and open to the public, will include the following works:

--An arrangement by former Canadian Brass trumpeter Ronald Romm of the Fugue in G Minor by J.S. Bach.
--The Quintet No. 2, op. 6, by late 19th and early 20th century composer Victor Ewald, whose works are popular staples of brass repertoire.
--The "Suite from the Monteregian Hills," based on French Canadian folk songs, by 20th-century Canadian composer Morley Calvert.
--The jazz- and folk-influenced Suite No. 1 for Brass Quintet by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer William Schmidt.
--The tongue-in-cheek Music Hall Suite by Vienna-born Joseph Horovitz, recalling the popular entertainments of early 20th-century England.

An Evening of Operatic Duets

Wed, 04 May 2011 08:43:04 -0500

Opera Studies Lecture, Phillip Gossett, speaker

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:45 -0600

Opera Studies Lecture sponsored by Opera Studies Forum and the School of Music

Phillip Gossett is a music historian with special interests in 19th-century Italian opera, sketch studies, aesthetics, textual criticism, and performance practice. He is author of two books on Donizetti and of "Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera" (2006, Chicago), which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society as the best book on music of the year. He serves as General Editor of "The Works of Giuseppe Verdi" (The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi of Milan) and of "Works of Gioachino Rossini" (Baerenreiter-Verlag, Kassel). One of the world's foremost experts on Italian opera, Gossett is the first musicologist to be awarded the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award; he also holds the Cavaliere di Gran Croce, the Italian government's highest civilian honor. Professor Gossett has served as President of the American Musicological Society and of the Society for Textual Scholarship, as Dean of Humanities at the University of Chicago, and as lecturer and consultant at opera houses and festivals in America and Italy. He was the musicological consultant to the Verdi Festival in Parma during the Verdi centennial year (2001).

UI Symphony Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:45 -0600

The University of Iowa School of Music will host the 2011 Iowa Liszt Festival Thursday through Saturday, April 21-23. During 2011, musical organizations throughout the world are celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of the Hungarian composer, piano virtuoso, conductor and teacher.

The festivities will be inaugruated by a UI Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Director of Orchestral Studies Dr. William LaRue Jones. The program will include Beethoven's Symphony No. 8, op. 93, in F major, and Liszt's "Les Preludes" (Symphonic Poem No. 3), and Liszt's arrangement of Beethoven's Fantasy on Motives from "Ruins of Athens" and his "Totentanz," featuring piano faculty member Ksenia Nosikova.

Nosikova is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and a member of the American Liszt Society's board of directors and the president of the American Liszt Society's Iowa Chapter. She has professionally recorded an edition of the complete "Years of Pilgrimage" by Liszt.

William LaRue Jones is “one of the most active and versatile symphonic conductors in America today, possessing a unique ability to work effectively with musicians at all levels of performing capability and experience” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). His conducting schedule averages over 100 concerts annually and includes a wide array of professional, festival, collegiate and student ensembles throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, ranging from the Minnesota Orchestra and the Minneapolis Pops, to the Penang (Malaysia) Symphony, the Antofagasta (Chile) Symphony and the Symphony Orchestra of Lucerne (Switzerland). Recognition of Jones' outstanding gestural skills and score analysis has made him a sought-after teacher of conducting. He was a member of the conducting faculty of the International Workshops where he also served as conductor of the International String Orchestra, and is founding Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Conductors Workshop of America. In addition, Jones is a guest clinician for numerous conducting seminars for professional/educational associations internationally. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa and Kansas State University, with additional studies at The Juilliard School of Music and the University of North Texas.

Nicole Esposito, flute; Seong-Sil Kim, piano

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:53:38 -0600

Latitude Ensemble

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:29:28 -0600

The Latitude Ensemble at the University of Iowa School of Music is directed by Jeffrey Agrell, a School of Music faculty member. The aim of the ensemble is to generate creative collaborations that combine the clarity of composed music -- with clear structure, melodies, rhythms, varying timbres and textures -- with the pizzazz of improvised music. In the concert setting, opportunities for audience participation are included.

The members of the ensemble -- some of which are graduates of Agrell's "Improvisation for Classical Musicians" course -- often switch from their main instruments to piano or small percussion instruments, or perform body or mouth percussion, vocalizations, spoken text or physical movements.

Some of the instant compositions make use of Soundpainting, a well-developed system of gestures that direct and mold improvisational performances.

Elixir of Love, opera

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:51:49 -0600

This hilarious opera will have you under its spell! Set in rural 1900's Iowa, The Elixir of Love tells of the plight of the shy farmer Nemorino and his adoration of the beautiful and wealthy Adina, who only has eyes for Sergeant Belcoreuntil Doctor Dulcamara and his love potion come in. Will a con artist's "magic elixir" be enough to win her affections? Or will true love need to work its magic? Donizetti's delightful comedy is filled with music that is sure to enchant.

Ticketing:

$20 nonstudents
$15 seniors
$10 youth (17 & under)
$5 for UI students with valid ID

Performances:

Friday, April 29, 2011 at 8:00pm
Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 2:00pm

Tickets available through the Englert Box Office.

Important Traffic Alert:

For patrons purchasing tickets to the May 1 (matinee) performance of Elixir of Love:

The Old Capitol Criterium bicycle race will be held in downtown Iowa City on Sunday May 1.

There will be several downtown street closures, including Washington Street.

Driving recommendations:
Our recommendation is for patrons to use Burlington and Gilbert to go around the downtown area when arriving for the show.

Parking recommendations:
We recommend that patrons park in either the Sheraton Parking Ramp (Burlington and Dubuque) or the Chauncy Swan Ramp (Gilbert and Washington – across from the city hall and the police station). The Chauncey Swan Ramp will be free of charge on Sunday.

If a drop off is necessary:
For patrons needing to be dropped off as close as possible, please do so at the corner of Linn and Washington.

For wheelchair accessibility:
Please speak with one of the race volunteers at the corner of Linn and Washington who will let you drive (the wrong way!) up Washington to facilitate a drop off directly in front of the Englert Theatre building.

Rogue's Dance by Janet Schlapkohl

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:02 -0500

Rogue's Dance by Janet Schlapkohl

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:03 -0500

"And Humbaba Came from His Strong House of Cedar" by Jen Silverman

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:03 -0500

Winterriese; Andrew Whitfield, baritone

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:36 -0600

Baritone Andrew Whitfield's March 21, 2011 recital at the University of Iowa has been cancelled.

"And Humbaba Came from His Strong House of Cedar" by Jen Silverman

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:03 -0500

Massimo La Rosa, trombone; Elizabeth DeMio, piano

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:36 -0600

Program: Sonata by Hindemith; Romance by Carl Maria von Weber; "Che Gelida Manina" from La Boheme by Puccini; Overture to The Barber of Seville by Rossini; "Adagietto" from Symphony No. 5 by Mahler; and "Gavotte en Rondeau" from Partita No. 3 by J. S. Bach.

Massimo La Rosa joined the Cleveland Orchestra as principal trombone in September 2007. He previously served as principal trombone of La Fenice Opera House in Venice from 1996 to 2007. He has performed as principal trombone with La Scala Opera House in Milan, the Santa Cecilia Symphonic Orchestra in Rome, and with the Teatro Comunale di Frenze in Florence. Mr. La Rosa has appeared as a soloist with La Fenice Orchestra and with the Sicilian Symphonic Orchestra of Palermo. Recently, he was a guest artist at the 2009 Eastern Trombone Workshop, where he performed as a soloist with the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own.”

Society of Composers concert

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:37 -0600

Richard B. Hervig Memorial Concert

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:38 -0600

Join the Center for New Music as they pay tribute to their beloved founder and respected composer Richard Hervig.

American composer and educator, Richard Hervig (1917-2010) studied English at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (BA 1939), and after teaching for a time in the public schools, studied composition with Philip Greeley Clapp at the University of Iowa (MA 1942, PhD 1947). He joined the UI faculty in 1955 and became the founding director of the Center for New Music in 1966. Upon his retirement in 1988, he was appointed to a post at the Juilliard School. His pupils have included Charles Dodge and William Hibbard, among others. He has received commissions from the National Music Council, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and numerous performers.

Hervig's compositions, most of which are instrumental and tonal, show a disciplined approach to standard forms and an exploration of timbral possibilities. In two early works, the Clarinet Sonata no.1 and the String Quartet, he casts sections in conflicting rhythms, exploiting the resulting tensions. In the Chamber Music for Six Players, he continued his concern for establishing relationships between the parts while maintaining a separate musical personality for each instrument; in this way, his compositional approach takes on concerns more readily associated with the theatre.

Volkan Orhon, double bass; Rose Chancler Feinbloom, piano

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:53:33 -0600

Bassist Volkan Orhon, a faculty member in the University of Iowa School of Music, will be joined by pianist Rose Chancler-Feinbloom in this free recital featuring "Minstrel's Song" by Glazunov, the Adagio from the ballet "Unforgettable 1919" by Shostakovich, "Colour of Anatolia" by Turkish composer Erdal Tugcular, Tarantella by Bottesini, Caprice #2 by UI cello faculty member Anthony Arnone, "Iberique Peninsulaire" by Francois Rabbath, Capriccio No. 2 by David Anderson, "Waldesruhe" by Dvorak and the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota, who was the composer for Fellini's films.

Chancler-Feinbloom, a former UI School of Music faculty member, is a frequent performer throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and works as a soloist, collaborative artist and teacher. Her recent recitals with Orhon include the Friends of Chamber music series in Tucson, Pittsburgh and at the International String Bass convention in Oklahoma City.

She has most recently been a faculty member at Plattsburgh State University of New York, and she runs a private studio.

A native of Turkey, Orhon received his bachelor's degree from the Ankara State Conservatory, where he studied with Tamir Sumer. After moving to the United States, he earned his Master of Music degree and an Artist Diploma from Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford in Connecticut, where he was a student of Gary Karr. Acclaimed for his musicality and virtuosity, Orhon has established himself as one of the top double bassists in the world today. He was a finalist and prizewinner in the Concert Artists Guild Solo Competition in New York City, and was the co-first place winner of the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition. Additionally, he distinguished himself as the first double bass player ever to win the grand prize overall and first prize for double bass at the American String Teacher's Association Solo Competition. Mr. Orhon is currently associate professor of double bass at The University of Iowa and principal double bass in Orchestra Iowa. He is a D'Addario Diamond Performing Artist.

"Orange Julius" by Basil Kreimendahl, reading

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:07:03 -0500

UI Symphony Orchestra, William LaRue Jones, conductor

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:39 -0600

Stephen Swanson, baritone

Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer

Mahler: Symphony No. 1

Aaron Hill, oboe masterclass

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:40 -0600

Aaron Hill serves on the faculty at the University of Virginia and plays principal oboe in the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Hill holds the Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees from the Yale School of Music, where he was the recipient of the Thomas Nyfenger Memorial Prize and the Bachelor of Music degree with Highest Honors from the University of Michigan. He has presented master classes at the University of Texas, the University of North Texas, Michigan, West Virginia, and Oklahoma State University.

Heather Armstrong, oboe masterclass

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:40 -0600

Heather Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Oboe and Music Theory at Luther College. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was a student of Richard Killmer. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from Houghton College (NY), where she studied with Emily Agnew, Rachel Smith, and Anna Hendrickson. She has also studied at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Chautauqua School of Music, and the MasterWorks Festival.

Ms. Armstrong is a member of the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony and also performs with the La Crosse Symphony. Before moving to Iowa she played principal oboe with the Southern Tier Symphony (NY), and has also performed with the Erie (PA) and Binghamton (NY) Philharmonic Orchestras, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, and Equinox Symphony. In the summer of 2006 she performed a series of four concerts with the Olean (NY) Chamber Music Society, and was featured as faculty soloist in a concert at the Csehy Summer School of Music in Philadelphia, PA. She has appeared in other solo and chamber music recitals at Alfred University, the Hochstein School of Music and Dance, the Eastman School of Music, Houghton College, and Theater-Regensburg, Germany.

Iowa City Early Keyboard Society: Preethi deSilva, harpsichord; Lecture/Recital

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:55:11 -0600

This lecture recital's program includes a number of works by C.P.E. Bach, including his Fantasia in A major, H. 278 (Wq. 58/7), Variations on "Folies d'Espagne" H. 263 (Wq. 118), Chaconne from Pièces de Clavecin, Troisième Livre and the Sonata in G minor, H. 47 (Wq. 65/17). The program will also feature de Silva's Pieces for Harpsichord, the Chaconne in G by Handel, and "La Forqueray" by Jacques Duply.

De Silva has concertized extensively as harpsichordist and fortepianist in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. She has received high praise for her virtuosity, great sensitivity of touch and stylish performances.

Her recordings of several volumes of keyboard works by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, J.G. Müthel and Mozart have received critical acclaim in the United States and in Europe.

She is also artistic director of the Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in early 2011.

Heather Armstrong, oboe; Aaron Hill, oboe; Andrew Parker, English horn

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:41 -0600

Percussion Spectacular

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:41 -0600

Latitude Ensemble

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:55:14 -0600

The Latitude Ensemble at the University of Iowa School of Music is an improvisational chamber ensemble. In this April 22 performance, they will accompany the 1916 Charlie Chaplin silent film "The Rink," and then invent some more music at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 25, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.

Director Jeffrey Agrell, a School of Music faculty member, explains that the aim of the ensemble is to generate creative collaborations that combine the clarity of composed music -- with clear structure, melodies, rhythms, varying timbres and textures -- with the pizzazz of improvised music. In the concert setting, opportunities for audience participation are included.

Some of the instant compositions make use of Soundpainting, a well-developed system of gestures that direct and mold improvisational performances.

Robert Satterlee, piano, Center for New Music guest

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:41 -0600

The program will include several premieres: Two Etudes (Homage to William Albright) by CNM director David Gompper, "bodacious gaits" by Doug Opel, "La follia II: Lacuna" by Marilyn Shrude, "Vendaval" by Gabriela Lena Frank, "torn" by Evan Chambers, Rag Latino by William Bolcom, and Prelude and Toccata by Evan Hause.

The concert will conclude with Albright's Five Chromatic Dances. Albright was an esteemed American composer, organist and ragtime pianist who led the composition department at the University of Michigan to world-class status.

His Five Chromatic Dances illustrate his trademark humor and eclectic style, ranging from Chopin allusions to boogie-woogie.

Satterlee, who teaches at Bowling Green State University, is a versatile solo recitalist and chamber musician who plays regularly throughout the United States and Europe. An advocate of new music, he has performed the premieres of many works.

For more information about this and other Center for New Music events, visit the Center online at www.uiowa.edu/~cnm.

Iowa Festival of Baroque Music and Dance: Lecture by Betty Bang Mather

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:42 -0600

Betty Bang Mather is Professor Emerita of Flute at The University of Iowa and author of Interpretation of French Music from 1675 to 1775 and (with the assistance of Dean M. Karns) Dance Rhythms of the French Baroque.

Iowa Festival of Baroque Music and Dance

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:42 -0600

Characters of the Dance is a delightful program featuring diverse characters that graced the 18th-century stage, including Shepherds, Harlequins, Nymphes, and Sailors. Rebel's Les Caractères de Dance, a dance fantaisie depicting comic themes of love, is included on the program.

The program will feature Baroque Dancers Paige Whitley-Bauguess and Thomas Baird, who have collaborated exclusively as dance partners for the past twenty years. Together, they interpret, recreate, and perform Baroque theatre dances in venues all over the world. A recent performance was described as "a window on the past...like being caught in a musical and theatrical time warp that reached my ears and eyes as a soft-focus vision of a quite spectacular moment in the history of western performance art," (The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC). Highlights of their artistic collaboration include repeat concerts with the Little Orchestra Society at Lincoln Center, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, and Les Fêtes de Versailles in Japan; Bailles y Danzas, a program of Spanish music and dance performed with Chatham Baroque; and Harlequin Unmasked, music and dance of the commedia dell’ arte performed with REBEL.

Camerata

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:40 -0600

Kantorei is the premier vocal ensemble of The University of Iowa School of Music and continues its collaboration with faculty bassoonist Benjamin Coelho, which will culminate with a release of a CD next year.

Their April 1 program, under the direction of Timothy Stalter, features:

--The world premieres of "Orationes pro pacem" and "La pobrecita infeliz" by Sweden-based German composer Eberhard Eyser

--A set of compositions by organist Rudolf Tobias, Estonia's first professional composer, edited by School of Music choral faculty member David Puderbaugh.

--"O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf" by Johannes Brahms.

--The world premiere of "Oferen Gernewek Vyghan" (A Little Cornish Mass) by composer, broadcaster and Greenland cultural explorer Adrian Vernon Fish, sung in the ancient Cornish language and featuring soloists Gretchen Bruesehoff, soprano, Jacqueline Lang, alto, Noah DeLong, tenor, and Brian Dykes, bass.

The Riverside Recital Hall is located at 405 N. Riverside Dr. in the former St. Thomas More Church in Iowa City.

Kantorei, Timothy Stalter, director

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:21:41 -0600

The Camerata Singers, under the direction of School of Music faculty member David Puderbaugh, is a vocal ensemble that combines University of Iowa students and community members. With the accompaniment of pianist Elizabeth Leier, the evening's program will include "Veni Sancte Spiritus," K. 47, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Sicut cervus" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, the spirituals "Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit" and "Obey the Spirit of the Lord," "Heart We Will Forget Him," a setting of an Emily Dickinson poem by James Mulholland, "My Spirit Sang All Day" by British composer Gerald Finzi, and "Five Mystical Songs" by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Featured soloists will be sopranos Samantha Cosner, Tana Luger and Katherine Roller, tenor Taehyun Roh, baritones Richard Roller, Jason Mallory and Brett Kissell, and cellist Zoraida Oyola Rebaza.

The Riverside Recital Hall is located in the former St. Thomas More Church at 405 N. Riverside Dr. in Iowa City.

Piano Sundays

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:53:29 -0600

This concert will feature the Old Capitol's 1878 Steinway piano, which features burled-rosewood carved legs and satin finish. It was restored by West Music in Coralville and acquired in 2006.

Susan Rider, trumpeter with United States "President's Own" Marine Band in Washington D.C, masterclass

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:53:30 -0600

Iowa Festival of Baroque Music and Dance: Brown Bag Lecture with Rachelle Palnick Tsachor "Dances for the Sun King:â André Lorin's Livre de Countredance, discussion with the editors

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:53:31 -0600

Susan Rider, trumpet, featuring Al Naylor, trumpet; Amy Schendel, trumpet, and Lee Nguyen, piano

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:08:19 -0500

Susan Rider of the "The President's Own," the premiere band of the United State Marine Core, will join trumpeter Amy Schendel, a faculty member in the University of Iowa School of Music, guest trumpeter Alan Naylor, and pianist Lee Nguyen for an afternoon of trumpet music.

Together, the three trumpeters will perform Fanfare for St. Edmondsbury by Benjamin Britten and Philip Buttall's "The Lone Ar-ranger!"

Rider will play the Variations on a Theme by Haydn by James M. Stephenson and the Sonata for Cornet and Piano by Thorvald Hansen. Naylor will perform "Girl With the Flaxen Hair" by Debussy, Rhapsody for Trumpet and Winds by Alexander Arutunian and his own Improvisation on Three Unknown Notes. Schendel will be featured in "Autumn" from "Seasons" by John Stevens and "Two Portraits" by Joseph Turrin.

Rider, a native of Cedar Falls, besides serving as a master sergeant in "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, is a frequent soloist with the Marine Band, Marine Chamber Orchestra and Marine Chamber Ensembles.

Naylor is the trumpet professor and team teaches the Jazz Ensemble at Coe College. As a jazz/blues trumpeter, he has performed with many prominent artists and was a founding member of Orquesta Alto Maiz.