$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, and senior citizens; $10 general public; free for UMass Music Majors and Minors. Buy Tickets Online
2/4 Saturday
SAXOPHONE MASTERCLASS
Professor Claude Delangle (Paris Conservatory), saxophone with Nadine Shank & Scott Bailey, piano Artist website
2:30 pm: Masterclass in Room 44, FAC Music Wing (no charge)
Feb. 7 Tuesday
Graduate Jazz Composers
New works composed & performed by jazz grad students: Emily Duff, Jon Gardner, Micah Maurio, Jeff Novotny, Dan O'Rourke, Jeff Schneider & Zack Scudlark with Jazz Faculty & Jazz Ensemble I
University of New Hampshire Professor Nicholas Orovich, trombone & euphonium With Christopher Kies, piano
Music by Arthur Pryor, Gunther Schuller, Barbara York & Herbert L. Clarke
$3 UMass Students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for Umass Music Majors and Minors Buy Tickets Online
Feb. 11 Saturday
27th Annual High School Honor Band
Featuring the finest wind & percussion musicians in New England/Northeast James Patrick Miller, conductor Travis J. Cross, Virginia Tech University, guest composer/conductor
7pm Fine Arts Center Concert HallNo charge
Feb. 25 Saturday (erroneously listed previously as Feb. 11)
Five College Choral Festival
Including UMass Chamber Choir & Chorale Tony Thornton & Stephen Paparo, conductors
Featuring the premiere of a new work by Smith College professor Gregory Brown, with text by Pulitzer Prize-winner and valley resident Richard Wilbur.
7:30pm John M. Greene Hall, Smith College campus, NorthamptonNo charge
With the University Dancers (Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzer)
Amy Johnson, soprano; Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano; William Hite, tenor; John Salvi (Alum BM’97, MM’00), baritone; Ayano Kataoka, percussion; Lynn Klock, saxophone; Kathryn Lockwood, viola; Nadine Shank & Nicholas Shaneyfelt, piano
Including Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzer, Op. 52; Somei Satoh: Birds in Warped Time II (viola/percussion); Pierre Lantier: Sicilienne (Alto saxophone/piano)
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for Umass music majors and minors Buy Tickets Online
Amy Johnson
Feb. 17 Friday
Theory Lecture Series
Speaker: Professor Gary Karpinski, Coordinator of Music Theory, UMass Amherst
Ambiguity: Another Listen
An homage to the late music theorist Steve Larson and his ambigrams, constructed from ambiguous figures, which can be read the same way right-side-up or upside-down. The talk also explores how metric and tonal ambiguity affect music analysis and pedagogy.
Wayne Smith, Cello, Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Mvt. 1 Nicole Pompei, Bassoon, Weber: Concerto in F Major, Mvt. 3 Jeffrey Soffer, Saxophone, Glazunov: Concerto in Eb Emily Munn-Wood, Cello, Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor, Mvt. 2 Rob Stahley, Voice, Cilea: “Lamento di Federico” from L’Arlesiana
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Feb. 26 Sunday 4pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
College Band Directors Eastern Division Conference Preview
Music by Jacob Druckman, Tom Johnson, Xenakis & Macchia
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Mar. 1, 2 & 3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY DANCE CONCERT
Five College dancers perform choreography by Monica Bill Barnes, Diane Coburn-Brunning, Cathy Nicoli, Tom Vacanti & Wendy Woodson
8pmKirby Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for students and free for Amherst College faculty/students/staff with AC ID. Early reservations are recommended and can be made by email at fcddance.reservations@gmail.com or by calling 413-538-2848. Reservations after Feb. 26 can be made at 413-542-2277.
Mar. 1, 2 & 3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY DANCE CONCERT
Five College dancers perform choreography by Monica Bill Barnes, Diane Coburn-Brunning, Cathy Nicoli, Tom Vacanti & Wendy Woodson
8pmKirby Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for students and free for Amherst College faculty/students/staff with AC ID. Early reservations are recommended and can be made by email at fcddance.reservations@gmail.com or by calling 413-538-2848. Reservations after Feb. 26 can be made at 413-542-2277.
Mar. 1, 2 & 3 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
FIVE COLLEGE FACULTY DANCE CONCERT
Five College dancers perform choreography by Monica Bill Barnes, Diane Coburn-Brunning, Cathy Nicoli, Tom Vacanti & Wendy Woodson
8pmKirby Theater, Amherst College
Tickets are $10 for general admission, $5 for students and free for Amherst College faculty/students/staff with AC ID. Early reservations are recommended and can be made by email at fcddance.reservations@gmail.com or by calling 413-538-2848. Reservations after Feb. 26 can be made at 413-542-2277.
Amy Johnson 
