10/30 Sunday 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall Faculty Recital-Rescheduled for Tues, Nov. 1 at 4:45pm
Nadine Shank, piano; Jean Johnson, alumna '96, clarinet & Andrea Baker, mezzo-soprano
Includes Mozart: "Parto, Parto" from La clemenza di Tito, Spohr: Sechs Lieder, Mahler: Ruckert Lieder, von Weber: Grand Duo Concertante, Op. 48 & Three Negro Spirituals
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Nadine Shank
11/4 Friday 4pm Music Alumni Reunion
4pm: Student Mini-Concert, Chat with Chair Jeff Cox & Dinner at the University Club AND 8pm: 37th Annual Multiband Pops Music & Dance Showcase Concert
Reunion Package: $35 per person, includes dinner & Multiband Pops concert; guests very welcome To register: 413-545-2511, ask for Music Alumni Reunion Register Online Deadline: October 21st
11/4 Friday 8pm 37th Annual Multiband Pops Concert Showcase Extraordinaire Introducing Timothy T. Anderson, Minuteman Marching Band Director
Ensembles: Chamber Choir, Chapel Jazz Ensemble, Horn Choir, Jazz Ensemble I, Mass Marimba Band, Minuteman Marching Band, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Quartet, Symphony Band, Trumpet Ensemble, UMass Dancers, UMass Marimba Ensembles, University Orchestra, Vocal Jazz Ensemble & Wind Ensemble
Directors: Jeffrey W. Holmes, producer/ director, Eric Berlin, Billbob Brown, Thomas Giampietro, Thomas Hannum, Catherine Jensen-Hole, Ayano Kataoka, Laura Klock, Lynn Klock, James Patrick Miller,Felipe Salles
Christopher Krueger, flute; Frederic T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn & Stephen Walt, bassoon
Includes music by Steven Stucky & Giuseppe Verdi
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
11/14 Monday 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Large Forces: Infinity Brass Faculty Chamber Music
Eric Berlin & Scott Nichols, trumpet; Laura Klock, horn; Greg Spiridopoulous, trombone & John Bottomley, tuba
2nd half (Bernstein & Tyzik/Vizzutti) guests: Jeffrey W. Holmes, trumpet soloist & arranger; James Patrick Miller, conductor; Jason Hooper, bass trombone & selected students
Music by Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, Salvatore Macchia, James Stephenson & Jeff Tyzik/Allen Vizzutti
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
11/16 Wednesday 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
University Orchestra Vince Lee, conductor
Dmitri Shoskakovich: Festive Overture, Op. 96, Alberto Ginastera: Estancia Ballet Suite, Op. 8a, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Nov. 18 Friday 8pm Euridice Ensembles Robert Eisenstein, director
Students and faculty of the Early Music Program present a program featuring the Medieval Ensemble and the Baroque Band.
14th century Motets about music performed by voices, medieval fiddles, organetto, lute and harp.
The Baroque Band, a 15-member chamber orchestra, performs suites by Lully and Conti and concerti by Corelli and Vivaldi.
Tony Thornton, conductor Nicholas Shaneyfelt, pianist
Eric Whitacre: Animal Crackers, Vol. 1, W.A. Mozart: Regina Coeli, Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin, a movement from Brahms' Requiem with Amy Johnson, soprano soloist, music by Dello Joio, Morales, Paulus, Erb, & Parker, as well as folk songs and spirituals
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
11/20 Sunday 4pm Advanced Percussion Ensemble
Ayano Kataoka, director
Eric Ewazen: “Mosaics” for flute, bassoon, and marimba, Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango (excerpts), Rich O'Meara: Wooden Music, works by Vinao, Hurel, Kagel, others
4pm at the Bezanson Recital Hall No Charge
11/21 Monday 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Jazz Ensemble I
Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
Guests: Stephen Walt, bassoon; Chris Krueger, flute; Bruce Krasin, bass clarinet
Featuring a premiere by Paul Ferguson, commissioned for Jazz Ensemble I, as well as compositions from UMass students Jeff Schneider and Dan Gabel
Also includes compositions by Jeff Novotny, Bill Finnegan, Leroy Anderson, Gabriel Faure, Cole Porter, and Chick Corea
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Includes compositions by Chris Potter, Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, Andy McKee, Pat Metheny, Jason Mraz, Leonard Bernstein, Dave Weckl, among others.
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/1 Thursday 8pm Five College Early Music Collegium
Robert Eisenstein, director
Christmas Music from Spain's Golden Age
Marvelous motets by Morales, Victoria and Guerrero, including Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium, instrumental music performed on viols and Renaissance Winds, and lively Christmas villancicos for all. The sonorous splendor of late 16th-century Spain!
8pm at the Bezanson Recital Hall No Charge
12/2 Friday 8pm Bowker Auditorium University Dancers
Paul Dennis, director
Merce Cunningham's minEvent; Camille Brown's New Second Line, inspired by Hurricane Katrina, celebrating the spirit & culture of New Orleans; Billbob Brown's Rotator, dynamic video projections & live dance; Adrienne Hawkins' Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky music); Thomas Vacanti's ballet premiere Sostenuto & Allegro, set to the music of Kurt Weill
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $12 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/3 Saturday 2pm Bowker Auditorium University Dancers
Paul Dennis, director
Merce Cunningham's minEvent; Camille Brown's New Second Line, inspired by Hurricane Katrina, celebrating the spirit & culture of New Orleans; Billbob Brown's Rotator, dynamic video projections & live dance; Adrienne Hawkins' Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky music); Thomas Vacanti's ballet premiere Sostenuto & Allegro, set to the music of Kurt Weill
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $12 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/3 Saturday 8pm Bowker Auditorium University Dancers
Paul Dennis, director
Merce Cunningham's minEvent; Camille Brown's New Second Line, inspired by Hurricane Katrina, celebrating the spirit & culture of New Orleans; Billbob Brown's Rotator, dynamic video projections & live dance; Adrienne Hawkins' Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky music); Thomas Vacanti's ballet premiere Sostenuto & Allegro, set to the music of Kurt Weill
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $12 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
12/3 Saturday 4pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Wind Ensemble
James Patrick Miller, conductor
Fredric T. Cohen, oboe
Lutoslawski: Fanfare for Louisville, Szigeti: For Fred, Concerto for Oboe and Wind Ensemble, Stravinsky: Octet for Wind Instruments, Copland: Emblems
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 General public 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Free Admission for Auditioning Students and Families!
11/30 Wednesday 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall
AVANTI PLUS: Great Serenades Wind Chamber Music
Avanti Wind Quintet faculty performers Christopher Krueger, flute; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn & Stephen Walt, bassoon are joined by select students for an evening of wind Serenades by Mozart and Strauss
$3 UMass students; $5 other students, seniors & children; $10 general public Box Office 413-545-2511 or Buy Tickets Online
Sunday, Nov. 20 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
GRADUATE WIND QUARTET
Andrea Leblanc, flute; Cassandra Loges, oboe; Anderson Paes, clarinet & Joo Hyun Jun, bassoon Guest artist: Sandra Greenwood, piano
Music by Frank Bridge, Florent Schmitt & Jean Francaix
No charge
Senior Recital
Allison Cockshaw, trumpet
Sunday, November 6, 4 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Junior Horn & Bassoon Recital
Bethany Croxton, horn
Nicole Pompei, bassoon
Thursday, November 17, 7:30 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
Senior Flute Recital
Carolyn McCrone, flute
Saturday, November 19, 1 pm
Bezanson Recital Hall
Free
11/3 Thursday Bezanson Recital Hall 8pm
Guest Trombone Recital
Unai Urrecho, Trombone & Nikki Stoia, Piano
Guest artist Unai Urrecho is on the faculty of Suwon University, S. Korea, and has been principal trombonist of the Daejeon Philharmonic and the Sao Paolo State Symphony Orchestras.
Nikki Stoia is on the piano faculty at the UMass Amherst Department of Music & Dance.
The event is free & open to the public.
Oct. 30 Sunday
MASSACHUSETTS DANCE FESTIVAL – (Rescheduled from August 27)
Sponsored by the UMass Music & Dance Department
Workshops & Performances by Massachusetts Dance Companies
Classes & Workshops:10am-4:15pm Totman Building + Round-Table discussion
Concert by Massachusetts Professional Dance Companies:7pm Bowker Auditorium
Including Mass. dancers/companies: Annie Kloppenberg, SKooJ Core-O, Audra Carabetta, Chaos Theory, Navarasa, Lorraine Chapman, Ryan P. Casey, Quicksilver/Mariah Steele & University Dancers
Audra Carabetta
Violin Masterclass
Masterclass with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violinist
4:45-5:45pm at Bezanson Recital Hall
No charge to observe
Cello Master Class
Master class with Mihai Tetel, cellist
4:30 pm at Bezanson Recital Hall
No charge to observe
Chamber Music Master Class
Master class with Rhonda Rider, cellist
10am at Bezanson Recital Hall
No charge to observe
Violin Master Class
Master class with Bayla Keyes
4:15 pm at Bezanson Recital Hall
No charge to observe
Masters Violin Recital
Julie Sun Lee, violin
7:30 pm at Bezanson Recital Hall
No charge
Friday, November 18 1:25pm
Music Theory Lecture
Melodic Contour, Musical Diachrony, and the Paradigmatic/Syntagmatic Divide in Frederic Chopin's Waltz in B Minor
Speaker: Professor Rob Schultz, UMass Amherst Department of Music & Dance
1:25 pm at the Fine Arts Center Music Wing, Room 44
This is a free event.
Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 4:45pm Bezanson Recital Hall Faculty Recital-Rescheduled from Oct. 30
Nadine Shank, piano; Jean Johnson, alumna '96, clarinet & Andrea Baker, mezzo-soprano
NO CHARGE
Sunday, November 6, 2011 at 4pm Sweeney Concert Hall at Sage Hall, Smith College
Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem
Tony Thornton, conductor
Junko Watanabe, soprano & John Salvi, baritone
The seldom-performed "London" version, featuring pianists Nadine Shank & Nicholas Shaneyfelt, cellist Kivie Cahn-Lipman, double bassist Salvatore Macchia, timpanist Ayano Kataoka, and a combined chorus of UMass Chamber Choir and select singers from across the Pioneer Valley.
A benefit for American Red Cross Disaster Relief, honoring victims of natural disaster in 2011
Admission by Donation
Friday, November 18
PERCUSSION MASTERCLASS
Guest artist from Japan, Kunihiko Komori
12:15-2:20pm, Fine Arts Center Music Wing Room 36.
There is no charge for this event.
Tuesday, Nov. 8, 11am
U.S. Army Field Band Saxophone Quartet
11am in Bezanson Recital Hall
Free Event, all are invited
Nov. 28 Monday 10am-12noon Bezanson Recital Hall
Violin Master Class
Kevin Lawrence, guest violinist
International performer & violin professor/chair of the String Department at the North Carolina School of the Arts
Presenting a program of music & information about the horn & its history, as part of the church's Concert Series
Free & open to the public
Nov. 19 Saturday 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
GRADUATE BRASS QUINTET
Nate Wilson & Scott Nichols, trumpet; Julia Cavagnaro, horn; Jessica Cates, trombone; Brandon Christie, tuba
Music by DiLorenzo: Fire Dance, Dahl: Music for Brass Instruments (with guest trombonist William Baldoumas), Albinoni: Sonata "Saint Mark," Copland: The Promise of Living from The Tender Land & Bozza: Sonatine
No charge
JUNIOR RECITAL
Gwendolyn Coburn, voice
Charles Daole-Wellman, clarinet
Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 7:30pm
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
Nadine Shank 
Audra Carabetta
