Includes Cole Porter's So In Love, Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments, Kern/Harbach's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & music by Lennie Niehaus, Frank Wess & Rob McConnell
Music to include Tchaikovsky: Serenade and Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 9
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Infinity Brass
Wednesday, November 7th 8:15pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Eric Berlin & Steve Felix, trumpet; Laura Klock, horn; Greg Spiridopoulos, trombone, & John Bottomley, tuba
To include: Air Sculptures by David Jex, Brass Quintet # 1 by Clint Needham, Laudes by Jan Bach, Sextet for Brass by Oscar Boehme
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Marimba Bands & Ensembles
Tuesday, November 13th 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Thomas Hannum, director
Music by Handel, Philip Glass, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Bela Fleck, Pat Methany & others
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Chamber Choir
Saturday, November 17th 8pm St. John's Episcopal Church, 48 Elm St., Northampton
Tony Thornton, conductor
Selections by Pinkham, Henson, Ravel, Badings, Mozart, Matamoros, and arrangements of spirituals by Dawson, Paulsson, and Hairston.
No charge; Donations will be accepted to assist in fundraising for the Chamber Choir tour to Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, and Prague in May of 2013.
Tony Thornton
Jazz Ensemble I
Sunday, November 18th 4pm Bowker Auditorium
Jeffrey W. Holmes, director Guest Rob Zappulla, voice
Including a tribute to the music of Billy May
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Rob Zappulla
String Chamber Ensembles
Monday, November 19th 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Includes movements from the following works:
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18/4 & String Quartet Op. 74 "Harp", Brahms Clarinet Trio, Britten Phantasy for Oboe Quartet, Dvorák "Dumky" Trio, Schumann Piano Quartet & Shostakovich Piano Trio
No charge
Tuesdays in Bezanson Faculty Performers
Tuesday, November 20th 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Elizabeth Chang, violin; Fredric T. Cohen & Aaron Lakota, oboe; Astrid Schween, cello; Stephen Walt, bassoon; Salvatore Macchia, continuo bass; Estela Olevsky & Nadine Shank, piano
Beethoven: "Archduke" Trio, Op. 97; Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonata for 2 oboes, bassoon and continuo and Shostakovich: Concertino, Op. 94 for Two Pianos
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Estela Olevsky & Nadine Shank
Faculty Horn Recital
Monday, November 26th 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall Laura Klock, horn; with Elizabeth Chang, violin;Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Greg Spiridopoulos, trombone, & John Bottomley, tuba
Including Harbison: Twilight Music, Scriabin: Romance, & Macchia: Links, a premiere
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Laura Klock
University Orchestra
Wednesday, November 28th 8:15pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Dances by Anna Sokolow: Rooms (1955), Billbob Brown: Please/Thank You (with cellist Kristen Miller), Thomas Vacanti: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (with video artist Mark Piaget), Adrienne Hawkins: You'll know it when you get there (set to music by Art of Noise), and a traditional West African dance by Marilyn and Sekou Sylla
Saturday, December 1st (concert also on Friday, Nov. 30) 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Paul Dennis, director
Dances by Anna Sokolow: Rooms (1955), Billbob Brown: Please/Thank You (with cellist Kristen Miller), Thomas Vacanti: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (with video artist Mark Piaget), Adrienne Hawkins: You'll know it when you get there (set to music by Art of Noise), and a traditional West African dance by Marilyn and Sekou Sylla
Faculty Voice Recital POSTPONED TO NOV. 27 DUE TO ILLNESS
Saturday, November 3rd 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Amy Johnson, soprano; with Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano, William Hite, tenor & guest artists Joshua Greene, assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and Vernon Hartman, Metropolitan Opera baritone
Amy Johnson
Collaborative Piano & Voice Masterclass
Saturday, December 1st 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall No charge
Guest Artist: JOSHUA GREENE, Assistant Conductor, Metropolitan Opera
Greene, who holds a B.M. from The Mannes College of Music and an M.M. from the Manhatten School of Music, assisted Daniel Barenboim with Tristan and Isolde and James Levine with Orfeo ed Euridice, The Magic Flute, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg and Falstaff. He was Music Director of the New York City Opera National Company, conducting more than 30 performers of La Traviata in the U.S. and Canada. A noted recital acompanist, he has performed with singers such as Jerry Hadley, Jane Bunnell, Joyce Guyer, Carolyn James, and James Morris, at New York's Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie-Weill Recital Hall, and the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena.
This Masterclass is part of a Guest Artist Residency, hosted by Professors Nadine Shank, Piano Coordinator, & William Hite, Voice Area Coordinator, and made possible through the generosity of the UMass Amherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Julie C. Hayes, Dean.
Low Brass Fest
Friday, November 16th 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Laura Klock, Greg Spiridopoulos & John Bottomley, directors
Music from the Horn, Trombone, & Tuba/Euphonium studios; featuring original & transcribed works from the classical & popular repertoire. In addition to individual studio performances, the combined forces of the 3 studios will fill Bowker with an arrangement of Gustav Holst's Mars from The Planets.
No Charge
Senior Recital
Saturday, November 10th 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Bethany Croxton, horn
No Charge
Masters Recital
Tuesday, November 13th 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Daniel O'Rourke, jazz compositions & arrangements
Free
Senior Recital
Friday, November 16th 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Hannah Berube, clarinet
Free
Senior Recital
Sunday, November 18th 1pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Nicole Pompei, bassoon
Free
Graduate Brass Quintet "Bach to Bach"
Saturday, November 10th 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Steve Felix & Steven Bailey, trumpet; Rachel Cobb, horn; Jessica Cates, trombone & Brandon Christie, tuba
Featuring J.S. Bach's Contrapunctus I from The Art of Fugue & Jan Bach's Rounds and Dances, plus music by Debussy, Ewald & Pezel
Free
Graduate Woodwind Quintet
Saturday, November 17th 4pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Quintet members are Katherine Dolan, flute; Cassie Loges, oboe; Leslie Kahler, clarinet; Dave Bon-Keen, bassoon; Kevin Martins, horn.
Repertoire to include: Irving Fine's Partita for Wind Quintet, Samuel Barber's Summer Music, and Paquito D'Rivera's Aires Tropicales.
No Charge
Graduate Recital
Saturday, December 1st 3pm Fine Arts Center, Room 44
Jeff Schneider, jazz
Free
Graduate Jazz Recital
Tuesday, November 2nd 7:30pm Fine Arts Center, Room 44
Micah Maurio, jazz trumpet
Free
Faculty Voice Recital: Amy Johnson, soprano Imagination Creates Reality, the Music of Richard Wagner
Tuesday, November 27 (Rescheduled from Nov. 3)
8pm New location: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 867 N. Pleasant St., Amherst Amy Johnson, soprano; with Marjorie Melnick, mezzo-soprano, William Hite, tenor & guest artists Joshua Greene, assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera and Vernon Hartman, Metropolitan Opera baritone
In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth, an all-Wagner recital will be performed. Including Wesendonck Lieder, Trois Melodies,Les Adieux de Maria Stuart and the Quintet from Die Meistersinger
No charge; donations welcome to benefit the Opera Workshop program of the Music & Dance Department
Amy Johnson
Sunday November 4th at 4pm, Room 44
GUEST ARTIST MASTERCLASS
John DiCesare, Tuba
Assistant Professor of Tuba at Kent State University
Amy Johnson
