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
Sunday, December 2nd 3pm, First Congregational Church, 165 Main St. Amherst
Stephen A. Paparo, Chorale conductor Sarah Bowe, Joshua Harper, Geoffrey Herrmann & Nhung Truong, graduate conductors
Includes music by Eric Whitacre: The Seal Lullaby; Morten Lauridsen: Dirait-on; Michael Praetorius: Jubilate Deoand Psallite, unigenito; Barbara Baker: The Storm is Passing Over; Andrea Ramsey: Heaven Unfolding & many other selections
No charge
Vocal Jazz Ensemble
Monday, December 3rd 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Catherine Jensen-Hole, director
Featuring Paris Rutherford's reharmonized arrangement of Livingston/Evans' a capella ballad, Never Let Me Go, commisioned by the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, plus compositions & arrangements by Jensen-Hole & others
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Symphony Band & Percussion Ensemble
Tuesday, December 4th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
Heidi Miller & Michael Compitello, conductors
Symphony Band Repertoire: Ron Nelson's Lauds; John Barnes Chance's Incantation and Dance; Eric Ewazen's Hymn for the Lost and the Living; Ronald Lo Presti's Elegy for a Young American; and David Stanhope's Folksongs for Band, Suite No. 3
Percussion Ensemble Repertoire: Jason Treuting's Extremes, Toru Takemitsu's Rain Tree, and John Cage's She is Asleep and Third Construction
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Avanti Plus: Glorious Mozart
CANCELLED/ RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 7
Faculty/Student Chamber Music Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn; Stephen Walt, bassoon, Gilles Vonsattel, piano & students
Featuring Mozart: Piano Quintet, K. 452 & Gran Partita
Chapel Jazz & Jazz Lab Ensembles
Thursday, December 6th 8pm Bowker Auditorium
Felipe Salles, Tom Giampietro, Micah Maurio, & Jeff Schneider, directors
Featuring Duke Ellington's Cottontail & Nutcracker Suite Overture, Felipe Salles' The Journey, Wayne Shorter's Fee Fi Fo Fum, Sammy Nestico's Basie Straight Ahead & music by Thad Jones, Thelonious Monk, Ellen Rowe & others
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Five College Early Music Collegium The Floating City
Thursday, December 6th 8pm New Location: St. Theresa Catholic Church, 9 E. Parkview Dr., South Hadley
Robert Eisenstein, director
Renaissance music from Venice for voices, winds & strings, including Advent & Christmas music
No Charge
Wind Ensemble
Friday, December 7th 8pm Fine Arts Center Concert Hall
James Patrick Miller, conductor Featuring Eric Berlin, trumpet & Greg Spiridopoulos, trombone
Jeffrey W. Holmes: Continuum for Trumpet, Trombone & Wind Ensemble (World Premiere), Evan Hause: Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble, Einojuhani Rautavaara: Solitamessu, Gordon Jacob: Old Wine in New Bottles, and Paul Hindemith: March from Symphonic Metamorphosis
Tickets: $3 UMass students; $5 other students, children, seniors; $10 general public; free for UMass music majors & minors Buy Tickets Online
Eric Berlin
Euridice Ensemble
Friday, November 30th 8pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Robert Eisenstein, director
Baroque chamber orchestra of strings & winds
No charge
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.
Masters Recital
Thursday, December 6th 7:30pm Bezanson Recital Hall
Kristen Wallentinsen, violin
Free
Graduate Recital
Saturday, December 1st 3pm Fine Arts Center, Room 44
Jeff Schneider, jazz
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
Friday night, December 7-8 at 12 midnight
MIDNIGHT MESSIAH SING-ALONG
Handel's Messiah
Joshua Harper, conductor with Emma Donahue, soprano; Kaara McHugh, Nhung Truong & Liana Gineitis, alto; Timothy Sherriffs, tenor & Andrew Scoglio, bass
Orchestra comprised of UMass graduate & undergraduate students
Scores for singing will be provided.
Choir rehearsal (optional) at 10:30pm on Friday, Dec. 7 in Rm. 44, Music wing, FAC
Eric Berlin
Joshua Harper, conductor