Music and Dance Welcomes Guest Artists to Campus

The department of music and dance will host performances by visiting guest artists during the coming weeks. Both performances will take place in Bezanson Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.

On Tuesday, Sept. 24, saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky performs a concert titled “The Saxophone in America, Past to Present” with guest pianist Yoshiko Kline. The program will feature works by Schuller, Grofé, Creston, plus the world-premiere of a new work by Francine Trester titled “Reminiscence: 3 Meditations on Friendship.”

On Saturday, October 5, the Sotto Voce Tuba Quartet will visit UMass Amherst for the second stop on their first-ever East Coast tour. The quartet, one of the only tuba/euphonium groups touring today, includes acclaimed high euphonium player Demondrae Thurman with along Mark Carlson (low euphonium), Nat McIntosh (high tuba) and Mike Forbes (low tuba).  Their program will include arrangements of works by Debussy and Bach, along with music written for tuba and euphonium by Anthony Plog and Steve Snowden. The second half of the program is billed as a “Tour de Estilos Latinos (Tour of Latin Styles),” and will feature works by D’Rivera, Piazzolla, Enrique Crespo, and others. The group will also offer a masterclass for UMass chamber brass groups at 4 p.m. in Bezanson, which is free and open to the public.

Bezanson Recital Hall is located in the UMass Fine Arts Center, 151 President’s Dr., Amherst, MA. Free and secure parking is available in nearby university lot 71 off Massachusetts Avenue and lot 62 via Thatcher Way or Stockbridge Road.