Enjoy performances by School of Music students, faculty, and alumni at the UW’s 150th anniversary celebration, Huskyfest, April 19-21, 2012 at a variety of campus locations. All events are free (except Mostly Brahms) and open to the public. Join us!

Thursday, April 19

Oceana Quartet

10:15 a.m. Oceana Quartet
Red Square Pavilion

The Oceana Quartet, winners of the 2011 UW Strings and Piano Chamber Ensemble Competition, kicks off Huskyfest with a performance featuring the combined talents of UW students Emily Choi and Rochelle Nguyen (violins), Romaric Pokorny (viola), and Sonja Myklebust (cello). The quartet performs selections by Mendelssohn and Debussy.

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Capriccio in E minor, Op. 81.................................................................Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10.............................................................Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Animé et très décidé
Assez vif et bien rythmé
Très modéré - En animant peu à peu - Très mouvementé et avec passion

The Oceana String Quartet was formed in winter 2011 by violinists Emily Choi and Rochelle Nguyen, violist Romaric Pokorny, and cellist Sonja Myklebust, and currently serves as the official student string quartet of the University of Washington. The OSQ won the 2nd Annual Strings and Piano Chamber Music Competition at the UW School of Music, and was awarded the Alcor Scholarship. The quartet is coached by Melia Watras, violist of the Corigliano Quartet, and has also worked with Ronald Patterson, Elisa Barston, and members of Cuarteto Casals. Highlights of their inaugural season include their debut concert at Brechemin Auditorium, a performance at Daniels Recital Hall in downtown Seattle, and an appearance for Paramount Pictures for the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Titanic. The Oceana was recently nominated by the UW School of Music to perform at HuskyFest, a school-wide event in April celebrating the university's 150th birthday. They will perform George Crumb’s Black Angels on the May 23, 2012 UW Contemporary Group concert.
Percussion Ensemble

2 p.m. Percussion Ensemble
Red Square Pavilion

The UW Percussion Ensemble (Tom Collier, director) observes the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer John Cage with a performance of his First Construction in Metal, composed in 1939 during Cage’s teaching career at the Cornish School of The Arts in Seattle. Other selections for percussion will follow.

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Friday, April 20

Littlefield Organ

1:30 p.m. Littlefield Organ Celebration
Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall

Students of Carole Terry perform on the UW’s famed Littlefield Organ. Program includes works by Bach, Vierne, Lübeck, and Böhm.

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Installed in 1990, the Littlefield Organ is a tracker action organ modeled after 17th Century German and Dutch instruments. Featuring 979 pipes in 18 ranks, ranging from 10 feet in length to the size of a pencil, the organ includes nine types of wood—fir, oak, redwood, Brazilian mahogany, sugar pine, ebony, maple, poplar, and European beech. Constructed by Paul Fritts & Company Organ Builders of Tacoma, the organ is dedicated to brothers Edmund and Jacques Littlefield, whose gift to the School of Music enabled the organ’s construction.
Chemical Clock

2:30 p.m. Chemical Clock
Red Square Pavilion

Combining elements of electronica and rock with jazz-informed improvisational sensibilities, the members of Chemical Clock—Jazz Studies students Cameron Sharif, Ray Larsen, Evan Woodle and Mark Hunter—are united in their common desire to experiment in new musical territories.

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Cameron Sharif, Ray Larsen, Evan Woodle and Mark Hunter are Chemical Clock. Finding themselves together within the darkened recesses of the University of Washington's music building, these four undergraduates united in their common desire to experiment in new musical territories — the bleeding-edge kind of stuff they’d never learn about in jazz college. Under the influence of professor Cuong Vu, who fervently supported their artistic explorations, Chemical Clock has taken to it in earnest since the early days of 2009. Of their sound: this quartet is decidedly more "dance club" than "jazz club." Combining elements of electronica and rock with jazz-informed improvisational sensibilities, it’s no straightforward task to adequately describe the Chemical Clock canon. To behold, their live thing is a heavy-hitting, beat-laden, thrash-and-bash spectacle. You’d sooner envision yourself bobbing and flailing amid the crowd along to the Clock’s jams before you’d consider taking a seat for a polite listening session at some genteel supper joint (you know, maybe over an exorbitantly-priced hummus platter or something). With effected and reverberant trumpeting, bit-crushed keys, explosive drum-setsmanship and ironclad bass-work, Chemical Clock pilots their way through nigh-unnavigable passages of composition, deftly maneuvering through sinewy melodic channels with studied fluency. In tandem, the ensemble whiplashes to and fro betwixt convulsive improvisation and calculated musical constructions with a coherency that often seems telepathic.
Craig Sheppard

7:30 p.m. Craig Sheppard, "Mostly Brahms"
Meany Theater

School of Music faculty artist Craig Sheppard performs works by Johannes Brahms, including the Handel Variations and the monumental transcription of Bach’s Chaconne for the left hand alone.

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Marc Seales

8-10 p.m. Jazz Concert Starring UW Jazz Faculty and Alumni
Red Square Pavilion

The UW Alumni Association hosts this HuskyFest concert by star faculty and alumni of the UW Jazz Studies Program. Performers include the Marc Seales Group, Burn List (with Cuong Vu, trumpet), and Hardcoretet.

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Lineup:
The Marc Seales Group: Pianist Marc Seales and band perform new works and selections from his American Songs CD. A longtime professor of Jazz Studies at the UW, as well as a noted pianist, composer and leading figure in the Northwest jazz scene, Seales has shared stages with many of the great players of the last two decades, including Joe Henderson, Art Pepper, Benny Carter, Mark Murphy, and Bobby Hutcherson. Critics have praised Seales variously for his "meaty piano solos," and "blues inflected, Hancock-inspired modernism." His Huskyfest set will include appearances by special guest musicians, including Jazz Studies Chair Tom Collier.

Burn List: This collaboration from Seattle’s scorching new music scene marks the meeting of two distinctive generations of musical creativity. Featuring Jazz Studies associate professor Cuong Vu on trumpet, tenor saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi, keyboardist Aaron Otheim, and drummer Chris Icasiano, Burn List’s unique interface with improvisation and original compositions draw from wide musical influences ranging from Ligeti to Albert Ayler to Aphex Twin to Meshuggah and many things in between. Siphoned through the band’s collective aesthetics, the music freely crisscrosses genres resulting in a new musical sound that is thoughtful, energetic, current and original.

Hardcoretet: Seattle-based instrumental quartet Hardcoretet performs original material drawing from jazz, rock, soul and improvised music, among other styles. The band presents music written by each of its members and is reminiscent of fusion groups like Return to Forever and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, as well as more current modern jazz groups like Chris Potter’s Underground and Kneebody. On stage, the band seeks to combine well-written and thought-provoking music with energetic, exciting, and moving performances. Hardcortet features the combined talents of Jazz Studies alumni Art Brown, saxophone; Aaron Otheim, keyboards; and Tarik Abouzied, drums, along with Tim Carey on drums.

Saturday, April 21

Paris Guitar Duo

10 a.m. Master Class: Paris Guitar Duo
Room 213, Music Building

The famed Paris Guitar Duo leads a master class with students of Michael Partington. Univers Guitare calls the duo "one of the bright lights of the young generation of classical guitarists." This class is co-sponsored by the School of Music and the Seattle Classic Guitar Society.

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Saxophone Group

12 p.m. Saxophone performance
Brechemin Auditorium, Music Building

Students of the UW Saxophone Studio, directed by Michael Brockman, perform music by Alexander Glazunov, Yusef Latif, and Jonathan Schwabe.

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Program Detail

Alexander Glazunov: Quatuor
  1. Première Partie
Evan Smith, soprano saxophone
Melissa Winstanley, alto saxophone
Shane Valle, tenor saxophone
Leif Gustafson, baritone saxophone

Yusef Lateef: Romance
Evan Smith, soprano saxophone
Olivia Cacchione, harp

Jonathan Schwabe: A toi, Cometé vagabonde

Evan Smith, alto saxophone
Jason Suchan, piano
Esteban Urbina

12:45 p.m. Guitar Performance
Brechemin Auditorium, Music Building

Esteban Urbina, student of Michael Partington, performs works for solo guitar, including music by Bach, Giuliani, Villa-lobos, Brouwer, and Piazzolla.

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Program Detail

Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude from 1st cello suite bwv 1007

Mauro Giuliani: Variations on “Nume perdonami, se in tale istante” op. 102

Heitor Villa-lobos:
Mazurka Choro
Valsa Choro

Leo Brouwer:
Elogio de la danza
Lento
Obstinato

Astor Piazzolla: Invierno Porteno

Evan Woodle

2:30 p.m. Junior Recital: Evan Woodle
Brechemin Auditorium, Music Building

Jazz Studies major Evan Woodle, drums, performs original works by Evan Woodle, Ivan Arteaga, and Cameron Sharif. He is joined by Ivan Arteaga, alto saxophone; Cameron Sharif, piano; and Katie Jacobson, voice.

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In the few years since Evan Woodle has emerged from the internationally acclaimed Roosevelt High School jazz program in Seattle, he has lent his unique talents to ensembles containing Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Cuong Vu, and Andrew D’Angelo, setting himself apart as a luminary amid a constellation of young innovative musicians. In addition to functioning as a driving force behind several bands (including AGOGIC, Operation ID, and Chemical Clock), Woodle is one of the co-founders of The Racer Sessions, a weekly free-improvisation series and a forum for cutting-edge composers and performers. Woodle also serves as a board member of Table & Chairs, a record label devoted to the chronicling and advancement of new music in Seattle. Beyond that, Woodle is a co-founder of the Improvised Music Project at the UW, a student group that promotes improvised music and presents an annual creative music festival. A senior in the Jazz Studies Program, he studies with Tom Collier.