2015 WINTER quaRTER calENdaR

March 13 & 14 at 8 PMMarch 15 at 2 PMMandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street

Tickets: $50 Patron | $20 General | $5 Student

$10 groups of 10+

call: 773.702.aRTS (2787)

Online: ticketsweb.uchicago.edu

In Person: UChicago Arts Box Office, logan center, 915 East 60th Street

music.uchicago.edu | gilbertandsullivanoperacompany.org

All proceeds benefit the University of Chicago Department of Music Performance Program.

The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company

and the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra present

The Yeomen of The Guard or, The merryman and his maid

Gilbert & Sullivans

2015 Production

TEA TIME CONCERTSThese free concerts begin at 4:30 PM each Thursday in Fulton Recital Hall. Complimentary tea and cookies at 4:15 PM.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22Gyuri Barabs, baritone

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29Amy Briggs, piano

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5Cerulean Quartet

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12Piano Showcase

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19Jazz Combo

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26Vocal Showcase

THURSDAY, MARCH 5Chamber Music Showcase

THURSDAY, MARCH 12Rachel Blumenthal, flute

MASTER CLASSESAll master classes are free and open to the public and take place at 4:00 PM.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20Vocal: David AltPenthouse, Logan Center

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24Piano: Dr. Ilia RadoslavovFulton Recital Hall

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7Piano: Jory VinikourFulton Recital Hall

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10Double Bass: Chi-Chi NwanokuPenthouse, Logan CenterCo-presented by the Department of Music, Arts+Public Life, and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.

SATURDAY, MARCH 14Piano: Karin EdwardsFulton Recital Hall

WORKSHOPSCOMPOSITION SEMINARmusic.uchicago.edu/page/workshops- and-composition-seminar

ETHNOISE! ETHNOMUSICOLOGY cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/ethnoise

MUSIC HISTORY/THEORYcas.uchicago.edu/workshops/musichistorytheory

COLLOQUIUM SERIESAll colloquia are open to the public and take place Fridays at 3:30 PM in Fulton Recital Hall. Free admission.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 John Eaton Emeritus Professor of MusicUniversity of Chicago From the Oldest Music-Maker to One of the Newer Ones: Always in Pursuit of Human Nuance FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Jann PaslerProfessor of Music University of California, San DiegoTitle TBA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Olivia Bloechl Associate Professor of MusicologyUniversity of California, Los AngelesLament as Confession: A Foucauldian Approach to Baroque Lyrical Expression. FRIDAY, MARCH 6 Victoria Malawey Assistant Professor of Music Macalester CollegeVocal Prosody in Popular Music

VISIT US

FULTON RECITAL HALL1010 East 59th Street Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor GANZ HALL, ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY430 South Michigan Avenue, 7th floor MANDEL HALL1131 East 57th Street NEWBERRY CONSORT312.669.7335 Tickets: newberryconsort.org REVA AND DAVID LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS915 East 60th Street773.702.ARTS (2787) logancenter.uchicago.edu ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPEL5850 South Woodlawn Avenue 773.702.2100 rockefeller.uchicago.edu UCHICAGO ARTS BOX OFFICE915 East 60th Street 773.702.ARTS (2787) Tickets: ticketsweb.uchicago.edu UCHICAGO PRESENTS773.702.8068 chicagopresents.uchicago.edu

JANUARY

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 8:00 PMEnsemble-in-Residence: Spektral QuartetSnowpocalypse AntidoteMovements from Dvork, Haydn, and Beethoven frame a brilliant new tango arrangement by Julien Labro and short works by Stephen Gorbos and Chris Fisher-Lochhead, plus the world premiere of David Reminicks The Ancestral Mousetrap.Penthouse, Logan Center$10/Free with UChicago ID

SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 3:00 PMUChicago PresentsMezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is joined by pianist Angela Hewitt for an afternoon of German and French songs with works by Beethoven, Schubert, Faur, and Debussy. 2 PM pre-concert talk with Angela Hewitt and Berthold Hoeckner.Mandel Hall, $35/$5 Students

MONDAY, JANUARY 12 4:30 PMSouth Asian Sound Interventions Workshop Series: SarangiDr. Regula Qureshi, Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative visiting scholar, presents a workshop on Indian sarangi and its place in the Hindustani music culture of India and Pakistan.Logan Center, Room 703, Free

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 7:30 PMSarajevo Haggadah: Music of the BookAccordionist Merima Kljuco uses multimedia and musical traditions from Spain, Italy, Austria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina to trace the manuscripts travels from medieval Spain to 20th century Bosnia. 6 PM pre-concert talk with Dalia Kandiyoti and Amila Buturovic.Performance Hall, Logan Center $20/$5 Students

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 4:00 PMSunday Song Styles Intersection: Jazz Meets Classical SongPatrice Michaels performs standards to art song and ballads to bel canto featuring violin, cello, and piano, plus rarely heard songs by Duke Ellington, Chuck Israels, Lee Hoiby, Nils Lindberg, John Musto, and more. Penthouse, Logan Center $15/Free with UChicago ID

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 7:30 PMContempoContempo at 50: Now and Then I Contempo opens its landmark 50th season with works by Contempo/CCP Founder Ralph Shapey, Huck Hodge, and Shulamit Ran, and world premieres by John Eaton and Lee Hyla. David Fulmer, conductor, and soprano Sharon Harms join resident artists. 6:30 PM pre-concert talk with Shulamit Ran and John Eaton.Performance Hall, Logan Center$25/$5 Students

SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 3:00 PMUChicago PresentsDon Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence Pacifica Quartet performs a must-hear program featuring works by Puccini, Carter, and Beethoven. 2 PM pre-concert talk with Steven Rings.Performance Hall, Logan Center$25/$5 Students

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 7:30 PMUChicago PresentsBridging the ancient to the present with exotic songs, compelling dances, and virtuosic improvisations in Earthly Love, Divine Love, ALBA Consort evokes the haunting melodies and dynamic rhythms of the Iberian Peninsula, and music from its Middle Eastern and European neighbors.Performance Hall, Logan Center $35/$5 Students

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 8:00 PMUniversity Symphony OrchestraTo help chase away the winter doldrums, the University Symphony offers a program of colorful, energetic, and melodious music: selected scenes and dances from Manuel de Fallas The Three Cornered Hat ballet and Antonn Dvorks engaging Symphony No. 8 in G Major. Both works are rooted in the folk music of their native lands, and boast an undeniable freshness and appeal for the listener.Mandel Hall, FreeDonations Requested: $10/$5 Students

FEBRUARYMONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 4:30 PMSouth Asian Sound Interventions Workshop Series: BansuriChicago-based flautist and bansuri musician Lyon Leifer demonstrates and discusses his experiences as a teacher and performer working in the nexus of the Indian bansuri and Western classical flute traditions.Logan Center, Room 703, Free

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 7:30 PMUChicago PresentsViolinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov make their Chicago recital debut with a program of works by Dvork, Enescu, Tchaikovsky, Antheil, and Franck. 6:30 PM pre-concert talk with Robert Kendrick.Mandel Hall, $35/$5 Students

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 8:00 PMUniversity Chamber OrchestraProgram features 2014 UChicago Concerto Competition co-winner Emily Brown (contrabass) performing Frank Protos Carmen Fantasy, plus a preview of Gilbert & Sullivans The Yeomen of the Guard. Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 4:30 PMSouth Asian Sound Interventions Workshop Series: Sufi danceChicago-based Indian dancer Komal Shah explores how dance meets poetry in the Sufi context. She will focus on interpreting and expressing the poetry of Jalal ad-Din Rumi through movement.Logan Center, Room 703, Free

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 4:30 PM Rockefeller Chapel ChoirChoral Evensong A brief program featuring Herbert Howells St. Pauls Service, plus organ selections by Thomas Weisflog, University Organist. Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Free

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 7:30 PMUChicago PresentsArmenian-American Tigran Hamasyan, one of the hottest young pianists in jazz, makes his Chicago debut with the Tigran Trio. Free 6:30 PM pre-concert performance by the Jazz Institute of Chicagos Jazz Links Ensemble in Caf Logan.Performance Hall, Logan Center$35/$5 Students

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 4:00 PMPiano Program: Annual Bach ProjectSome of the best musicians on campus present A Valentine to Our Favorite Composer: J.S. Bachs Dance Suites. Fulton Recital Hall, Free

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 4:00 PMEnsemble-in-Residence: Spektral QuartetThe Spektral Quartet encourages audience suggestions to build a previously unrehearsed movement of Dvorks American quartet from the ground up. No musical training needed to engage in and enjoy this interactive Open Rehearsal.Fulton Recital Hall, Free

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 4:00 PMSunday Song Styles A Musical Theater ValentineChicagos renowned cabaret duo Anne & Mark Burnell share an afternoon of love lost and found in classic and contemporary songs of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. Performance opens with UChicago Vocal Studies students. Penthouse, Logan Center$15/Free with UChicago ID

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 5:00 PMWomens Voices Choral FestivalWomens choral ensembles at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University, and other colleges gather for a workshop followed by a public performance conducted by Mollie Stone and featuring Appalachian music specialist Emily Miller. Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Free

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 7:30 PMUChicago PresentsMandolinist Avi Avital makes his Chicago debut with pianist David Greilsammer performing works by Mozart, Berg, Bach, Prt, and Bartk. 6:30 PM pre-concert talk with Lawrence Zbikowski.Performance Hall, Logan Center$25/$5 Students

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 2:00 PMNew Budapest Orpheum SocietyPassage To Poland: Cabaret Poetics At Modernitys CrossroadsPolish Cabaret brings to life the complex traditions of music and poetry that converge at the crossroads of Jewish Poland, drawing upon Yiddish and Polish, Hebrew and German repertories, and unfolding along the paths from the shtetl to the urban ghetto. Penthouse, Logan Center, Free

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 8:00 PMNew Music EnsembleA Tribute to Shulamit Ran Chamber works of Shulamit Ran, the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor in Composition, including Birds of Paradise and Soliloquy. Joseph Schwantners Sparrows with soloist Patrice Michaels, and recent works by UChicago graduate student composers Pierce Gradone and Joungbum Lee. Fulton Recital Hall, Free

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 4:00 PMUniversity Wind EnsembleContemporary Classics UChicago Laboratory Schools U-High Concert Band joins the Wind Ensemble to present a program of classic and contemporary band literature by David Maslanka, Norman Dello Joio, Robert Sheldon, John Mackey, and more.Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 4:30 PMSouth Asian Sound Interventions Workshop Series: Hindustani musicChicago-based Hindustani singer Nirmita Dholakia will join Minu Pasupathi, Director of UChicagos South Asian Music Ensemble, in comparing Hindustani and Karnatik musical features.Logan Center, Room 703, Free

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 7:30 PMUChicago PresentsThe Jerusalem Quartet has garnered much international acclaim and won audiencesover for its rare combination of passion and precision. Program features works by Mozart, Bartk, and Schumann. 6:30 PM pre-concert talk with Woo-Chan Lee.Mandel Hall, $35/$5 Students

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 7:30 PMRockefeller Chapel ChoirSacred Powers of WaterWorld premieres of Oka Ayasha with words and music by Chickasaw Nation composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha Tate and Water on the Thirsty Land: Three Songs from the Book of Isaiah by graduate student composer Katherine Pukinskis, plus Aaron Coplands In the Beginning and Henryk Greckis Szeroka Woda (Broad Waters).Rockefeller Memorial Chapel $20/Free with UChicago ID

MARCHSUNDAY, MARCH 1 3:00 PMContempoContempo at 50: Now and Then II Commissions by Gunther Schuller and Sofia Gubaidulina anchor this program. Additional works by Helen Grime, Howard Sandroff, and Earl Kim. Conductor Cliff Colnot, soprano Michelle Areyzaga, and resident and guest artists perform. 2 PM pre-concert talk with Sofia Gubaidulina, Gunther Schuller, Berthold Hoeckner, and Steven Rings.Performance Hall, Logan Center $25/$5 StudentsLecture by Gunther Schuller on Saturday, February 28. Details at music.uchicago.edu.

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 4:00 PMVocal StudiesChamber Music for VoiceSolo student singers perform works with varied instrumentation, including the 1751 cantata Der Schulmeister by Christoph Ludwig Fehre featuring baritone Gyuri Barabs and a childrens ensemble led by Kaitlin Foley.Penthouse, Logan Center, Free

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 7:00 PMUniversity Chorus and Womens EnsembleThe refined voices of the Womens Ensemble join the vibrant University Chorus, comprised of 100 undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff members, and singers from the Hyde Park and University communities to perform Brahms O Heiland, rei die Himmel auf and other repertoire from diverse time periods. Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free

SATURDAY, MARCH 7 8:00 PMUniversity Symphony OrchestraThe USOs March concert focuses on a single, monumental work Gustav Mahlers Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor a carefully constructed and wholly compelling five-movement essay that marked a completely new direction in Mahlers compositional output.Mandel Hall, FreeDonations Requested: $10/$5 Students

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 2:00 PMUniversity Brass EnsembleNow in its fourth season, the UC Brass Ensemble presents works in assorted configurations, including brass choir, quartets, and quintets. Program features UChicago Laboratory Schools students.Fulton Recital Hall, Free

SUNDAY, MARCH 8 7:00 PMMiddle East Music EnsembleTraditional, contemporary, and folk music

of Persia with vocal and instrumental pieces

by Majid Derakhshani, Homayoun Khorram,

Hossein Dehlavi, and others performed by

the 50-piece orchestra.

Performance Hall, Logan Center, FreeDonations Requested: $10/$5 Students

TUESDAY, MARCH 10 7:00 PMChamber Music ShowcaseStudent-driven chamber music ensembles present repertoire from the 17th to the 21st century under the direction of Spektral Quartet and Amy Briggs.Penthouse, Logan Center, Free

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 8:00 PMJazz X-tetNow in its 20th season, the Jazz X-tet transcends the usual repertoire of a university big band by performing music from a wide range of local and contemporary composers, including Lester Bowie, Bronisaw Kaper, Ornette Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, and Ann Ronell.Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MARCH 13 AND 14 8:00 PM SUNDAY, MARCH 15 2:00 PM Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company University Chamber OrchestraGilbert & Sullivans The Yeomen of the GuardRevered as the most tragic and complex work of the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, this operetta features topsy-turvy plot twists, a trio of reluctant marriages, and a haunting score regarded by many as Sullivans finest work.Mandel Hall$50 Patron/$20 General/$5 Students(See inside panel for details) All proceeds benefit the University of Chicago Department of Music Performance Program.

SATURDAY, MARCH 21 8:00 PMEnsemble-in-Residence: Newberry ConsortCopernicus and Beyond: Polish Cultural Treasures Co-directed by Chicago native and Consort audience favorite Tom Zajac, the program includes foot-stomping Polish dances (cant forget the bagpipe!), folk tunes, songs, and choral repertory from one of Eastern Europes richest cultures and Chicagos most important ethnic communities. 7 PM pre-concert talk.Performance Hall, Logan Center $35-$45/$5 Students

Schedule and programs subject to change. Please visit music.uchicago.edu for up-to-date information.