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| | | | Betsey Biggs Colloquium
Friday, September 18 | 3:30pm | UVA Music Library
Free | 434-924-3052
Betsey Biggs is a composer and visual artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her body of work connects the dots between music, sound, visual art, place, storytelling, and technology. By slowing down, clarifying, and reworking sonic and visual fragments of her travels, she recreates her experience of place in poetic ways. She also uses technology to engage public creativity and exploration, largely by designing playful situations that facilitate creative participation, and often adapting the technology of our contemporary world – mobile audio, digital video, interactive electronics – to engage people creatively with the physical and social worlds around them. For more information, visit bit.ly/BetseyBiggsColloquium. | |
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Know the Score- Pre-Concert Lecture with Richard Will
Saturday, September 26 | 7:15pm | Minor Hall Auditorium
Free | 434-924-3052
The Charlottesville Symphony is pleased to offer free Pre-Concert Lectures, led by the McIntire Department of Music Professor Richard Will, before all Saturday night Masterworks performances during the 2015-16 season. Pre-Concert Lectures are free and begin 45 minutes prior to Saturday night performances (7:15pm). They are held in Minor Hall on the U.Va Grounds, just a short walk from Old Cabell Hall. The Symphony regrets that it will not be able to offer lectures before Sunday concerts for the 2015-16 season. Professor Will is author of The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven and of articles and reviews on 18th- and early 19th-century music. The popular professor is also interested in 20th-century American popular music, especially country music and bluegrass, and hosts a bluegrass jam session for UVA graduates and undergraduates. He has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the American Musicological Society. For more information, visit bit.ly/F2015KTS-092615. | |
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Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia
Saturday, September 26 | 8pm | Old Cabell Hall
Sunday, September 27 | 3:30pm | MLK Performing Arts Center
$10-$45 for adults | $10 for students | UVa students may request one complimentary ticket in advance
Box Office: 434-924-3376
Directed by Kate Tamarkin, who is entering her 10th season as the Music Director, the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia is comprised of music faculty who serve as Principal Players and talented students and community members. The program for the first pair of Masterworks concerts, entitled Classical Giants, includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80; Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-Flat Major, K. 495; and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67. Eric Ruske is the featured soloist in the Mozart concerto. Named Associate Principal Horn of the Cleveland Orchestra at the age of 20, Mr. Ruske toured and recorded extensively as the hornist of the Empire Brass Quintet for six years. Mr. Ruske currently directs the Horn Seminar at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and is the Professor of Horn at Boston University. For more information, visit bit.ly/classicalgiantsF2015. | |
| | | Ichiro Fujinga (McGill University) - 10 Years of Innovation in Music Digitization & Dissemination
Friday, October 2 | 3:30pm | 107 Old Cabell Hall
Free | 434-924-3052
Ichiro Fujinaga is an Associate Professor in Music Technology Area at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Mr. Fujinaga earned Bachelor's degrees in Music/Percussion and Mathematics from the University of Alberta. He earned a Master's degree in Music Theory and a Ph.D in Music Technology from McGill University. He is currently involved in McGill University's Music Research. His research intersests focus on optical music recognition, lazy learning (exemplar-based learning), digital signal processing, music information retrieval, pattern recognition, music perception, digital history, and language acquisition. For more information, visit bit.ly/IchiroFujinagaColloquium. | |
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Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival
September 17th, 18th, and 20th
Time and location vary based on the date
Tickets | 434-295-5395
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival will continue its tradition of presenting a wide variety of chamber music styles and instrumentations performed by worldrenowned musicians. Concerts will all be in Charlottesville, Virginia at two of the city’s most historic venues. The Festival comprises five main concerts and two special events. Three concerts, including the first one, will be performed at The Paramount Theater, on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. This 1931 jewel built during the golden age of cinema has recently been restored to its original opulence. Two concerts will be held at the University of Virginia’s Old Cabell Hall designed by renowned architect Stanford White of McKim, Mead, and White and set in the context of the University’s historic Academical Village designed by Thomas Jefferson, now a World Heritage Site. In addition to the main concerts, a more informal, improvisational concert will take place on September 18th at the Southern Café and Music Hall, just off the Downtown Mall, and a free mid-day concert for the general public will be offered at The Paramount Theater on September 11th. For more information, visit http://2015.cvillechambermusic.org/. | |
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Tickets sold separately ($20)
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival will be featuring an extended work by McIntire Deptartment of Music Jazz Performance Director, John D’earth. The five movement piece, Natural Bridge, will be performed at the Southern on Friday, September 18th, in an intimate concert presenting new ideas in chamber music. The piece is scored for piano, violin, cello, jazz guitar, and acoustic bass. Selections from the piece will be performed in the Chamber Festival’s matinee concert at Old Cabell Auditorium. D’earth composed Natural Bridge in 2001 when the work was commissioned by the Kandinsky Trio. It was recently recorded by them, featuring guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and appears on their newest CD, On Light Wings, Omnitone Records.
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Matthew Burtner's Music Featured in Glacier Conference in Anchorage - A Part of President Obama's Initiative On Climate Change in Alaska Matthew Burtner’s music will feature in the State Department’s GLACIER Conference, a part of President Obama’s initiative on Climate Change in Alaska. Matthew was asked to contribute his compositions “Fern,” “Spectral Arctic Ice Triangulations” and “Ice Cycle: Formation” to be performed during the conference for Obama and other leaders of the Arctic nations. In addition, Matthew collaborated with Architects in Anchorage to create an installation for the Anchorage Museum called “Sikuigvik: Threnody for Ice Melting”. The piece features an illuminated 800lb chunk of glacial ice with speakers inside playing a newly composed work. President Obama will visit the Anchorage Museum as part of his trip to Alaska. notes from the composer on the pieces presented at GLACIER: Fern (1995)
From the tundra earth, a fern unfolds and stretches into the sky. Spectral Arctic Ice Triangulations (2010)
Underneath the ice shelf of the Chukchi Sea we hear the ice cracking and shifting; fur seals, bowhead whale and beluga call underwater. These recorded sounds are processed by a digital filter, itself made out of 40-years of sea ice extent change data. This is a song of global warming sung by the soundscape of the Arctic ocean. Ice Cycle: Formation (2015)
The sounds of a melting Alaskan glacier are "refrozen" by the computer into melodic tones. The ice forms crystals of sounds. These crystals build into a six-pointed rhythm, a snowflake pulse, that becomes a new glacier of sound.
For more information, visit bit.ly/burtner-glacier-conference. | |
| | | | Volunteering!
The McIntire Department of Music is always looking for volunteers to help out! This includes everything from ushering at concerts to working in the office. If you or someone you know is interested, email our Volunteer Coordinator at music@virginia.edu, or visit our website for more information at http://music.virginia.edu/volunteer. | |
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