The Jazz Café
Saturday, Oct. 17 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 190 Music
$5 general admission
New and returning graduate students in the Jazz Studies program perform a variety of jazz standards and originals in a cabaret setting.
Guest Artists: The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio
Sunday, Oct. 18 – 7:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Violinist Monica Huggett, pianist Eric Zivian, and cellist Tanya Tomkins will perform an all-Mendelssohn program on period instruments, including “Sonata for Cello and Fortepiano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58”; selections from “Lieder Ohne Worte” for solo fortepiano; and “Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66.” Pianist Zivian uses a rarely-heard fortepiano from Vienna, 1841 by Franz Rausch.
Guest Artist: Eileen Russell, trombone
Tuesday, Oct. 20 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Russell’s program, with pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa, includes “Lyric Fanfare” by David R. Gaines; “Sonata for Trombone and Piano” by Paul Hindemith; “Lyric Suite” by Donald White; “Fantasy for Euphonium and Piano” by Hiroshi Hoshina; “Postcards for Trombone Alone” by Anthony Plog; and “Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen” by Franz Schubert.
Franz Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes
Thursday, Oct. 22 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
UO graduate piano students perform Liszt’s famous (and fiendishly difficult) “Transcendental Etudes.” The Transcendental Etudes are a series of twelve compositions written for solo piano by Franz Liszt in 1852. They are revisions and simplifications of a set of pieces published in 1837 called “Douze Grandes Etudes” (S.137). These were, in turn, a hugely expanded reworking of a youthful set of etudes which Liszt had composed in 1826, called “Etude en douze exercises” (S.136). The third and final version (S.139 - the most often recorded version) was published in 1852 and dedicated to Carl Czerny, Liszt’s piano teacher, and himself a prolific composer of etudes. The etudes, particularly in their 1837 version (S.137), are among the most difficult pieces for piano ever written. Robert Schumann declared that they were playable by “at the most, ten or twelve players in the world.” Liszt’s revisions of the etudes in their final form are less difficult, but still pose incredible physical and technical demands for the performer
Guest Artist: Shannon Thompson, clarinet
Friday, Oct. 23 – 6:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Free admission
UO alumna Shannon Thompson, accompanied by pianist Bradley Martin, will give a free recital that includes “Three Romances” by Clara Schumann; “Sonata in C minor” by J. S. Bach; “Constructs “(2001) by Bruce Frazier; and “Sonata, Op. 167”by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Thompson received her graduate degrees from Boston University School for the Arts and the University of Texas at Austin. She is Associate Professor of Music at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. She is also principal clarinetist of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and bass clarinetist of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Other orchestras in which she has performed include the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Spartanburg Philharmonic, and Brevard Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Thompson maintains an active performing career as a solo and chamber musician.
Kate Petak, harp
Saturday, Oct. 24 – 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
The concluding event of Harp Day; also featuring harpists Laura Zaerr and Jeff Parsons.
For more information on Harp Day, contact UO harp instructor Laura Zaerr at 346-3709.
University Symphony
Sunday, Oct. 25 — 3 p.m.
EMU Ballroom
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
The University Symphony, directed by Professor Wayne Bennett, will perform “Andante Festivo” and “Karelia Suite” by Jean Sibelius, and excerpts from the ballet “Sleeping Beauty” by Tchaikovsky.
The Belcea String Quartet (see photo)
Sunday, Oct. 25 – 3 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Reserved seat tickets, $16 to $33, from the Hult Center (682-5000) or the EMU (346-4363)
The UO Chamber Music@Beall Series continues its 42nd season with the Belcea String Quartet performing Beethoven’s “String Quartet in B-flat Major”; Britten’s “String Quartet, No. 3”; and Mozart’s “String Quartet in C Major (Dissonance).” UO Assistant Professor Tim S. Pack will give a free “Musical Insights” talk at 2:15 p.m. The Belcea Quartet has gained an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the new generation. It continues to take the British and international chamber music circuit by storm, consistently receiving critical acclaim for its performances. The Quartet was established at the Royal College of Music in 1994. It is the Associate Ensemble at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and are Quartet-in-Residence at the Atheneum Concert Hall in Bucharest. The Belcea Quartet was nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award, and was awarded the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany’s prestigious Echo Klassik Awards for its recording of the complete Bartók quartets.
Guest Artist: Donald George, tenor
Monday, Oct. 26 – 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Guest tenor Donald George and pianist Lucy Mauro will perform “The Old Wicked Songs of Heinrich Heine.” Donald George is an associate professor of vocal music at the Crane School of Music – SUNY Potsdam, and an honored professor at Shenyang Conservatory in China. He has also taught at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich and sung at the Paris Opera, La Scala , Royal Opera of Brussels, Kennedy Center, the State Operas of Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, the Festivals of Salzburg, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, and Istanbul. He has sung with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Yehudi Menuhin, and Jeffry Tate.
Lecture-Performance: Vladimir Chaloupka
Thursday, Oct. 29 – 7:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Free admission
Vladimir Chaloupka, professor physics from the University of Washington, will give a lecture-performance titled “From Bach to Einstein and Beyond.”
Oregon Wind Ensemble
Tuesday, Nov. 3 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
OcTUBAfest
Wednesday, Nov. 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
A High-Class, Low-Brass event, featuring the UO Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble and others.
The Jazz Café
Saturday, Nov. 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 190 Music
$5 general admission
UO student jazz combos in a cabaret setting.
Faculty Artist Series: The Columbia Piano Trio
Sunday, Nov. 8 – 3 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Pianist David Riley, violinist Fritz Gearhart, and cellist Randy Kolb perform Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio in C Minor.”
The Frohnmayer Music Building and Beall Concert Hall are located at 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets are available at the door, unless otherwise noted.
For more information on the School of Music and Dance, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the university music school weekdays, 541-346-5678, or visit music.uoregon.edu.
