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BLING: Woodwind Faculty RecitalSunday, September 24, 3:00 p.m., BCPA Recital Hall |
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UW Wind Symphony: "Fun and Games"Sunday, October 1, 3:00 p.m., BCPA Concert Hall ($12, $8, $6 + ticket fee) Join Interim Director of Bands, Ogechi Ukazu in her first appearance with the UW Wind Symphony for a program of energetic and exuberant works by Leonard Bernstein, Bela Bartok, Percy Grainger, and John Williams.
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Gonzalo Teppa Quintet
Monday, October 2, 7:30 p.m. Concert, BCPA Recital Hall Venezuelan bassist Gonzalo Teppa presents his quintet performing a collection of his compositions that draw from the musical wells of contemporary jazz, Latin American music (Venezuelan, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban) blues, free jazz, and more. Teppa’s quintet features Greg Harris on vibraphone/piano/percussion, Alex Heffron on guitar, Andrew Wheelock on drums, and Ike Spivak on sax/flute/clarinet ($5+ticket fee). |
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UW Symphony: Haydn’s SurpriseThursday, October 5, 7:30 p.m. Concert, BCPA Concert Hall Ah, opening night: tuxedos, long gowns, diamond necklaces, champagne in tall, elegant glasses… Oh, wait. That’s the NY Metropolitan Opera. But in Laramie, opening night at the symphony is just as special. It’s been months since you heard the orchestra, and months since they could play for you. Everyone is excited! UW Symphony conductor Michael Griffith’s first downbeat will start Wagner’s Meistersinger Overture. It’s a powerful, massive, and yet achingly beautiful piece of music. What an exciting way to start the season. Dr. Griffith named the concert after the orchestra’s next work: the Symphony No. 94, nicknamed the Surprise Symphony, by Franz Joseph Haydn. Haydn was decades earlier than Wagner, part of the “Classical Era” of music history, while Wagner was firmly in the “Romantic Era.” As such, the orchestra is smaller, the sound clearer and more immediate. It’s exciting, occasionally humorous, and sometimes elegant. It’s up to you to research the nickname – no spoilers here. Or let yourself be surprised! After intermission they’ll do a brief curtain-raiser: the “Procession of Nobles” from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mlada. As the title suggests, it’s a stately entry march, full of brass fanfares and powerful 19th Century Russian fire. Then comes the big piece: the world premiere of The Point for Jazz Piano Trio and Orchestra. This is a full three-movement concerto, but with decidedly jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies. UW’s incredible faculty jazz trio, Live Edge, are the soloists. Over the past decade or two, UW’s jazz area has grown incredibly. The top student Jazz Ensemble has even twice played at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC. So to show symphony audience this wonderful side to UW, the Symphony Association and the Music Department commissioned Wil Swindler to write this concerto. And YOU get to witness the very first performance! What a concert…18th century classicism…19th century passion…and 21st century crossover excitement. The players hope you’re as energized by all this as they are. |
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WyoSING!Friday, October 6, 7:30 p.m., BCPA Concert Hall ($12, $8, $6 + ticket fee) |
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Elevating VoicesMonday, October 96, 7:30 p.m., BCPA Concert Hall, free Free |
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Wyoming Jazz Ensemble: Big Band Through the AgesThursday, October 12, 7:30 p.m., BCPA Concert Hall Join the Wyoming Jazz Ensemble for their first concert of the season as we take a trip through time. From the dance halls of the 30's and 40's to the palladium ballroom of 50's and 60's. The Ensemble will play music of Ellington, Gillespie, Basie, Thad Jones and Bob Brookmeyer. Free |
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Western BassFriday, October 13, 4:30 p.m., BCPA Concert Hall Join us for Western Bass, the inaugural tenor-bass choral event at the University of Wyoming. Hear from the Singing Statesmen as well as tenors and basses from Laramie HS and Laramie MS. Free |
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UW Chamber Orchestra: PalladioOctober 15, 3:00 p.m., BCPA Concert Hall The UW Chamber Orchestra will present our fall concert on October 15 at 3pm. The program, entitled Palladio, will feature old and new works for chamber orchestra by Charles Avison, Purcell-Britten, BĂ©la BartĂłk, Gwyneth Walker, Karl Jenkins, and Anne Guzzo |
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Han-Fadial Faculty RecitalThursday, October 19, 7:30 p.m., BCPA Recital Hall Join violinist John Fadial and pianist Jiwon Han for an evening of great music by Viennese composers including Maria von Paradise and Richard Strauss. Free |
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Melissa Keeling, Flutist Guest ResidencyFriday, October 20, 7:30 p.m., BCPA Recital Hall Free |
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Saudades do Brasil: Solo Piano Music from BrazilSunday, October 22, 3:00 p.m., BCPA Recital Hall Free |
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Laramie Civic Chorus & Community Band ConcertOctober 30, 7:30p.m., BCPA Concert Hall Hear the sounds of Laramie, WY, with the Laramie Civic Chorus and Community Band! Join us for an enjoyable evening of music making.
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UW Collegiate Chorale: A Whole New World: Music from the AmericasNovember 4, 7:30p.m., BCPA Concert Hall From Canada to Chile, an array of lush harmonies and energetic rhythms encapsulate choral music from the Americas. This concert highlights the vast diversity of this captivating repertoire.
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John Lake with The Live Edge TrioMONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 7:30pm Concert, BCPA Recital Hall, $5 5:00pm Jazz Studio Class (Room) 1050, Free Fresh off their debut record release, the Live Edge Jazz Trio, featuring Ben Markley, Seth Lewis, and Andy Wheelock, is excited to host NYC trumpeter John Lake. The evening will consist of reimagined standards and originals by John Lake and the Trio. John Lake is a trumpet player and composer living in New York City, maintaining a busy performance schedule as an in-demand lead trumpet player, jazz soloist, and recording artist. As a performer and clinician, John travels the US and abroad performing at leading collegiate jazz programs and venues. John's acoustic jazz septet, The John Lake Ensemble, will be releasing a new album in early 2024 titled "ensemble | in situ" (Bandstand Presents), documenting a series of live video recordings produced in Brooklyn, New York.
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Kenneth Hamilton, Guest Pianist
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 7:30pm, BCPA Recital Hall, Free Join us in welcoming Kenneth Hamilton, Cardiff University’s former Head of the School of Music and now Senior University Dean for International Partnerships, for a guest piano recital. The program will include music by Frédéric Chopin, Prelude in C# minor, op.45, and Barcarolle, op.60; Ronald Stevenson, Three Scottish Ballads; and Franz Liszt (arr. Ferruccio Busoni), Fantasy and Fugue on “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam.” Described by Tom Service in the Guardian as “pianist, author, lecturer and all-round virtuoso,” and by Stefan Pieper in Klassik Heute as a “pianist, scholar, radical thinker and philosopher,” Hamilton is well-known as a recitalist and recording artist of emotional depth and striking originality. His CDs have attracted both critical acclaim and a large number of listeners worldwide. His best-selling After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance (Oxford University Press) is one of the most internationally influential books on Classical music of recent decades, and has been translated into Italian, Hungarian and Mandarin. Hamilton is deeply grateful for his pianistic training in Scotland with Lawrence Glover and Ronald Stevenson. He has appeared frequently on radio and television in Britain, the US, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Singapore, Thailand, China and Russia, including a performance of Chopin’s first piano concerto with the Istanbul Chamber Orchestra on Turkish Television, and in a dual role as pianist and presenter for the television programme Mendelssohn in Scotland, broadcast by Deutsche Welle Channel. He is a familiar artist on BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and the World Service, and a keen communicator, enthusiastically promoting the understanding and appreciation of music. Hamilton is also a popular artist online. His Preludes to Chopin has been streamed nearly a million times, while More Preludes to Chopin was one of Spotify’s “Best Classical New Releases.” Both Chopin discs have attracted widespread attention for the originality of their performance style. Ralph Locke (ArtsFuse) remarked: “This is real music-making, not subservient reciting from a sacred text. Hamilton’s Chopin could change your whole attitude toward the role of the performer in classical music.” In addition to his service at Cardiff University, Hamilton has been a visiting artist and a distinguished guest professor at many institutions worldwide, including the Franz Liszt Academy in Hungary and the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. |
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UW Wind Symphony & Symphonic Band
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall Join the University of Wyoming Wind Symphony, conducted by Ogechi Ukazu, and Symphonic Band, conducted by Joseph Carver, for their fall concert! The Symphonic Band will perform “Hungarian Dance #5” by Johannes Brahms (arr. Robert Longfield); “Our Cast Aways” by Julie Giroux; “Third Suite” by Robert E. Jager; “New Wade’N Water´by Adolphus Hailstork; “An Irish Rhapsody” by Clare Grundman. The Wind Symphony will perform “La Procession du Rocio” by Joaquin Turina (trans. Alfred Reed); “Breath Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light” by Johann Sebastian Bach; “Luminescence” by David Biedenbender; “October” by Eric Whitacre; and “Aurora Awakes” by John Mackey.
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UW Jazz Ensemble II
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 7:30pm, BCPA Recital Hall, Free The UWYO Jazz Ensemble II, conducted Dr. Ogechi Ukazu, presents its first concert of the year. The concert will open with the Jazz Ensemble II Combo performing a few standard jazz selections, followed by the Jazz Ensemble II Big Band performing a diverse set of hits ranging from an Afro-Cuban/Funk version of “Manteca” to a sweeping arrangement of Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life.” |
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Journeys: Bel Canto &Singing Statesmen
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall Join Bel Canto, conducted by O’Neil Jones, and the Singing Statesmen, conducted by Brian Murray, as they venture on journeys near and far through choral music. This concert will also feature Contemporary Singers and Happy Jacks. The Happy Jacks will perform “In My Life” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (arr. Zegree); “That Lonesome Road” by James Taylor and Don Grolnick (arr. Shaw); “My Girl” by Smokey Robison and Ronald White (arr. Campbell). Bel Canto, conducted by O’Neil Jones and accompanied by Isabela Araújo, will perform “Alleluia” by Bruce Tippette; “Er Is Gekommen” by Clara Schumann (arr. Brandon Williams); “Fences” by André J. Thomas; “Seek” (World Premiere) by J.C. Maynard. The 7220 Blues will perform “Song” by Unknown, while the Singing Statesmen, conducted by Dr. Brian C. Murray and accompanied Alisson Garcia, will perform “Spark of Light” by Andrew Steffen (Emily Peterson, graduate conductor); “Loch Lomond” by Ralph Vaughan Williams (featuring Dr. Erik Erlandson, baritone); “Love: Then & Still” (New Voicing World Premiere) by Susan LaBarr; “Seigneur, je vous en prie” from Quatre petites prières de St. François d’Assise by Francis Poulenc; and “Hosanna” by Reginal Wright.
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UWYO Jazz Combo ShowcaseSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall, Free From the Wyoming Jazz Studio, the Jazz Combo Showcase will feature each of the four outstanding jazz combos at UWYO. Each combo will present a unique set of music ranging from hard-swinging standards to student originals. |
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UWYO Percussion EnsembleMONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall The UWYO Percussion Ensemble presents an exciting night of percussion works featuring pieces by Steve Reich, Juri Seo, Ivan Travino, David Skidmore, and Jim Casella.
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UW Symphony Orchestra: Sibelius 3rdTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 7:30pm Concert, BCPA Concert Hall The concert opens with Zoltan Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. These are part of a series of European compositions either in the style of or actually quoting traditional folk-dance tunes. Brahms Hungarian Dances, Bartok’s Rumanian Folk Dances, Janacek’s Lachian and Moravian Dances, and Grieg’s Norwegian Dances, are all examples. Dances of Galánta is one of the most performed, for reasons that will be obvious when you hear them: they’re poignant at times, proud, and, in the fast portions, wonderfully exciting. Galánta is a town in Slovakia, just east of Bratislava, the Slovak capitol. Senior clarinetist Lauren Regnell will be brilliant in all the solos for her instrument. These dances will take the place where one usually hears an overture. Then comes a piano concerto – what could be more traditional than a piano concerto after the overture? Will we do Tchaikovsky? Mozart? Beethoven? Liszt? Ah, but no: M. Camargo Guarnieri (1907-93) is the composer. Who? Guarnieri was an important Brazilian musician, and Director of the São Paulo Conservatory. While it has no direct folk music in it, we certainly hear the same rhythmic impulses that lead to samba, and an ineffable melodic suggestion of the tropics. Combine that with a highly sophisticated harmonic structure and you have a really wonderful, unusual piece. The concerto will be followed by Sibelius’ incredible Third Symphony. Some of the melodies are vaguely folk-like, there’s a spiritual quality in some moments, and it all exudes Sibelius’ darker, Finnish personality. Commentators have said that it could only have been written in a land where it’s dark all day in winter, and sunny all day in summer. True or not, you certainly hear the extremes of mood in the piece, and everything in between. We’re very excited to bring it to Laramie. So we have a set of Eastern European folk dances, a Brazilian piano concerto, and a Finnish symphony. Can variety be a unifying theme for a concert? The soloist is Carlos Henrique Costa. He’s been here before, as a guest conductor and piano recitalist, and now as a concerto soloist. Dr. Costa was born in São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil. He is currently a professor of conducting, piano and group piano at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Coordinator of the music bachelor's course of the UFG School of Music, and conducts research in the areas of Orchestral Conducting, Group Piano, piano performance and chamber music. Has a Bachelors in Physics from Unicamp (SP), a Bachelors in Piano from the University of Alabama at Huntsville under Dr. Contreras and Dr. Marjory MacDuffie, a Master in Piano from Ohio State University under Dr. Carolina Oltmanns, a Masters in Conducting from the University of Georgia in Athens under Mark Cedel, and a Doctorate in Piano from the same University under Dr. Richard Zimdars. As a soloist and chamber musician he has performed in Portugal, Italy, the United States, and in several states of Brazil. He conducted the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, the Goiânia Symphony Orchestra, the UWSO, and others. He founded the UFG Jean Douliez Academic Orchestra in 2006. In 2012 he published Group Piano: Didactic book for Higher Education and coordinated the II International Group Piano Meeting. In 2009 he set up the Group Piano Laboratory at the UFG School of Music. Among his most recent performances are the solo piano recital at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre) on the occasion of the commemoration of the 30 years of the Music Graduate Program, played the Mozart piano concerto accompanied by the Mozart Italy/Goiás Association Orchestra in Pirenópolis, Goiás, presented a recital with the tenor Adriano Pinheiro with Brazilian repertoire at the International Musicology Symposium in Goiás, among other concerts. Carlos has coordinated the Music Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal de Goiás from 2014 to 2017 when he was also the president of three editions of the National Music Research Seminar (SEMPEM).
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Steve Nelson w/Wyoming Jazz EnsembleFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall The Wyoming Jazz Studio is excited to host legendary NYC Vibraphonist Steve Nelson. The first set will feature Mr. Nelson performing along side the Wyoming Jazz Ensemble and the second set will feature the Live Edge Trio (Ben Markley, Seth Lewis, and Andy Wheelock) and Steve Nelson performing music off their upcoming record. Widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent modernist vibraphone improvisors. Steve has appeared on numerous recordings, and at concerts and festivals worldwide including the Newport Jazz Festival, The Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreal International Jazz Festival, and the Netherlands International Jazz Festival to name just a few. His original releases include Full Nelson, Fuller Nelson, Brothers Under the Sun, Communications, Sound Effects and more. He is a dedicated educator with prior positions at Princeton University, William Paterson University, and Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Steve is a 2021 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation supported New Jazz Works commissioned compositions.
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Faculty Recital series: Beth Vanderborgh, cello, and Jiwon Han, pianoSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall, FREE Join UW Music's Faculty Recital Series for a recital featuring Beth Vanderborgh, cello, and Jiwon Han, piano The program will includeDebussy’s “Sonate pour violoncelle et piano” and Frank Bridge’s “Cello Sonata in d minor H125.” Cellist Beth Vanderborgh enjoys a rich and varied career as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and pedagogue. She is principal cellist of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, on the Artist-Faculty of the Eastern Music Festival, with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Orchestra, and acting principal cello of the Pro-Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra. Award-winning South Korea-born pianist, conductor, and educator Jiwon Han has appeared in major concert venues around the world, performing with various chamber music ensembles, as a collaborative pianist, and as an orchestral pianist in a wide range of genres. |
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Brass Chamber RecitalMONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall, FREE Join the University of Wyoming Brass Area for our fall Brass Chamber Concert! The Trombone, Trumpet, Horn, and Tuba Ensembles will perform an exciting selection of brass music from ancient to modern. The evening will culminate with a performance from the UW Faculty Brass Quintet. |
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Gala Holiday ConcertDECEMBER 9 & 10, 7:30pm, BCPA Concert Hall The holiday season is filled with special memories recounted through song. These thoughts can be rekindled at the UW Music Department’s Gala Holiday Concerts, December 9 and 10. Both performances begin at 7:30 p.m., when Michael Griffith, O’Neil Jones, Brian Murray, and Ogechi Ukazu will conduct the many choruses, Wind Symphony, and Symphony Orchestra. The University of Wyoming choirs will explore the ideas of nostalgia, hope, and promise through familiar seasonal favorites and novel holiday delights. The Laramie Civic Chorus begins with Roland Carter's festive arrangement of “Go Tell it on the Mountain.” The concept of great hope continues with 7220 Blues’ performance of Anders Edenroth's “The World for Christmas.” Bel Canto then offers a traditional favorite, “Wolcum Yule,” from Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols with harpist Elizabeth Schroeder. The Happy Jacks celebrate promise through Donny Hathaway’s rhythmic “This Christmas.” Finally, Collegiate Chorale reminisces on the beauty of winter through Christina Rossetti's beloved poem, “In the Bleak Midwinter” followed by the traditional French carol, “Sing We Now of Christmas.” The UW Wind Symphony will open the Holiday Gala with a musical version of searching for Christmas presents. “Minor Alterations: Christmas Through the Looking Glass” by David Lovrein, is a medley of Christmas tunes that have been transposed from major to minor keys, then morphed, layered, and transformed into new and fun versions of themselves! See how many “presents” you can find to kick off the concert! They will then return to feature, UW Music Graduate Student and trumpeter Steven Cozzuli, with the UW Wind Symphony Brass Ensemble on a soulful rendition of the Christmas carol “Silent Night.” The first half of the concert will conclude John Mackey’s “Aurora Awakes,” a dynamic tribute to the earthly light show visible during the darkest, coldest winter months. Follow the journey of this work from the faintest glow to a most brilliant finale of light! The UW Symphony Orchestra will fill the stage after intermission. The tradition Ukrainian “Carol of the Bells” will be their overture, followed by the world premiere of “The Nativity Bells” by Robert Wendel. It’s based on “The Bells” by the Renaissance composer William Byrd. The holiday favorite “Sleigh Ride” is next, and then, joined by the massed choirs, Dr. Griffith’s own “Little Christmas Child” will then be performed. He composed it in the 1970s for a stage version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in Cleveland. Finally Dr. Murray will lead the grand finale: Robert Shaw’s The Many Moods of Christmas, orchestrated by the great Broadway arranger Robert Russell Bennett. It includes “Good Christians, All Rejoice,” “In dulci jubilo,” “Pat-a-Pan,” and “Adeste Fideles”. As is traditional, Laramie’s own Punch Williamson will provide a postlude on the Buchanan Center’s wonderful pipe organ. Tickets for these events often sell out, so get your now! Call 766-6666, visit the BCPA box office, or order yours at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/uwyo/6984.
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