UW Symphony & Combined UW Choirs with Garret Dillahunt

• Garret Dillahunt, narrator

Igor Stravinsky — Circus Polka: For a Young Elephant
Francis Poulenc — L'histoire de Babar le petit éléphant, FP 129 (Garret Dillahunt, narrator)
Gabriel Fauré — Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (with combined UW Choirs)

The UW Symphony (David Alexander Rahbee, director) performs works by Stravinsky, Poulenc, and Fauré in this end-of year performance. The orchestra is joined by the combined University Choirs in a performance of Fauré's Requiem, Op. 48, with Giselle Wyers conducting. Special guest for this performance is actor Garret Dillahunt, narrator on Poulenc's L'histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant.

About UW Symphony Orchestra

http://music.washington.edu/ensembles/uw-symphony-orchestra

About Garret Dillahunt, narrator

Actor Garret Dillahunt is best known for his work in television, including the roles Burt Chance on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope, for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott in Deadwood, and John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead (2018–2021). He has also appeared in The 4400, ER, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Justified, and The Mindy Project (2015–2017) and starred in the Amazon Studios drama series Hand of God (2014–2017). He also appeared in the television series Justified, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Guest Book, John From Cincinnati, Damages, Life, Lie to Me, Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, Burn Notice, & Maximum Bob, among many others.

On stage, Dillahunt has performed extensively on and off Broadway and around the country with such companies as Steppenwolf, ACT San Francisco, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Huntington, Williamstown and Berkshire Theatre Festivals. In film, Dillahunt has played supporting roles in No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Winter's Bone, Looper, and 12 Years a Slave.

Dillahunt grew up in Selah, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1987 with a B.A. in journalism and from New York University's Graduate Acting Program with an M.F.A. in acting.