UW Modern Music Ensemble – Past Concerts

An end-of-quarter performance by the UW Modern Music Ensemble (Cristina Valdés, director), performing works from the mid-20th Century and b…

Program includes works by Nicholas Mendonsa, Morton Feldman, Arshia Ashari, Galina Ustvolskaya, Katherine Balch, John Cage, Melissa Wang, Taylor James Bellamy, and Earle Brown.

Joe Krycia — Feelin' Good on a Wednesday (for 2 flutes, trombone, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, & fixed-media electronics)
Yonatan Ron — Similetude (for flute, french horn, cello, & percussion)
Melissa Wang — Adjust To You (for flute, clarinet, trombone, percussion, & piano)
Max Williams — Cosmic Vultures Refurbished (for 2 flutes, french horn, & piano)
Sandesh Nagaraj — Revolting Forms (for two percussionists & live electronics)
Frederic Rzewski — Coming Together (for violin, two flutes, french horn, electric guitar, two percussionists, piano, & narrator)

Cristina Valdés leads the UW Modern Music Ensemble in performances of works from the mid-20th century and beyond. 

Ivan Fedele — Erinni (1998)
José-Luis Hurtado — Retour (2013)
Mario Lavista — Elegía a la memoria de Nacho (2003)
inti figgis-vizueta — Form the Fabric (2020)
Louis Andriessen — Workers Union (1975)

Cristina Valdés leads the UW Modern Music Ensemble in a program of works by UW Composition students.

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Sofia Gubaidulina — Zwei Lieder nach deutschen Volksdichtungen ("Two Songs on German Folk Poetry")
Marcos Balter — Ear, Skin, and Bone Riddles
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez — Quintet Variations (world premiere)
George Lewis — Artificial Life

Louis Andriessen – Dubbelspoor for piano, harpsichord, celesta, & vibraphone/glockenspiel
Sylvano Bussotti – Selections from Sette Fogli: una collezione occulta
Pauline Oliveros – Elemental Gallop for flute, piano, cello, & voice
Frederic Rzewski – Spots for 4 instruments
Julius Eastman – Joy Boy

A performance of John Cage's ONE7, recorded by UW music students over Zoom in spring 2020.

Music from the mid-20th century and beyond.

Music by Oliver Schneller, Jason Eckardt, Eric Wubbels, and Wang Lu – featured composers in the UW School of Music’s Spring Composers Colloquium – as well as works by UW composition students.

Emerging composers explore unconventional sonic landscapes in a collaboration with the UW Modern Music Ensemble.

Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Joël-François Durand – She or not
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis

Anton Webern – Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24
Krzysztof Penderecki – Clarinet Quartet
Morton Feldman – For Franz Kline
John Cage – Living Room Music
Olga Neuwirth – Marsyas II

Ashley Fure – Something to Hunt
Sofia Gubaidulina – So sei es
Beat Furrer – Aer
Richard Karpen – World premiere

Marc Andre Dalbavie – Palimpseste
Betsy Jolas – Wanderlied for solo cello and ensemble
Pierre Boulez – Dérive 2

Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time
Stockhausen – Tierkreis
Glass – Music in Similar Motion

Louis Andriessen – Worker's Union
Luciano Berio – Air
John Cage – Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
Marcelo Delgado – Colores congelados
Kaija Saariaho – Mirrors
Karen Tanaka – Invisible Curve

John Zorn – Cobra
Earle Brown – Tracking Pierrot
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life 1
Christian Wolff – Exercise #2, and selections from Micro Exercises

A program devoted to the music of renowned living composer Steve Reich:

Pendulum Music
Drumming Part I
Triple Quartet
Clapping Music
Vermont Counterpoint
Radio Rewrite