The Campus Band (Joshua Michael Smith, conductor) and Concert Band (Yuman Wu, conductor) present 'Song and Dance,' performing music by Leonard Bernstein, James Barnes, Frank Ticheli and others. 

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Director Biographies

New York City-based pianist Lisa Moore has performed hundreds of commissioned works and world premieres – having worked with more than two hundred living composers while residing and collaborating in the vibrant new music scene of New York City since 1985. The New York Times has described her as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned…lustrous at the keyboard.”

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Note: Lisa Moore also leads a master class with UW piano students
Master Class: Thursday, Feb. 4, 4:30 pm, HUB Lyceum 

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Biography

New York-based Australian musician Lisa Moore is a multifaceted pianist, recording artist, and avid collaborator. Named “la leggenda” by La Repubblica (Italy) her playing combines lyricism and virtuosity with expressive and emotional power – whether in the delivery of the simplest song, a solo recital, a concerto, or a fiendish chamber score. Given a special passion for the music of our time, Moore won the silver medal in the 1981 Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. She has performed hundreds of commissioned works and world premieres – having worked with more than two hundred living composers while residing and collaborating in the vibrant new music scene of New York City since 1985. The New Yorker describes her as both “visionary” and “New York’s queen of the avant-garde piano”. Her playing has been singled out by The New York Times for its “life and freshness” and “fragility and tenderness”.

Moore has performed throughout Europe, the UK, USA, and Asia on some of the world’s great stages – Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Hamer Hall and Recital Center, Milan’s La Scala, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, London’s Royal Albert Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein. She has released twelve solo albums, and more than thirty collaborative ensemble discs. Gramophone writes about her 2015 Mad Rush Philip Glass disc: “what becomes abundantly clear is Moore’s highly developed, intuitive and nuanced approach to this music”. Moore’s 2016 album The Stone People was selected as one of The New York Times Top Classical Albums 2016 and as a Naxos Critics’ Choice 2017. In June 2022, Moore released no place to go but around – her second album of music by Frederic Rzewski – to compelling notice. The New York Times remarked that the album is “meticulous…clever…hits the gas with controlled force”  and has “a greater range of emotion than other interpreters”.

For sixteen years (1992–2008) Moore was the founding pianist for the award-winning electro-acoustic sextet Bang On A Can All-Stars. She has collaborated with leading artists, composers, ensembles and dance companies – The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Ornette Coleman, Thurston Moore, Iva Bittova, Bryce Dessner, London Sinfonietta, Steve Reich Ensemble, New York City Ballet, American Composers Orchestra, and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance.

As a concerto soloist, Moore has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Farifax Symphony, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, La Jolla Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Tasmania Symphony, Thai National, Monash Academy Orchestra, Canberra Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Wesleyan University Orchestra-Sumarsam Gamelan, Clocked Out, and the Queensland Philharmonic. She has worked under the batons of Leonard Bernstein, David Robertson, Brett Dean, Bradley Lubman, Steven Schick, Christopher Zimmerman, Benjamin Northey, Richard Mills, Roger Benedict, Reinbert de Leeuw, Jorge Mester, Leonard Dommett, Dobbs Franks, and Angel Gil-Ordonez.

Moore’s festival guest appearances include Lincoln Center, BAM Next Wave, Banff, Tanglewood, Aspen, Chautauqua, Gilmore, Piano Spheres, Chamber Music Northwest, Huddersfield, Vale of Glamorgan (Wales), Liquid Music, Holland, Graz, Hamburg, Taormina, Paris d’Automne, Rome, Bari Piano Festival, Milan, Turin, Hong Kong, BBC Proms, Southbank, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne Metropolis, Israel, and Warsaw.

Lisa Moore is a Steinway artist. Please visit  

New York City-based pianist Lisa Moore leads a master class with UW piano students. Moore has worked with more than two hundred living composers while residing and collaborating in the vibrant new music scene of New York City since 1985. The New York Times has described her as “brilliant and searching… beautiful and impassioned…lustrous at the keyboard.”

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Note: Lisa Moore performs a solo recital on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 7:30 pm, at the HUB Lyceum 

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Biography

New York-based Australian musician Lisa Moore is a multifaceted pianist, recording artist, and avid collaborator. Named “la leggenda” by La Repubblica (Italy) her playing combines lyricism and virtuosity with expressive and emotional power – whether in the delivery of the simplest song, a solo recital, a concerto, or a fiendish chamber score. Given a special passion for the music of our time, Moore won the silver medal in the 1981 Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. She has performed hundreds of commissioned works and world premieres – having worked with more than two hundred living composers while residing and collaborating in the vibrant new music scene of New York City since 1985. The New Yorker describes her as both “visionary” and “New York’s queen of the avant-garde piano”. Her playing has been singled out by The New York Times for its “life and freshness” and “fragility and tenderness”.

Moore has performed throughout Europe, the UK, USA, and Asia on some of the world’s great stages – Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Hamer Hall and Recital Center, Milan’s La Scala, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, London’s Royal Albert Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein. She has released twelve solo albums, and more than thirty collaborative ensemble discs. Gramophone writes about her 2015 Mad Rush Philip Glass disc: “what becomes abundantly clear is Moore’s highly developed, intuitive and nuanced approach to this music”. Moore’s 2016 album The Stone People was selected as one of The New York Times Top Classical Albums 2016 and as a Naxos Critics’ Choice 2017. In June 2022, Moore released no place to go but around – her second album of music by Frederic Rzewski – to compelling notice. The New York Times remarked that the album is “meticulous…clever…hits the gas with controlled force”  and has “a greater range of emotion than other interpreters”.

For sixteen years (1992–2008) Moore was the founding pianist for the award-winning electro-acoustic sextet Bang On A Can All-Stars. She has collaborated with leading artists, composers, ensembles and dance companies – The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Ornette Coleman, Thurston Moore, Iva Bittova, Bryce Dessner, London Sinfonietta, Steve Reich Ensemble, New York City Ballet, American Composers Orchestra, and Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance.

As a concerto soloist, Moore has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Farifax Symphony, Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, La Jolla Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Tasmania Symphony, Thai National, Monash Academy Orchestra, Canberra Symphony, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Wesleyan University Orchestra-Sumarsam Gamelan, Clocked Out, and the Queensland Philharmonic. She has worked under the batons of Leonard Bernstein, David Robertson, Brett Dean, Bradley Lubman, Steven Schick, Christopher Zimmerman, Benjamin Northey, Richard Mills, Roger Benedict, Reinbert de Leeuw, Jorge Mester, Leonard Dommett, Dobbs Franks, and Angel Gil-Ordonez.

Moore’s festival guest appearances include Lincoln Center, BAM Next Wave, Banff, Tanglewood, Aspen, Chautauqua, Gilmore, Piano Spheres, Chamber Music Northwest, Huddersfield, Vale of Glamorgan (Wales), Liquid Music, Holland, Graz, Hamburg, Taormina, Paris d’Automne, Rome, Bari Piano Festival, Milan, Turin, Hong Kong, BBC Proms, Southbank, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne Metropolis, Israel, and Warsaw.

Lisa Moore is a Steinway artist. Please visit  

A master of the Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drumming tradition called bomba, Autumn Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Otoqui Reyes is joined by special guests and his UW students in Dance and Music in this end-of-quarter performance. 

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Biography

Otoqui Reyes is a master of the Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drumming tradition called bomba. Reyes was raised in Loiza Aldea, a community with an influential bomba tradition, and also learned other regional styles of bomba. He performed for several years with the Cepeda family, one of bomba’s foremost culture bearers, in the community of Santurce. He also performed in his father’s pioneering group, Agüeybaná, who helped popularize participatory “bombazos” in the 1990s.

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Bomba

Bomba is a centuries old tradition in Puerto Rico, practiced both in slave plantations and free Black communities. It is related to several other Caribbean dance drumming traditions, including gwoka in Guadeloupe, tumba francesa in Cuba, and Bele in Martinique, all of which have roots in Haiti. These traditions all involve a dynamic relationship between sound and movement. In the case of bomba, as it is practiced today, a single dancer improvises while a lead drummer, or subidor, sounds the dancer’s movements. This improvised duet between dancer and drummer is accompanied by percussion and singing in the batey, a native Taino word for a circle in which people conduct play or ritual.
The bomba ensemble includes two drumming roles: a single subidor (also called primo), which sounds the dancer’s movements, and one or more buleador drums that accompany the subidor with a steady rhythm. The drums are accompanied by call and response singing, by the cuá (a barrell struck with sticks) and by a single maraca, usually played by the lead singer.

David Alexander Rahbee and the UW Symphony present 'Symphonic Dances,' a program of music by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Pierné, and Sergei Rachmaninov. With faculty artist Valerie Muzzolini, harp. 

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Program 

'Symphonic Dances' 

Maurice Ravel: Menuet antique 

Claude Debussy: Danses sacrée et profane for harp & strings 

Gabriel Pierné: Concert Piece for Harp & orchestra, op.39 

Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances, op.45

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Biographies

UW viola professor Melia Watras presents Alto glow, featuring world premieres of works by Ha-Yang Kim, UW student Tia-Jane Fowler, and Watras; and performances of pieces by Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger, Rebecca Clarke and Florence Price. Watras is joined on stage by her UW colleagues Pala Garcia (violin), Alexander Kostadinov (piano), John Popham (cello) and Pacific Northwest Ballet concertmaster Michael Jinsoo Lim (violin).

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Biographies

Spring Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Iris Viveros is joined by UW students in Music and Dance and special guests, including musicians from the Seattle Fandango Project, in this concert celebrating Son Jarocho music and dance traditions of Vera Cruz, Mexico. The performance marks the conclusion of her spring quarter UW course, co-taught with Dance professor Monica Rojas, focused on zapateado (foot percussion) traditions in Mexico and Peru, with a special focus on women’s roles and perspectives.

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Biography

Iris C. Viveros Avendaño, PhD.  was born and raised in Mexico. Her academic interests emphasize the integration of third-world feminist approaches to analyzing colonial legacies in present-day systems of violence. She focuses on the role of state-mediated technologies of power in perpetuating violence against Afro indigenous [descent] women and communities at large. In addition,Iris’ scholarly work focuses on the connection between polyrhythmic collective music-making as a decolonial temporality and a practice of resistance, recovery, and healing from trauma. A central focus in her scholarly work is the analysis of the feminized body in fandango–In its collective and individual manifestation– as a decolonial space where knowledge is produced, negotiated, and transmitted.