UW Modern Music Ensemble

Monday, December 6, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
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

Free

[BROADCAST] UW Modern Music Ensemble: ONE7 by John Cage

Saturday, May 16, 2020 @ 4:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Online event
A performance of John Cage's ONE7, recorded by UW music students over Zoom in spring 2020.

Free (Free)

UW Modern Ensemble: Crumb, Dalbavie, & more

Monday, December 2, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Music from the mid-20th century and beyond.

Free (Free)

UW Modern Music Ensemble & Percussion Ensemble

Thursday, May 23, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
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.

$10

UW Composition Studio with the UW Modern Music Ensemble

Tuesday, April 16, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Emerging composers explore unconventional sonic landscapes in a collaboration with the UW Modern Music Ensemble.

Free

UW Modern Music Ensemble: Schoenberg, Durand, Stockhausen

Thursday, March 7, 2019 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Joël-François Durand – She or not
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis

$10

UW Modern Music Ensemble: Webern, Cage, & Neuwirth

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
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

Free

UW Modern Music Ensemble: Fure, Gubaidulina, Furrer, & Karpen

Thursday, May 24, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Ashley Fure – Something to Hunt
Sofia Gubaidulina – So sei es
Beat Furrer – Aer
Richard Karpen – World premiere

$10

UW Modern Music Ensemble w/ Ludovic Morlot & Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir

Thursday, March 1, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Marc Andre Dalbavie – Palimpseste
Betsy Jolas – Wanderlied for solo cello and ensemble
Pierre Boulez – Dérive 2

$10

UW Modern Ensemble

Tuesday, December 5, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time
Stockhausen – Tierkreis
Glass – Music in Similar Motion

Free

UW Modern Ensemble: Player's Choice

Friday, May 26, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
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

$10

UW Modern Ensemble with Stephen Drury, guest conductor

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
John Zorn – Cobra
Earle Brown – Tracking Pierrot
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life 1
Christian Wolff – Exercise #2, and selections from Micro Exercises

$10

UW Modern Ensemble: Steve Reich 80th Birthday Celebration

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
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

$10

UW Modern Music Ensemble

Monday, May 23, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Messiaen – Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes (1991)
Tristan Murail – Feuilles à travers les cloches (1998)
Takemitsu – Rain Spell (1983)
Aperghis – Les Sept crimes de l’amour (1979)
Sofia Gubaidulina – Quasi Hoquetus (1985)
Lutoslawski – String Quartet (1964)

$10

Inverted Space: Ferneyhough residency

Friday, February 19, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Brian Ferneyhough – Fanfare for Klaus Huber
Brian Ferneyhough – Mort Subite
Brian Ferneyhough – Adagissimo
Brian Ferneyhough – Intermedio alla Ciaccona
Brian Ferneyhough – Flurries
Mark Applebaum – Ferneyhough ReMix
Mark Applebaum – Fanfare for Brian Ferneyhough
Joel-Francois Durand – Enfance (premiere)
Joel-Francois Durand – Hermetic Definition

$5-$15

UW Modern Music Ensemble: Kurtág, Schönberg, Bartók

Friday, January 29, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Kurtág – Hommage à R. Sch., Op. 15d
Schönberg – Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9
Bartók – Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

$10

UW Modern Ensemble: Ligeti, Cage, Bartók

Friday, December 4, 2015 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse Theater, Seattle, WA, United States
Ligeti – 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)
Cage – String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Bartók – Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937)

$10

Music of Today: Brian Ferneyhough Residency

Monday, May 19, 2014 @ 7:30pm – 7:30pm (PDT)
The School of Music welcomes English composer Brian Ferneyhough to the UW for a week-long residency, topped off by this performance by the Modern Music Ensemble/Inverted Space performing works by Ferneyhough and others.

$20 ($12 students/seniors)