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Il Trittico

Butler Opera Center

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Scheduled

Music by 
Giacomo Puccini

Libretto by 
Giuseppe Adami & Giovacchino Forzano

Stage Directors
Il Tabarro 
Yingmeige Xiong

Suor Angelica 
Madison Jackson

Gianni Schicchi 
Beatrice Huang

Conductor
Douglas Kinney Frost

Director, Producer, Principal Coach
Tamar Sanikdize

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Symphony Orchestra

Concerto Competition Winners

Event Status
Scheduled

Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Yida An, violin
Jinni Shen, soprano
Aaron Kurz, piano
Kevin Charoensri, composer
 

Kevin Charoensri
orch. N. Dumrongthai
A Jasmine Tree

Sergei Prokofiev  
Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Major, op. 26

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UT Percussion Ensemble
Ensemble SoundMap
Januibe Tejera, conductor
 
Featuring three works by Rannev:
"Branle of angels" for 6 percussionists
"P est na. iss O ex glo ae"
"Shooting"
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Cliff Croomes, conductor 

Jaime Theirman
The History of the Universe

Peter Van Zandt Lane 
Astrarium 

Tomohito Matsushita
Elegy to the Moon

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Austinato

Early Music Ensemble

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Scheduled

Guido Oliveri, director

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Studio Spotlight: Kristin Wolfe Jensen’s Bassoon Studio

Go inside the studio of our bassoon professor, Kristin Wolfe Jensen, and discover what makes her studio one of the leading bassoon studios in the country. She is internationally recognized not only for her distinguished performance career, but also for the success of her students, her innovative work in body mapping pedagogy, her outstanding bassoon ensembles, and her reputation as one of the most respected and supportive teachers in the field.  Watch the Video

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Farkhad Khudyev

Music Director, Symphony Orchestra
Associate Professor of Music in Orchestral Studies