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Chamber Orchestra

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor 
Isabella Perez, bassoon

Franz Schubert 
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, D. 485

W.A. Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191/186e

 

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A Celebration of African American Music

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University Treble  Chorus
University Tenor Bass Chorus
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
Butler School students

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Andrew Brownell & Patti Wolf

Two Piano

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Gustav Holst 
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity from The Planets

Claude Debussy, arr. Ravel 
Trois Nocturnes 

Muzio Clementi 
Duet in B-flat Major op. 12, no. 5 

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Sandy Yamamoto & Friends

with Wilhelm Magner

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Sandy Yamamoto, violin
Wilhelm Magner, viola
Butler School string students

Antonín Dvořák 
Miniatures, Drobnosti, op. 75a  
Serenade for Strings in E Major, op. 22

Johan Halvorsen 
Sarabande con variazioni, after a theme by G.F. Handel 

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Handel in Focus

Butler Opera Center

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Music director & harpsichord
Tamar Sanikidze

Piano
Vakhtang Zaalishvili

Alcina – Xinshu Li  
Morgana – Yuxin Liu  
Oronte – Kayla Suter  
Ruggiero – Wen Liu  
Bradamante – Ziqi Wang  
Melissa – Joohyun Kim 

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New Music Ensemble

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Marc Sosnowchik, conductor 
Page Stephens, mezzo soprano 

Noah Hudson-Camack 
Ten Seconds to Midnight 

Nina C. Young 
Traced Upon Cinders

Claude Vivier 
Bouchara 

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Featured News

World Premiere of Downwind

On July 16, 1945, New Mexicans awoke to Trinity, the world’s first nuclear test. Manhattan Project leaders did not inform residents, despite tens of thousands living nearby. In the years that followed, people in the surrounding areas began to report serious health issues. These individuals would be known as “Downwinders.” Downwind is the story of these people.

This opera is a world premiere, written by students Michael Smith and Demian Galvan, who traveled to New Mexico to help bring this story to life. Smith writes, “While the family in our opera is fictional, the reality that they face is not.”  Full Story

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Tamar Sanikidze

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Director, Butler Opera Center
Professor of Opera
Principal Opera Coach

Patti Wolf

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Assistant Professor of Practice in Collaborative Piano
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