Faculty Concerts in January

January 2011

The roster of performances by School of Music, Theatre & Dance faculty is especially rich this month.

On Sunday, January 9, at 2:00 p.m. in Stamps Auditorium, Yehonatan Berick, violin, will present a recital with the Los Angeles Piano Quartet; on Monday, January 10, 8:00 p.m., Britton Recital Hall: The U-M Brass Quintet featuring faculty performers William Campbell, trumpet, David Jackson, trombone, Adam Unsworth, horn, and Fritz Kaenzig, tuba; on Monday, January 17, MLK Day Celebration, 2:00 p.m. at the Power Center, SMTD faculty and the U-M University Choir present musical and spoken reflections on the life of Dr. King; on Tuesday, January 18, Yizhak Schotten, viola, and Chad Burrow, clarinet, perform as part of the Schumann Piano Chamber Music Festival at Kerrytown Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.; on Saturday, January 22, Freda Herseth, mezzo-soprano, and Andrew Jennings, violin, present György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, one of the 20th century’s most powerful and challenging modernist chamber works, at the U-M Museum of Art; on Thursday, January 27, the School presents An Evening with Julie and Louis Nagel, piano, at 8:00 p.m. in Britton, in celebration of Mozart’s birthday, in a lecture/recital exploring the relationship between Mozart and his mother and the circumstances that lead to the composition of his A Minor Sonata, K. 310; on Sunday, January 30, Caroline Helton, soprano, and Kathryn Goodson, one of the School’s collaborative pianists, present a recital of songs by Italian Jewish composers whose lives were affected by World War II; and on Monday, January 31, Daniel Gilbert, clarinet, presents a recital with Anthony Elliott, cello, and Christopher Harding, piano, at Stamps Auditorium at 8:00 p.m.