Chamber Music Milwaukee
2012-2013 Season
The UWM Peck School of the Arts is pleased to announce the ninth season of its chamber music series, Chamber Music Milwaukee. The series, under the artistic direction of faculty members Gregory Flint and Todd Levy, features UWM faculty and their guests in a series of five concerts.
Chamber Music Milwauke draws on the accomplished performers of the Peck School's Department of Music and their guests for a series that takes a fresh look at familiar works and explores rarely performed music in a wide range of instrumental combinations.
Chamber Music Milwaukee is supported in part by the William F. Vilas Trust and the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Dr. Abraham B. and Irma F. Schwartz Fund.
Concerts
September 15, 2012, 8:30 pm FREE
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Breath in a Ram's Horn - The Jewish Spirit in Classical Music
Daniel Asia, a noted composer whose work has been performed by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras and chamber groups worldwide, will lead a concert and interactive discussion. Faculty performers featured on this program are Elena Abend, Rene Izquierdo and Valerie Errante. Tenor Robert Swensen, an insightful interpreter of Asia’s music, will also be performing. A Year of the Arts collaboration with the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies and Chamber Music Milwaukee.
October 17, 2012, 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Tower Brass of Chicago
Chamber Music Milwaukee presents the outstanding brass group from Chicago, Tower Brass. This chamber octet performs regularly in Chicago, has made several recordings, and has toured nationally. Group members include Greg Flint, Associate Professor of Horn at UWM. This promises to be an exciting and varied program of brass chamber music.
CANCELED - November 8, 2012, 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Featuring Peck School of the Arts Music faculty.
February 13, 2013, 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Rembrandt Chamber Players
Chicago-based Rembrandt Chamber Players will present a program of new and traditional chamber works.
April 18, 2013, 7:30 pm
Helen Bader Concert Hall
Peck School of the Arts Music faculty in a concert featuring wind instruments - from flutes, oboes, and clarinets, to bassoons, horns, trumpets, and even saxophones.
Single Tickets: $17 adult /$12 seniors, UWM faculty, staff, and alumni/ $10 PSOA faculty and staff and other University students/$9 UWM students/$5 Ages 13-18, PSOA students/Free to under 12 and Music majors.
Box Office
Phone: (414) 229-4308 or arts.uwm.edu/tickets
Location: Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd. (enter through the parking lot to the south of the building)
Hours: Monday through Friday, Noon - 4 pm and half an hour prior to performances. Short-term parking spaces are available for those purchasing tickets.
Location & Parking
All concerts take place in the Helen Bader Concert Hall in the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd.
Metered parking is available in the Zelazo Center lot (to the south of the building) and in the UWM Union Parking Garage, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd.