UWM Orchestra Calendar

This year Margery Deutsch celebrates her twenty-seventh season as Director of Orchestral Activities at UWM. Join her, these highly acclaimed student musicians, and exciting guest artists as they perform some of the great orchestra masterworks of the past three centuries.

2011-12 Season Dates

Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7:30 pm

“A Night at the Opera” with Tanya Kruse Ruck, soprano

Wagner – Prelude to Die Meistersinger
Dvorak – “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka
Verdi – “Merce, dilette amiche” from I Vespri Siciliani
Puccini – Intermezzo from Act III of Manon Lescaut
Puccini – “Un bel di” from Madama Butterfly
Puccini – “Sola, perduta abbandonata”from Manon Lescaut
Dvorak – Symphony No. 9(from the New World)

Friday & Saturday, November 11 & 12, 2011, at 7:30pm

“Into the Woods” with the UWM Symphonic Chorus

Humperdinck – Prelude from Hansel and Gretel
Respighi – Pines of Rome
Verdi – “Triumphal March and Scene” from Aida
Verdi – “Va Pensiero” from Nabucco
Verdi – “Anvil Chorus” from II Trovatore
Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
Bernstein – “Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide

Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 3:00 pm

26th Annual High School Honors Orchestra Festival with James Setapen, Guest Conductor

Also featuring the winner of the 22nd Annual UWM Young Artist Competition.This concert will feature over 150 of Wisconsin’s finest young musicians playing works by Adler, Mozart, Herbert, Sibelius, Holst, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rossini.

Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 8:00 pm

“Carnegie Hall Bon Voyage Concert!” with Margaret Butler Padilla, oboe

Shostakovich – Festive Overture
Kevin Puts – “…this noble company” (2003)
Marcello – Oboe Concerto
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4

Friday, April 27, 2012 at 7:30 pm

Spring Concert

Featuring the winners of the UWM Concerto & Aria Competition. Program to be announced.

All Programs Subject To Change

All concerts are held in the Helen Bader Concert Hall,
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts,
2419 East Kenwood Boulevard

Reduced single performance admission for UWM faculty, staff and alum. Students attend free with valid ID. To purchase tickets or subscriptions, contact the Peck School of the Arts Box Office at (414) 229-4308.

For More Information

UWM Orchestra Office
(414) 229-4609
symphony@uwm.edu