Music Mosaic

The UW-Whitewater Music Faculty and Staff have joined forces to bring the campus, community and alumni “Music Mosaics.” This series benefits the Music Department's Scholarship Fund, which allows the department to recognize students for their musical talents and academic excellence. There is a wide variety of events to chose from each one featuring the many talents of the Music Department's faculty and staff.

Season Ticket Prices:

General Admission $28, Over 65, $24 and UW-W Students w/ID & Under 18 $12

Single Ticket Prices:

General Admission $7, Over 65, $6 and UW-W Students w/ID & Under 18 $3

All events are in the Light Recital Hall

2008-09 Music Mosaics Season

Chung and Debussy
October 14 at 7:30 pm

Prof. MyungHee Chung’s recital is the traditional opening of the Music Mosaics season.  This year she is returning from a sabbatical spent studying and recording the challenging Etudes and Preludes of Debussy: works for piano that range from picturesque and delicate to astounding virtuosity.   They will be the focus of this program...and Chung’s newly-released CD of this music will be available at the concert.

Chamber Music for Woodwind and Strings
November 3 at 7:30 pm
Robin Fellows, Christian Ellenwood, Elisabeth Ellenwood, Benjamin Whitcomb, MyungHee Chung

This program—ensemble works for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, and piano—centers on a work by Prof. Christian Ellenwood, premiered last year on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Live from the Chazen” program.  His Larghetto: How We Say Goodbye was composed as a tribute to his father.  According to Ellenwood: “I have attempted to translate into music the feelings my family and I shared as we gathered around my father on the day of his death.  He was unconscious, but we felt him with us, then and now.”

Beethoven and Shostakovich
February 1 at 7:30 pm
MyungHee Chung, Leanne League, Benjamin Whitcomb

The UW-W Piano Trio’s program presents two of the great works written for the combination of violin, cello, and piano.  Beethoven’s final piano trio, the great “Archduke” trio of 1811, is one of the last works of his fertile “Heroic” period—a powerful work that is one of the monuments of the chamber repertoire.  Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.2, written in memory of beloved friend in 1944 is a work filled with the composer’s trademark sarcastic humor.

25th Anniversary Celebration
Whitewater Brass Quintet
March 10 at 7:30 pm

The Whitewater Brass Quintet, UW-W’s first resident faculty chamber ensemble, was established in 1983, and the group still includes three of the original members who performed the ensemble’s first concert in 1984. Founder and trumpeter Frank Hanson, hornist Linda Kimball, and tubist John Tuinstra are joined by trombonist Michael Dugan and trumpeter Ed Hong.  In celebration of their silver anniversary, the Quintet’s program features the world premiere of a new work by American composer Clint Needham.

Julie Cross and Friends
April 16 at 7:30pm

UW-W’s mezzo-soprano, Prof. Julie Cross, rounds out the season with a varied program of vocal chamber music, performed with her colleagues.  Handel, performed with harpsichord and cello continuo opens the program.  The program will also include works by Brahms: the Op. 91 Songs for Alto, Viola, and Piano, and the lilting and romantic Liebeslieder Waltzes, performed by a faculty ensemble.