UW Faculty Recital: Melia Watras: "Song – An Endless Flight"

• Melia Watras, viola
• Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin
• Carrie Henneman Shaw, voice

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti — ko'u inoa
Melia Watras — Hertabuise for narrator and violin (world premiere)
Alessandra Barrett — La Foliage for violin and viola (world premiere)
Melia Watras — 5 Poems of Herbert Woodward Martin for narrator, violin and viola (world premiere)
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti — to be two for violin and viola (world premiere)
Melia Watras — Weeping Pendula for voice and loop pedal (world premiere)
Frances White — As night falls

Violist/composer Melia Watras is joined onstage by narrator Shelia Daniels, violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim and vocalist Carrie Henneman Shaw for a program of newly commissioned music by Alessandra Barrett and Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti and works by Melia Watras and Frances White. All six pieces were composed in the last 10 years, and four of them will receive their world premieres on this concert, including Watras's 5 Poems of Herbert Woodward Martin, which contains "Song: An Endless Flight", a poem Martin dedicated to Watras and Lim.

COVID-19 Protocols: Masks are recommended in all indoor spaces on the UW campus. Patrons must show proof of vaccination or recent negative provider-administered COVID-19 PCR test for entry to live events at Meany Hall. Individuals unable to be fully vaccinated, including children under age five and people with a medical or religious exemption, must have proof of a negative provider-administered COVID-19 PCR test (taken within 72 hours of the performance). UW staff will check for proof of vaccination and negative COVID PCR tests at the doors as a condition of entry. Proof of negative test result must come from a test provider, a laboratory or a health care provider. Home or self-administered tests will not be accepted.   

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About UW School of Music

http://music.washington.edu/

About Melia Watras, viola

http://www.meliawatras.com/

About Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin

Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim has been praised by Gramophone for playing with "delicious abandon," and hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a "conspicuously accomplished champion of contemporary music." Concertmaster and solo violinist for the internationally acclaimed Pacific Northwest Ballet, Lim is featured as soloist with the company in concertos by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Bach, and others, and has toured with PNB to Paris and New York City. Lim is violinist and co-founder of the Seattle-based ensemble Frequency and was co-founder of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet, with whom he appeared on over a dozen albums. The quartet's Naxos label CD was honored as one of The New Yorker's Ten Best Classical Recordings of the Year. His discography can be found on Naxos, Planet M, Sono Luminus, DreamWorks, Albany, Bridge, CRI, Bayer Records, RIAX, and New Focus. Lim has served on the faculty of the Banff Centre, taught at Indiana University as a guest professor, and currently serves on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.

http://www.michaeljinsoolim.com/

About Carrie Henneman Shaw, voice

Carrie Henneman Shaw joined the Voice Program at the University of Washington as an artist in residence in Autumn 2020. As a singer, Carrie engages in a wide variety of musical projects, but she focuses on early and contemporary music.

A sample of her work includes an upcoming solo recording on Naxos Records of early 18th-century French song; creating music for a live-music-for-dance project with James Sewell Ballet; and collaborating on a recording with the band Deerhoof. Carrie is a two-time winner of a McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, and she is a member of two groups that focus on music by living composers, Ensemble Dal Niente, a mixed chamber collective, and Quince Ensemble, a treble voice quartet.

She appears in numerous recordings ranging from medieval sacred music to a video-game soundtrack, and before coming to the UW, she has been maintaining a full university studio for the six years and participating in educational residencies for composers and performers around the country, including UC-Berkeley, Stanford, New York University, the University of Chicago, and beyond.

http://www.shawsoprano.com/