UW Faculty Concert: Melia Watras, viola: NewDub

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

Madeline Warner / Melia Watras — String Theory I (for one or more performers)
Breana Tavaglione — Arid, Landscape Study (for viola & electronics; world premiere)
Jonathan Rodriguez Grijalva — Prohibited Space (for viola & live processing; world premiere)
Sandesh Nagaraj — Revolting Forms (for viola, electronics, & interactive video; world premiere)
Madeline Warner / Melia Watras — String Theory II (for one or more performers; world premiere)
Joël-François Durand — Geister, wieder (for viola solo; world premiere)
Wei Yang — ní nán (for fixed media; world premiere)

Violist/composer Melia Watras presents a celebration of the viola with an evening of world premieres composed by UW faculty, students, and alumni. The program includes UW faculty composer Joël- François Durand’s Geister weider… pour alto solo (written for Watras), a collaborative composition by Watras and her former student Madeline Warner, and four pieces commissioned by Watras especially for this event, by UW students and alums Sandesh Nagaraj, Jonathan Rodriguez, Breana Tavaglione, and Wei Yang. Watras in joined onstage by vocalist Carrie Henneman Shaw and violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim.

About UW School of Music

http://music.washington.edu/

About Melia Watras, viola

http://www.meliawatras.com/

About Carrie Henneman Shaw, soprano

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/

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/