Melia Watras – Past Concerts

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti — Selected works
Frances White — Selected works
Melia Watras — Selected works

Benjamin Britten — Selected works
Felix Mendelssohn — Selected works
Kaija Saariaho — Selected works
Melia Watras — Selected works (world premiere TBA)

Atar Arad — Ciaconna for viola sola
Béla Bartók — 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98, BB 104 (selections from Books I & II)
Melia Watras — Blue Rose for viola solo
Melia Watras — Sarabanda (The void after the second beat — for Atar)
Melia Watras — Lament for viola solo
Béla Bartók — 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98, BB 104 (selections from Books III & IV)
Johann Sebastian Bach — "V. Chaconne" from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (trans. for viola)

Melia Watras — Selected works

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)

Miya Masaoka — The Dust and the Noise (for violin, cello, percussion, piano)
Joël-François Durand — In the Mirror Land (for flute & clarinet in B-flat)
Joël-François Durand — Geister, schwebende Geister (world premiere; for viola & ensemble)
Andile Khumalo — Shades of Words (for narrator, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, & cello)
Huck Hodge — Time and its Arbitrary Measurements (world premiere; for flute, clarinet, percussion, harp, piano, violin, viola, & cello)

Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical"
Melia Watras — A brazen butterfly alights (Melia Watras, viola; Valerie Muzzolini, harp)
Giovanni Bottesini — Gran duo concertante for violin and double bass (Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Jordan Anderson, double bass)
Giuseppe Battista Sammartini — Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 5, No. 6 ("Pastorale")
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello)
Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (Daren Weissfisch, conductor)

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

Melia Watras — The almond tree duos (world premiere)

Melia Watras – Folk Style Project (world premiere)
Charles Corey – In Paradisum for viola and Harmonic Canon
Meila Watras – String Masks

Violist/composer Melia Watras celebrates the release of her latest album, Schumann Resonances, with special guests Richard Karpen, Cuong Vu, and Michael Jinsoo Lim.

Join this Seattle-based modular chamber ensemble as they perform music by Bloch, Klein, Kodály, and Watras.

Furrer – Aria for soprano and six instruments (1999, West Coast premiere)
Garcia – the clouds receding into the mountains for viola and ensemble (2017, world premiere)
Ligeti – Melodien for chamber orchestra (1971, Seattle premiere)

Music by Arad, Britten, Penderecki, and Watras.

UW faculty violist Melia Watras performs selections from 26, her newly released CD, with a video presentation and commentary.

Violist Melia Watras presents a program of music influenced by mythology and folklore.

Watras will talk about the recording and perform a solo piece from the disc. Also featuring a video presentation and a reception.