UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON - Key Persons
Abbey is a double and electric bassist in the Seattle area. Since graduating from the University of Washington in 2013 with a Bachelor's of Music in String Performance, she has played in local and touring rock bands, recorded on a variety of albums and movie soundtracks, performed in local orchestras such as Inverted Space, and played with local jazz musicians.
Abbie Naze, a North Dakota native, is currently in her second year of graduate studies pursuing a Master's of Music in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Washington in Seattle under the tutelage of David A Rahbee and Ludovic Morlot. As a graduate teaching associate and assistant conductor, Abbie has led both the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra and the University of Washington Campus Philharmonia Orchestras.
In both the United States and throughout Europe, Abbie has conducted in numerous masterclasses and workshops for highly-respected conductors such as Ludovic Morlot, Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, and Paul Vermel. Recently, Abbie spent her summer studying conducting in Maine under the leadership of Michael Jinbo at the Pierre Monteux School and Music Festival where she conducted the Pierre Monteux Festival Orchestra in concert.
Before continuing her studies in Seattle, Washington, Abbie received a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree at Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota where she studied cello with Erik Anderson. As a cellist, Abbie was a soloist with the Minot Symphony Orchestra as the winner of their 2014 MSO Concerto Competition. Naze has also been accepted to perform and study cello at numerous music festivals across the country, including the Catskill High Peaks Festival in New York led by Yehuda Hanani, and the Pierre Monteux Festival Orchestra in Hancock, Maine.
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- Doctoral Student in Voice Performanc
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- DMA Student in Piano Performanc
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Alex Fang is dedicated to sharing music and creating personal connections with his audience members, collaborators, and students. He is currently pursuing his doctorate under the guidance of Craig Sheppard at the University of Washington, where he is also a Teaching Assistant for the Modern Music Ensemble, directed by Cristina Valdés. He received his masters from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Sharon Mann and Yoshikazu Nagai, and his bachelors from Northwestern University under Alan Chow and James Giles, where he additionally completed a combined bachelors/masters in computer science. His studies have included pedagogy training under Marcia Bosits and Iris Hsu Shiotsuki. Notable performances include Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra as the 2022 winner of the piano concerto competition, chamber performances alongside faculty members at Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival in Leavenworth, and a 2023 world premiere of a double harpsichord concerto with Harmonia.
Alex's approach to music and teaching offers a holistic combination of the mind and the heart. Through music, he strives to inspire a lifelong joy in learning and respect for the arts. He enjoys helping students analyze and understand the musical language in order to develop their independence and artistic individuality. Since 2015, he has engaged with a wide range of students through private teaching as well as after-school programs, including Bridge to Arts and Music at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco and Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education at Northwestern University. Locally, Alex is active as a soloist, orchestral keyboardist, teacher at Cascade Piano Studio, and collaborative pianist for the Seattle Jewish Chorale. In his free time, Alex enjoys playing badminton and Tetris, and exploring hikes and food in the Seattle area.
Alexander Treviño comes to Old Dominion University from Seattle, Washington. While at the University of Washington, Treviño served as assistant director of the Husky Marching Band and Husky Basketball Bands from 2004 to 2007. Professor Treviño also directed the Husky Volleyball Band in 2005, which accompanied the Washington Volleyball Team to the NCAA Finals in San Antonio, Texas where the Huskies earned a National Championship victory over Nebraska. Treviño also served as a graduate teaching assistant teaching music courses for the University Of Washington School Of Music, as well as teaching undergraduate music education majors in instrumental classroom methods and rehearsal conducting. He also conducted the University Symphonic Band with J. Brad McDavid. Treviño has recently completed doctoral coursework for the PhD. in Music Education from the University of Washington, where he studied with Steven Morrison, Steven Demorest, Patricia Campbell, and Tim Salzman. Prior to his time at The University of Washington, Professor Treviño worked as a graduate assistant with the University of Tennessee "Pride of the Southland" Marching Band. Serving from 2002 through 2004, he assisted in the teaching of marching drill and music performance, and in 2004 introduced a maneuver called "The Zipper-T," a maneuver that has since become a highlight of the Tennessee Pregame show. In addition to his work with the marching band, Professor Treviño also directed the Tennessee Lady Volunteer Basketball Band. While at Tennessee, Treviño performed as a member of the University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble, which performed at Carnegie Hall in 2003. He studied conducting with Gary Sousa and guest conducted university ensembles including the Wind Ensemble. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2004 with a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting. Professor Treviño holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Studies with an Emphasis in Music Education from the University of Texas, which he earned in 1995. While attending Texas, Treviño was a performing member of the University of Texas Longhorn Band and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble.
Alexandra Picard is emerging as one of the most exciting sopranos in the Northwest. She has sung Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote for Rogue Opera, for the New Opera Festival in Rome, and for Spokane Opera. She has performed Musetta in La Bohème in the Kammersaal in Graz, Austria, for Skagit Opera, and for the Russian Opera Centre; Olympia in Les Contes d'Hoffmann for Bellevue Opera, Arminda in La Finta Giardiniera, and Gerhilde in Die Walkure with Hawaii Opera Theater.
In concert Alexandra has enjoyed performances of Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass, Strauss' Four Last Songs, and Haydn's The Creation with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and she originated the role of the Ghost of Butterfly in the jazz opera Welcome to the Voice for the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York with Elvis Costello on Broadway. She sang Orff's Carmina Burana to great acclaim, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Faure's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, as well as a gala concert for the Embassy of the United States in Paris, France. Upcoming projects include Lucia di Lammermoor excerpts with the University of Washington Orchestra, Brahms' Requiem with Seattle ProMusica and Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and a season finale concert and release of their lullaby CD "Dream Songs" with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, available June 1st on Amazon.
Alexandra earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and received her Masters in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory. She is a Doctoral candidate in Vocal Performance at the University of Washington.
Alisa Sargsyan is a Graduate Student in Music Composition at the University of Washington. She holds M.M. Degrees with honors from the Yerevan State Conservatory of Music in the areas of Composition and Piano Performance.
At the age of ten, Alisa won the Grand Prix at the Moscow Assembly of Arts International Composers Competition. In the following years she became a laureate of the Amadeus Belgian-Armenian Competition (First Prize) and the Benjamin Britten National Competition (Third prize). Alisa was chosen as a fellowship student for the ArtsLink and the Gulliver's Connect Arts Programs, and as an interim student at the Washington Performing Arts Society. She is also a member of the Donne in Musica International Cultural Foundation and the Armenian Musical Assembly NGO.
Alisa has been constantly active as a composer, pianist, accompanist and musicologist. Her music has been performed in the USA, UK, Finland, Netherlands, Russia, Armenia and Georgia. In 2012 Alisa Sargsyan, along with violinist Gayane Grigoryan, founded the GALA Violin and Piano Duo, performing both classical and modern music. Recent performances include recitals and concerts on stages such as Schneebeck Concert Hall at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma) and Brechemin Auditorium at the University of Washington (Seattle). GALA Duo's first CD "ARMENIA! Timeless Musical Journey" was released in March 2014.
Alonso Brizuela is pursuing an Masters of Music in Choral Conducting at the University of Washington. Since his graduation from Pacific Lutheran University in 2014 (BME), Alonso taught choir and guitar for two years at Ridgeline Middle School in Yelm, WA, and is currently in his second year conducting the Men's Choir with Tacoma Youth Chorus in Tacoma, WA.
Mr. Brizuela is an active member of the choral community in the Tacoma area singing in PLU's Choral Union, and a member of local ACDA, WMEA, and NAfME chapters.
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- DMA Student in Piano Performanc
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- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Composition
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- Artist - in - Residence, Opera Workshop
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- Visiting Lecturer, Music Education
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- Graduate Student, Jazz Studies
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- Program Support Supervisor, Brechemin Auditorium Manager, Time Scheduling
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- Artist in Residence, Clarinet
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- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting Assistant Conductor, University Choral
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- Associate Professor, American Indian Studies Adjunct Associate Professor, Music History
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- Public Services Technician, UW Libraries
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- Graduate Student, Choral Conducting
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- Director of Choral Activities Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Professor
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- DMA Student, Choral Conducting
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- Chairman, Percussion Studies Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Associate Professor
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- Lecturer, Composition, Music Theory
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- Director of Husky Marching Band
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- Advisor
- Assistant Director
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- Artist in Residence, Saxophon
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- Arts and Humanities Librarian
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- Public Services Technician, UW Libraries
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- Artist in Residence, Voic
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- DMA Student, Woodwind Performanc
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- Doctoral Student in Voice Performanc
- Doctoral Student in Voice Performance
- Graduate Student
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- Doctoral Student in Piano Performanc
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- Doctoral Student in Violin Performanc
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- Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professor Chair, UW Danc
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- Artist in Residence, Chamber Music Strings Chamber Music Coordinator
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- Senior Computing Specialist
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- Chairman, Keyboard Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professor, Piano
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- Artist in Residence, Piano Director, Modern Music Ensembl
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- Artist in Residence Director, Baroque Ensembl
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- Chairman and Professor, Jazz Studies Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts
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- Director, UW Symphony Chair, Orchestral Conducting Senior Artist in Residenc
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting
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- Chairman, Brass Artist in Residence, Trumpet
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- Graduate Student, Wind Conducting Conductor, Concert Band
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- DMA Student, Instrumental Conducting
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- Director of Marketing and Publicity
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- Artist in Residence, Tuba
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- Chairman Woodwinds Associate Professor, Flute
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- Concert Production and Sound Manager
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- Chairman, Ethnomusicology Professor
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- Arts and Humanities Librarian
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- Artist in Residence, Trombon
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting
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- Assistant to the Director
- School of Music Director
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- Graduate Student in Piano Performanc
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting
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- DMA Student in Piano Performanc
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- Graduate Student in Orchestral Conducting
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting
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- Doctoral Student in Voice Performanc
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- DMA Student, Wind Conducting
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- Divisional Dean of the Arts, Professor, Ethnomusicology
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- Artist in Residence, Trombon
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- Director of Choral Activities Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Professor
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- Chairman, Voice / Choral Professor, Choral Conducting Music Faculty Endowed Fund for Excellenc
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- Chairman, Brass Artist in Residence, Trumpet
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- Doctoral Student in Flute Performance
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- Doctoral Student in Violin Performanc
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- Student Assistant, Main Office
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- Associate Professor, Voic
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- Graduate Student, Choral Conducting
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- DMA Student in Piano Performanc
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- Chairman, Composition Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor
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- Chairman, Composition Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor
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- DMA Student in Piano Performanc
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- DMA Student in Piano Performanc
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- Chairman, Music Education Lecturer Director, Music Teacher Preparation
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- Lecturer, Ethnomusicology
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- Lecturer, Composition, Music Theory
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- Director of Marketing and Publicity
- for Marketing and Events Inquiries
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- Artist in Residence, Tuba
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- Artist in Residence, Horn
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- Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology
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- Assistant to the Director
- Graduate Student
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- Artist in Residence, Double Bass
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- Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early
Juliana Cantarelli Vita is an Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Music Education at the University of Hartford's Hartt School. She completed a PhD in Music Education with an emphasis in Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington, with extensive training in the Schulwerk (and some in Kodály Pedagogy), while also giving attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Within that work, she has actively been a part of the Smithsonian Folkways World Music Pedagogy Course both at West Virginia University and at the University of Washington. Professor Cantarelli Vita has been a guest speaker at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Augustana College, Georgia State University, Florida International University, Gonzaga University, Seattle Pacific University, and Federal University of Pernambuco.
Blending her interests in music education and ethnomusicology, she has presented papers and given clinics at several national and international conferences in North America, South America, and Europe. As a researcher, she has published papers in The Orff Echo (Winter 2017 and Fall 2020), Perspectives: Journal of the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association (2018), and the Journal of Folklore and Education (2020), with a chapter on children's communities of practice in the maracatu de baque virado tradition on the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Early Learning and Development. In 2020, she joined The Orff Echo editorial board.
She has received research grants from the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (for the work on collective song-writing at the Yakama Nation Tribal School) and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (for the work with repatriated recordings). In 2020 she received the Elizabeth May (Slater) Award from the Society for Ethnomusicology for her paper on the topic of archived field recordings put in action by elementary school students.
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- Graduate Student
- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting Assistant Conductor, University Choral
- Student Degree Recital
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- Graduate Student in Piano Performanc
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- Interim Music and Arts Librarian
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- Graduate Conductor, University Singers, Glee Club
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- Director of Collaborative Piano Artist in Residenc
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- Lecturer, Composition Alumnus
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- Visiting Lecturer, Music Education
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting
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- Assistant Director for Undergraduate Advising
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- DMA Student, Woodwind Performanc
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- Artist in Residence, Chamber Music Strings Chamber Music Coordinator
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- Doctoral Student in Voice Performanc
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- Graduate Conductor, University Chorale, University Singers
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- Doctoral Student in Flute Performance
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- Artist in Residence, Clarinet
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- Master 's Student in Voice Performance
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- Graduate Student in Ethnomusicology, Teaching Assistant
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- Graduate Conductor, Glee Club Graduate Student, Choral Conducting
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- Adviser
- Assistant Teaching Professor, Music History
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- Graduate Student in Percussion Performanc
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- Graduate Conductor, University Chorale, University Singers
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- Assistant Director for Undergraduate Advising
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- Program Support Supervisor, Brechemin Auditorium Manager, Time Scheduling
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- Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professor, Piano
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- Director of Husky Marching Band
- Master 's Student in Voice Performance
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- DMA Student, Choral Conducting
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- Chairman, Strings Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Professor Professor, Viola
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- Graduate Student in Percussion Studies
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- Artist in Residence, Saxophon
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- DMA Student, Choral Conducting
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- Artist in Residence, Guitar
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- Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professor, Piano
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- Interim Music and Arts Librarian
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- Lecturer, Ethnomusicology
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- Professor, School of Law Adjunct Professor, Music History
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- Graduate Student in Piano Performanc
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- Concert Production and Sound Manager
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting
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- Artist in Residence, Guitar
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- Emeritus Professor, Music Education Ethnomusicology
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- Artist in Residence, Bassoon
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- Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology
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- Artist in Residence Director of UW Gospel Choir
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- Graduate Student in Ethnomusicology, Teaching Assistant
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- Artist in Residence, Organ Studies Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow
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- Assistant Professor, Violin
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- DMA Student in Woodwind Performance, Flut
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- Artist in Residence, Bassoon
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- DMA Student in Woodwind Performance, Flut
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- Director of Collaborative Piano Artist in Residenc
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- Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professor, Piano
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- Assistant Teaching Professor, Music History
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- DMA Student, Wind Conducting
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- Artist - in - Residence, Opera Workshop
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- Artist in Residence, Cello
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- Graduate Student in Composition
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- Chairman, Music History, Adelaide D. Cole Endowed Professor
Ryan Carraher (b.1993) is an award-winning contemporary/experimental composer, jazz guitarist, improviser, studio musician, producer and educator based in Seattle, WA. His recent compositions experiment with the construction of deliberate psychophysical impossibilities; tasks which physically cannot be perceived and "faithfully" executed. These situations can inspire a break down between score/sounding-result, perceptual overwhelm (both in the performer and the auditor), breakdown of learned habits, entranced lull, superfluity, stunted spectacle and multi-centric, intermodal sensory dissonances.
He holds a degree in guitar performance from Berklee College of Music (Summa Cum Laude) where he was awarded the Berklee Guitar Department Achievement Award and a MA in Composition from Tufts University. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at University of Washington.
As a contemporary composer, he has been named the Eastern division winner and national finalist of the MTNA composition competition for both the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. His work has also received a merit award from the Tribeca composition competition, selection as national finalist in the Flute New Music Consortium Composition Competition and been workshopped by members of Ensemble Intercontemporain [MANIFESTE (2018) IRCAM (Paris-Fr.)]. He has had U.S/International premieres/commissions from ECCE Ensemble (Etchings Festival-Auvillar, Fr.), Ensemble x.y, Transient Canvas, Iwona Glinka, Orlando Cela, Erin Rogers (New Music on the Point), POPEBAMA, Peridot Duo, Rose Hegele, Philipp Stäudlin, Anna Griffis, Emmanuel Feldman, Mariel Roberts (Wet Ink/Mivos Quartet), Giorgos Panagiotidis (VIPA), John McDonald and more.
He has studied composition with Alla Cohen, John McDonald, Stratis Minakakis, Stefano Gervasoni, Erin Gee, Philippe Hurel and John Aylward.
As a jazz composer/guitarist, Ryan has released numerous albums to critical acclaim. His 2016 debut release Vocturnal was named to the All About Jazz "Best of 2016 list". In 2018, he released his sophomore record Obscure Sorrows.
"Colors," he says to the screen's black lattice - Ryan Carraher by Ryan Carraher
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- Graduate Student in Orchestral Conducting
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- Assistant Director for Admissions, Recruitment, & Community Outreach Alumnus, MM, Orchestral Conducting
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- Chairman, Wind Ensemble Conducting Professor
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- Student Assistant, Main Office
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- Artist in Residence, Cello
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- Affiliate Professor, Music Education
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- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology
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- Adviser
- Chairman, Ethnomusicology Professor
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- DMA Student, Instrumental Conducting
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- Artist in Residence, Voic
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- Chairman, Keyboard Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professor, Piano
Simon Hill is a conductor and an enlivener of congregational song. Simon is the Director of Music at Bear Creek United Methodist and also leads the
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- Divisional Dean of the Arts, Professor, Ethnomusicology
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- Graduate Student in Piano Performanc
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- Artist in Residence, Organ Studies Paul B. Fritts Faculty Fellow
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- Adviser
- Chairman, Music History, Adelaide D. Cole Endowed Professor
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- Artist in Residence, Bass
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- Graduate Student, Wind Conducting Conductor, Concert Band
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- Graduate Student in Percussion Performanc
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- DMA Student, Choral Conducting
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- Artist in Residence Director, Baroque Ensembl
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- Associate Professor, Voic
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- Chairman, Wind Ensemble Conducting Professor
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- Senior Computing Specialist
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- Artist in Residence, Horn
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- Graduate Conductor, University Singers, Glee Club
- Graduate Student
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- Artist in Residence, Piano Director, Modern Music Ensembl
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- Artist in Residence, Harp
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- Affiliate Assistant Professor Curator, Ethnomusicology Archives
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- Assistant Director for Admissions, Recruitment, & Community Outreach Alumnus, MM, Orchestral Conducting
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- Chairman and Professor, Jazz Studies Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Chair in the Arts
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- Graduate Student in Percussion Studies
Washington, Simon was the Interim Director of the Seminary Singers of Perkins School of
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- Chairman, Strings Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Professor Professor, Viola
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- Chairman, Percussion Studies Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Associate Professor
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- Graduate Student in Choral Conducting
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- Graduate Student, Jazz Studies
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- Doctoral Student in Piano Performanc
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- Chairman, Voice / Choral Professor, Choral Conducting Music Faculty Endowed Fund for Excellenc
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- Lecturer, Composition Alumnus
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- Graduate Student in Composition
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- Affiliate Professor, Ethnomusicology