First Fridays Series - Grace Lutheran Church
Music by Jean Matitia, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, and Johannes Brahms
with Elizabeth Vaughan, piano
The Lawrence Conservatory’s New Music Series presents Spectral Canvas, an evening of bold, boundary-crossing music by Donnacha Dennehy and Andy Akiho.
The program features Dennehy’s Limina, a riveting piano concerto performed by Lawrence faculty pianist Michael Mizrahi. In Limina, Dennehy explores thresholds between registers, textures, and energies, creating music that is at once luminous, visceral, and deeply expressive.
Paired with Dennehy’s work is Akiho’s Copper Canvas, a dazzling composition alive with intricate grooves, metallic shimmer, and the kinetic drive that has made Akiho one of today’s most in-demand composers.
Hailed by critics worldwide, Dennehy and Akiho represent two of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music. Together, their works invite listeners to step into soundscapes that shimmer, pulse, and radiate with color and intensity.
Robert Honstein - Echolocate
Dreams in the Dusk by David Biedenbender
Ceon Rumphs, conductor
Lawrence University Wind Ensemble
Friday Musicales
First Unitarian Society of Madison
Music by Felix Mendelssohn, Fernande Decruck, Carlos Simon, Joel Love, and Nikolai Kapustin
With Casey Dierlam Tse, piano
Joanne Metcalf - The Vast Unknowable
Reena Esmail - Jhula-Jhule
Lawrence Chamber Players
William Walton Façade
Kathy Privatt, narrator; Erin Lesser, flute; Andy Hudson, clarinet; Joseph Connor, alto saxophone; Nadje Noordhuis, trumpet; Kivie Cahn-Lipman, cello; Jean Carlo Ureña Gonzalez, percussion; Andy Mast, conductor.
Jason Turbin - Morse Code for reed quintet
Lawrence Memorial Chapel
with Elizabeth Vaughan, piano
Music by Jean Matitia, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, and Johannes Brahms.
Artist Faculty Performances:
Monday, July 21 Gibson Music Hall
Friday, July 25 Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Thursday, July 31 Lawrence Memorial Chapel
Taplin Auditiorium
Princeton University
World Premiere of Forbidden Oracles by Elijah Daniel Smith
~Nois and Sō Percussion
Holtschneider Performance Center, Brennan Recital Hall, Chicago, IL.
Music by Caroline Shaw, Viet Cuong, Elijah Daniel Smith, and two world premieres by ~Nois Young Creator Fellows.
Guest Recital at Lawrence University
Music by Augusta Read Thomas, Caroline Shaw, Viet Cuong, Elijah Daniel Smith, and Travis Laplante
First Fridays Series - Grace Lutheran Church
Music by Salvatore Sciarrino, David Serkin Ludwig, and Jean Rivier
Joe Connor, soprano saxophone
Manny Vásquez-Ramírez, alto saxophone
Matt Koester, tenor saxophone
Drew Whiting, baritone saxophone
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Chad Goodman, conductor
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
Chad Goodman, conductor
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances
Yaniv Attar, conductor
