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EAU CLAIRE - The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire music and theatre arts department will present the following musical performances the week beginning Monday, April 7. All events are free and open to the public.

Monday, April 7:

• Sopranos, Amanda DePons, New Berlin, and Kendra Sampson, Cottage Grove, Minn. will present a joint student recital at 5 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The senior comprehensive music majors will begin the program with Mozart's "To Romeo" from "The Marriage of Figaro." The performance also will include Sampson singing "Fair Robin I Love" by Kirke Mechem from "Tartuffe" and DePons singing "The Haughty Snail King" by Jake Heggie from "Songs to the Moon." DePons and Sampson will conclude the recital with Mozart's "I Will Choose the Handsome Dark One" from "Cosi fan tutte." Senior Phillip Dorn, Clintonville, and sophomore Stacie Olson, Neenah, will accompany DePons and Sampson on piano.

Tuesday, April 8:

• Kelli Hanson, Duluth, Minn., on bassoon, and Jill Mary Johnson, Eau Claire, on oboe, will present a joint student recital at 5 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The senior comprehensive music majors will begin the program with "Three Little Pieces for Oboe and Bassoon" by Gordon Jacob. The performance also will include Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Francis Poulenc; "Romance for Bassoon" by Edward Elgar; and Sonata in A minor for Oboe, by George Phillip Telemann. Senior Matthew Steinbron, Eagan, Minn., on piano and harpsichord, and Judy Lies, on piano, will accompany Hanson and Johnson. Sophomore Amy Van Maldegiam, Slinger, on bassoon, will assist them.

Wednesday, April 9:

• Joseph Hartson, Oconomowoc, on trombone, and Tom Krochock, Minneapolis, Minn., on trumpet, will present a joint student recital at 5 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Hartson and Krochock are senior comprehensive music majors. Krochock will begin the performance with "Fantasy for B flat trumpet" by Malcolm Arnold and continue with "Concerto" by Alexander Arutunian and "Intrada" by Otto Ketting. Hartson will perform Andante et Allegro by J.E. Barat, Manipulations for Solo Trombone by Allen Molineaux and "Ballade pour Trombone et Piano" by Frank Martin. Senior Kristin Yost, Sisseton, S.D. will accompany Hartson and Krochock on piano and they will be assisted by junior Liam Robinson, Green Bay, on piano, sophomore Jeremy Boettcher, Eau Claire, on bass, and senior David Whitman, Menomonie, on drums.

Thursday, April 10:

• Universität Brass Quintet will present a recital at 5 p.m. in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The ensemble consists of senior Jake Morris, Oconomowoc, on trumpet; senior Greg Van Sickle, Pigeon Falls, on trumpet; community member Kelly Heidel on french horn; senior Nate Medsker, Eau Claire, on trombone; and junior Mark McGinnis, Maplewood, Minn., on tuba. The program will include "Grand March" from "Aida," composed by Giuseppe Verdi and arranged by Walter H. Barnes; "Canzon Cornetto" by Samuel Scheidt; and Four Irish Folk songs for Brass Quintet by Keith Snell.
• Christopher Raddatz, on clarinet, Nicholas Munagian, on viola, and Phillip Dorn, on piano, will present a joint student recital at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. Raddatz is a junior comprehensive music major from Wisconsin Rapids; Munagian is a junior comprehensive music major from Wisconsin Rapids; and Dorn is a senior accounting and music major from Clintonville. The ensemble will begin the performance with Trio VII, K. 498 by Mozart. The performance also will include "Marchenbilder," Op. 132 by Robert Schumann and "Kleines Konzert" by Alfred Uhl.

Sunday, April 13:

• Ivar Lunde, professor of music, will present a faculty composition recital at 7:30 p.m. in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center.

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Judy Berthiaume, Director
UW-Eau Claire News Bureau
Schofield 201
(715) 836-4741
newsbur@uwec.edu

Updated: March 31, 2003