NEWS RELEASE

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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, Sept. 8. All events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, Sept. 10:

• UW-Eau Claire alumnus Paul Budde will present a tuba recital at 7:30 p.m. in Phillips Recital Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. A teacher and performer, Budde has appeared as a solo artist and with chamber ensembles such as the Clearwater Brass Quintet, Bellwether Brass Quintet, The Pistons (Budde’s award-winning collegiate Tuba Quartet) and Smashing Tubas, as well as with large group ensembles such as the Saint Paul Civic Symphony and the Lake Wobegon Brass Band. The program will begin with Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat BWV 1031 by J.S. Bach and also will feature compositions by Alexey Lebedev, Bruce Broughton, Anthony Plog and Johannes Brahms. The recital will conclude with “The Dancing King” by Jesse Ayers. Pianist Akiko Hosaki will provide accompaniment. Hosaki has appeared throughout Japan, the United States, Barbados, Taiwan and Europe as a soloist and collaborator with singers, instrumentalists and conductors and is co-founder of the Ashgrove Ensemble.

Sunday, Sept. 14:

• Donald Patterson, professor of music, will present a faculty piano recital at 5 p.m. in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The program will begin with Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor, Op. 164 (D. 547), followed by three pieces by Benjamin Louis-Paul Godard, including “Le Cavalier Fantastique (Etude Artistique), Op. 42 # 1.” Patterson also will perform John Cage’s “Bachanale” and Sonate, Op. 95 (1961) by Aram Khachaturian.

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

Updated: August 28, 2003