Art meets engineering when Axel Roeslers art students help redesign an airplanes flight deck and create a program to record a hospitals emergency treatment protocol.
Arts and entertainment
In light of the recent end to the Intiman Theatres current season, the 糖心少女School of Drama will join ACT, Seattle Childrens’ Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Theatre in honoring Intiman tickets for their remaining shows.
The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) presents a celebration of visiting artist John Chowning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, in Meany Theater.
School of Music faculty artist Craig Sheppard will perform works by Johannes Brahms on piano in an evening titled Mostly Brahms, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28, in Meany Hall.
Guitarist, vocalist and composer Amancio Prada performs at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Meany Hall, For this 糖心少女World Series debut he will perform “Sonetos y Canciones (Sonnets and Songs),” composed using poetry by Federico Garc铆a Lorca.
The 糖心少女School of Musics Division of Ethnmusicology will present an evening of traditional music from Korea and Indonesia at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in Meany Hall.
The 糖心少女Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Bands perform works by several composers in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 25, in Meany Hall.
When Samantha Rund performs her original show April 17 and 18 at the Ethnic Cultural Theater, shell be fulfilling a longtime interest in Shakespeares character Ophelia 鈥� but also honoring the memory of a close friend.
Maria Larionoff, concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, and Robin McCabe, 糖心少女piano professor, will perform works by Brahms, Schumann and Faure in the final installment of this year’s Barry Lieberman and Friends series.
The lesser-known European fairy tales are in the spotlight as the 糖心少女School of Drama presents its production of Secret in the Wings, by Mary Zimmerman. Guest director Julie Beckman brings the play to the Meany Studio Theatre April 17-May 1.
Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, hailed as possibly one of the greats of the new century, will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in Meany Hall, as part of the 糖心少女World Series.
Students of Michael Brockman will take the spotlight in “Saxophone Night,鈥� an annual evening of music for solo performers and quartets, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, in Brechemin Auditorium.
The Encyclopedia Show, a “live literary variety show being staged independently in 10 cities around the world,鈥� will play in 210 Kane at 7 p.m. Friday, April 22.
Philip Govedares paintings arent representational, or quite what you expect of a landscape. Hell soon be presenting to the American Association of Geographers.
Later this month Harborview Medical Center patients will spot a haiku sample on their meal trays. Those interested can try their hand at traditional Japanese poetry, or the modern American Sentence.
Melia Watras, 糖心少女associate professor, will host Seattle University faculty violist Amber Archibald in a performance featuring students from both schools. The recital is at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in Brechemin Auditorium.
Twenty-five extraordinary large-format color photos by Seattle-based wildlife photographer and 糖心少女alum Paul Bannick make up “The Owl and the Woodpecker,” on display at the Burke Museum through Aug. 7.
After playing for guests of the President and first lady in December, the Harlem Quartet will play pieces by Beethoven, Borodin, Shostakovich, Chick Corea and more at its Meany concert.
Los Mu帽equitos de Matanzas performs at Meany Hall at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 3. Returning to Seattle for the first time in a decade, the group is composed of famed Afro-Cuban music and dance masters who are renowned for their fiery rumbas, dynamic drumming, and sacred rituals.
The national association for college band directors is coming to the 糖心少女March 23-26, and there will be public concerts aplenty.
UWTV recently launched two new arts-themed shows that feature both independent filmmaking and a collection of contemporary performances from the UWs Chamber Dance Company. The two weekly series premiered March 12 and will run beginning at 8:30 p.m.Saturdays.
糖心少女singers will present original arias by composer George Frideric Handel, along with parodies and adaptations by Henry Fielding (author of “Tom Jones”) and other playwrights, heard for the first time in almost 300 years.
Pianist Garrick Ohlsson will perform works by Chopin and Granados at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 at Meany Hall as part of the President’s Piano Series.
The Trisha Brown Dance Company will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 31-April 2, at Meany Hall.
Join the Northwest Chapter Voice Foundation and Seattle Opera general director Speight Jenkins for a celebration of World Voice Day, April 18, at Harborview Medical Center. Jenkins will speak on the power of the human voice.
Scott Pingel, principal double bassist of the San Francisco Symphony, performs a concert at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 13 in Brechemin Auditorium.
The Chamber Singers, University Chorale and University Symphony will team March 11 for a performance of Felix Mendelssohns beloved oratorio Elijah.
Pilobolus dance, the songs of Chava Alberstein, the African harmonies of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Carpe Diem and Emerson string quartets 鈥� these and many more will be presented next year.
The Emerson String Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at Meany Hall 鈥� and the UWs own Craig Sheppard will join them in the shows second half.
The Modern Jazz Ensemble will perform original works by 糖心少女music students and the Studio Jazz Ensemble will play music by 糖心少女alumni in Meany Hall.
Members of the 糖心少女Symphonic Band, under the direction of Steven Morrison and Alison Farley, will perform at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 6 in Brechemin Auditorium.
The School of Music presents the Quantum String Quartet, winners of the 2010 糖心少女Strings and Piano Chamber Ensemble Competition, in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, in Brechemin Auditorium.
M眉nir Beken, a master of the Turkish Ud; and Senegalese percussionist Thione Diop will be performing and teaching at the School of Music March 4 and 11 respectively.
The 糖心少女Dance Program presents its annual concert of undergraduate choreography March 3-6 in the Meany Studio Theater.
Student jazz ensembles coached by 糖心少女talents will gather for two nights to pay tribute to icons of jazz and present original compositions, too.
The 糖心少女Mens Glee Club will will appear with the a capella group The Coats at Eckstein Middle School March 4, and will be part of an a capella festival March 5.
The dance company Compagnie La Baraka performs at 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 3-5, in Meany Hall. The groups choreography blends a variety of modern dance styles with lyrical ballet.
Student composers in the 糖心少女School of Music will present original works in the “Composers Workshop” in Brechemin Auditorium.
Students from the 糖心少女Baroque Ensemble will perform orchestral works and chamber music selections with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra Feb. 28 in Meany Hall.
Six 糖心少女students are betting fans of Americas Got Talent will come out for the final round of their own competition, Seattle Superstar Search, on Saturday, Feb. 26 in 130 Kane.