Music school offers an orchestra of sounds

Martin Neary, organ
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 10:30 a.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Free admission
Internationally-acclaimed organist Martin Neary will give a free recital and master class from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Beall Hall. Neary's recital will open with selections performed with UO faculty oboist Amy Goeser Kolb. The organ master class will follow, featuring UO organ students of Barbara Baird working with Neary.

Dance Africa
Thursday, Jan. 22 to Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. (also at 2 p.m. on Saturday)
Dougherty Dance Theatre, Gerlinger Annex
$10 general admission; $5 students and seniors
Dance Africa, the UO Department of Dance's resident African dance ensemble, will present a concert with special guests Mondjou and Salif Koné, a sister-brother team born into the Griot tradition of West Africa. The Griots are world renowned for their unique ability to record events carefully and accurately, using dance, music and song. On campus to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, the duo will teach a series of dance and drum classes as well as set a new piece of repertory on the Dance Africa company.

Oregon Jazz Festival
Friday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Lane Community College Performance Hall
$10 general admission; $7 students
The UO's Oregon Jazz Ensemble and Lane Jazz Ensemble will perform with festival clinicians Dan Gailey, saxophone; Vern Sielert, trumpet; Dave Glenn, trombone; and Oregon Jazz Festival featured guest artist Don Braden on tenor sax.

Oregon Jazz Festival
Saturday, Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Lane Community College Performance Hall
$18 general admission; $12 students
Oregon Jazz Festival featured guest artist Don Braden, tenor sax, joins the Oregon Jazz Festival Trio: Randy Porter on piano, Dave Captein on bass and Gary Hobbs on drums. Tickets are available at the door one hour before the concert. Braden has worked, recorded and performed with jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, the Mingus Big Band, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars and the Carnegie Hall Jazz band.

World Music Series: Tyva Kyzy
Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$12 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Tyva Kyzy, an all-female group of throat-singers and folk musicians from the Tuva Republic in Central Asia, is the first and only women's group that performs all styles of Tuvan throat-singing. This form of multiple-tone harmonic singing has been practiced primarily by men and is generally prohibited for women. These women have also mastered a wide range of traditional folk instruments such as igil (horse-head fiddle), cha-khomus (large-mouth harp) and their signature instrument, chadagan (hammered dulcimer).

Chamber Music@Beall: The Borodin String Quartet
Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Reserved seats range from $16 to $33 from the Hult Center (541-682-5000) or the EMU (541-346-4363)
The UO Chamber Music@Beall Series continues its 41st season with the award-winning Borodin String Quartet, performing Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major, "Razumovsky"; Borodin's String Quartet No. 1 in A Major; and Vissarion Shebalin's String Quartet No. 5, "The Slavonian." Professor Stephen Rodgers will give a free "Musical Insights" talk at 2 p.m.

For more than 60 years, the Borodin Quartet has been celebrated for its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. The Borodin Quartet's particular affinity with Russian repertoire was stimulated by a close relationship with Shostakovich, who personally supervised its study of each of his quartets.

Faculty Artist Series: Molly Barth, flute
Thursday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Faculty flutist Molly Barth will be joined by colleagues in a program that includes music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Theobald Boehm and Sigfrid Karg-Elert. Barth is an active solo, chamber and orchestral musician, specializing in the music of today. As a founding member of the new music sextet Eighth Blackbird, Barth toured extensively throughout the world, recorded four CDs with Cedille Record, and was granted the 2000 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, first prize at the 1998 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and the 1998, 2000 and 2002 CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming.

The Frohnmayer Music Building and Beall Concert Hall are located at 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets are available at the door, unless otherwise noted.

For more information on the School of Music and Dance, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the university music school weekdays, 541-346-5678, or visit music.uoregon.edu.