Chamber Music Series: Osman Kivrak and Friends
February 2 at 8:00 p.m.

Featuring members of the American University music faculty:
Osman Kivrak, viola
Teri Lazar, violin
Matthew Van Hoose, piano

PROGRAM:
Sonata for Viola and Piano - Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979)
Suite for Viola and Piano - Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
From 44 Duos for Two Violins - Béla Bartók (1881–1945), arr. Osman Kivrak
Sadness
Pizzicato
Ruthenian Dance
Three Anatolian Dances (2001) - Osman Kivrak (1954
Tamzara
Havuz
Daldalan
Uzun Hava (1997) - Osman Kivrak
Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2 - Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

Hamlet
February 7, 8:00 p.m. - Gen Ed Night
February 8-10, 8:00 p.m.
February 14, 10:30 a.m. - High School Matinee
February 16, 8:00 p.m.
February 17. 8:00 p.m.
February 20, 10:30 a.m. - High School Matinee
February 22 at 8:00 p.m.
February 24 at 2:00 p.m.

The most famous play in the English language, Shakespeare’s tale explores the ambiguities of revenge, justice, and truth. This production will also challenge expectations and assumptions of gender.

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed By Karl Kippola

@ Location: Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre

I Hate Hamlet
February 13 at 8:00 p.m. - Gen Ed Night
February 14, 15 at 8:00 p.m.
February 17 at 2:00 p.m.
February 21, 23 and 24 at 8:00 p.m.

A TV star reluctantly agrees to play Hamlet in New York's Shakespeare in the Park. The ghost of Barrymore prepares him to play the role of a lifetime in this hilarious comedy by the writer of such films as The Stepford Wives, Addams Family Values, and In and Out.

Written by Paul Rudnick
Directed by Carl, Menninger

@ Location: Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre

American University Chamber Singers
Sound the Trumpets: Music for a Royal Occasion
Saturday, February 24 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 25 at 3:00 p.m.

Join us for a grand concert for chamber chorus, soloists, and baroque ensemble of occasional music from London’s Baroque era of Purcell and Handel. The program will include Purcell’s most beloved Come Ye Sons of Art (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary, 1694) and his Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary composed later that same year, Handel’s coronation anthem Let thy hand be strengthened (for George II, 1727), and the verse anthem As pants the hart (composed in 1712 for the Duke of Chandos and reworked later for the Royal Chapel).

Daniel Abraham, conductor

@ Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center , Abramson Family Recital Hall

American University Symphony Orchestra
Friday, March 2 at 8:00 p.m. - Open Rehearsal
Saturday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 4 at 3:00 p.m.

An international program with a Russian twist featuring guest conductor Anna Binneweg and AU symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition winners Joiah Lambert, violin, and Laura Petravage, mezzo-soprano. This program features Tchaikvsky's Symphony No. 5, Barber's Violin Concerto (first movement), and arias from Mozart's La clemenza do Tito and Massenet's Werther.

Anna Binneweg, guest conductor

@ Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center , Abramson Family Recital Hall

Dance Choreolab
Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 7 & Thursday, March 8 at 8:00 p.m.

Preview of works by choreographers Vladimir Andelov, Maurice Johnson, Rob Esposito, and Lora Ruttan.

@ Tenley Chapel Dance Studio

Elsewhere in Elsinore
Tuesday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 28 at 10:30 a.m.
Thursday, March 29 & Friday, March 30 at 8:00 p.m
Saturday, March 31 at 2:00 p.m.

What are the women of Elsinore Castle doing while Hamlet plots revenge? Elsewhere In Elsinore, a new play by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, explores motives for Ophelia and Gertrude, as it introduces is to other important inhabitants of the castle. Shakespeare's most famous play takes on new dimensons as we meet the ladies-in-waiting, seamstresses, washerwomen, maids, as well as wives and girlfriends of the play's male characters.

Written and directed by Caleen Sinnette Jennings

@ Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center , Studio Theatre

AU Jazz Ensemble Concert:
La Noche Caliente - A Hot Night for Jazz
Saturday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 1 at 3:00 p.m.

Featuring the AU Jazz Ensemble and the George Washington University's Latin Jazz Ensemble. Experience some hot jazz that is sure to burn away the winter blues and warm you up for spring,

Directed by William Smith

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

Worlds in Motion
American University Dance
Friday, April 13, 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 14, 8:00 p.m.

New choreography by dance faculty and Artist-in-Residence Vladimir Angelov.

@ Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre

AU Chamber Singers
Shakespeare in Song: Choral Settings of the Bard
Saturday, April 14, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 15, 3:00 p.m.

Join the AU Chamber Singers in exploring music inspired by the words of William Shakespeare, one of the most inspirational authors of the ages. Featuring the music of Thomas Morley, Dominic Argento, Amy Beach, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Emma Lou Diemer, George Shearing, and many others, this program provides varied choral settings on some of the most moving words ever penned.

Conducted by Daniel Abraham

@ Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

Senior Capstone
Friday, April 20 & Saturday, April 21 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 22 at 3:00 p.m.

Capstone performances present the culmination and celebration of the work of senior theatre and music majors.

@ Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center , Studio Theatre

American University Wind Ensemble:
The Lord of the Rings Symphony
Saturday, April 21 at 8:00 p.m.

The inaugural concert of AU's Wind ensemble featuring winners of the AU Wind Ensemble Concerto Competition. The program includes Eternal Father, Strong to Save by Michael T. Smith and Incanation and Dance by ohn Barnes Chance.

directed by Michael Rossi

@ Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

AU Chorus and Symphony Orchestra Concert:
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Thursday, April 25 at 8:00 p.m. - Open Rehearsal
Friday, April 27 & Saturday, April 28 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 29 at 3:00 p.m.

The first performance of the German Requiem in 1860 established Brahms' reputation as a great composer. Not a Requiem Mass in the proper sense, the work draws from scripture rather than from Latin liturgy of the Mass for the Dead. Brahms himself considered the composition a "human requiem," and it is perhaps best understood as a work directed to those who survive rather than a rite of judgement over those who have passed. Do not miss the combined forces of the AU Chorus, Symphony Orchestra, and soloists in this most personal and poignant of all the great choral-orchestral masterworks.

Daniel Abraham, conductor

@ Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

Dance Informal
Sunday, April 29 at 7:00 p.m.

Samples and selections from the dance program's dynamic classes in modern, jazz, ballet, and African dance.

@ Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center , Abramson Family Recital Hall