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UW associate professor of horn Daniel Grabois.

UW Mead Witter School of Music faculty concert. $20 (students free, but ticket required.

media release: Performing works by Heinrich Molbe, Charles Gounod, Louis Andriessen, Lisa Gutkin, and Daniel Grabois. Christopher Taylor, piano; Meg Lamm, violin; Michael Bell, guitar; Eleni Katz, bassoon; Tom Curry, tuba; Matthew Onstad, trumpet; and Todd Hammes, percussion.

Daniel Grabois is professor of horn at the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he performs in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and serves as the Curator of SoundWaves, a series he created that combines science lectures with music performances. The former Chair of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, Grabois now serves as Director of the Electro-Acoustic Research Space (EARS), a facility which he founded with funding from a UW2020 large-equipment grant.

Grabois is also the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a New York City based brass quintet founded in 1987. With Meridian, he has performed over seventy world premieres, released twelve CDs, received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards, and toured worldwide, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself. Grabois has also created numerous arrangements and compositions for Meridian.