Circumpolar Music Series: Winter Chamber Concert

A winter storm covers the Fairbanks campus with snow on the winter solstice eve day in 2017. UAF Photo

On Friday, February 21st at 7:30pm, the Circumpolar Music Series presents a winter chamber concert featuring music, poetry, and short prose including three movements from Joby Talbot's Once Around the Sun - "December: Polarization," "January: A Yellow Disc Rising from the Sea," "February: The Arctic Circle"; John Luther Adams' Dark Wind for marimba, vibraphone, bass clarinet, and piano; Matthew Burtner's Syntax of Snow for glockenspiel, sine tones, and amplified snow; and the movement "Winter" from the original interdisciplinary work Moving through the Boreal Forest by Daryl Farmer, Sean Dowgray, and Maïté Agopian.

This program will feature UAF Faculty Dr. Sean Dowgray, Dr. Yue Sun, Dr. Dario Martin, Dr. Daryl Farmer; undergraduate Music students Zachary Williams, Jack Greenwell, Madelyn Guffey, Sadie Richert, Grady Skillings, and Azalea Forsythe; graduate English students Manny Melendez and Rachel McKinley, and community member Charly Akert.

 

Tickets

FREE for UAF Students  |   FREE for children 12 & under  |  $5 non-UAF students, seniors, military  |  $10 general admission

Event Information

Circumpolar Music Series
Winter Chamber Concert

Date
Friday, February 21st, 2025

Time
7:30pm 

Location
Davis Concert Hall

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