Event Detail

Distinguished Professor of Music and Reed Family Presidential Chair Steven Schick will conduct the second annual Reed Family Concert at UC San Diego's Mandeville Auditorium. The concert will feature the Renga ensemble and will include a performance of Pierre Boulez's Répons (1981-84).

This presentation of Répons will include solos by Distinguished Professor Aleck Karis (piano), Nicholas Tolle (cimbalom), Principal Harpist of the San Diego Symphony Julie Smith Phillips, and graduate students Kyle Adam Blair (piano), Fiona Digney (xylophone and glockenspiel) and James Beauton (vibraphone). The performance will also feature technical integration and spatialization led by Professor Miller Puckette and graduate student Johannes Regnier with sound design by Professor Shahrokh Yadegari.

The evening's program will include performances of:

• Octandre by Edgard Varèse (1923)

• world premiere of Cordatum by graduate composer Anahita Abbasi (2016)

• Répons by Pierre Boulez (1981-84)