The eighth annual Reed Family Concert, given in thanks to the Reed Family for their long-standing support of Music Department students, will be presented on January 17 at 7:00 in the Concert Hall. In 2024 we will feature the work of three exemplary graduate students: flutist Sasha Ishov, percussionist Kosuke Matsuda, and composer Jiyoung Ko, whose composition sumbisori is also the 2024 Chou Commission. With this concert, we showcase graduate student excellence in both the performance and composition programs. We also offer a faculty tribute to retired UC San Diego Library Music Specialist Peter Mueller, by playing his Little Trio for clarinet, bass and percussion. Also on the program is the Webern Concerto.
PROGRAM:
Peter Mueller Little Trio (2021) *world premiere
Jiyoung Ko sumbisori (2024) (Chou Commission) *world premiere
Heinz Holliger Ma’mounia (2002)
Anton Webern Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24 (1934)
Dai Fujikura Flute Concerto (Ensemble Version) (2015)
Additional Description:
The eighth annual Reed Family concert, celebrated by UC San Diego Music to honor Ann and Joel Reed for their long-standing support of the Arts and Students of the University of California San Diego, will be presented on Wednesday, January 17th at 7:00 p.m. in the Department of Music’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall. The program is curated and conducted by UC San Diego Distinguished Professor and Reed Family Presidential Chair in Music: Steven Schick.
Among the five works on the program, the 2024 concert will feature the work of three exemplary graduate students: flutist Alexander “Sasha” Ishov, percussionist Kosuke Matsuda, composer Jiyoung Ko, and showcase graduate student excellence in both the performance and composition programs.
Alexander “Sasha” Ishov, a UC San Diego doctoral candidate in contemporary music performance, is an innovative flutist specializing in 20th and 21st century music. Praised by The San Diego Union-Tribune for his “well-sounded and lucid” artistry, his artistic breadth spans from traditional and contemporary chamber repertoire, to experimental electroacoustic projects pushing the boundaries of modern audio technology. Ishov’s technical artistry will be featured on the ensemble version of Dai Fujikura’s 2015 Flute Concerto, originally composed for 2012 MacArthur Fellow and San Diego native, Claire Chase.
Percussionist Kosuke Matsuda will be the featured soloist for Heinz Holliger’s 2002 Ma’mounia. Meaning ‘safe haven’ in Arabic, “In this work, the composer highlights the musical interplay between body and mind. The frantically virtuoso percussion part corresponds with the ensemble in theatrical physicality.” (Schott Music) A member of famed percussion ensemble red fish blue fish, Matsuda is a Doctor of Musical Arts student and Graduate Teaching Assistant under Steven Schick at the University of California San Diego.
Korean composer Jiyoung Ko, a UC San Diego PhD graduate student in composition, presents the world premiere of “sumbisori” as the third recipient of the Chou Commission. Created in 2022 to celebrate the legacy of Chinese-American composer Chou Wen-chung, and inspired by Chou’s collection of percussion instruments housed at UC San Diego, previous commissions recipients were Erin Graham’s Shape of Silence (2022) and Alex Taylor’s Inclinations (2023).
The program opens with a performance tribute to retired UC San Diego Music Librarian and PhD composition alumnus: Peter Mueller. Performing the world premiere Mueller’s Little Trio, are Department of Music Chair Anthony Burr on clarinet, and Distinguished Professors of Music: Mark Dresser on double bass and Steven Schick, percussion.
The program will also include Anton Webern's 1934 Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24.
The Palimpsest Ensemble, conducted by Steven Schick is completed by:
Anita Chandavarkar (flutes), Carlos Rosas Coronado (oboe), Grace Talaski (clarinets), Robert Zelickman (clarinets), David Savage (bassoon), Darby Hinshaw (horn), Rachel Allen (trumpet), Berk Schneider (trombone), Kyle Adam Blair (piano), Mitchell Carlstrom (percussion), Myra Hinrichs (violin), Amir Hossein Norouz Nasseri (violin), Batya Macadam-Somer (viola), Robert Bui (cello), Min Seok “Peter” Ko (cello), and Andrew Crappito (double bass).
Tickets are available online via UC San Diego Music's box office: music.ucsd.edu/tickets
General Admission: $20 | UC San Diego Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $15 | ALL Students: FREE with ID
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